The images in this collection are collected from several series of historical photos throughout Osgoode Digital Commons.
If you would like to view the images in their original galleries please follow the links below:
Osgoode@125 Historical Photo ExhibitOsgoode Catalysts
Remembrance Day
Graduating Class Composites
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1969 - Books and Brutalism
The new Osgoode Hall Law School building and library opens at York University. Reviews are mixed, with the Toronto Star columnist Harvey Cowan calling the Brutalist-inspired architecture a piece of “visual indigestion.” This is the newly opened law school atrium. Obiter Dicta, September 2, 1969.
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1968 - Not Your Baby
Cut-and-paste pin-ups would appear sporadically in the Obiter Dicta throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, until female law students fed up with the casual sexism of the newspaper would succeed in getting the feature removed.
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1968 - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Osgoode Hall Law School is officially affiliated with York University. The School will remain downtown for one more year until the building at York is ready. Osgoode becomes the first law school to allow upper-year students to choose their own courses. This is Osgoode Hall Law School under construction, 1968.
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1966 - The Right to Counsel
The Community Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) is established. Under the supervision of practising lawyers, Osgoode students provide legal services to members of the community who would otherwise be unable to afford representation. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the Canadian social security system would grow to include community housing projects and legal aid. These run-down homes were on Bleecker Street and are contrasted with new apartment blocks, 1963.
