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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Five letters, an address, and a poem sent to Robert Alan Sampson, editor of the Varsity, by Malcolm Wallace, George Sidney Brett, J. Gibson Hume and W. J. Alexander; also a signature by J. Gibson Hume. Most are dated for late November, 1917.

This fonds contains 75 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains 3 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains 3 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds consists of one accession covering the four decades of his career as historian, author, teacher and administrator in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. The fonds is arranged in five series. Series 1 consists of chronologically arranged correspondence of both a personal and professional nature dating from his arrival in Toronto in 1961 to a few years after his retirement in 2003. Prof. Berger was a contemporary of many of Canada’s leading historians. This series of correspondence documents his professional and personal relationship with such notable historians as Ramsay Cook, Donald Creighton, Kenneth McNaught, and Ray Mclean, as well as former students such as Douglas Owram, Gerald Friesen, Bob Rae, Brook Taylor and Michael Gauvreau. Additional correspondence relating to various internal and external professional activities are found in Series 2. Series 3 and 4 document his teaching activities and his relationship with selected graduate students from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s. Records relating to his publication activities in Series 5 are, unfortunately, not as complete since many files do not contain manuscripts. In spite of this, the series provides a fairly complete record of his major publications including files on each of his four books, as well as articles, lectures and other academic works. Also in this series will be found a file containing an annotated version of a typescript of Harold Innis’ autobiography.

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

Course notes (1888-1890) taken by Allen Charles Mackenzie Cleghorn while a student at Trinity Medical College, and correspondence (1903-1914) relating to medical research; course notes (1925-1928) taken by his son, Robert Allen Cleghorn during 4th, 5th and 6th year Medicine at the University of Toronto. Included in the latter are courses taught by Professors Duncan Graham, W.E. Gallie and Harold W. Wookey.

William Clark's course notes in algebra and trigonometry for public and high school; his course notes taken while a student in 1st-3rd year mechanical engineering; files and photographs relating to the Overseas Education League (1924); photographs include Applied Science YMCA executive (1911-1912), University of Toronto Rowing Club (1923-1924), and the graduating class in Engineering (1924).

Graduation diploma and photograph of Herbert G. Downing, a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine in 1900. Also includes two snapshots of a reunion group from the class of 1900 as well as Downing's certificate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 1901.

Signed admission tickets to classes in the Toronto School of Medicine, 1882-1886; announcement for examinations for license from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, 1886; cartoon of the "Quack Doctor", n.d.

Five student notebooks of Benson Jones Palmer and Elgin Burpe Palmer from the University College School of Agriculture, 1869-1872; one farming contract book 1871-1897, and inserts.

Lecture notes, reading notes, term essays and exams for courses in Economics and Political Science as an undergraduate and graduate student at University of Toronto (1949-1953); personal lecture notes of Andrew Watson for his course on European Economic History (1960-1966). Dept. of Economics Review of graduate programme - correspondence (1988-89).

Includes material relating to Heyworth Committee set up in February 1972 to look into the issue of stack access to Robarts Library, minutes of Library Council meetings and meetings of the Committee on Stack access to Robarts Library, reports, signed petitions, memoranda and a file on a proposed expanded UC library service.

Correspondence assembled by Herbert H. Bishop in his capacity as President of the Frederick Harris Music Company and as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Royal Conservatory of Music, relating also to the relationship between the two bodies.

Personal records of Dr. Paul Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Dr. Paul MacLaren O'Sullivan, created in their capacity as professors of medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Paul Michael O'Sullivan's papers include: a complete manuscript of a dictionary of anatomical terms; correspondence and teaching notes. Dr. Paul MacLaren O'Sullivan's papers consist primarily of teaching notes, ca.1950-1970s.

Register of marks maintained by Professor William Henry Fraser on his students in Spanish and Italian phonetics.

Two volumes of course notes taken by Frederick Barber Goodwillie while a student in the Faculty of Arts at University College. The first is of notes on lectures in Medieval History delivered by Charles Allan Stuart, who took over from Sir Daniel Wilson at the beginning of March, 1892 and taught for the remainder of the term. The second volume contains notes of the complete set of lectures delivered by Professor William John Alexander to fourth year honours students in English (October 1893 to April 1894).

Offprints of articles written in English, French, German, and Turkish by Aziz Ahmad, Professor in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, and some mimeographed material; also presentation books and offprints.

Consists of research files and papers relating to 16th century royal entries in France, including photocopies of original documents, and documentation from "The Royal Tour of France by Charles IX and Catherine de Medici (1564-66)", U of T Press, 1979, and additional royal entries, court festivals and important secondary sources, both before and after the Royal Tour.

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.

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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.

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).