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Ephemera

Contains printed ephemera including programs, brochures, event announcements, forms, and more. Includes material from the VWA as well as its predecessor organizations.

Reports

Series consists of reports from various positions, councils, student unions, and committees within the Victoria Women's Association, including annual reports.

New Jersey State Asylum and Princeton University

In 1913, Dr. Farrar took an appointment as 3rd Assistant Physician at the New Jersey State Asylum, in Trenton, New Jersey and as a Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology at Princeton University. The records in this series were created in Dr. Farrar’s capacity as physician and lecturer in 1913 to 1916. This series has been divided into the following three sub-series to reflect Dr. Farrar’s administrative, clinical and teaching activities at Trenton. Photographs documenting his time at Trenton constitute a fourth sub-series.

Artifacts

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.

Notes

This series consists of notes taken for research purposes, addresses, and lectures that are not clearly identified with a particular project or event. They were compiled from about 1932 to 1991, with an number of accompanying, heavily annotated, articles that date from 1900.

They begin with eight "philosophical notebooks" compiled in the 1940s and the 1950s that cover topics from naturalism and Kant to the philosophy of biology. The remaining files document issues and individuals that were of continuing interest to Professor Goudge, along with topics that are more narrowly focused. Charles Peirce is especially well documented and Kant is also prominent. Over the years, Goudge assembled material on other philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Ludwig von Bertalanffy,

C. L. Lewis, Lloyd Morgan, Karl Popper, and A. N. Whitehead. Many of these individuals were to appear as biographical entries in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967).

The majority of the files, however, document one of Professor Goudge's principal interests, Darwin and evolution and a part of the ongoing debate on the philosophy of biology. A selection of file titles demonstrates the wide ranging nature of the debate: "aspects of explanation", "causality", "evolutionary theory and ethics", and the "controversy over sociobiology".

Material that Professor Goudge wrote or assembled as a unit at a particular time was periodically broken up and redistributed to files he created for projects of the moment. For example, beginning about 1938 he wrote extensively about various aspects of philosophy for use in his lectures and research. Over the years, these notes became scattered throughout the several dozen files that form this series. The only material that has been removed to other series are clearly identified drafts of lectures, addresses, and articles.

Graphic material

This series consists of photoprints, some photonegatives (including nitrate negatives), and slides documenting the activities of the Fraser family over two and more generations. While most of the images document the activities of Frieda and Bud, individually and together, there are numerous images of other members of the family, especially at the cottage at Go Home Bay and, occasionally, in other places such as the mountains of British Columbia. There are also a few images of relatives in Germany and some of colleagues and friends.

This series has not been arranged. Boxes B1995-0044/003 to /010 contain photoprints and negatives, with the occasional slide. Boxes B1995-0044/011 to /014 contain slides.

Photographs of musicians

Series consists of photographs of Canadian and European musicians from the early 1900s, as well as Giuliana Gattoni's collection of publicity photographs from the late 1980s and early 1990s, which predominantly consists of photographs of Canadian Opera Company productions.

University federation

Consists of 3 files

  1. Report to the Senate on the Federation with Trinity University: Appendices A, B & C, 1901

  2. Draft: Article of Agreement for Federation between Trinity University and the University of Toronto TSS, 1903

  3. Report of the Commission on Federation, Appendices A, B & C, 1903

Other records

Consists of various records, including student work, a portrait of Louis Cazamian, and various academic work. See file listing for more details.

Isabel Harris

Series contains three books produced by Isabel Harris as a student Kindergartener in London, Ontario during the 1901-1902 academic year. Series also contains a copy of the 1906 edition of Froebel's "Mother Play and Nursery Songs."

George John Blewett

Contains a photocopied essay submitted for the Graduate Bowdoin Prize Competition at Harvard University: The Philosophy of Spinoza with especial Reference to its Historical Position. Essay was submitted under a pseudonym (Basset Trewerdale Lanke).

Blewett, George John

Problem sets and examinations

The problem sets in this series were used by Satterly while teaching at the University of Toronto. The files are arranged in chronological order by academic year and term. Annotated examinations are scattered throughout the records. A personal bound copy of all of Satterly's examinations is filed at thend of this series and includes an introductory note him. These examinations are often heavily annotated. At the end of this series are a number of files of a more general nature on miscellaneous mathematical problems.

Records from two of the four accessions are found in this series.

Heidelberg

Between October 1902 and May 1904, Dr. Farrar took leave from Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital for post graduate medical training in Europe. Although he traveled widely, attending lectures and meeting scientists in Munich, Paris and London, Dr. Farrar spent most of his time at Emil Kraepelin’s psychiatric clinic in Heidelberg. There, Dr. Kraepelin had revolutionized modern psychiatric diagnosis. Kraepelin, along with his Heidelberg colleagues, Franz Nissl and Aloys Alzheimer, rejected the nineteenth century practice of reducing mental illness to brain disease. Instead, the Heidelberg School emphasized careful description and clear understanding of individual symptoms in psychiatric diagnosis. When Dr. Farrar returned from Heidleberg in 1904, he had received thorough training in Kraepelin’s psychological approach. He also returned mindful of the Heidelberg School’s emphasis upon brain histopathology, neurohistology, and neuropathology.

The records in this series pertain to Dr. Farrar’s personal and professional activities in Heidelberg. Records consist of a personal diary, research notes and patient observations. Also included is personal correspondence from various Heidelberg colleagues such as Franz Nissl, Emil Kraepelin, Albert Deveaux, and Charles Macfie Campbell. Photographs include mainly snapshots taken by Farrar of the German towns and countryside, of his colleagues at Heidelberg, and of the university and his personal study.

In addition, this series also contains glass slides, printing plates, a gravity measuring device, and a knife for preparing brain tissues for slides. During his Heidelberg studies, Dr. Farrar, along with Franz Nissl and Aloys Alzheimer, became occupied with the microscopic study of brain disease. Dr. Farrar prepared these slides under Dr. Nissl’s supervision.

For photographs, see Box /003P (09).

Research and publications

In addition to editing the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Farrar was also on the editorial boards of J.K. Hall, ed. American Psychiatry (1844-1944) (New York Columbia University Press, 1944), Funk and Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnall, 1932), and the Yearbook of Neurology and Psychiatry (Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1907). Further, although he never wrote a book, Dr. Farrar wrote 77 articles. 29 appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry and 48 were printed in other journals and periodicals. He also wrote 273 book reviews for the AJP between 1908 and 1965.

The records in this series pertain to Dr. Farrar’s various research and publication activities. This series, however, does not document Dr. Farrrar’s editorial work with the American Journal of Psychiatry. Series records include correspondence with authors, editors, and research foundations. Series also consists of research notes, subject files on various topics, and bibliographic card indices. Also included are manuscripts by Adolf Meyer and Jack Hannah. In addition, this series also contains artifacts Dr. Farrar used in his research such as glass slides, printing plates, a gravity measuring device, and a knife for preparing brain tissues for slides.

Administrative and teaching files

This series begins with a file containing Professor Barbeau’s curriculum vitae. It is followed by a single file on courses he taught at the University of Western Ontario (1964-1966). The remaining files document his activities in the Department of Mathematics at
the University of Toronto. There are a few general files, followed by a report of the Committee on the Structure of the Governance of the Department (1973), and files on selected staff, the Fields Institute and the Fields Medal. This section concludes with two
boxes of index cards listing students registered in the Mathematics and Physics program between 1903 and 1966, along with cards on interested Commerce and Finance students, physics students, and students who received the Samuel Beatty Fund Scholarship
between 1953 and 1959. One use made of these cards was to compile statistics on the number of students registered in the Mathematics and Physics (M&P) program.

The main part of the series contains material relating to courses Professor Barbeau taught at the University of Toronto, beginning in 1969. It ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. For most courses of the courses in this series, Professor Barbeau inserted a memo providing the background and context of each. The material for each course ranges from memoranda, notes and reports, reading lists, and supplementary notes to problem sets, analysis, tests and examinations. Included is the occasional term paper. Until the 1980s, Professor Barbeau developed detailed mimeographed material for his courses; he then switched to typewriters and eventually to computers. Some files, such as those for courses 129, 133Y, and 1030F, contain manuals, drafts of papers, and supplementary notes. Course 439 has drafts of chapters for a work by Barbeau on ‘functional analysis,’ the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Professor Barbeau taught both at the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Toronto, and also did a lot of outreach work with high school students and working professionals. His taught his first course at the University of Toronto in 1960-1961,
while taking his Master’s degree: calculus to pre-medical students. Later he taught the history of mathematical analysis, a course on chaos and dynamical systems, and a research course of Pell’s equation (the last not represented in this series). He also
developed a general course in mathematics for students in other disciplines, particularly engineering students (see, for example, MEC 362F and MAT 2432/335) and a course in mathematics for intending elementary students. At the graduate level, besides courses in functional analysis and Fourier series, he helped develop a course on problem solving for a Master of Science in Teaching program.

Professor Barbeau’s interest in introducing high school students to mathematics is well documented in this series. Beginning in 1970 and for a quarter century thereafter, he ran a number of courses for high school students. The first, in the summer of 1970 and 1971, was the John Honour Special Seminar in mathematics, while the longest running program, from 1985-1995, was a correspondence course in polynomials, initially for high school students in Metropolitan Toronto. It was soon extended across Canada. In the 1980s he also ran a quantum mechanics seminar (1986), a recreational mathematics and combinatorics course (1987-1988), and he also encouraged high school students to compete in the American High School Mathematics Examination competition.

Another area of outreach was working professionals who needed to upgrade their knowledge. There are two examples in this series, a mathematics seminar for secondary school teachers (1964, 1965) and”Operation alert for engineers”. Each fall between 1972 and 1975, the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offered an engineering update program in seven three-hour sessions, initially for about 40 working engineers from General Electric and later engineers from General Motors in Oshawa.

Professor Barbeau taught one of the sessions in each semester, on linear algebra and linear analysis.

This series ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. “Mathematical Mayhem” was a mathematical journal for gifted high school students and undergraduate students created by students at the University of
Toronto. In 1979, Professor Barbeau conceived of the idea of an essay contest in mathematics open to high school students, named in honour of Samuel Beatty, former Dean of Arts and head of the Department of Mathematics, which ran until 1982. The
quality of the submissions was sufficiently high that the trustees of the Samuel Beatty Fund published two volumes of the best essays.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence related to the Victoria Women's Association, including that of the association’s presidents.

Promotional materials and memorabilia

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.

Manuscripts and publications

This series contains correspondence, notes, research material and manuscripts, and reviews relating to Professor Luckyj's publications. The titles are: Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine (1956); Canadian Slavonic Papers, which he edited; Molodomuzets (1968); Between Gogol and Shevchenko (1971); an article comparing Ivan Nechui-Levits'kyi and Margaret Atwood (1978), Selected Letters of Panteleimon Kulish (1988); and the correspondence of Ostap Lutsky, Professor Luckyj's father.

Events

Series consists of material related to the various events held by the Victoria Women's Association, including luncheons, memorials, anniversaries, and tributes.

Correspondence

This series includes correspondence, including: correspondence with colleagues and friends, such as Pelham Edgar, Edward Killoran Brown, Martha Eugenie Perry, and Desmond Pacey; correspondence with his wife, Viola Pratt (1924-1955), and his daughter, Claire Pratt (1933–1959); correspondence with family members, including brothers James Charles Spurgeon [Jim] and Calvert Coates [Cal] Pratt; and birthday cards and telegrams

Previously recorded but missing: 2 outgoing letters to Peggy Brown, dated 1951 (originals with photocopies); 1 incoming letter from C.A. Chant. dated 1940 (photocopy); 1 incoming letter from James Reaney, dated 1954 (photocopy); various letters from Brother Conrad

Minutes and other records of committees and associations

Series consists of minutes and other records concerning University bodies and outside organizations including committees, associations and councils upon which the Dean of Women participated, including the Tackaberry Library Committee, Pictures Committee, Faculty Women's Association, Dean's Council, Addison Memorial Committee, the Women's Building Committee (a sub-committee of the Board of Regents's Planning Committee), building committees, the Y.W.C.A., the University Women's Club, etc.

Correspondence

In the first accrual of Cochrane fonds, B2003-0011, there is only a small amount of Cochrane’s correspondence. There is very limited professional correspondence, some family correspondence from his wife and daughter and very routine correspondence relating to the University College men’s residence. There is also some correspondence and related documents sent to Mrs. Cochrane upon the death of her husband.

Most of the correspondence relates to his family’s involvement in the evacuation of children of Oxford University faculty to Canada during the 2nd World War. This was officially undertaken by the University of Toronto Women’s War Services Committee but the correspondence relates directly to the care of the children of G.N. Clark, Patience and Martin, who lived with the Cochrane family from 1940-1942. There is also some correspondence with family friends, the Bells of Oxford, who sent their children and grandchildren to Canada. Cochrane finally helped them to be placed with relatives in the United States.

Of some interest, and included in this series, is a copy of W.S. Milne’s letter to the President requesting an independent department for Ancient History, dated 1903 and attached is a copy of his lengthy justification. This item is filed at the end of the series.

An accrual of records in 2019 (B2019-0045) contained more correspondence especially during the Cochrane’s time at Oxford (1911-1913) and during World War I (1914-1918). Letters are mainly to his mother and Aunt Grace fro this time period. There are also incoming personal letters from friends including Frank Underhill 1913-1917.

Addresses, articles, and other records

Series consists of manuscript, typescript and printed addresses (including Baccalaureate and funeral), articles, lectures, sermons, broadcasts, prayers and essays, [1903?]-1945: the addresses include those presented to various Victoria University groups, including convocations; and the predominant subjects of the material are the study and teaching of theology, and the church and its role in education.

Correspondence

This series contains a mixture of both personal and professional correspondence belonging to W.E. Gallie. Notable collections within this series include letters written to and from Colonel J.A. MacFarlane, Consulting Surgeon, Canadian Army Overseas, correspondence with Dr. W.G. Bigelow, and correspondence with well-known American Surgeon Dr. Rudolph Matas. The files in this series are arranged chronologically.

Quo Vadis School of Nursing

The series consists of records relating to the Quo Vadis School of Nursing. Quo Vadis specialized in the training of mature women in nursing. The series includes news clippings, yearbooks, reports, photographs and other records relating to nursing education at Quo Vadis.

Cinefilm

This series contains the following cinefilms:
Detective and Hypnotist – 16 mm., b&w silent, 150 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel – “Lest We Forget” (Selected World War I footage) – 35 mm b&w positive, silent, 950 ft. (1914-1918)

Newsreel – Selected Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry footage – 35 mm b&w negative, silent, 175 ft.(1914-1919)

  • Memorial structure
  • Woman’s profile
  • Troop ships in a harbour

Newsreel – Depression-Era footage – 35 mm., b&w negative silent, 150 ft. (1930-1939)

  • Red Cross Relief
  • Flop-House
  • Parcels, Clothes, and Shoes

Newsreel Mute #1 – 16 mm., b&w silent, 400 ft. (1919-1924)

  • Prince of Wales visiting Canada, 1919
  • Car Painting, 1924
  • Police Van
  • Seaplane
  • Strike at Toronto
  • Chinese Market
  • McKenzie King at Mont Tremblant
  • Buffalo herds
  • Destroying Lathes
  • Log-sleigh road grading
  • Lumberjacks dancing
  • Car and tire manufacturing, 1924
  • Curtis Jenny seaplane

Newsreel Mute #2 – 16 mm., b&w silent, 400 ft. (1904-1921)

  • Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls
  • Fire Brigade (1904 Toronto fire?)
  • Ice Boat
  • Governor General Lord Byng, 1921
  • Soldiers Marching (WWI)
  • Lady Cyclists
  • Racing cars
  • Royal Parade, London
  • Royal Durbar, Delhi (King George V), 1910
  • Plowing Match [Brantford, 1917]

Newsreel #7 – “Farewell to Yesterday” – 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 850 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel #8 – 35 mm., b&w positive, opt. sound, 650 ft. (1930s)

  • Opening of Trans-Canada Highway
  • Point Racing
  • Kurusuku in Berlin
  • Hitler & Mussolini in Brenner
  • Gian Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister) & King Victor Emmanuel in Rome
  • General Motors Oshawa Strike, April 1937
  • Chinese Crowd Running from Japanese Soldiers

Newsreel “Fox #9” – 35 mm. b&w duplicate negative, 509 ft. (1930s)

  • Winston Churchill and Gen. Montgomery
  • Mussolini & Hitler
  • Matsuoka Visits Berlin
  • Formation of Home Guard
  • Mussolini & Hitler Brenner Pass
  • Hitler/Mussolini/King & King Victor Emmanuel in Rome

Newsreel #10 – “Farewell to Yesterday” – 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 1200 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel Footage “15 Selected Takes” - 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 450 ft. (1933-1945)

  • Kurusuku Visits Berlin
  • Mussolini Reviews Troops
  • Hitler Meets Mussolini at Armoured Train
  • ? giving a Speech
  • Nazi Riots
  • Hitler and Mussolini Inspect Guard
  • Mussolini Inspects African Guard
  • “Burning of the Books” - Goebbels Giving Speech at Night Rally, 10 May 1933
  • Japanese Infantry Charge
  • Mussolini Inspects Guard
  • Women Read V-E Day Newspapers, 8 May 1945
  • “Burning of the Books” – Close-up of Goebbels, 10 May 1933
  • Antisemitic Campaign 1933
  • Hitler giving Speech
  • Hitler Dancing

Newsreel Footage – 35 mm. b&w workprint, 450 ft. (1930s-1940s)

  • Building Lancaster bombers in Malton
  • Dutch settlers at Arsnoveld
  • Grey Cup Hi-jinks, Toronto
  • Hitler/Kurusu, Ciano, Ribbentrop
  • Wasaga air strip

Newsreel Footage – 35 mm. b&w workprint, 200 ft. (1930s)

  • German troops, WW2

Newsreel Clip - “Bleriot’s Channel Flight” - 35 mm. b&w negative, silent, 50 ft. (25 July 1909)

“Explosions – Historical Footage” - 35 mm. b&w workprint, 450 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel Clips – “Hitler-Mussolini-Hirohito – Rallies/Manoeuvres/Reviews Sherman Grindberg/Pathe, 35 mm, b&w workprint, 500 ft. (1920-1940)

“The Construction of a Concrete Highway” (Government of Ontario – Department of Public Highways) – 16 mm., b&w silent, 242 ft. (1917)

  • shows the building of a portion of the Toronto to Hamilton Highway where it passes through Oakville, official opening of highway

Fox Newsreel - “Canada News” – 16 mm. b&w positive, silent, 700ft. (n.d.)

  • Two way conversation from a speeding train

Newsreel Items – 35 mm. b&w silent, 1500 ft. (1917-1968)

  • 1917 Royal Navy Seaplane Trials
  • 1919 Royal Navy Seaplane Trials
  • 1968 Historic Air Review

“Riots in Hungary and Paris” – 35 mm. b&w positive, silent, 450 ft. (n.d.)

“Operating a 28 mm. Printer” – 16 mm. b&w silent, approx. 100 ft. (ca. 1970)

Recorded Sound Effects – 35 mm. magnetic soundtrack, 600 ft. (1930s)

  • Heil Hitler
  • Bells – Street Cars
  • Automobile horns
  • Crowds

Toronto Psychiatric Hospital and University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry

In 1926, Dr. C.K. Clark recruited Dr. Farrar as medical director of the newly built Toronto Psychiatric Hospital and as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Farrar remained in these positions until his retirement in 1947. Between 1926 and 1947, Canadian psychiatry became a major center in international scientific circles. Indeed, under Dr. Farrar’s tenure, the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital became a university teaching hospital and developed a clinical service for teaching and research. Further, in 1932, Dr. Farrar initiated the first Canadian postgraduate program for physicians in psychiatry. The program was broadly based and was accepted by the University as leading to a Diploma in Psychiatry.

Records in this series document Dr. Farrar’s career at the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital and the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. This series has been divided into three sub-series to reflect the administrative, clinical, and teaching activities of Dr. Farrar’s joint appointment.

Musical compositions

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Gena Branscombe, including published sheet music with inscriptions from the composer and manuscript copies of scores and parts.

Memoranda

Consists of 3 files

  1. Memorandum re North Rosedale Annexation. n.d.
  2. Memorandum on the revision of salaries for the Staff of the University & University College, TSS & printed copy, 1905
  3. Memorandum from James Loudon re the separate costs of administering the University of Toronto TSS, ca. 1906

Records relating to financial administration

Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and other records, 1905-2000, relating to financial administration, including bequests, endowments, government grants, and pensions.

The records in accession 1989.130V consist of correspondence, minutes and reports of a primarily financial nature. Some of the files outline Victoria's financial arrangements with the Board of Colleges and Secondary Schools and its successor divisions within the United Church of Canada; others provide information about the workings of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and its predecessors, the National Conference of Canadian Universities and the Canadian Universities Foundation and the politics of federal and provincial government grants to denominational institutions of higher education. The financial reports of the men's and women's residences are included, as are files on bequests, endowments, and the United Church's financial aid package for undergraduates who had been accepted as candidates for the ministry. The arrangements made between the University of Toronto and Victoria regarding reimbursement of Victoria faculty for supervising graduate work are detailed.

Personal and biographical

B2007-00011 and B2009-0005: The contents of this series consists of ‘biographical notes’, copies of Professor Richards curriculum vitae (1966-2004), articles about him; files on the family tree and the death of his father from ALS; an address book, certificates and honours; memorabilia belonging both to him and his partner, Frederic (Fred) Urban; personal correspondence (primarily with family members and friends but including files on other personal matters and American politicians, including Edward Kennedy and Bill Clinton); some of Frederic’s personal correspondence; files on the various residences that he and Frederic have shared since 1967, including their house in Natchitoches, Louisiana; postcards and greeting cards; a notebook on dreams; day planners; a diary for the first six months of 1959; and journals, correspondence and notes for trips to Europe, various destinations in the United States, and China between 1977 and 2007. The series ends with a collection of items on James Dean, who grew up on a farm a few miles from the Richards’ place and about whom Professor Richards wrote several pieces. Also included are a number of photographs.

Material from accession B2019-0009 mirrors the two previous, however also includes documentation from Richards’ childhood, awards, and personal reflections written to complement the donated archival material. The diaries, agendas and notebooks cover personal trips (professional travel and those related to specific projects are included in relevant series), personal reflections, and dream diaries. Documentation of Richards and Urban’s residences primarily cover their Natchitoches home, including information on sales, renovations, as well as broader engagement in the town and its architectural heritage.

Correspondence

This series consists of correspondence divided into two distinct parts. Except for a few letters received from family and friends between 1916 and the 1940s, the first part contains letters received by Bud from Frieda between 1924 and 1942, most of which were written before the end of 1927.

The second group of letters and cards is those received just before Bud's first stroke in 1976 and between then and her death in 1979. As Bud was unable to write, Frieda answered them, drafting most replies on the backs of cards and envelopes, which have been retained here. There was an enormous outpouring of support from friends and colleagues, and Bud's eldest sister, Betty, visited regularly.

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