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Guard House

Exterior view of single story building with trees and gardens in front of it. Marked as the Corp. of Comm's guard house - which is a layover from when Ryerson was R.C.A.F. training school no. 6 in the 1940's.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle East building

Exterior view of a 2-story brick building that would have run parallel to Church Street. Building was part of the old Normal School complex of buildings that were demolished to make way for Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Construction of Unit II - Howard Kerr Hall

Exterior view of construction of Unit II of Howard Kerr Hall. Construction crane visible on the left side with tent in the middle of the photo. The Normal School buildings are visible on the right side of the photo.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

South gates

Closed iron gates onto Gould Street. Continuing Education building (Heaslip House) visible in the background as is the parking lot at the corner of Gould and Victoria Sts.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Building demolition

Demolition of one of the temporary quanset hut on Ryerson grounds. Photo looking up at the metal roof skeleton of the building.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

North East building

Exterior of North East Normal School building. Cleared ground and cinder blocks scattered on the ground in front

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Large tree

Large tree in centre of photograph. Metal structure of some kind visible in the background.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Excavation for foundation

Looking through the South gates towards the excavation for the foundation of the North and East sections of Howard Kerr Hall. The Gorrie's Motors building in visible in the background.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Egerton Ryerson statue under cover

Egerton Ryerson statue and plinth under cover after being moved from in front of Ryerson Hall in anticipation of construction of the final section of Howard Kerr Hall. Statue is located along Gould Street in front of Unit I.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Residence building

Residence building. Skeletal roof of middle building can be seen on the right side of the photograph.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Demolition of Middle building

Demolition of middle building. View of the west end of the building. Second story removed with only back and side wall intact. Heating plant stack in the foreground.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Front entrance to Ryerson Hall

Front entrance to Ryerson Hall. Aspect of photograph frames the only piece of the building left after demolition - the facade that acts as the entrance to the RAC.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle building demolition

Demolition of middle building. View of east end. Second story almost completely gone except for back wall. Residence building on left side of photograph.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Ryerson Hall (Toronto Normal School)

Front view of Ryerson Hall (formerly the Toronto Normal School). This photo was taken several months before the construction started on phase III of Howard Kerr Hall, which was built in front of Ryerson Hall. The Egerton Ryerson statue can be seen in front of the building as well.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Board of meters

Colour image of a board with 4 meters mounted on a board. What appears to be a pressure gauge runs up the centre of the board.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Excavation of west side of property

Excavation of west side of property looking North towards Gerrard Street. Gorrie's Motors and Maple Leaf Gardens visible in the background. Excavation for the construction of Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

South West corner of campus

Looking from the corner of Gould and Victoria Sts at the campus and construction. Visible is the metal framework along Victoria St. for Howard Kerr Hall, the heating plant building and the West side of Ryerson Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

East corner of Ryerson Hall

East end of Ryerson Hall building. Perini construction sign on the fence in front of the building. Photo taken from Bond Street looking at the front of the structure. Howard Kerr Hall Unit I visible on the right side of the photo.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Ryerson Hall

Front of Ryerson Hall with crane, hoarding and construction work ongoing in front of it. Construction of Unit III of Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Construction scene inside quadrangle

Photograph taken from inside quadrangle looking east at the brick work being done on Howard Kerr Hall. Remaining Ryerson Hall building visible on the left side of the photo.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Howard Kerr Hall North

Portico out onto Gerrard Street that is the entrance to the Ryerson Theatre. Photo taken from inside the quad looking North West. Construction materials are piled against the wall of the building and construction vehicles are scattered about.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle Building

Middle building showing wooden walkway/storage structure that used to attach middle building with third building.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle Building

Middle building showing wooden walkway/storage structure that used to attach middle building with third building.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

East side of quad

View of east and south end of the quad and Kerr Hall. East end of Ryerson Hall and the residence are also visible.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Men on bulldozers

Colour image of two bulldozers with men with suits on them. The men on the bulldozer on the left Ryerson Board of Governor's chair William Kelly (no hardhat) and the man in the driver's seat is Minister of Education William Davis. Men on the right bulldozer unidentified. This was part of the sod turning ceremony for Jorgenson Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Ryerson Company of Players trailer

Colour image of blue trailer with orange striping and "Ryerson Company of Players" written in white on the side. The trailer is attached to a "Ryerson Polytechnical Institute" jeep. They are parked under the arch along Gerrard Street.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Library

Colour image of a library with book shelves on the right and study carrels in the centre.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Graduate on Howard Kerr Hall

Photograph of "The Graduate" sculpture over the south west entrance to the Quad. Sculpture created by Jacobine Jones. Sculpture has board and material over its face.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Demolition of Ryerson Hall

Photograph taken looking south shows the demolition of the Ryerson Hall building. Howard Kerr Hall south is visible in the background.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Demolition of Ryerson Hall

Photograph looking at the west side of the Ryerson Hall building. Roof is missing and debris is piled beside it. Quad exit to Gould Street visible in the background.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

[Portrait of a couple]

Item is an unmounted studio portrait of a man sitting and a woman standing with her hand on his shoulder. The man sitting rests an arm on the table and one in his lap. The woman is wearing a dress with layers in fashion during the 1870s. Her hair is tight curls fringing her head in fashion after 1876. The studio backdrop is of an interior. The man's feet are crossed. A book rests on the table. All four corners are angled off.

No. 1A Pocket Kodak

Item is a folding camera for 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. exposure on A116 film. The Autographic feature allowed notes to be made on the film by scratching them into the film paper with a special stylus. A window opened in the back of the camera to expose the backing paper. Has a Kodak F-79 lens.

Agfa Standard Type 254

Item is a folding roll film camera for 6 x 9 cm. exposures. Equipped with a brillant and optic viewfinders and Agfa-Anastigmat, 4.5/10.5 cm lens.

No. 3A Autographic Kodak special

Item consists of a No. 3A Autographic Kodak special folding camera that makes pictures sized 3.25 x 5.5" on 122 film. Comes with CRF rangefinder. This is one of the very first cameras manufactured with a coupled rangefinder. The Autographic feature allowed notes to be made on the film by scratching them into the film paper with a special stylus. A window opened in the back of the camera to expose the backing paper.

Plenax PB-20

Item is a typical folding 620 roll film camera - uses an inset mask to shoot 6 X 9 cm or 6 X 4.5 images. Shutter has no ID marking.
Tripar Lens.

No. 2 Brownie model F

Item is an aluminum box camera for 5.7 x 8.25 cm (2 1/4" x 3 1/4") exposures on 120 film. This is a variation on previous models, which were leatherette covered cardboard. Simple lens with 3 aperture settings and rotary shutter.

Baby Hawkeye

Item is a small box camera for 4 x 6.5 cm (1.57" x 2.55") exposures on 127 format roll film. Manufactured in England circa 1936, the camera is an all-metal box with a unidentified lens and a simple Kodak shutter. It has a simple wire viewfinder.

No. 2A Antar

Item is a simple, wooden box camera with leatherette covering and brass trim, for use with 116 roll film (or D6 and D12 Agfa film).

Ventura Synchro Box

Item is a mid-century German metal box camera with plastic covering and art-deco front. It was manufactured in 1951 by Agfa Camerawerk. The Synchro term in the name comes from the fact that it has a flash sync shutter. The lens is a 105mm f/11 single-element Meniscus fixed focus lens with a focus range of 3 meters to infinity. A pull-out tab is located above the shutter release to change the aperture. When the tab is fully pushed in, there is a larger aperture approximately equivalent to f/11; the middle tab is a smaller aperture approximately equivalent to f/16; and the last tab is the larger aperture (f/11) with a yellow filter. The shutter is an instant-return self-cocking rotary shutter controlled by a simple spring. The shutter speed can be adjusted by a small sliding lever directly under the side viewfinder. The dot is 1/50th of a second, and the long line is bulb mode. The optics are only slightly better than a toy camera, and have a soft focus but little to no vignetting. Camera takes 6x9cm images on 120mm film. This is the export version made c1951. In 1951 and later, the Agfa name appeared on the front of the camera. It originally sold for $5-10.
Dimensions: 9.7 cm (3.75") x 7.5 cm (3") x 11.5 cm (4.5")

Minolta 16 QT

Item is a 12 x 17 mm size subminiature camera. Has a Rokkor F3.5/25mm lens, shutter 30-250, and auto-metering. Also has a hot shoe electronic flash attachment.

Argoflex EF

Item is a metal twin lens reflex camera for 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" exposures on 620 format roll film. Coupled front lens focusing.

Yashica-44

Item is a small twin lens reflex camera for 4 x 4 cm exposures on 127 format film. This created the "super slide" which had the same casing dimensions as a standard 35mm slide, but with a larger image area. The camera has a crank film advance, with no double exposure inhibitor. Lens is a 3 element Yashikor f 3.5 60mm lens with a Copal SV shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/500 of a second.

Foth-Flex II

Item is a medium format, twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format film. Lens is an Anistigmant 75mm, F2.5 with a cloth focal plane shutter (speeds from 2 second to 1/500th). This model of camera was available in both left and right-handed models.

Mamiya c330

Item is a twin lens reflex medium format camera. Features on this model include a self-cocking winding crank with double exposure prevention.

Contaflex II

Item is a 35mm, single lens reflex camera manufactured by the Zeiss Ikon Company. This model, introduced in 1954, has a Tessar 45mm f2.8 lens and synchro-compur leaf shutter. The camera has a built-in, uncoupled selenium exposure meter and a telephoto lens attachment that slides over the original lens (Teleskop 1.7 x NR 2507248).

Konica Autoreflex T

Item is the first Japanese 35mm SLR camera. The "T" model has automatic TTL shutter-priority metering. It has a Konica Hexanon 1:4 f=21mm lens, serial #7028597, and also includes a Konica Hexanon 1:2.8 100mm lens serial #7230688.

Konishiroku Photo Ind, Co., Ltd.

Zeiss Ikon Contina-matic II

Item is a non-folding camera with a coupled selenium meter. Has an uncovered beehive selenium cell on the front. It has a fixed Pantar F2.8 45mm lens.

Konica Autoreflex FS-1

Item is a Japanese camera is single lens reflex, 35mm camera with built-in auto winder. Auto film loading and TTL shutter priority auto exposure as well as a manual mode. It has a vertical metal digitally controlled focal plane shutter 2-1/1000. Has a Konica Hexanon AR55 mm lens.

Contax 1c

Item is a 35mm rangefinder camera. Zeiss Tessar introduced in 1932 as a top quality 35mm rangefinder system. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Jana 5cm f2.8 lens (# 1428082). Metal horizontal focal plane shutter for exposures from 1/5 to 1/1000 sec. One film cassette is included.

Ansco Memo

Item is a leather covered wooden box camera. The Ansco Memo is a single frame, fixed focus which takes landscape oriented images. Film is advanced by pushing down on a lever in the back of the camera. While not the first American camera made for 35mm film, it is the first to sell in abundant quantities.

Agfamatic II

Item is a typical, affordable, point and shoot camera of the sixties. The lens is an Agfa Color Apotar F1:2.8 45mm. Pronormatic shutter, selenium type light meter integrated into top of camera, distances had to be set manually. The camera was distributed under the brand name Optima II outside of Canada. A hard leather field case is included with the camera.

Agfa-Gevaert N.V.

Portrait of boy with tennis racket

Item is a cream cabinet card with red letterpress at bottom, "G.A. OLDHAM, COLCHESTER." On verso, graphic design with text, "G.A. OLDHAM/ PHOTOGRAPHER/ AND/ MINIATURE PAINTER/ 11 QUEEN ST./ COLCHESTER/ NEGATIVES KEPT./ COPIES MAY BE HAD BY/ SENDING TO ABOVE ADDRESS./ Marion Imp. Paris, London - Déposé - Copyright." Photograph shows a boy seated on a plush chair with one leg crossed under, holding a tennis racket. Boy is same as pictured in 2005.001.107.

G.A. Oldham Photographer and Miniature Painter

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