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Thomas Rutherford Robinson fonds

  • UTA 1716
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1890

Hand coloured lantern slides illustrating a talk on tour of Central and South America, western United States, Canada and Alaska. It is believed that these originally belonged to philosophy Professor T.R. Robinson.

Robinson, Thomas Rutherford

Maurice Hutton fonds

  • UTA 1406
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1895

Consists of programmes, correspondence and scrapbook with photographs relating to a production of Sophocles' Antigone at University College (1882), as well as a watercolour by Lucius O'Brien, entitled "University College in 1876", and a scrapbook with clippings (1893-1895).

Hutton, Maurice

Catherine Beaven fonds

  • UTA 1048
  • Fonds
  • [18--]

Pencil sketch of King's College by Catherine Beaven, daughter of James D. Beaven, professor of Theology at King's College 1843-1872.

Beaven, Catherine

Isaac Albert Rumble fonds

  • UTA 1734
  • Fonds
  • 1902

The records relate to Isaac Albert Rumble, who graduated from Victoria College in 1902 and taught business in Toronto. The records consist of three items: an unidentified class photograph from 1900; a photograph of the graduating class in Arts from 1902; and a certificate of chartered accounting from 1913.

Rumble, Isaac Albert

George Armstrong Peters fonds

  • UTA 1654
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1902

Case studies of medical patients, with 24 photographs tipped in belonging to Dr. George A. Peters (MB 1886; MD, CM Trinity, 1887; FRCS, England), Associate Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery.

Peters, George Armstrong

Toronto School of Medicine fonds

  • UTA 1832
  • Fonds
  • 1870-1902

Fonds consists of:

  • Bound minute book of the Corporation of the Toronto School of Medicine, 1877-1902
  • 2 photoprints of Second and Third-Year Students of the Toronto School of Medicine,1870-1871

Toronto School of Medicine

Arthur Newton St. John fonds

  • UTA 1799
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1903

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

Henry G. Acres fonds

  • UTA 1003
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1903

Ink and watercolour drawings by Henry G. Acres as student in mechanical and electrical engineering at the Ontario School of Practical Science from 1900-1903. Each drawing is signed "H.G. Acres" and dated.

Acres, Henry G.

William Barber fonds

  • UTA 1034
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1905

Athletic photographs and graduation diploma of William Barber who gradutated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in 1905. Photographs include: Faculty of Applied Science Track Team, 1902; Varsity Assault at Arms Team, 1903-1904; University of Toronto Track Team, Inter University Champions, 1903; and University of Toronto Track Team, 1905.

Barber, William

Edward Harrison fonds

  • UTA 1352
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1906

71 engineering drawings (on 15"x22" drafting paper and linen), 3 lettering cards and 3 practice sheets compiled by Edward Harrison while a student in civil engineering in the Ontario School of Practical Science; 2 photoprints, including the last graduating class (1906) of the school.

Harrison, Edward

Sir Edward Albert Kemp fonds

  • UTA 1446
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1906

Handbook of the British Medical Association's Toronto meeting, 1906; Menus for the annual dinner of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1893 and 1900; photograph of University College, South elevation, pre 1900.

Kemp, Sir Edward Albert

Donald Bruce MacDonald fonds

  • UTA 1498
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1906

Scrapbook containing letter of appointment to the Ontario Royal Commission on the University of Toronto, 1906, and press coverage; photoprint of father, J.K. MacDonald.

MacDonald, Donald Bruce

Charles Totton fonds

  • UTA 1934
  • Fonds
  • ca.1905-1906

Photographs of Charles Totton and classmates of the biological and physical sciences course. Included are informal views of students in laboratories including one during a dissection. There is also a formal group photograph of the Biological and Physical Sciences Class of 1907 as well as Totton's graduation portrait and diplomas. Also included is the programme of the University College Ninth Annual Dinner complete with signatures of classmates, professors as well as the guest of honour Sir Wilfred Laurier.

Totton, Charles

George Tunnah Clark fonds

  • UTA 1144
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1906

Fonds consists of 2 accessions of photographs

B1987-0017: 6 photos of graduating classes of 1904 (Arts) and 1906 (Engineering); and of student societies.

B1985-0030:
-University College Literary and Scientific Society Executive, 1900-1901
-Executive of the University of Toronto Mathematical and Physical Society, 1902-1903
-University College Literary and Scientific Society Dinner Committee, 1903-1904
-Faculty of Arts, graduating class of 1904
-Executive Committee of the University of Toronto Union, 1905-1906
-Ontario School of Practical Science, graduating class of 1906
-University of Toronto Engineering Society Executive, 1905-1906

Clark, George Tunnah

Florence Helen Maud Neelands fonds

  • UTA 1610
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1907

Correspondence of Florence Neelands with family members, including her brother, Ernest Victor, friends and fellow students while a student in modern languages at the University of Toronto. Topics include the 1894 production of 'Antigone' and the 1895 student strike. Also included are photographs, mostly of family members and friends (some identified) but also including images of tribesmen, possibly in Papua-New Guinea.

Neelands, Florence Helen Maud

William Cooper Lumbers fonds

  • UTA 1494
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1907

Certificates, photographs and engineering drawings reflecting William Lumber's years as an undergraduate in the diploma programme (mechanical and electrical engineering) of School of Practical Science. Includes his graduating photo (1901) and diploma as well as the School of Practical Science graduating class photo for 1899-1900. Also two group photos of the Engineering Society of the School of Practical Science.

Lumbers, William Cooper

Thomas H. Hogg fonds

  • UTA 1384
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1903-1907]

Fonds consists of student notebooks, the Kipling Ritual handbook, engineering journals, Hydro reports and photographs related to Hogg's studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Hogg, Thomas Henry

George Jones Fothergill fonds

  • UTA 1281
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1907

Student notebooks, textbooks and files on student activities and organizations kept by George Jones Fothergill, a first year Arts undergraduate. Notebooks include sketches.

Fothergill, George Jones

Waddell family fonds

  • UTA 1928
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1908

Graded essay, publications consisting of conference material relating to the International Federation of University Women, admit to lecture card, issues of "Old Lit"; and photographs of U of T Graduating Class in Arts and the University College Executive.

Waddell family

James W. Bain fonds

  • UTA 1027
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1910

Drawings for the first to third year drawing courses in chemical engineering (diploma programme) taken by J. Watson Bain at the School of Practical Science, 1893-1896; photoprint of the executive of the SPS Engineering Society, 1896-1897; membership certificate from the American Society of Chemical Engineers, 1910.

Bain, James W.

William Cameron Blackwood fonds

  • UTA 1065
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1884- ca. 1910

Views of University buildings, including University College, (including winter view) Victoria College, School of Military Aeronautics, Parliament Buildings, Library, Wycliffe College, Biology Building, Gymnasium, Chemistry and Mining Building, Medical Building, School of Practical Science, Senate Chamber; portraits of Robert A. Falconer and John Galbraith. Many photographs are undated. Taken by William Cameron Blackwood.

Blackwood, William Cameron

Mary Silverthorn fonds

  • UTA 1772
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1910

Exterior views of University College from the south-west. No arrangement.

Silverthorn, Mary

David Colin Blizard fonds

  • UTA 1071
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1910

Certificates relating to the educational achievements, including the diploma and bachelor's degree in Applied Science and Engineering, of Colin Blizard (BASc 1910); photograph of the graduating class in Applied Science and Engineering, 1909.

Blizard, David Colin

Galbraith Family fonds

  • UTA 1304
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1881-1912]

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

Minnie Louise Barry fonds

  • UTA 1041
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1907-1912]

Photo album and photograph documenting Minnie Barry's involvement with the Varsity Ladies' Hockey Team while an undergraduate in arts at University College. The ice rink was located immediately east of Annesley Hall and was known (later?) as the Little Vic Rink.

For an identification of the players see photo in The Varsity, 11 March 1910

Barry, Minnie Louise

George Ralph Mines fonds

  • UTA 1580
  • Fonds
  • 1914

Photographs of five University of Toronto professors (unidentified) and of the first electocardiograph equipment in Canada in Professor Mines' physiology laboratory at the University of Toronto, along with an early electrocardiogram made by Professor Mines in March 1914 relating to Stokes-Adams disease, perhaps the first clinical ECG done in Canada.

Mines, George Ralph

George Francis John Dalton fonds

  • UTA 1197
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1914

Course notes compiled by George Dalton and consisting of notes on lectures and laboratory work for the 2nd through 4th year programme in civil engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Also included is an annotated copy of 'Laboratory Instructions' for 3rd year students in the 'strength of materials' course in the Department of Applied Mechanics (n.d., but ca. 1911), and an examination timetable for 1914. photographs comprise part of the notebook in box 003, file 04.

Dalton, George Francis John

William Campbell Murdie fonds

  • UTA 1602
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1912-1914

Fonds consists of a portfolio of technical drawings, maps and charts prepared by William Campbell Murdie while a student of engineering at the University of Toronto, 1913-1914, and 2 photographs.

Murdie, William Campbell

William J. Houston fonds

  • UTA 1396
  • Fonds
  • 1913, 1915

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B2008-0018: Two photographs documenting William J. Houston, student in the Faculty of Education in 1913 and later a graduate of Arts (B.A. 1924). The two group portraits include the Faculty of Education Literary Executive , Fall term 1913 and an unidentified Faculty of Education sports team (possibly soccer).

B2013-0028: Portraits of William J. Houston, student in the Faculty of Education in 1913 and later a graduate of Arts (B.A. 1924) in World War I uniform. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 170th Canadian Infantry Battalion and subsequently in active service in France in 1918.

Houston, William J.

Edythe Elmira Hough fonds

  • UTA 1392
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1915

Consists of course notes and text books relating to modern languages and history, as well as programmes and notices.

Hough, Edythe Elmira

Richard Hilton Lloyd fonds

  • UTA 1481
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1915

Consists of 2 accessions:

B1987-0070: Files on student activities, course and laboratory notes and drafting exercises (engineering drawings) for the undergraduate program in electrical engineering; photoprint of Applied Science YMCA executive, 1911-1912. (4 boxes, 1911-1915)

B1988-0065: Course notes and examination for the undergraduate programme in mechanical engineering. (3 boxes, 1911-1915)

Lloyd, Richard Hilton

Cavell Family fonds

  • UTA 1129
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1916

Photographs documenting two members of the Cavell family at the University of Toronto: J. H. Cavell (BA, 1909) and H.W. Cavell (BA, 1916). Images include: University of Toronto graduating class in Arts, 1909; University College graduating class in Arts, 1916; University College Executive of 1915 in 1912-13; Varsity staff, 1916-17; executive of the Class of 1909 in 1908-09.

Cavell Family

Norman H. Daniel fonds

  • UTA 1215
  • Fonds
  • 1915-ca. 1918

Photographs taken by Normal H. Daniel documenting his time in the bicycle corps during World War I. Photographs include bicycle corps training exercises at Dixie road, Mississauga, Ontario; troops going over seas and troops marching at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. Images of the 19th Battallion marching. Images of bicycle corps in England (Shorncliffe, specifically Dibgate Camp). Pictured: S. S. Corinthian, its escorts as it arrives in England, as well as groups of soilders on board the ship. Some portraits of officers - named and unnamed. Images of soliders in Cooksville, Ontario.

Daniel, Norman H.

Ralph Presgrave fonds

  • UTA 1676
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1918

24 black-and-white photographs documenting the activities of the Overseas Training Company of the Canadian Officers Training Company, University of Toronto, during World War I. Includes images of the OTC tents in the quad outside Burwash Hall and a final photograph before it was disbanded, trenches in Forest Hill, and a photoprint of Philosopher's Walk, looking north towards Bloor Street.

Presgrave, Ralph

Angus Lynn Sutherland fonds

  • UTA 1815
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1918

Engineering drawings for the undergraduate programme in electrical and mechanical engineering (1907-1910); photographs documenting Sutherland's education including the graduating class in Engineering, 1911 and a souvenir poster of the University of Toronto football team, 1909 (the 1st Grey Cup Champions).

Sutherland, Angus Lynn

Blake Marani Family fonds

  • UTA 1192
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1918

This small accession contains the following:

  • Letter from Gerald Blake at the front to his Uncle in 1915, a letter from his cousin Clara Benson to his mother regarding his death, 1916 and a telegram from informing the Blake family of Gerald Blake's death.
  • Reminiscence by Constance Blake Marani when she worked in Hart House under Dr. Bott and Dr. Blatz during the World War I as well as postcards she received from soldiers serving overseas.
  • Transcripts of six World War I letters home from Geoffrey Marani June - Nov 1918.
  • Photograph of Ferdinand Marani in WWI uniform, ca. 1916
  • Two digital scanned copies of family photos: Constance Blake in the nursing type uniform worn in Rehabilitation Hospital at Hart House; Prof Van der Smissen surrounded by his son, nephews and young brother-in-law. ca. 1905.

Blake, Gerald Edward

Royal Canadian Military Institute fonds

  • UTA 1729
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1918

Photographs borrowed and copied from the Royal Military Institute. Includes exterior views of the Engineering Building and Hart House; No. 4 School of Aeronautics, instruction in operating the Curtiss plane; patching, drawing, sail making, sand targeting, map sqauring, artillery observation and bomb dropping devices; mosaic map of the City of Toronto; aerodrome and hangers at Camp Borden; R.A. F. training school plane

Royal Canadian Military Institute

Keillor Family fonds

  • UTA 1440
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1919

Notebooks of Mabel B. Taylor relating to courses in pharmacy, bacteriology, anatomy & physiology, nursing and dietetics, demonstrations, chemistry, hygiene at the Hospital for Sick Children, 1914 and 1918-1919. Associated materials relating to nursing include: clippings, Hospital for Sick Children "Rules for Nurses", examinations, and booklets for students at U. of T., "The training school for nurses of the Hospital for Sick Children" 1886-1917.

Memorabilia for undergraduate programme in medicine (1908-1913), belonging to Benjamin Franklin Keillor, MB 1913.

Photographs include: Faculty of Medicine, graduating class of 1913; members of the University of Toronto Medical Society Executive, 1911-1912; Faculty of Medicine calendar for 1909.

Keillor, Benjamin Franklin

H. H. Wilkinson fonds

  • UTA 1953
  • Fonds
  • [1905], [190-] or [191-]

Contains one photograph of an ice hockey team in which H. H. Wilkinson played in 1905 (see top left hand). It also contains one pastel coloured photograph of H. H. Wilkinson and his wife, presumably taken in 1900s or 1910s.

Wilkinson, H. H.

Gordon Anderson Bates fonds

  • UTA 1042
  • Fonds
  • 1905-[191-?]

Fonds consists of 4 accessions

B1982-0020 (1905-1908): Course notes (four volumes) for second and fourth year medicine, belonging to Gordon Anderson Bates, MB 1907; photograph of the operating room, Hamilton City Hospital, 1908.

B1984-0049 (1910s?): Early manuscript of paper, written about 1914, on the antitoxin laboratories, School of Hygiene, and titled "The humility of a University"; course notes on hygiene, n.d.; draft of minutes of section of State Medicine, 25 March, 1915; notes from a lecture on infectious diseases, n.d.

B1987-0039 (1905 and ca 1907): Photographs: executive of the University of Toronto Student Parliament, 1905/06; representatives of the University of Toronto Medical Society to "sister institutions", ca. 1907.

B1987-0068 (1914): Appears to be typescript of the paper on antitoxins, the manuscript for which is in B1984-0049.

Bates, Gordon Anderson

Marie Peterkin fonds

  • UTA 1642
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1919

One University of Toronto pin and two Pi Beta Phi pin as well as a photo album documenting University College graduate, Marie Peterkin (B.A. 1919). Snapshots in album show Ms Peterkin with classmates on campus, at a convention and working at the Government Experimental Farm in Vineland Ontario.

Peterkin, Marie

William John Nicol fonds

  • UTA 1615
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1920

Two photographs belonging to Engineering Graduate, William John Nicol (B.A.Sc. 1920) including: Phi Sigma Tau Fraternity, Alpha Chapter, 1919-1920 and Faculty of Applied Science Graduating Class 1920.

Nicol, William John

Aikins Family fonds

  • UTA 1005
  • Fonds
  • 1855, 1921

Letter from J.C. Aikins to his brother, W.J. Aikins, 6 March, 1865, regarding proposals for the establishment of the faculties of medicine and law in the University of Toronto. Portrait of Moses Henry Aikins, taken by Notman & Fraser. Obituary of Moses Henry Aikins, 1921.

Aikins Family

Gerald Edward Blake fonds

  • UTA 1068
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1921

Fonds consists of 3 accessions

B2003-0023 (7 boxes, 1892-1921): This accession documents the short life of Gerald Edward Blake from his birth in 1892, his education at Ridley College and the University of Toronto, to his death on the battlefields of France during World War I in 1916. Series 1 and 3 contain his diaries and correspondence to family members in which he describes his experiences at school, his trips to Britain and France in 1913 and most significantly, his 13 months of service during World War I. The majority of his letters are to his mother during his months overseas, but there are also letters to his sisters, Margaret (1893-1963), Constance (1896-1979) and his brother, Verschoyle (1899-1971). Some of these letters are attached to typescript copies, prepared by his brother Verschoyle prior to 1971. Capt. Blake also sent postcards annotated by him which provide a photographic record of British army life in camp, as well as official coloured war service postcards of the British army in action. Other postcards of street scenes in France and Britain helped to illustrate the places he had been including the town of Pozières near which he was killed in 1916 (Series 5). Other war records include his military orders and notes while at the front, and his copy of active service bible. Correspondence and photographs also document his close friendship with his cousins Hume Wrong (1894 – 1954; BA 1915) and Harold Wrong (b.1891; BA 1913), who was also killed in action in July 1916. After Gerald’s death, Hume Wrong assisted Mrs. Blake in making arrangements for her son’s grave site in France and sent home photographs of the cemetery which he visited in 1920-1921 (Series 5). In addition, Mrs. Blake received other remembrances of her son’s service such as a commemorative medal from the British Army, a copy of the history of his battalion’s service in the War and a copy of Volume II of the British Roll of Honour (Series 4).

B2004-0028 (2 files, 1902-1914): Original diploma of Gerald Blake awarded for Bachelor of Arts degree, University of Toronto, 1914; photocopies of letters from Gerald Blake's father, Edward Francis Blake, to administrators at schools (St. Andrews College, and Ridley College) attended by Gerald Blake, 1902-1904. (Photocopies are from original letterbook of E.F. Blake to be given to the Archives of Ontario).

B2006-0025 (1 file, 1915): Four letters written by Gerald Blake to his sister, Constance and his mother in 1915 while serving in W.W. I. Also includes typescript of "Dedicatory Prayer" on death of Gerald Blake.

Blake, Gerald Edward

W. G. Stepler fonds

  • UTA 1807
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1921

Course notes of W. Gordon Stepler while a student in the Faculty of Arts and Pharmacy including: laboratory notebook for 1st year science, 1915-1916; course notes for two courses in pharmacy; notes for organic chemistry and materia medica and pharmacognosy (1920-21). Also includes one photograph of South House residence, 1915-1916.

Stepler, W. G.

Donald Dewar MacMillan fonds

  • UTA 1511
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1921

Drawings from D.D. MacMillan's student class projects at Belmont Public School, Belmont, Ontario; programme from his university days; drawings from his year in the Faculty of Education, 1918-1919; and drawings, freshman examinations and notebook of laboratory experiments, from his courses in Dentistry, at the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, 1920-1921.

MacMillan, Donald Dewar

Edward B. Philip fonds

  • UTA 1659
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1923

Two collections of photoprints and accompanying negatives relating to student activities in the School of Practical Science: I) "Good Old School Days at S.P.S." - views of electrical engineering study room and laboratory, sports trophies won by School of Practical Science athletic teams, Edward B. Philip with schoolmates, School of Practical Science professors; II) "Initiation Potpourri" - exterior view of the School of Practical Science Building; scenes of freshman initiations; junior engineering rugby team; World War I. Compiled by Edward B. Philip.

Philip, Edward B.

Lloyd Judson Bonham fonds

  • UTA 1073
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1923

Photographs documenting L.J. Bonham, graduate of mining engineering - B.A.Sc. 1923. Included are: a group photograph of Toike Oikestra 1920-1921; two class photographs, one of which contains all the names inscribed on the back; and a graduating class composite for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering for 1923.

Bonham, Lloyd Judson

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