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This fonds contains 13 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains 11 accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

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)

Contents include one b/w photograph of the 1944 (4T4) graduating class of University of Toronto Chemical Engineering; signed au verso by class members; a certificate of degree; an offprint of an article co-authored with A. Dupre, published in Canadian Journal of Chemistry (1960), and a 25 year alumni certificate. Georgieff is thought to be one of the first Macedonians in Canada to graduate from university.

This fonds contains 69 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains 13 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Correspondence, course notes as student (1941-1942), undergraduate teaching materials, research data files relating to minerals and x-ray crystallography, subject files of product catalogues by various corporations of Dr. E.W. Nuffield, Department of Geological Sciences.

Photographs of field work ca 1940s include photoprints and negatives documenting Prof. Nuffield's geological expeditions with the Geological Survey of Canada and the Ontario Department of Mines. Locations include Mason Creek - Germansen Landing District and Cash Creek British Columbia as well as the Montreal River District and Harker Township in Ontario.

Collection by John Mappin, documenting the life of Joseph E. McDougall and The Goblin. Includes biographical material as well as correspondence, clippings, manuscripts and typescripts documenting the career of Joseph E. McDougall, a Canadian humorist; examples of sketches by Richard Taylor who also worked on the Goblin, including an original sketch of the Goblin's editorial offices; clippings and articles about the Goblin, including one original poster from 1926.

Consists of annotated pamphlets, manuscripts and notes belonging to James Gibson Hume.

Includes seven pamphlets by Hume, bound together, consisting of

1. Value of the study of ethics...Toronto 1891, 24 p.
2. Political economy and ethics. Toronto, 1892, 40 p.
3. Practical value of psychology to the teacher...Toronto 1897, 8 p.
4. Moral training in the public schools. n.p., n.d. x6p. caption title
5. Pedagogics as a university subject. Offprint, pages 33-47, periodical unidentified
6. Prohibition as a problem of individual and social reform. Reprinted from Acta Victoriana, n.d. 15 p. Annotations indicate that Hume would have changed the title in the event of republication, to "Individual self-control and collective self-control - can they be reconciled?", retaining the previous title as a subtitle, and omitting the first paragraph.
7. Socialism. An address delivered before the Knox College alumni association at their post-graduate session. Reprinted from the Knox College Monthly, n.d. *1892). annotations show how Hume would have changed the title page, added a qualifying phrase to the final sentence, and added what he calls 'Summary of results &c" without further explanation.

Printed application by Hume to Hon. G.W. Ross, Minister of Education for Ontario, for the chair of Metaphysics and Ethics, and Logic, August 14 1889. 4 p. 4to. Minor annotations

Manuscript essays on temperance and prohibition, and on Indians in Canada and the United States, written during his university days.

Personal letters from S.J. MacLennan, St. Austin Aikins, W.J. (?) Dobbie, and others, including letter and agreement of rental "Of Professor Hume's cottage at Shanty Bay Ont" to Allan G. Findley.

Three pages of manuscript notes "The practical value of Psychology to the teacher" - different from the pamphlet of the same name.

12 pages manuscript on "The interrelation of law and moral conduct"

A few miscellaneous items including 2 printed cards - programs for the Canadian Institute 1899 and 1902.

Consists of background materials to the John Fraser Gray Scholarship in Modern History, including class list of 1906, address book, notebook with lists of lecturers, newspaper clippings, perpetual diary, correspondence, offprint of lectures.

Includes

-Torontonensis, 1906. First page has clipped in small photos of University staff. Belonged to Gray, George Leighman
-List of class of 1906, University College, February, 1946
-David R. Keys, M.A. A Centerbury Pilgrimage. President William Briggs Toronto inscribed. January 1, 1906. Reprint from "Acta Victoriana," Christmas, 1905
-Address booklet and list of persons from whom Christmas cards received
-Notebook with lists etc. - see contents page
-Perpetual diary, 1974
-Clippings
-Information re: Lectureship--list of lecturers, 1946/47 to 1972/73
-Correspondence, 1941-1975
-Offprints of some of the lectures

Records documenting Professor Ursula Anderson's research project, Toronto Child Health Study, including correspondence, research files, working papers, drafts of the study, and the abbreviated report as accepted by the Department of National Health and Welfare; her submission for a senior scientist award, files on projects reviewed by Dr. Anderson, and an article written by her.

Four chronologically ordered volumes relating to research carried out by Professor George F Wright on Second World War defence projects for the federal government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada.

The first volume is Defence Project CE-12 and encompassses the dates December, 1939 to June, 1942. It contains a series of chemical research reports related to wartime defence initiatives. The following three volumes consists of reports to ACE (Associate Commitee on Explosives) covering the dates August 1944 to June 1945. They contain reports, previously marked 'secret' relating to wartime research and experimentation on the explosive properties of compounds. Some of the reports contain photographs tipped in; there is also a file of loose photographs and correspondence.

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.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1993-0005: Minutes, memoranda, correspondence and reports of the University of Toronto Computer Services Board (UTCS), of which John Hurd of Trinity College was member. (1 box; 1983-1985)

B2005-0008: Records, including correspondence, memoranda, minutes, programmes and manuals, relating primarily to Dr. Hurd's involvement with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto (1985-1991). Included are files on the CCH and its committees; "The Greek Tutor", his APL package for computer-assisted instruction in Greek; the Natural Language Processing Committee (1983-1985); the U of T Day Research Fair (1987 and 1989); editorial work with Oxford University Press' "Humanities Computing Yearbook"; conferences, 'Computers and the Humanities' (1986) and 'The Dynamic Text' (1989); drafts of computer manuals, and CCH newsletters. (3 boxes; 1981-1991)

These records contain no reference to his teaching activities in New Testament studies at the U of T and his specialty as an authority on the Gospels of Paul, on his other administrative activities at the U of T and other professional activities.

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.

Consists of records collected by Gray while working on a history of Hart House Theatre and Robert Gill. Included are Hart House Theatre scrapbooks compiled by Gill containing programs, clippings and photographs; financial records of Hart House Theatre as well as some original correspondence; numerous photographs of Hart House Threatre, Hart House and its staff; scrapbook and minutes book of the Players Club. Included as well, is a manuscript on the history of Hart House Theatre (draft) written by Jack Gray as well as taped interviews conducted by Gray with Hart House Theatre staff including Robert Gill.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B2000-0028: The records document the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement. The Women's Auxiliary was established in 1920, ten years after the creation of the University Settlement. The records in this accession consists of histories of the Women's auxiliary, its constitution, lists of members, correspondence and minutes from their committee meetings. Files also document the University Settlement Board meetings, the Camp Boulderwood initiative, and literature distributed by the University Settlement itself. Also includes a photograph of Marilyn MacDonald, president of the Women's Auxiliary University Settlement accepting the Annual Commnunity Leadership Award on behald of the auxiliary.

B2001-0010: The records document the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement. They consist of: copies of its constitutions; reports of officers and committees including President (1939-54), Secretary (1932-1950), Treasurer (1931-1983) House and Buying Committee (1933-1969), Public Relations (1945-74), Tea Conveanor (1963-1986) and Fashion Show (1980-1886); original minute books from 1920-1983; misc. correspondence (1940-1987); membership and supporters lists; one file relating to the writing of the history of the Women's Auxiliary. Also included are University Settlement Board of Directors minutes and reports, 1976-1984 as well as some miscellaneous publications, 1980-1986. Also includes 3 photographs and 33 negatives documenting a fashion show sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement.

This fonds contains 2 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Reels of 16 mm film, approx. 3000 ft in total, documenting Canadian and University of Toronto track teams competing at meets. Vaar took the film as a freelance cameraman. Much of the footage was sold to the CBC for news items.

"Meds" pin, graduating class in Medicine, 1930, that belonged to Abraham Alan Trask.

Copies of publications of various Latin-American organizations (mainly dealing with statistics) such as those produced by the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Statistical Institute (eg "Estadistica", "America en cifras") (1963-1974). Original correspondence, notes and memoranda re University teachers salaries, including the Association of Teaching Staff of University of Toronto, predecessor to UTFA (1939-1971); CAUT Bulletin copies (1958-1967)

Laboratory notebooks and microscope slides relating to the activity, consumption, respiration, and vaginal smears of lemming, in particular, and other experiments by students or research assistants of Professor Fisher; presidential address and articles by Fisher.

1 box includes microscope specimen slides relating to Dr. Fisher's research on lemmings.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B2007-0002: Two paintings by Anthony Batten:

1. Huron St., Toronto (Just South of Bloor) University of Toronto Properties ; watercolour unframed 41"x 291/2" ca. 1994
2. Edward VII statue in Queen's Park looking west towards Hart House; acryclic on canvas, unframed 24" x 20", 2004

B2007-0003: Two paintings by Anthony Batten:

1. West side of Huron St., Toronto (Just South of Bloor) University of Toronto Properties ; watercolour framed 39/12"x 291/2" ca. 1994
2. "Tower Walk, University" the back campus with Wycliffe's Leonard Library, Hart House, Soldier's Tower, University College; watercolour, framed 36" x 30", 1994

Photographs and cloth letters document the Medical Athletic Association. Included are 5 letters and the composite photographs for the Medical Athletic Executive for the years 1943-44, 1944-45 and 1945-46. Also included is one group shot of the University of Toronto Athletic Association, Intramural Sports Committee for 1945-46.

Personal records of John Ferguson Flinn, Professor of French in University College at the University of Toronto, consisting of correspondence, minutes of meetings, notes, course and lecture material, manuscripts and publications, addresses and photographs documenting his career as a Professor of French at the University of Toronto and a specialist in the study of the bourgeoise literature in the Middle Ages, particularly in France, and the iconography of the Roman de Renart. This fonds consists of two accessions received in 1986 and 2009 described in six series.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1986-0068: Personal records of Dr. Harold Keith Box including correspondence, lecture and research notes (1922-1949) relating to his career in dentistry and as research professor in peridontology in the Faculty of Dentistry. Personal records of Dr. Charles Thomas Peterson and family documenting his early dental education at the University of Toronto, his activities as a researcher and practicioner of dentistry and the activities of his wife; includes family biographical information, press clippings, photographs.

B1987-0007: Correspondence, lecture notes, research notes, notebooks etc. of Dr. Harold Keith Box relating to dentistry. Course and research notes, case studies, and manuscript of publications of Dr. Charles Thomas Peterson relating to dental diseases. Photographs for article by Dr. Box on "The unclean tooth".

Architectural plans of university buildings including architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and design drawings. Buildings include: Mechanical Engineering Building, the School of Nursing, Dentistry Building, Lash Miller Chemistry Building, the Examination Hall and Victoria College Library addition.
Electronic copies of all drawings of the Lash Miller Chemistry Building are also available on CD.

Files relating largely to the World Population Year and the World Population Conference held in Budapest, 1974; other files on population studies in general and Canadian population and immigration studies in particular; and a little material on later environmental concerns. Professor Regier was a special adviser to the official Canadian delegation at the 1974 conference.

Records documenting Dr. S.D.T. Robertson's career as a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Included are theses of students he supervised, student term papers, lectures and course notes. There are also files related to his research specifically in the field of electric transportation systems and electrical distribution system design. Special media materials relate to his work on electric vehicles.

Personal records of Cope Weir Schwenger (M.D. 1948; D.P.H. 1954) documenting his career as a professor in the School of Hygiene (1959-1975) and the Faculty of Medicine (1975-1990). Schwenger had a distinguished career as a specialist in public health, preventitive medicine, and gerontology.

Consists of curriculum vitaes, personal and professional correspondence, research notes on unpublished materials, publications, addresses, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs.

Also includes framed etching, "University of Toronto, 1870"

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

Memorabilia belonging to George Robert Morrison, BscF 1948, consisting of: Phi Kappa Sigma Pledge Manual (1947), with annotated typed pledge list, the fraternity’s formal group photo for 1947-1948 and a casual photo of members around a piano (1949); ‘Forestry’ pennant, with University of Toronto crest; Faculty of Forestry graduating class photograph, 1948; Morrison’s copy of his University of Toronto Alumni Association Florida-Gulf Coast Branch “25 years of service to the U of T” medal (circa 1993).

Correspondence, articles, reports and photographs documenting in particular Sir John Cunningham McLennan's career as a physicist and the efforts of this sister, Janet Cunningham McLennan to record his achievements.

Photo albums and photographs document the personal and professional life of J.C. McLennan and indirectly the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1981-0020: Offprints of articles by Sir John Cunningham McLennan, Professor of Physics, Henry John Cunningham Ireton, as graduate student in Physics; and John Francis Todd Young, then a demonstrator and research assistant in Physics. (1 box, 1891-1923)

B1986-0017: Reminiscences of three former students of Sir John C. McLennan who reveal what it was like to work under him in the years immediately following World War I (3 cassettes, 1982)

Papers of Professor James Herbert White, Professor Emeritus of Forestry, consisting of student notebooks, field notes, correspondence, publications, and maps. The last include oversized maps relating to a forest regeneration project in Ontario (1930) and topographical maps annotated by White showing timber concessions in Ontario from the 1880s; and pulpwood concessions in Ontario (post-1926). Photographs depict outdoor views of timber areas in Alberta and Saskatchewan taken in connection with the forestry studies of J. H. White and his colleagues.

Certificates, degrees, photoprints, maps and related material documenting the activities of Charles Park Muckle and his daughter, Alice May Muckle, as students and alumni of the University of Toronto; includes University of Toronto Campus Map. ["designed, drawn, and animated A.D. 1932 by Helen G. Kemp and published by J.M. Dent and Son limited 224 Bloor Street West, Toronto"]

Fonds consists of 2 series

B2001-0018: Records documenting John Burgon Bickersteth, Warden of Hart House (retired 1947). Includes mainly correspondence as well as reports, published addresses, manuscripts, photographs and films. 1919-1958.

B2005-0013: Personal records of former Warden of Hart House, J. B. Bickersteth. Includes personal correspondence with family, friends, politicians, colleagues at University of Toronto including Robertson Davies as well as other academic institutions, mainly following his retirement; speeches, arrangements for his 90th birthday celebration dinner at Hart House. Also includes correspondence and other papers relating to Hart House memorial on his death and matters relating to his estate. 1913-1983.

Photographs, clippings and obituary document American geographer John A. Crosby.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1990-0036: 8 photographs of Hart House Theatre productions, apparently in which Mr. Keighley (Class of '06) was involved. 1922-1926

B1991-0014: Sketches by Percy Allan Deacon, designs for stage sets for Hart House Theatre productions: 1) Caesar and Cleopatra I. III (1925) 2) Unidentified (1926).1925-1926

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1976-0025: Personal records of Erich Baer documenting his career as chemist and professor in and sometime head of the sub-department of synthetic chemistry in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research. Included are personal correspondence, diaries, certificates and diplomas, course notes while a student at the University of Basle (1932-1936), research notes, and patents. (4 boxes, 1922-1967)

B1981-0010: Articles by, tributes about, and obituaries of Erich Baer; also doctoral thesis, certificates, medals, plaques, and photoprints documenting his career. Photograph includes obverse and reverse views of award presented to Professor Baer, by the American Society of European Chemists and Pharmacists, 1961. (6 boxes, 1919-1975)

Handbooks, certificates, diplomas, and photographs relating to the education and careers of Erwin (MD, CM, 1899) and Milton (MD, CM, 1894) Baker, graduates of Trinity Medical College.

Records of Dr. Richard Parsons as a public school teacher, as a medical student at the Trinity Medical College, and as a practicing physician. Includes biographical information, correspondence, certificates and receipts, class and laboratory admission cards, a book of four lectures to nurses (1901), a prescription notebook, a photographic portrait of Dr. Parsons and two black-and-white photos of him with his horse and buggy in the Red Deer, Alberta, area where he practised as a physician.

Correspondence, notices, programmes, articles, press clippings and photographs documenting the activities of Ethelbert Lincoln Hill [BA 1888] as an undergraduate in Arts at University College, and Robert Russell Bensley [BA 1889, MB 1892]. With Hill, the emphasis is on his athletic achievements, his involvement in student elections, and with the conversazione, and his attendance at the Ontario Normal School in 1901-02. Included are offprints of articles (1896, 1897) by and a memoir of Bensley; a lithograph of University College, n.d.; photographs of graduating class in Arts (1887) and of University College Natural Science Association general committee (1886-1887); map of City of Toronto, 188-.

Fonds consists of 3 accessions

B1983-0002: Research files, including correspondence, notes, articles, periodicals, pamphlets and photographs used by Professor Helen Carpenter in the writing of her book, "A Divine Discontent -- Edith Kathleen Russell: Reforming Educator." (2 boxes, 1915-1982)

B1991-0006: Button removed from Blazer showing University of Toronto crest without the tree or motto. (1 item, ca. 1929-1933)

B1997-0017: Records documenting the career of Dr. Helen M. Carpenter, Director of the School of Nursing from 1962-1972, including correspondence, articles, addresses and papers; correspondence and reports relating to consultant work done for the World Health Organization; biographical files on past directors of the School/ Faculty of Nursing including Edith Dick, Nettie Fidler, Florence Emory and Kathleen Russell (1 box, 1955-1984).

Manuscript material from the Harry R. Abbott Memorial Library of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, including RCDS letterbook (1868-1872); course notes, diary, and expense book of Jeremiah Shunk (1877-1889); minute book of the Royal Dental Society (1896-1906); Typescript of "Eminent dentists I have met" by T. C. Trigger (1934); and ledger of Toronto dentist, N. Pearson (1894-1898).

Records of the Walter Frisby Fellowship, formerly known as the Public Speaking Association and now changed name to Dr. Zoltan Mester Fellowship. Include correspondence, minutes of meetings, notices, financial statements, reminiscences and a gavel.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1996-0029: Appointment books of Dr. Raymond O. Heimbecker for the years 1955-58, 1961, 1962, 1967 and 1981, with particular references to advances in cardiovascular surgery; greeting cards with two of his watercolour paintings. [1 box]

B1984-0035: Consists of a bound publication, "The Surgical Papers of Raymond O. Heimbecker, 1949-1982" (1982) [1 box]

Certificate of appreciation, with covering correspondence, re: Kelly's tenure on the Board of Governors, 1945-70; biographical information; photo of Class of 2T2 (Dentistry) reunion dinner, 1943; monographs/serials (Print Room).

Memorabilia relating to the Extraordinary Honours Award given to Marie Parkes in 1958-59 for her work on the Students' Administrative Council and on the Women's Athletic Association including photographs of award recipients. Also included: early essay by Parkes on Women's Athletics at the University of Toronto; photographs of the SAC Executive from 1956-1959; one photo of Parkes at T-Holders Luncheon.

Invitations to University of Toronto social events (1906-07, 1923); examinations for the teacher's course in arts (1921, 1922), and an armband (?) in coloured stripes and bearing the word "Committee".