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Glass slides of University of Toronto buildings and grounds.

Contains eight drawings mounted on a board illustrating a lobectomy. Based on information on the back of the illustrations, they were prepared by Faculty of Medicine Art Service for the Department of Surgery. They were used first by Dr. Norman Shenstone of the Department of Surgery and the Toronto General Hospital and possibly later by Robert M. Janes, head of the Department of Surgery.

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.

2 black-and-white photoprints of Marshall McLuhan, copied from images taken in the 1960s; deaccessioned, 1988-07-12 by Anne Maclean.

This accession consists of photographs and videos documenting the faculty, staff and several events held at the Department of Zoology. Sound recordings consist mainly of recorded lectures from BIO 110. There are also four boxes of administrative files documenting mainly external reviews, planning committees and various reports.

Video cassettes (3/4" format) used by the Human Resources Department to orient new staff. Included are : "Campus Tour" 1977, "Welcome to New Staff" from variou Presidents, "This is the University of Toronto" 1980. There are also a number of videos that show role playing during various workshops including "Developing Supervisory Skills" and "The Media and You".

This accession consists of Professor Wrong's professional correspondence with fellow historians, and with politicians of the day such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Robert Borden, MacKenzie King; and others. Also included are the manuscripts of some of G. M. Wrong's essays and books, concerning Canadian and Commonwealth history. 19th century documents relating to the Nairne family and collected by Wrong during his writing of "A Canadian manor and its seigneurs" were donated to the University Library in 1938 and bear the Library’s stamp.

This accession also contains some records relating to the Armstrong and Wrong families including postcards collected during trips overseas to Europe, England, China and Japan, photographs and family histories by G. M.Wrong ca 1938-1948 and by Dr. Norman Wrong in the 1970’s and donated in 1975. Family correspondence is limited to primarily the photocopied letters of Prof. Wrong to his son, Murray from 1908 to 1924.

Administrative, financial and legal files from the Bursars of King's College and University College, including Henry Boys, Joseph Wells, David Buchan, John Edward Berkeley Smith amd Ferdinand Albert Moure. Consists of accounts, advertised tender and sale, bank receipts, bonds, commission, correspondence, indenture, securities, and warrants. Includes publications (ca. 1822-1927), a plan of a subdidvision in the eastern part of Port Hope, original keys and an external view of University College before the fire of 1890..

Patent applications and agreements relating to insulin; indentures to properties, leases, agreements and title deeds pertaining to land transactions, especially along Queen's Park Crescent East and West; drawing of property layouts, architectural drawings of buildings with legal documents.

Files from the Office of the Secretary including minutes of the Board for the General Superintendence of Education (1823-1833); University of King's College and Upper Canada College land records (1828-1902); records relating to the Commission of the Visitation of the University of Toronto (1850); accounts relating to University College Residence (1865-1899); financial records (1881-1909); correspondence and reports relating to the Retirement Fund (1891-1907); records of the Women's University Residence Association (ca. 1894-1905); minutes of the University Press (1902-1906); records relating to the Convocation Hall Fund (1902-1908); records of the Board of Governors (1907-1948) and of its committees (1902-1911); also includes photographs.

Records of the school including minutes and financial records of the Bursar; registers and address books of the Registrar; record books of the Masters relating to work done; records of the Cricket Club and of the Old Boys' Association; journals and ledgers of the Commission of Inquiry into the Affairs of King's College University and Upper Canada College; also includes architectural drawings and photographs.

This accession contains press clippings, reprints, correspondence, citations, World War I military participation forms, and other information relating to individual students, graduates, faculty and staff, and recipients of honorary degrees; also includes photographs.

This accession contains 1 item - the original King's College charter from 1827.

General account books, land survey reports, land transaction records and letter books of King's College and University of Toronto (ca. 1828-1921); account books, land records, letter books and records relating to restoration and scholarship funds of Upper Canada College (ca. 1828-1909); records relating to commissions (ca. 1848-1905); correspondence with the Office of the Bursar relating to land transactions (ca. 1851-1890) and financial records of extra-curricular societies and clubs (1898-1912).

Accession consists of personal and professional correspondence, addresses, manuscripts of unpublished play and novel, records of the Swiss Club of Toronto, condolence cards, reviews of Prof. Boeschenstein’s publications in German language newspapers, memorabilia and photographs.

Letterbooks and minutes of the University of King's College Council (1828-1850); orders-in-council relating to, and reports and by-laws of, the University of Toronto (1953-1969); letterbooks, minutes and reports of the Endowment Board, the Board of Management, the Board of Trustees, and the Board of Governors (ca. 1850-1970); minutes of Board of Trustees and Board of Governors committees (1904-1930); by-laws and agenda books of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors (1904-1957); government letters and miscellaneous documents (1850-1894); and minutes and reports of Upper Canada College (1878-1901).

Minutes of Board of Governors and antecedent bodies, viz., Council of King's College, Endowment Board, Board of Management, Board of Trustees. Originals in various accessions. (See finding aid).

Records documenting the history of the family of Harold Gordon Skilling, including his father, William Watt Skilling; his uncle, Ernest John Skilling; his brothers, William John, Andrew Douglas and Edward Donald; and his wife, Sara (Sally) Bright Skilling.

Sous-fonds I: Skilling family. The emphasis is on William Watt, a shoemaker who emigrated from England to Canada in 1907; on Ernest, who was a very active member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; on Donald, who was killed in action during World War I, and on his brother, William, who was wounded but survived.

Sous-fonds II: Sara (Sally) Bright Skilling. The records focus on Sally’s education in the United States, her travels with Gordon in Eastern Europe in the 1960s, and on her love of entertaining. They document the crucial support, intellectual and otherwise, that she provided to Gordon as he pursued his career.

Sous-fonds III: Harold Gordon Skilling. The documentation here is primarily on Gordon’s education and early career and his later years as an expert on Russian and East European politics and on Czechoslovakia, in particular. An extensive combination of correspondence, journals, lectures, writings and photographs reveal much about Skilling’s ideas and his relationships with the principal figures in recent Czech history.

Financial records and correspondence files from the Office of the Bursar (ca. 1890-1960) and Board of Governors (1895-1931); records from the Office of the Principal including minutes of Masters' Meetings (1859-1935) and correspondence; printed documents; includes architectural drawings and photographs.

Internal publications including staff manuals, various guides to library users, directories, staff lists and presentation labels.

Files accumulated by the offices of the Bursar (1839-1955); Chief Accountant (1955-1970); Comptroller (1946-1967) and Director of Finance (1965-1973). Office of the Bursar records include cash books and ledgers (1839-1946) with records of early land titles; subject files dealing with pensions (1910-1938) and correspondence files (1955). Office of the Chief Accountant records include subject files dealing with pensions, salaries and budgets (1946-1964) and correspondence files (1955-1962, 1965-1968). Office of the Comptroller records include subject files relating to a study of the costs of medical education in Canadian colleges in addition to correspondence files (1946-1961, 1965-1967). Office of the Director of Finance records include a series of Estimates for budgets (1965-66 - 1968-69, 1972-73). Other financial record series contain Statements of Trust and Endowment Funds (1953-1969) and Billings (1967-1968). Records also include journals, ledgers, daybooks and cashbooks of Upper Canada College (1850-1894).

Bound volume of "Report on the affairs of British North America from the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's High Commissioner". House of Commons, 1839. With appendices A and B. Annotated and signed by "George M. Wrong 1897".

Architectural drawings and plans of University buildings including: proposed Museum 1909; Women's Gymnasium and Devonshire Place, ca. 1936-38; University College Residence for the President, 1881; Chemical Laboratory, 1892; Faculty of Education and Pedagogy Bldg (proposed), 1889-1908; Women's Union Gymnasium (proposed), 1928; Old Knox College (Spadina Cres.) 1873; Student's Union and 3rd Gymnasium (1892-1894); Laidlaw Library, 1961; Medical Building. Maps and land use plans of the St. George campus grounds ca. 1889-1948.
Some early records relating to King's College and its lands including a parliamentary bill, land indentures, announcement of the Laying of the Cornerstone, early diplomas etc...
Photographic reproductions of drawings of University College Women's Residence and Old Knox College. Includes slides and photoprints.

Registrar's correspondence files, 1895-1957; Senate correspondence files, 1893-1898; administrative files including those relating to ceremonies; files relating to the Senate and its committees and other committees and conferences; military training records and records of related committees pertaining to World War II; student records including convocation rolls, class and prize lists, examination applications and results, registers of matriculants and diplomas; clippings; and photographs.

University pamphlets and memoranda regarding calendars and curricula, students and alumni, applications for chairs, University Commission, federation of the Colleges, medicine and general correspondence.

Contains introductory remarks to Dr. James Bovell's first lecture in Pathology at King's College, 1849.
Photographs include staff composites, ca. 1928-1936; portraits of William Brebner, William Hendry and Ronald Saddington who were University of Toronto graduates who died of a virus contracted while conducting research; the gathering of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists at the Royal York, 1934; portraits of staff members including William Lipsett Robinson and William Lindlow Holman.

Minutes of Senate. Originals in various accessions (See finding aid).

Primarily photographs of sports teams.

Minutes of the Senate. Copies of Senate committee minutes (vols. 1-15, 1850-1961) available on 13 microfilm reels (reels 1-13 of A68-0012) : negative and positive ; 35 mm.

Senate minutes (1850-1971); minutes of many Senate committees including Executive Committee (1947-1963), Board of Studies (1950-1963),Court of Discipline, Honorary Degrees and Nominating Sub-committee (1941-1963), Caput (1907-1963) and convocation rolls (1890-1963). Original records for Senate minutes (vols. 1-23, 25, 1850-1961) available in A70-0005. Original records for Senate minutes (vols. 26-34, 1961-1971) available in A79-0037.

Files of the Deans and Faculty, including some personal records of William Hodgson Ellis, Charles Hamilton Mitchell, Clarence Richard Young, Roland Rusk McLaughlin, William Stewart Wilson and Herbert Edward Yarrick (1873-1961); brief history, annual reports, functional plan and other documents including photographs (1945-1949); minutes of committees (1906-1925); examination results (1878-1884); programmes and records relating to special events, including dinners and the Wallberg Lecture; watercolour of Murray Bay Golf Course by Daniel Wilson, n.d.

Records of members of the Cody and Blackstock families, in particular Henry John Cody, his son Maurice Cody, and his second wife Barbara Blackstock Cody, but including some of her siblings and uncles. Included is correspondence (largely from ca. 1920-1950); records relating to World War I, including correspondence from soldiers at the Front, files on injured soldiers, along with pamphlets, press clippings and related material; press clippings, pamphlets and correspondence relating to World War II; undergraduate course notes and prize books; lecture notes for courses in church history and related subjects given in Wycliffe College; other notebooks, numerous scrapbooks, and publications relating to education, religion (including the late nineteenth century conflict between the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church), reconstruction, the temperance movement, and other topics of interest to Dr. Cody; poetry; photographs; artifacts.

Files of James Brebner including draft minutes of the Senate; reports and minutes of Senate committees; petitions to the Senate; correspondence relating to calendar revisions and curriculum; examination results, examiners, and student records.

Further personal records of Michael Bliss, Professor Emeritus of History, consisting of personal and family correspondence, and photographs; other correspondence; scrapbooks; interviews; files relating to the University of Toronto, including memorabilia from his years as a senior fellow on the Massey College; addresses; drafts of articles, a play, books (including biographies of Sir William Osler and Harvey Cushing, and Bliss’ memoirs), short stories and book reviews; files on consulting and editing projects; files on professional organizations, especially the American Osler Society.

Estimate book of losses from 1890 fire; original indenture for University College (1857) and indenture of building contracts with foundation specifications (1856).

Examination questions. Some questions intended for University College.

Limited Edition print of W.G. Storm's facsimile water colour rendering of University College, printed in 1990 and distributed to purchasers of "A not unsightly building: University College and its history", by Douglas Richardson.

Records documenting various members of the Fraser family including:

• Zahn Family Chronicle and other family history items;
• William H. Fraser's lecture notes in Spanish 1892-1905;
• some family correspondence mainly belonging to either Donald T. Fraser and Frieda Fraser including Frieda Fraser's correspondence with her aunt and cousin in Germany;
• sketches and paintings by Frieda Fraser;
• family photographs.

Records of three generations of the Blake/Wrong families, including Margaret Blake (wife of Edward Blake), her daughter and son-in-law, Sophia and George Wrong, their children [Margaret (Marga), Murray, Hume, Harold and Agnes] and Gerald Edward Blake. George Wrong was professor of history at the University of Toronto; Margaret Wrong, a leader in the student Christian movement and missionary educator in Africa; Murray Wrong, Commonwealth historian at Oxford University; Hume Wrong, lecturer in history at the University of Toronto and later diplomat and specialist in Canadian-American relations; Harold Wrong and Gerald Blake, students who were killed in World War I; and Agnes Wrong Armstrong, a leader of the Junior League movement in Canada and the United States.

The records include diaries, certificates, correspondence, student papers, articles and poems, press clippings, photographs, and medals. Letters to and from the Wrong family members predominate, especially between George and Sophia and between them and their children. They document a wide range of family matters and the careers, activities, and ideas of the correspondents, along with letters of condolence and tributes on the deaths of some of them. Margaret Wrong’s files include the reports and letters she wrote while with the World Students’ Christian Federation and the International Committee of Christian Literature for Africa.

Consists of minutes, reports, correspondence and cash books of the University College Literary and Scientific [later Athletic] Society (1860-1962), correspondence and reports of the Women's Undergraduate Association of University College (1928-1952), minutes, cash books, lists and reports of the University College Alumnae Association (1893-1967), as well as miscellaneuous records of the Women's Literary Society, Women's Union, Glee Club, Women's Club, Three Arts Club, the Council and student residences (1879-1953).

Annotated blue print of the University Park, showing lot surveys to the north of College Street and on the east side of Queen's Park, 1861; elevations of seven buildings, possibly for residences in the University Park, 1861; 2 floor plans and one drawing of Great Hall by John M. Lyle for proposed residence for women at University College, 1920.

Consists of letterbooks, correspondence, certificates, lecture notes, research notes, reports, and prize books documenting the career of John Galbraith as a Dominion land surveyor and as Director and Dean of the School of Practical Science/Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering; biographical sketch by his son, John S. Galbraith.

Records of the Fraser family, principally William Henry Fraser, Professor of Italian and Spanish, and his wife, Helene and two of their children, Donald Thomas and Frieda Helen, both professors in the School of Hygiene. Fonds also contains the records of Frieda Fraser's lifetime companion, Edith (Bud) Bickerton Williams, a veterinarian, including extensive correspondence between Frieda and Bud that documents their personal lives as a same-sex couple, as well as their professional lives as women in medicine in the early 20th century. The correspondence has been noted for its significance both in terms of both Canadian lesbian history and the history of medicine [1].
Also included are course and laboratory notes, lecture notes, research files and notebooks (including work done during World War II), addresses, drafts of articles, prize books, photographs and slides, sketches and watercolours.

[1] Perdue, Katherine, “Passion and Profession, Doctors in Skirts: The Letters of Doctors Frieda Fraser and Edith Bickerton Williams,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 2005 22:2, 271-280, https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.22.2.271

Class and prize lists, University of Toronto (1863-1913); Faculty of Arts Class and prize lists, (1914-1961); Faculty of Arts and Science Class and Prize lists, (1962-1978). Includes name of student, grades and standings.

Photographs collected by the University of Toronto Library documenting various individuals, buildings, activities and events in the University's history.

Consists of biographical articles, tributes, genealogical records, addresses, correspondence, diaries, notebooks relating to trips to Georgian and Hudson Bays, records regarding bridge construction, as well as photographs.

Guest book for "Sherwood House", the residence of Frederick and Louise Coates (1922-1975), with invitations to dramatic productions held therein; three letters between members of the Hoitt family (1867, 1885).

1. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario records including official minutes of special and annual meetings of the Board (1868-1945), by-laws and constitution, scrapbook; records of the School of Dentistry including faculty council minutes (1908-1925), student information booklets (1908-1915), Students' instrument lists (1908-1925), student and licentiate registers, (1868-1925), examination questions (1907-1925), student registers(1868-1925), examination records, (1868-1915); examination summary sheets (1915-1925). Microfilm copy of Boxes 1 to 13 only (Royal College records.)
2. Faculty of Dentistry records: Faculty Council minutes (1925-1970), Executive Committee of Faculty Council minutes (1923-1975), other committee minutes including Applications and Memorials/Admissions, Curriculum Committee, Endowment procurement committee, Essays committee, Graduate Studies Committee etc, Hospital Services Committee, Library Committee, Loans committee, Research committee, Awards Committee, Building committee, and others. Bound volumes : Account books, Calendars, Examination papers (1907-1959), Instrument lists (1908-1955).

Mowat Family powers of attorney (1868, 1870). University buildings files relating to Royal Canadian Institute (1874-1948), University College Y.M.C.A.(1885), St. George Street 1st alleyway (1888-1898), Pathological Building site (1906-1928), Temperance Street Old Veterinary College (1915- 1916), Aura Lee Club at Roxboro Street (1916-1919); also contains 2 architectural drawings.

Records documenting the life of Martin L. Friedland, as a student, professor of law and administrator at the University of Toronto; as an expert on legal matters and a contributor to the formation of public policy at the provincial and federal levels; and as an author of sixteen books and numerous articles. Also personal records of William Paul McClure Kennedy, professor of law.

Included in this accession is correspondence, certificates and diplomas, diaries, course and lecture notes, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes, research material, manuscripts, transcripts of oral history interviews, audiotapes, radio scripts, book reviews, books, pamphlets, reports, press clippings, photographs and maps.