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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1905 - Room for Rent: No Hot Water, Shared Bathroom Outside
Principal Hoyles asks Convocation to provide a student common room, ‘something like a club for men,’ to provide a gathering place for law students living in cramped boarding-houses without sitting-rooms. Overcrowding and sub-par living conditions became a serious concern. Osgoode Hall was located next to one of the worst slums in the city, the notorious Ward.
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1904 - Academic Legal Education
John Cleland Hamilton writes Osgoode Hall: Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar and makes the suggestion that legal education should be turned over to University of Toronto. The Canadian Law Review describes Osgoode as a ‘splendid institution’ but proposed its affiliation with the University, since ‘the Law Society cannot expect to compete for any length of time with a provincial university.’
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1901 - Vote the Douglas Ticket!
The Legal and Literary Society becomes the official student society of the Law School. Students had to be elected to their positions. Cards like this one would have been handed out as part of a campaign strategy in 1891. Candidates under this ticket promised to expand the student library, establish a gym, found a student club, and create two new scholarships.
