Looking southwest at Qu'Appelle Hall (men's residence); winter scene.

Damage done to the Engineering Building by a hailstorm; several people standing in doorway.

Bio/historical note: The original Engineering Building was destroyed by fire on Friday, 13 March 1925.

Two images of Bob Japp; image (a) showing Japp standing in front of Saskatchewan Hall,. Image (b) showing Japp standing in [Saskatchewan Hall doorway].

Various group images of students on campus. Images 1-2 show two women on horses in background with male students in foreground. Image 3 shows male students standing with the river in background. Images 4-6 show male students standing in front of [Streetcar #53] with one student holding a beer and wine bottle.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. L.E. Kirk, College of Agriculture, 1917-1946.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Lawrence Eldred Kirk was born in 1886 in Bracebridge, Ontario. He received a BA in 1916, a BSc in 1917, and an MSA in 1922, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1927 Dr. Kirk received a DPhil from the University of Minnesota. He was an instructor in agronomy at the U of S from 1917-1919. From 1919-1920 he taught agriculture at Moose Jaw Collegiate. He returned to the U of S to become professor of Field Husbandry. In 1931 Dr. Kirk was appointed Dominion Agrostologist and head of the Division of Forage Crops of the Experimental Farms Service in Ottawa. He returned again to the U of S in 1937 with his appointment as dean of Agriculture at the U of S. In 1946 [or 1947] Dr. Kirk became chief of the Plant Industry Branch in the Agricultural Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome. He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1949. He retired in 1955. In 1968 Dr. Kirk was awarded the Medal of Service (S.M.) of the Order of Canada (which later became the Officer level) "for his service in various branches of agriculture at home and abroad." Dr. Kirk died in 1969.

Looking northeast at the Chemistry Building.

Looking north from the roof of Qu'Appelle Hall at students changing classes; Chemistry Building at right.

Head and shoulders image of Abigail DeLury, first director of Women's Work, and first director of Homemakers' Clubs.

Bio/Historical Note: Abigail DeLury was born in 1868 in Manilla, Ontario. She trained as a teacher at Port Perry and Toronto Normal School and then taught for 14 years. DeLury obtained her diploma in Home Economics from the Ontario Agricultural College and taught at Macdonald College, McGill University, before moving to Moose Jaw in 1910 to teach home economics in the public schools. The University of Saskatchewan’s first Extension director, F. Hedley Auld, heard of her background and hired her for the summers of 1911 and 1912 to visit local fairs and to encourage women to form Homemakers' clubs. These clubs were seen as useful tools for supporting family life, community building, promoting the interests of rural young people, emphasizing the cultural side of life and educating in citizenship. Such was DeLury’s success at this task that in 1913 she was appointed director of Women's Work at the University, reporting directly to President Walter C. Murray. DeLury was the first woman with a permanent appointment at the university. She provided direction to the Homemakers' Clubs and advanced home economics extension services to women and families in the province. In 1914, the year after her appointment, there were 90 Homemakers' clubs in Saskatchewan. When DeLury retireed in 1930, there were 240 with 5,800 members. Instruction in household science began on campus in 1917 with the appointment of Ethel B. Rutter as instructor. The Department became a School within the College of Arts and Science in 1928 and the School became a College in 1942. In 1941 the degree program expanded from 3 to 4 years following senior matriculation. The name was changed from the College of Household Science to the College of Home Economics in 1952 (the college was phased out in 1990). DeLury traveled the province advocating activities that enhanced farm home and community life at a time when immigrants were swarming in to take up homesteads. She encouraged Homemakers to promote tree planting, boys' and girls' club work (now called 4-H), poultry raising, beekeeping, fruit growing, better education, better health services and a better, more co-operative community spirit. DeLury retired in 1930 and returned to Manilla; she died there in 1957. Abigail DeLury was inducted posthumously into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2005.

View of the 'new medical college'. Skull and crossbones visible on top of sign.

Exterior of Qu'Appelle Hall (men's residence) at right, and Saskatchewan Hall (women's residence) at left. Part of the tennis court fence visible; trees in foreground.

View of campus buildings (l to r) Physics Building, College,Building, Saskatchewan Hall and Qu'Appelle Hall. Cars on road around the Bowl.

View of the poultry range; Sutherland in background.

Interior of a classroom; view from the back of the room towards the chalkboard.

Walter C. Murray, University President, standing (at centre) in front of a railcar with two unidentified men. One man is Dr. Nicholson, who attended the University of Edinburgh with Murray and lived in the same boarding house.

Head and shoulders image of Christina Cameron Murray.

Bio/Historical Note: Christina Cameron Murray, eldest daughter of the University of Saskatchewan's first President, Walter Charles Murray, and Christina Cameron Murray, was born in 1896 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She earned a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1917 and graduated from Montreal's Royal Victoria School of Nursing in 1924. In 1930 Christina returned to Canada to become an instructor at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. In 1934-1935 she completed a course in hospital administration and instruction from the Bedford College for Women at the University of London. Christina held a number of teaching positions during her career: University of Wisconsin (1925-1930); Ottawa Civic Hospital (1930-1934); and Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver (1934-1938). Christina was active in district, state, and national nursing organizations in the United States and at the time of her death was chairman of the membership committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing. Christina earned the rank of full professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing where she worked from 1938 until her death in Madison in 1948 at age 51. The School of Nursing Alumnae designated a memorial reading room in the library in honour of Christina. ‘Murray House’ in Chadbourne Hall is also named after her.