Looking east at front of Chemistry Building; cars parked in front.

Close-up of the front facade of the Chemistry Building showing details.

Looking northeast at Chemistry Building.

Looking northeast at Chemistry Building; cars parked in front.

An Engineering staff member demonstrates some machinery to a group of high school students during the first annual University Open House.

Head and shoulders image of Alexi B. Nicolaev, Soviet economist from Moscow University, and visiting professor of Economics, Division of Social Sciences, Regina Campus, for the 1964-65 academic year.

Bio/Historical Note: Alexi B. Nicolaev's appointment was the first time that a Soviet citizen had accepted an academic post at a Canadian university. The invitation was extended with the approval of the Department of External Affairs.

View looking northeast of the Livestock Pavilion, with corner of Main Barn in background; Unidentified group of men and women standing near entrance. Winter scene.

Bio/Historical Note: The Livestock Pavilion, one of the five original campus buildings, was designed by Brown and Vallance and constructed between 1910-1912. Built of red brick, slate and translucent glass panels (some of which could be opened for ventilation), it included a large show arena with seating. The Pavilion had a slaughter room and cold storage for the butchery courses. It was demolished in 1986.

Head and shoulders image of William E. Lovell, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1928-1960.

Image looking northeast of the Memorial Union Building (MUB). Saskatchewan Hall at left; car parked on road in foreground.

View looking northeast of the Poultry Science Building with surrounding farm buildings; taken from Main Barn.

Image of A.C. McEown, Assistant to University President W.P. Thompson, addressing the audience during the official opening of the Memorial Union Building (MUB). University and military dignitaries seated; microphones in front of speaker. Audience with backs to camera; four Red Ensign flags hang in background.

Dr. Rudolf Altschul, Department of Anatomy, in a lab setting, with hands on a microscope surrounded by lab equipment.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Rudolf Altschul was born 24 February 1901 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He graduated as a Doctor of Universal Medicine from the German University in Prague in 1925, and did postgraduate work in neurology and neuropathology in Paris and Rome. In September 1939 the Nazi Occupation forced Altschul and his wife Anna (née Fischer, b. 1903) to flee to Canada. The Altschuls were aboard the S.S. Athenia, the first Allied ship to be torpedoed in World War II. They survived, but lost all their possessions and scientific records. They eventually arrived in Canada, and Dr. Altschul accepted a position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Saskatchewan. By 1955 he was head of the department. Prior to coming to Canada he had to his credit 32 scientific papers, and in the following years he contributed another 71 papers dealing with various subjects, including pathology of the nervous system, skeletal muscle degeneration, cell division and in particular, arterial degeneration. He published Selected Studies on Arteriosclerosis (1950), and Endothelium - Its Development, Morphology, Function and Pathology (1954). His later research led to niacin therapy for lowering blood-serum cholesterol and in 1964 to the publication of Niacin in Vascular Disorders and Hyperlipemia. His most notable contribution was in demonstrating the cholesterol-lowering effect of nicotinic acid. Dr. Altschul died 4 November 1963 during a mid-day’s rest from work. The Altschul Symposia Series, relating to different areas of scientific research, was established by an endowment left by Anna Altschul and other contributors. The series is held at the U of S; the first symposium was in 1990, with the last symposium held in 2008.

Posed outdoor image of staff of the camp.

Bio/Historical Note: Artist workshops have been held at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, since 1935. Augustus F. (Gus) Kenderdine, an artist trained at the Academie Julian in Paris and an instructor in the fledgling Department of Art at the University of Saskatchewan, established a summer art camp on an eleven-acre boreal forest peninsula on the shores of Emma Lake. In the early 1930s Kenderdine had purchased land at Murray Point on Emma Lake, and convinced Walter C. Murray, first president of the University of Saskatchewan, that a summer art camp could perform a vital role in the offerings of the department. In 1936 the Murray Point Art School at Emma Lake was officially incorporated as a summer school program. The school was also known as the art colony. Participants were teachers and artists who came from all over the province to learn how to teach art in Saskatchewan schools. After Kenderdine's death in 1947, a new generation of Saskatchewan artists came of age or moved into the province, including Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Douglas Morton, popularly referred to as the Regina Five. In 1955 Lochhead, director of the Regina College School of Art, proposed a two-week workshop at Emma Lake to follow the Murray Point Art School classes. The workshop concept, based on modernist art, was established to keep Prairie artists in touch with art centers such as New York and Toronto. The internationally renowned Emma Lake Artists' Workshops became an established annual event and continued virtually unchanged until the last workshop was held in 1995. Since the mid-1960s the site has also been a provincial research area under the auspices of the U of S Department of Biology for biologists and other researchers. It is the most northerly field station in Saskatchewan and one of the few sites in Canada that specifically examines the boreal forest. It was declared as a game preserve in 1962. In 1989 the site was officially designated as Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus in recognition of Gus Kenderdine. The campus closed in 2012. In 2020 the university relocated nearly two dozen cabins at the site to Montreal Lake Cree Nation to provide additional housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Individual photographs of the first College of Medicine graduating class and faculty grouped.

Members of the students' branch seated on bleachers in the [Engineering Building].