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Series consists of minimal, and various, correspondence with family, colleagues, museums, galleries, publishers, and editors relating to Dr. Brieger’s personal life, professional life, and research.

Includes images documenting machinery for induction heating at the Ajax Magnethermic Corporation and views of other plants and machinery such as Davey United of Sheffield England and Washington Steel. A series of slides document research-taking place in the University of Toronto, Electronic Engineering Department in 1966. There are a few views of Biringer at work.

During the course of his academic and scientific career, Dr. Biringer published over 130 papers. The range of his interests is well represented in this series as it contains about 95 of them. The earliest is 1951, when he was still living in Sweden; the last on file is dated 1987. In addition there are two papers from the 1940s by Swedish academics, one of whom was later a co-author.

Most of the papers in the series are in the form of offprints or photocopies, but there are a number of manuscripts. More than one version of the same paper is also sometimes present.

Dr. Biringer belonged to many professional and scientific organizations, of which two are represented here. He reviewed conference and transactions papers for the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; the file contains lists and notes for the period 1960-1964. His research made him a natural supporter of the Canadian Iron and Steel Research Association, which was formed in 1978, from which he retained early documents on the Association’s activities.

Over the years, Dr. Biringer took out many patents on his inventions. Between 1954 and 1969, for example, he registered twenty-six in Canada, France, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

This series contains copies of most of those he registered between 1954 and 1973. In addition there are several folders of patents in his areas of expertise that had been registered by other inventors between 1914 and 1965.

Professor Biringer's expertise was much sought after in industry and he had long term relationships with a number of companies in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Sweden, several of which are represented in this series. He was involved in the design of electrical systems for steel mills and smelters for Hatch Associates of Toronto. Ajax Magnethermic Corporation of Ajax, Ontario and elsewhere and General Engineering Company of Toronto sought his expertise in the development of induction heating equipment and supplies. Other areas in which he provided expertise included power supply design, the design of frequency changers, speed control systems, transformer design, and airport lighting systems.

This series consists of correspondence, research notes, experimental data, reports, and articles. The arrangement is by the name of the companies with which he had contracts.

Dr. Biringer was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Electical Engineering in 1957 and a full professor in 1965. During his career, he supervised twenty doctoral students.

The lecture notes and problem sets in this series apply to courses given to undergraduate and graduate classes between 1965 and 1990. There is a single file for a lecture given at Memorial University in 1989. The lectures are not necessarily complete for any year and there are none for the academic years 1965-1967, 1968-1971, 1972-1974 and 1975-1976.The arrangement is chronological.

After receiving his MA in Sweden, Paul Biringer came to the University of Toronto as a doctoral student in electrical engineering. He received his PhD in 1956.

The single file in this series consists of problem sets and an examination in the course "power system stability” for the 1952-1953 academic year.

Over the course of forty years, Dr. Biringer established himself as leading researcher in electrical engineering, especially in the areas of non-linear circuits, electromet and electroheat processes. These notes appear to have been taken for his own research, for use in lectures and in relation to his numerous consulting activities. Additional notes, related directly to lectures being given or to consulting activities, appear in those series.

His earliest research is not represented in this series which contains notes, experimental data, and a few articles relating to particular research topics. The principal areas covered are arc furnaces, channel induction furnaces, heating coils, electron beams, electro-magnetic stirring, and frequency changers.

Consists of reports and submissions assembled or compiled by Dr. Bator during the course of his research and writing.

Consists of photocopies of records from the Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown, New York

Consists of general research files used by Dr. Paul A. Bator in the writing of his Within Reach of Everyone, a history of the School of Hygiene.

This series contains two reports belonging to Dr. Baker relating to First Nations native health care: “First Nations child health care study. Final Report” produced by staff at McMaster University in 1992 and “Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority. Final Report I: Health Needs Assessment” by T. Kue Young (1995).

For most of his active career, Dr. Baker was involved with organizations related to his specialty in paediatrics and later, Indigenous health. This series contains files documenting his involvement with the Canadian Paediatric Society including his chairmanship of the Indian and Inuit Health Committee. These files include minutes of meetings, drafts of papers, notes and correspondence. Also included are files on the Council of Faculties of Medicine of Ontario and the Northern Ontario Committee which he chaired from 1992 to 1997. There is also one file of the Canadian Psychiatric Association relating to a meeting in September 1989.

This series consists of files documenting some of Dr. Baker’s teaching and writing activities mainly produced during his years at the University of Toronto. There are two files containing drafts, notes and correspondence relating to Native Health lectures given to 2nd year medical students in January 1993. These are followed by four files containing drafts of papers on the history of the Sioux Lookout Program, as well as health issues faced by Indigenous communities in the north, and children’s health concerns.

This series consists of files documenting some of the activities relating to this program. These include the Child Abuse Workshop, Indigenous health care including the NODIN Mental Health care services, orientation manual for visiting medical staff and visiting professorships. Files may include correspondence, reports, notes, presentation drafts, etc.

This series contains files of correspondence and working notes regarding activities relating to the Sioux Lookout Program and external activities with such organizations such as the Council on Faculties of Medicine. Also included are Dr. Baker’s personal diaries notes for the period 1989 to 1992.

This series contains four files relating to personal and biographical information prepared by Dr. Baker. It includes curriculum vitae, brief biographical summary, correspondence relating to his appointment and salary at the University of Toronto, sabbatical leave in 1993, and personal correspondence.

This series consists of drafts of two manuscripts, correspondence and some research materials.

The records consist of files relating to graduate courses only: GGR 441ES Images of Cities, GGR 1549 Readings in theoretical geography, and JGS 340Y (1987-88) Concepts, methods and values in urban studies. Records include lecture notes, class assignments, examinations and reading lists.

The records in this series contain the working papers of Prof. Andrews as a member of the Planning and Priorities Subcommittee of the Planning and Resources Committee of Governing Council from 1976 through his period as Chair (1978-1980). The Subcommittee was established on September 23, 1976 to replace the Planning Subcommittee for the academic session 1976-1977. Included are copies of agenda, reports, original correspondence and notes taken at meetings. Since Prof. Andrews also represented Erindale College, files relating to the College’s submissions to this Subcommittee will also be found.

B2003-0024/001P:

• Photographs and slides, unidentified and identified, relating to research projects and writings, with no associated textual records. Includes photos for Anderson’s 1968 paper, “The Serpent Mounds site physical anthropology”, Royal Ontario Museum Arts and Archaeology Division Occasional Paper 11.

B2003-0024/002P:

• Basal view of skulls (6), including El Risco and Donaldson sites
• “Dallas”, site 117 (?). Two panels of six cranial photos each

Consists of notes, field notes, infracranial and cranial forms, reports, tables, correspondence, diagrams, and photos relating to archaeological digs and associated research projects.

For “Indian skeleton” plates 48, 49, 55 and 61 see B2003-0024/005(01)-(04).
For most of the other plates in this set, see B2004-0009.

Series consists of autographed photographs for Dr. Ernesto Vinci of Licia Albanese and Risë Stevens, Alexander Gray, Edward Johnson (with unidentified students), and Wilfrid Pelletier.

Series consists of general information and descriptions of the Opera School program and its history; lists of past productions; descriptions of courses; biographies; theatre equipment lists and inventories; and scrapbooks compiled by the Opera School of their archives. The latter contain programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, budgets, and other records, and cover the following years: 1948, 1950-1959, 1960-1966, 1970, 1974, and 1979.

Series consists of the administrative and financial records of the Opera School (later the Opera Department and now the Opera Division). Records include correspondence, budgets, and meeting minutes, pertaining to the operations of the Opera School.

Series consists of brochures on the Toronto Wagner society, blank membership cards, blank letterhead, and Brian Corman's notes on the history of the society, including past chairs, speakers, and performers for the Society's annual Wagner birthday concert.

Series consists of agendas and minutes for the Toronto Wagner Society's meetings, treasurer's reports, and correspondence regarding the administrative operations of the Society (room bookings and guests). Series also includes a membership list from 1986, and a copy of the Society's constitution.

Series consists of various programs for concerts and recitals presented by the Toronto Wagner Society (TWS), including their annual birthday programme for Richard Wagner, and conferences on Wagner arranged by the TWS in cooperation with the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Arts and Letters Club, and the University of Toronto. Performers at TWS concerts include: Jean MacPhail, mezzo-soprano ; Richard Fisher, piano ; Kathleen Brett, soprano ; Cori Martin, mezzo-soprano ; Hannibal Hamlin, baritone ; Stephanie Martin, piano ; Michael Aspinall, soprano ; Courtney Kenny, piano ; Anna Russell, soprano and piano ; Celine Papizewska, soprano ; Jackie Lynn Fidlar, mezzo-soprano, and Robin Wheeler, piano ; Robert Martin-Reid, tenor ; Sandra Horst, piano ; Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano ; Stephen Ralls, piano ; Stephen Erickson, tenor ; Andrea Grant, piano.

Series consists of issues of the newsletter issued by the Toronto Wagner Society. The newsletter, issued 3-4 times per year to the Society membership features articles, reviews, overview of events organized by the Society, and information about Wagner performances worldwide. The newsletter was initially titled "Society Notes". In September 1989, it was renamed "Wagner News" with volume and issue numbers (starting at vol. 1, no. 1).

Series consists of glass plate slides of stage designs and settings for particular productions of operas and other stage productions, including: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven; Wozzeck by Alban Berg; Giunio Bruto by Domenico Cimarosa; Pélleas and Mélisande by Claude Debussy; Orfeo ed Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck; unidentified oratorios and operas by George Frideric Handel; Ballet du roi and Isis by Jean-Baptiste Lully; Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Salome by Richard Strauss; Aida, Don Carlos, La forza del destino, and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi; and Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung, and Parsifal* by Richard Wagner.

Stage designers represented in this collection include: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, R.E. Jones, Adolphe Appia, Ludwig Sievert, Panos Aravantinos, Norman Bel Geddes, Salvador Dali, Caspar Neher, Giorgio de Chirico, and Rolf Gérard.

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various opera houses and theatres in Europe, including: Theater an der Wien; Esterhazy; Teatro Communale, Florence; La Scala, Milan; Teatro San Carlo, Naples; Old Dresden State Theatre; State Opera House, Dresden; Bayreuth [Festspielhaus]; Opera Comique, Paris; Findling House, Chelse; Civic Opera House, Chicago; Metropolitan Opera House; and, Bloomington [Theatre, Indiana].

Series consists of glass lantern slides showing images of various instruments. Slides include images of instruments as included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, and Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, as well as reproductions of paintings and other artistic renderings of instruments. Instruments include the theorbo, lute, harp, viola da gamba, viola d'amore, German flute, lyre, guitar, unfretted and fretted clavichords, spinnet, Silberman pianoforte, gravicembalo, and oliphants.

Series consists of examples of notations, particularly neumes and mensural notation. Examples are mostly taken from images included in the book Handbuch der Notationskunde by Johannes Wolf. Wolf was one of Arnold Walter's teachers when he studied musicology at the University of Berlin. Series also includes reproductions of manuscripts included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, and World history of the dance by Curt Sachs; sequences from St. Gallen; illustrated pages from the Codex Manesse, Sachsenspiegel, Psautier de Lothaire, and Las Cantigas de Santa María; and a plate interpreting animal symbols.

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various cathedrals, churches, basilicas, abbeys, and monasteries.

Most locations are in France: Albi Cathedral; Amiens Cathedral; Arles Cathedral; Bayeux Cathedral; Beauvais Cathedral; Bourges Cathedral; Carcassonne Cathedral; Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims; Caudebec Cathedral; Cluny Abbey; Coutances Cathedral; Dol Cathedral; Elne Cathedral; Évreux Cathedral; La Trinité, Caen; Le Mans Cathedral; Notre Dame, Chartres; Notre Dame, Paris; Quimper Cathedral; Rodez Cathedral; Rouen Cathedral; Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges; Sainte-Chapelle, Paris; Saint-Étienne, Caen; Saint-Eustache, Paris; Saint-Maclou, Rouen; and Saint-Ouen, Rouen.

Other locations include Rome (Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls; Basilica of Saint Clement; Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo); Prague (Kostel sv. Josefa na Malé Straně; Kostel sv. Václava; Kostel svatého Ignáce; Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné; Kostel svatého Salvátora; Kostel svatého Víta); Leipzig (St. Thomas' Church); Québec (Laval Cathedral); Catalonia, Spain (Monastery of Sant Cugat); and England (Exeter Cathedral; Westminster Abbey).

Series also contains miscellaneous related slides, including examples of Early Christian cathedrals and basilicas and exemplars of French Gothic architecture. Some slides were reproduced from A History of Architecture by Banister Fletcher and Sir Banister Fletcher (published by George Philip & Son, London).

Series consists of glass lantern slides of paintings, busts, caricatures, cartoons, and manuscript renderings of musicians, including: Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philip Emmanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, Notker Balbulus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Countess Therese Brunswick, Frederic Chopin, Arcangelo Corelli, Karl Czerny, Louis Claude Daquin, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Andrey Razumovsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Heinrich Schutz, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, and Mathilde Wesendonck. Series also includes slides of locations of significance to some composers (e.g., house in Eisenach where J.S. Bach was born); and reproductions of manuscripts by some of the composers.

Series consists of two volumes (listed below) used by Edith McConica when she was learning, and later teaching, piano. Both volumes are annotated by Edith and her children.

1. Czerny, Carl. Praktische Fingerübingen für Piano Solo, op. 802, Heft I. Offenbach am Main: Johann André, [1850].
2. Bilbro, Mathilde. First melody lessons for piano. London, Oakville: The Frederick Harris Co., [193-?].