Coins. -- six Russian coins on paper backing; with 1945 purchase certificate and 1991 appraisal
- UTA 1412-2-10-B1991-0029/054(02)
- Dossier
- 1584-1645
Fait partie de Innis Family fonds
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Coins. -- six Russian coins on paper backing; with 1945 purchase certificate and 1991 appraisal
Fait partie de Innis Family fonds
One-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : George Goulding, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by George Goulding of London, England, with a silver square-ended D-sharp key. Its typical eighteenth-century small embouchure and finger holes produce a sweet and delicate tone. This type of flute was first seen in about 1672 on the European continent, about 1705 in England, and was in general use until 1780.
Four-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : Richard Potter, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Richard Potter of London, with sterling-silver keys with pewter plug ends. The head-joint and barrel are metal-lined, with a tuning slide between them.
Eight-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : William Henry Potter, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by William Henry Potter in London, with sterling-silver keys with pewter plug ends.
Eight-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : Thomas Prowse, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Thomas Prowse of London, with sterling-silver keys with salt-spoon style ends and decorative turning on the head-joint and ends. This is an early model Nicholson flute.
Six-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : Isaac Willis, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Isaac Willis of London, with sterling-silver keys, the top four of which have square ends and the lower two of which have pewter plug ends.
Eight-key cocuswood flute with wide sterling-silver bands : Thomas Prowse, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Thomas Prowse in London. The flute has sterling-silver keys with salt-spoon style ends, mounted on blocks. It is a brilliant example of the large-holed flute developed by the great English flutist Charles Nicholson Jr. The historical importance of this model is that Theodore Boehm heard Nicholson playing it during a visit to England in 1831. The epoch-making Boehm flute universally used today was the result.
George Templeman Kingston fonds
First Mathematical Prize medal awarded to George Templeman Kingston, Christmas, 1830 by the Royal Naval College, London. Obverse: Profile of George III; inscription: "Georgius III D.G. Britanniarum Rex 1820". Reverse: Inscription: "First Mathematical Prize, Royal Naval College, London: awarded to George Templeman Kingston, Christmas, 1830".
Kingston, George Templeman
Four-key boxwood flute with ivory mounts : D'Almaine & Co., London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by D'Almaine & Co. in London, with sterling-silver square-ended keys, mounted on blocks.
Eight-key cocuswood flute with wide sterling-silver bands : Rudall and Rose, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Rudall and Rose in London, with sterling-silver keys with salt-spoon style ends, except for the C and C-sharp keys, which have pewter plugs. The flute is of particular interest in having the 1832 patent head-joint.
Fonds consists of records related to the founding of Upper Canada Academy, which later became Victoria College. Records includes the Royal Charter, constitutions, financial records, register of students and notebooks of Reverend John Beatty and Matthew Richey. Also included are one series of minutes: Minutes of the Upper Canada Academy Building Committee, 1831-1836; Minutes of the Upper Canada Academy and Victoria College Managing Committee, 1836-1843; and minutes of the Victoria College Financial Committee, 1843-1849.
Upper Canada Academy
Five-key boxwood flute in F with ivory mounts : Henry Potter, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Henry Potter of London, with brass keys, mounted in blocks. This is a typical band flute from the period.
Ten-key cocuswood flute : Abel Siccama, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, designed by Abel Siccama and made in London, with sterling-silver bands and keys with adjustable pad sockets, except for the C and C-sharp keys, which have pewter plugs. The A and E holes are out of direct reach of the fingers, and are covered by keys.
Cocuswood Pratten-system flute : [Boosey, London]
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, likely made by Boosey in London, with German-silver bands and keywork mounted on pillars. Pratten, a celebrated English flutist, developed this system in 1852, and in 1856 Boosey started to make Pratten flutes. This flute has a cylindrical bore with large holes all covered, and is fingered like the eight-keyed flute.
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Sterling-silver Old Model flute : Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co., London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Rudall, Rose, Cart and Co. in London, with sterling-silver keywork. This model has the same keys as the old eight-key flute.
Sterling-silver Carte 1851 Patent flute : Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co., London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Rudall, Rose, Cart and Co. in London, with sterling-silver keywork. This model won the prize medal at the 1851 exhibition.
Eight-key cocuswood flute : Alexander Liddle, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Alexander Liddle in London, with German-silver bands and block-mounted keywork. This is a version of Carte's silver "Old Model," and brought the advantages of cylindrical bore to players of the old eight-key flute.
Cocuswood Carte 1867 System flute : Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co., London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Rudall, Rose, Cart and Co. in London, with sterling-silver keywork and head lining. The flute was described as "An excellent design, in some ways technically superior to the Boehm." This flute has an extra trill key for C to C-sharp and G to G-sharp.
The collection includes correspondence from every period of Strachan's life, official documents, notes, and writings.
Contains series
Strachan, John
Fait partie de Miller Family fonds
Allen Bristol Aylesworth fonds
University of Toronto Silver Medal in Metaphysics and Ethics, awarded to Allen Bristol Aylesworth at commencement on the 9th of June, 1874.
Aylesworth, Allen Bristol
University of Toronto silver medal in Classics presented to 1877 University College graduate, James E. Wetherell.
Wetherell, J. E. (James Elgin)
Jewel pendant with photograph of J. Churchill Arlidge as a child performer
Fait partie de J. Churchill Arlidge fonds
Conical Boehm-style flute in African blackwood : Couesnon, Paris
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Couesnon in Paris, with German-silver bands and keywork. Boehm's research led in 1832 to his conical flute, fully vented and with large holes. It is largely regarded as "the greatest landmark of all in the modern history of woodwind design." This is the 1832 flute with the addition of the Briccialdi thumb key.
Ten-key flute in plated brass : France
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made in France, with built-up embouchure and finger holes. Al of the holes are small, except those in the foot-joint. The fingering is the same as the old conical-bored eight-key flute, plus a C and D trill key and an extra vent for F.
Ten-key African blackwood flute with ivory head-joint : Stengel, Bayreuth
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Stengel in Bayreuth, with German-silver bands and keywork. This is an ultra-conservative conical-bore model which retains the eighteenth-century fingering, and has finger holes of the small pre-Nicholson type, and a long foot-joint to B. This model was in use for a century after Boehm introduced his cylindrical-bore model, and Wagner preferred it. Such flutes were listed by the German maker Heckel as late as 1931.
Boehm-system rosewood flute : Langlois, London
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Langlois in London, with plated brass keys and bands. The flute is an example of Boehm's final model of 1846, with a cylindrical bore and parabolic head-joint.
Twelve-key African blackwood flute with ivory head-joint : [London]
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, probably made in London, with German-silver bands and keywork. The flute has a conical bore with small pre-Nicholson holes and eighteenth-century fingering. Its lowest note is B.
Fait partie de Harley J. Spiller collection
Black lacquer boxes with a floral painted pattern. Contains a note from Spiller with the following information: tiffin boxes were collected by a woman who attended the tiffin in honour of Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chung, possibly on the West coast. Tiffins contain dried coconut, watermelon seeds, and preserved bird's nest.
Fait partie de McCarthy Family fonds
Brass; engraved with Charles Verdin, France [ca 1878-1900]. Box lid (inside) engraved “JH Chapman Montreal”. Mechanical device used to measure blood pressure in the nineteenth century. It is considered the first external, non-intrusive device used to estimate blood pressure. It may have belonged to a member of the Moffatt family.
Consists of records relating to the life and practice of Dr. Fred Parker of Stratford, Ontario.
Frederick Parker
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington fonds
Academic hood used by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington on receiving an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of Toronto in 1903. Inside label reads "Sherrington".
Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir
Menus of the dinners of the graduating classes of Victoria University, 1897-1903; an 1892 "Alumni Souvenir" depicting the buildings and faculties of the University and its federated colleges; "The Bob" issue 1902. University of Toronto, Graduating Class, 1900 (photograph). Academic hood and gown.
St. John, Arthur Newton
Collection consists of late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and early-twentieth century flutes, predominantly made by various builders and companies in London, England, as well as two from Paris, one from France, and one from Bayreuth, Germany. The collection covers the mechanization and modernization of the flute, including the addition of holes and keys, and the move from wood to metal for the body of the flute.
Fisher, Sidney T.
Silver-plated brass Borne-Julliot system flute : Djalma Julliot, Paris
Fait partie de Fisher flute collection
Item is a flute, made by Djalma Julliot in Paris. This is Boehm's 1847 model with four additional keys, the latest patent improvements attempted to the standard Boehm flute, which 25 years later had become almost universally used.
Eighteenth Annual Dinner - Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering [cloth banner]
Fait partie de L.E. Jones fonds
Two Ontario Fire Ranger badges
Fait partie de Black (Davidson) Family fonds
Fait partie de Black (Davidson) Family fonds
Royal Opera, Covent Garden : programme
Fait partie de Toronto music life collection
File contains a souvenir, silk program from a gala performance by command of His Majesty the King in honour of the visit of the President of the French Republic. The concert featured the following soloists: Luisa Tetrazzini (Italian coloratura soprano), Caroline Hatchard (British soprano), John McCormack (Irish tenor), and Nellie Melba (Australian soprano).
Fait partie de Black (Davidson) Family fonds
This series contains certificates and diplomas, correspondence, course and lab notes, term papers and memorabilia documenting aspects of Davidson Black’s education, running from the Wellesley School through Harbord Collegiate and the Faculties of Medicine and Arts at the University of Toronto. There is also a file on Davidson’s summer project in 1907 to earn money for his Bachelor of Arts program, prospecting in the Temagami Forest Reserve.
Fait partie de Black (Davidson) Family fonds
Contains archival materials pertaining to French explorer Joseph de Brettes’ (1861-1934) expeditions to South America including two to Gran Chaco. Collection includes a steel cranial measuring device; a steel archaeological specimen; two offprint accounts written and illustrated by De Brettes describing his expeditions and scientific work in South America; and an offprint bibliographical outline of De Brettes’ extensive explorations in South America and elsewhere as well as his naval and army service.
Also includes album of autographs collected while in South America; 3 photographic identification cards; his personal library bookplate; an offprint poem signed and dedicated by French poet Jehan Rictus; as well as correspondence connected with his efforts as Vice-President of a Portuguese railway company, in particular dealing with a meeting with the King, including 3 manuscript telegrams sent from Lisbon September 1905 and 2 manuscript letters dated 1905.
de Brettes, Joseph
University of Toronto. Engineering Alumni Association
Fait partie de University of Toronto. Engineering Alumni Association fonds
Programmes from the twenty-first and twenty-fourth annual banquets of the Engineering Society, January 19, 1910 and February 13, 1913; cartoon poster of scenes from the Ajax campus in the 1940s (two copies); reproduction of the plaque at the magnetic observatory.
Correspondence and family records
Fait partie de J. Churchill Arlidge fonds
Series consists of letters to J. Churchill Arlidge concerning his performances; family correspondence; Arlidge's wedding certificate; and a jewel pendant that belonged to his mother.
Fonds consists of 2 accessions
B1988-0003: Photoprints and copy negatives documenting the career of J. Galbraith as professor of engineering at the University of Toronto, including his canoe trip through northern Ontario in 1887, teaching at the University of Toronto, pictures of family at Madawaska Club at Go-Home Bay.
B2000-0018: One surveying instrument called a planimeter, which was made in 1893 and used by John Galbraith, the first Head of the Ontario School of Practical Science and later, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Galbraith Family
Fait partie de J. Churchill Arlidge fonds
Promotional materials and memorabilia
Fait partie de J. Churchill Arlidge fonds
Series consists of a promotional booklet and poster, which feature the same photograph and include excerpts of newspaper reviews of his performances. Series also includes his wooden conductor's baton.
Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia = Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy : medal
Fait partie de Edward Johnson collection
Military orders, notes and communiqués of Gerald Blake contained in canvas pouch
Fait partie de Gerald Edward Blake fonds