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[Collection of original advertising illustrations and proofs for Simpson's Department Store]

  • CA OTUTF mapc 01025
  • Collection
  • 1928-1941

A collection of 43 original ink and wash illustrations and 26 proofs produced by the art department at Simpson's Department Store for advertising purposes. Illustrations depict common household goods, such as furniture, mattresses, and glassware which would be featured in Simpson’s catalogues, and ads in the Globe and Mail, The Evening Telegram and The Toronto Daily News. Includes illustrations made for the Royal Coronation in 1937 and the Royal visit to Toronto in 1939.

James Nevin Wallace Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00030
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [192-]-1940

The collection consists of a book of fur-trading posts, an encyclopedia of the fur trade, land surveyors of western Canada, traverses of the journeys of Thompson and Mackenzie, and notes on the 78th Fraser Highlanders, among other items related to the fur trade and Canadian northwest exploration.

Wallace, J. N. (James Nevin)

Robert Alexander Falconer fonds

  • UTA 1253
  • Fonds
  • 1776-1940

Fonds consists of 3 accessions:

B1965-0015: Addresses, speeches, articles, reports and memoranda relating to Sir Robert Falconer in his capacity as President of the University of Toronto and the affairs of the University. (1 box, 1905-1940)

B1979-0065: Portrait of Lady Sophia Falconer, wife of Sir Robert Falconer. Microfilm copy of a stamp scrapbook belonging to Robert Falconer. Contains correspondence on several postcards. (1 photo and 2 reels of microfilm)

B2009-0023: Film entitled "Undergradutes Presentation and Farewell to Sir Robert Falconer". This is a black and white silent film showing the presentation of a gift book to President Falconer in Convocation Hall. (1 film, March 1932)

Falconer, Sir Robert Alexander

Clive Bell fonds

  • CA ON00399 73
  • Fonds
  • [1940?]

Fonds consists of manuscript of address titled “Modern British Art”, [1940?] (Accession #2011.03)

Bell, Clive

Alexander James McPhail Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00054 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [192--]-[193--]

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notes and diaries chiefly concerning western wheat pool marketing.

McPhail, Alexander James

League for Social Reconstruction Papers (Downsview Offsite)

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00035
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1933-1940

The collection consists of minutes, membership records and correspondence of the League for Social Reconstruction, as well as letters dealing with the Canadian forum (1936-1940) while it operated under the auspices of the League.

League for Social Reconstruction

Collection of Medals

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00153 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [18-?]-[193-?]

Collection of twelve medals dating from the late 18th century to the 1930s. It includes medals from Cenenario de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1821-1921), Twentieth International American Congress (Rio de Janeiro, 1875-1922) and the University of Poitiers (1432-1932).

Genevieve Elaine Caniff fonds

  • UTA 1120
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1940

Certificates, dance cards, class and prize lists, and annotated copy of the calendar of the Toronto School of Music (1890-1891), and photocopy of music composition that won the Governor-General's Award in 1895, all documenting the activities of Genevieve Caniff while a student in music at University College and the Toronto College of Music (Mus.B 1899); photograph of Genevieve Caniff, aged 17. There are also catalogues of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (1923-1931) that record the participation of members of the Gray (her married name) family.

Caniff, Genevieve Elaine

E.A. (Edwin Austin) Hardy Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00017 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1898-1940

The collection consists of correspondence pertaining to Hardy's anthology of Canadian poetry, his secretarial duties for the Canadian Authors' Association, his editing of a directory listing of Canadian artists in the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation Bulletin, and his collection of autographs.

Hardy, E.A. (Edwin Austin)

Charles Walker Robinson Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00163
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1645-1940

The collection consists of family papers relating to John Robinson, Bishop of London (1650-1723), the Robinson family in Virginia and descendants in Upper Canada, especially Sir John Beverley Robinson (1791-1863), father of C.W. Robinson.

Robinson, C. W. (Charles Walker)

Ronald Hambleton Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1939-[200-]

Collection includes typescripts of his novels, published and unpublished, general and business correspondence, various articles, radio scripts, unpublished essays, plays, music reviews and magazine appearances. Tape recordings of his interviews with writers, such as Casals and Bertrand Russell. Photographs, including four of Hambleton during his interviews with CBC.

Hambleton, Ronald

John Leon Atkins Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00487
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1934-1939

Course notes in Laryngology, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Otology and Rhinology taken by Atkins while doing post-graduate training as an ear, nose and throat specialist at the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital in New York City.

Atkins, John Leon

Powell-Ridout Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00003 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1728-1939

The collection consists of documents and correspondence of family interest, including drawings, a diary of a journey from Toronto to Natchez (1837), commonplace books, family trees, photographs, and notebooks with impressions of Canada.

Powell Family

[Neighborhood Workers Association and Jean Speziali correspondence: mansucript]

  • CA OTUTF MSS gen 66
  • Collection
  • 1934-1939

Typed letters from the Neighborhood Workers Association in Toronto, Ontario, to Jean Speziali, regarding volunteer work as a camp counsellor at the Hastings Lodge and Bolton Fresh Air camps in Bolton, Ontario. Also includes manuscript letters from Jean Speziali to the Neighborhood Workers association and to her family from camp.

A. Norman Shaw fonds

  • UTA 1760
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1939

Announcements, programmes and related material pertaining to the Toronto meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1921) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1924); files relating to physics conferences and the teaching of physics at the University of Toronto, 1921-1939; photographs of the Dominion Meteorological Service Building.

Shaw, A. Norman

University of Toronto Schools (UTS) fonds

  • UTA 0280
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1939

This fonds contains 1 accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

University of Toronto Schools

Virginia Woolf fonds

  • CA ON00399 65
  • Fonds
  • 1926, 1936, [1939?]

The collection of more than 3000 items contains all the books hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in London (1917–1932). (The hand-printed works include many variant issues and bindings). It is also a nearly comprehensive collection of Hogarth Press machine printed books to 1946 (the year Leonard Woolf and the Press joined Chatto &Windus) and contains many rarities and all the significant texts. Included are many variant bindings, first editions, subsequent isues and editions, presentation copies, proofs copies, limited editions and signed limited editions. A substantial number of ephemeral publications, press catalogues, announcements and notices enhance the research utility of the collection. (Records for each item can be found in the University of Toronto Library Catalogue.)

Fonds consists of a letter to Clive Bell, 1926; a letter to Stephen [Spender], [1939?]; and a letter to Lillian Turner, 1936.

Woolf, Virginia

Canadian Historical Association. Committee on Historical Broadcasting fonds

  • UTA 1113
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1939

Series 1: Correspondence (15 September, 1936 - 2 May, 1939), primarily to and from the chair of the Committee, George de T. Glazebrook, but also including correspondence with George W. Brown, who worked closely with him, and relating to the broadcasting of Canadian local history and "portrait" series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations. Correspondents include archivists D. C. Harvey, W. Kaye Lamb, and M. Seraphin Marion; historians A. S. Morton, Chester New, Fred H. Soward, and Reginald Trotter; and broadcasters include D. W. Buchanan, H. W. Morrison, Murray Gladstone, Allan Plaunt, and Charles Jennings; and Sir Ernest MacMillan.|

Series 2: Administrative files: Membership lists; "stampbook" of broadcasts, 1936-1938; memoranda on the broadcasting of local history; memoranda, rough notes by Glazebrook relating to and scripts for "Yonge Street" in the broadcast series "Historic Roads in Ontario"; lists of broadcasts for the "Canadian portrait" series.

Canadian Historical Association. Committee on Historical Broadcasting

William John Knox Harkness fonds

  • UTA 1349
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1939

Consists of correspondence and a galley proof of article pertaining to Harkness' research on marine biology.

Harkness, William John Knox

Kathleen Irwin fonds

  • OTUFM 24
  • Fonds
  • [1930-1939]

Fonds consists of publicity materials for the piano duo of Kathleen Irwin and Winifred Mazzoleni and manuscript scores for voice and piano by Kathleen Irwin.

Irwin, Kathleen

Chester Brown Hamilton fonds

  • UTA 1342
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1938

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B2003-0010: Mechanical engineering student drawings by Chester B. Hamilton, student in the Ontario School of Practical Science. Produced as requirement for Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. Also includes Practice Sheet dated April 1905, 3 lettering charts and "Bill of Materials for Marine Boiler, Jan. 1906. All drawings are pen and ink with some watercolour. Size: 56 cm X 38 cm. (1 box, 1903-1920)

B2003-0015: Three photographs originally belonging to engineering graduate Chester B. Hamilton Jr. documenting engineering students at the University of Toronto. Hamilton received a Diploma in 1906, a B.A.Sc in 1908 and an M.E. in 1920. Included are group portraits of students in the mechanical and drafting rooms (1906) as well as a composite portrait of the Mechanical Club 1937-38 of which Hamilton was Honorary Chairman.

Hamilton, Chester Brown

E. Hopper Ross Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00201 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1936-1938

The collection consists of anatomical drawings by Ross. The majority of the drawings represent a complete dissection of the human neck and torso, including all major organs. Their value lies in their artistic merit, and in the unique record they provide of the teaching methods of Max Brodel, one of the pioneers of medical illustration.

Ross, E. Hopper (Eila Hopper)

Audrey Maureen Cowling fonds

  • UTA 1182
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1938

Programmes, invitations, memorabilia, clippings, a photograph, a certificate, and artifacts documenting Miss Cowling's one-year course in Dental Nursing (1936-1937). Included are the following items: a photograph of the Dental Nurses graduating class of 1937 and two class pins; and ribbons and programmes for the Ontario Dental Nurses and Assistants Association (1937, 1938).

Cowling, Audrey Maureen

Mildred Boyes fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2121
  • Fonds
  • 1916 - 1938

Includes a newspaper section, a scrapbook and a program, relating to St.
Hilda’s College

Boyes, Mildred

Leonard Colley Foster fonds

  • UTA 1280
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1938

Course, lecture and laboratory notes for the undergraduate programme in mechanical engineering.

Foster, Leonard Colley

Jabez Henry Elliott fonds

  • UTA 1241
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1938

Two scrapbooks compiled by Jabez Henry Elliott, professor of the History of Medicine, documenting his attendance at the 10 and 11th International Congresses on the History of Medicine that were held in Madrid and Toledo, Spain in 1935 and in Yugoslavia in 1938, respectively. Elliott was sent as the representative for the University of Toronto. The first scrapbook contains programmes, a running typed report on the conference, press coverage, annotated photographs, conference pamphlets and brochures (including one on the history of medicine). The second scrapbook includes his report to President Cody on the conference . It also contains tourist brochures and maps of the period, postcards and original photographs of sites throughout Yugoslavia including Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Mostar and Dubrovnik. Also includes memorabilia such as invitations and programmes attended by Elliott during his stay.

Elliott, Jabez Henry

George Warren fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2321
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1938

Fonds consists of handwritten and typed notes, addresses, sermons and newspaper clippings related to the Anglican Church and the debate over separate schools in Ontario.

Warren, George

Edmund Murton Walker fonds

  • UTA 1929
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1937
  • Correspondence, reports and financial statements of the Royal Canadian Institute; and correspondence of the Committee on General Entomological Terms;
  • Cartoon of the Department of Biology staff members drawn by E.M. Walker, 1933.

Walker, Edmund Murton

Norman Raeburn Speirs fonds

  • UTA 1794
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1937

University College, student course notes including English Literature, Economic History, Latin and Psychology 1923-1926 as well as student notes from courses at the Ontario College of Education 1936-37.

Speirs, Norman Raeburn

James Scarth Gale Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00245
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1863-1937

Drafts of writings about Korea and translations of Korean texts; commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, family papers, photographs, his collection of manuscripts, photographs, printed appearances.

Gale, James Scarth

Arthur Hartmann fonds

  • OTUFM 21
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1937

Fonds consists of a photograph and correspondence.

Hartmann, Arthur

Sir John Bland-Sutton Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00224 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1918-1937

A small collection of letters and memorabilia relating to Sir John Bland-Sutton (1855-1936), eminent anatomist and pathologist at the Middlesex Hospital and Medical School. Includes a small amount of material relating to his close friend, Rudyard Kipling.

Bland-Sutton, John, Sir

Robert Laird Borden Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00184 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1886-1937

The collection consists of correspondence of a political and personal nature, diaries, and miscellaneous documents.

Borden, Robert Laird, Sir

Robert McCallum Bullock fonds

  • UTA 1092
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1937

Rules for compiling and copy of a logging report (with photographs), "Logging Operation of J.R. Booth Co. Ltd.," by Charles P. Howard and Robert M. Bullock, carried out for the Faculty of Forestry in 1931; "Notes on logging dam construction" by J. A. Gilles, Upper Ottawa Improvement Co., 1931; table of wages for logging and sawmill industry, 1913-1931; sketch maps, a sketch of equipment, and publications relating to the forest products industry in Ontario.

Bullock, Robert McCallum

Gilbert Parker Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll. 00022
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1892 - 1937

Contains letters and notes written by Gilbert Parker to various recipients between 1892 and 1926. Collection also includes promotional pamphlet for Parker’s novel The World for Sale and a press photograph.

Parker, Gilbert

Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1801-1937

Contains textual records that document the developmental phases and operation of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, and the administrative activities of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company Joint Board of Directors.

Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company

William L. Holman fonds

  • UTA 1387
  • Fonds
  • 1936

Consists of correspondence and memoranda regarding the death of Dr. Oskar Klotz.

Holman, William L.

Francis Huston Wallace fonds

  • CA ON00357 2186
  • Fonds
  • 1839-1936

Fonds consists of mostly personal papers divided into the following series: Studies (1863-1872); Ministry (1871-1926); Finances (1863-1936); Autobiography (1873-1921); Memorabilia (1883-1933); Family Correspondence (1839-1930).

Wallace, Francis Huston

John Joseph Mackenzie fonds

  • UTA 1504
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1936

Address (18 pages) on hospital administration based on experiences in Toronto and at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, given at Mt Sinai Hospital, New York City, 27 February 1919 by Dr. Mackenzie. Includes explanatory letter from Emmanuel Libman, 19 June 1936.

Mackenzie, John Joseph

MacKinnon-Wrong Family fonds

  • UTA 1503
  • Fonds
  • 1808-1935

The material consists mainly of correspondence between members of the extended MacKinnon and Wrong families, back and forth between Canada and Scotland. They regularly related news and updates about the health and situation of family and friends. There are also a few pieces of correspondence for George M. Wrong.

Additionally, this accession includes poetry written by George M. Wrong’s father, Gilbert Wrong, as well as a few other documents from the family.

MacKinnon-Wrong Family

Archibald Hope (A.H.) Young Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2053
  • Fonds
  • 1837-1935

The collection consists of material related to Young’s academic interest in the Anglican Church in Canada and its related people, records related to Young’s time as an administrator of Trinity College, and some material from his personal life. The fonds contains original and copied research material accumulated by Young from various sources, written by John Strachan, his family and contemporaries. Other research interests included Bishop Mountain, the Stewart family, and Trinity College. Published and unpublished manuscripts, Young’s correspondence relating to the administration of Trinity College, and personal artefacts and photographs, are included.

Contains series:

  1. John Strachan research
  2. Mountain family correspondence
  3. Drafts and published work
  4. Trinity College administration
  5. Personal records

Young, Archibald Hope

John Joseph Kelso Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00115
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1919-1935

The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on child immigration to Canada as well as other miscellaneous items related to Kelso's work in social work. It also includes a typescript copy of Kelso's biography.

Kelso, J. J. (John Joseph)

Alfred Edward Lavell Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00108
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1835-1935.

The collection consists of drafts of Lavell's History of the Ontario Hospitals for the insane and feeble-minded. It contains material on mental institutions in Ontario.

Lavell, Alfred Edward

Albert Edward Johnson fonds

  • UTA 1429
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1935

Three student notebooks compiled by A.E. Johnson, an occasional student registered in the Faculty of Arts between 1933 and 1935. Notebooks are for classes relating to Optometry, i.e. Physics (1933-1934) and Optics (1934-1935)

Johnson, Albert Edward

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