- A-205
- Item
- 1959
View of construction work on Biology and Arts buildings. Chemistry Building, Administration Building, north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library, and the Bowl in background.
View of construction work on Biology and Arts buildings. Chemistry Building, Administration Building, north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library, and the Bowl in background.
Looking west at Main Barn at centre; Chemistry Building, Administration Building, and other campus buildings also visible. College Drive runs at bottom left.
Looking northeast from top of Arts Tower with Thorvaldson Building in foreground. Newly-completed Agriculture Building in background.
Looking west across the Bowl. Campus buildings (l to r): Arts Tower, Chemistry Building, Biology Building, Physics Building.
Two images on card stock. Image 1: "The "Bowl" Looking West" with north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library at left, Chemistry and Arts buildings in background. Image 2: "Looking East from the Arts Building" with elevated view of buildings from l to r: Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Administration and Physics buildings and north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library.
Elevated view looking northeast at construction of the Heating Plant addition; taken from roof of Thorvaldson Building.
Campus - Scenic - Students Changing Classes
Looking west from the Administration Building with Thorvaldson Building,Qu'Appelle Hall, Marquis Hall, north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library and Arts Tower visible. South wing of Murray Library under construction. Students changing classes; winter scene.
Murray Memorial Library and Chemistry Building
Looking west at Murray Memorial Library at left and Chemistry Building at centre. Corner of Biology Building visible at right.
University Hospital - Construction
View of the start of construction of the University Hospital. Included are boulders and a storage shed. Thorvaldson Building in the background.
Bio/historical note: Designed by Webster and Gilbert, architects, and built between 1948 and 1955 by Smith Bros. and Wilson, contractors, at a cost of $7,000,000.00, the 6-storey, 7-wing University Hospital was officially opened by Bentley, T.J., Saskatchewan Minister of Health on May 1955.The name was officially changed to Royal University Hospital 23 May 1990.