![Five students sitting in a semi-circle](/sites/default/files/styles/banner_crop_1460x500/public/assets/banners/branding/banner-ph5028_0.jpg?h=dcd2dbab&itok=N-9uqYji)
UC History in Pictures: 1970s & 1980s
Images from the 1970s and 1980s at University College (and the University of Toronto), compiled by the UC Librarian.
![Two people walking with a dog, seen through an archway, with University College in background](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970-ph171-used-2016-05-19-students-Sir-Dans-quad-1970-higher-res.jpg?itok=0cuDxblK)
![Silhouettes of two people seemingly holding books, in front of stained glass window](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970-ph169-used-2015-11-19-students-by-UC-stained-glass-window-1970.jpg?itok=bDKsdihl)
![Many people seated around large table in Croft Chapter House](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970-ph173-used-2016-04-07-meeting-in-Croft-Chapter-House-1970.jpg?itok=ZDw3P7Vo)
![five women about to enter or exit the University College quadrangle through a gate](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970sish-estimated-ph4259-gate-into-quadrangle.jpg?itok=RFM0ehQo)
![two young women studying in library](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1971-ph2126-uc-library-studying.jpg?itok=41sOeIU-)
![Five students sitting in a semi-circle.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1972-ph-5028-uc-residence-common-room-cropped.jpg?itok=ZLPP4urA)
![about eight students seated around a table with a professor, taking notes as the professor speaks](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1972-ph2128-classics-seminar-ronald-shepherd.jpg?itok=OzSoovBv)
![Ornate wooden carving of imaginary creature on staircase bannister](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1973-ph405-used-2015-12-10-gryphon-staircase-1973-UC.jpg?itok=YH3Pbcpq)
![About twenty people in academic robes walking across front campus, with University College in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1974-convocation-procession-ph1535.jpg?itok=KktExWVV)
![Students reading at study carrels or tables](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970s-estimated-ph937-uc-library-studying-cropped.jpg?itok=7wfGXs4Y)
![Man next to carved stone pillar](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970s-ish-estimated-ph764-albert-uc-custodian.jpg?itok=Sk2QdI12)
![A young woman holding a football and smiling, with other students in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1976-or-earlier-woman-with-football-ph942.jpg?itok=LRgZJsYu)
![Professor Margaret Jane Sinden holding a cigarette, in front of bookshelves](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1979-or-earlier-ph294-used-2018-04-19-professor-margaret-sinden.jpg?itok=loa25YRE)
![Student holding a telephone receiver and looking at a screen and a sign that says "how to find books: the microcatalogue way; push red button and pick up phone"](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1977-ph4516-used-2015-06-18-orientation-1977-library-how-to-find-books-the-microcatalogue-way.jpg?itok=ePnCzl0Z)
![A group of students listening to a professor, who is holding a large key](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1977-ph1170-orientation-tour-of-uc-humphrey-milnes.jpg?itok=UN9hKc0G)
![A woman talking with a young man](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970s-ish-ph773-linda-cook.jpg?itok=D5l5gjg3)
![Stephen Martineau, teaching while sitting at a desk](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970s-ish-stephen-martineau.jpg?itok=TDnu-7I-)
![A woman kneeling beside the open drawer of a filing cabinet](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1970s-ish-ph765-christine-mckenzie-secretary-to-registrar-cropped.jpg?itok=816JLZn7)
![A woman performing opera, and an audience watching](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1979-uc-playhouse-chinese-opera-photo-by-David-Lloyd-Oakville-courtesy-UTARMS.jpg?itok=FcSzPBI0)
![Phyllis Grosskurth seated at desk with typewriter](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1979-Phyllis-Grosskurth-photo-by-Erin-Combs-do-not-use-without-Toronto-Star-permission.jpg?itok=rJUmq7m7)
![Five students reading, eating, or talking in a corner of the Junior Common Room](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980-ph1054-jcr-january-1980.jpg?itok=ftVrAezo)
![Customers browsing tables covered with books](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980-ph692a-used-2018-10-11-UC-Book-Sale-1980.jpg?itok=yLwEth3j)
![Barbara Frum and Peter Richardson holding tea cups](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980s-ish-estimated-ph2696-barbara-frum-peter-richardson.jpg?itok=TH9-arFD)
![Two students seated at a table with books and papers, and a professor standing next to them](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1982-ph1989-canadian-studies-student-union-office.jpg?itok=90RIyDfH)
![Ingrid Epp sitting at a desk, smiling, with bookshelves behind her](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1984-ph607-used-2016-10-06-ingrid-epp-uc-librarian-1984.jpg?itok=6WzfYT-0)
![Two women in conversation with Principal Peter Richardson at a reception.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1985-ph2717-enid-doyley-catherine-bryans-fallis-peter-richardson.jpg?itok=ajQmawWN)
![room with three rows of desks and a round stained-glass window](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980s-estimated-ph2836-uc-room-376-cropped.jpg?itok=MdX7X2ZX)
![three women and one man, dressed up and wearing name tags](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1985-ph2725-scholarship-dinner.jpg?itok=lQVLlR_0)
![Professor David Rayside seated in Junior Common Room](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1985-David-Rayside-JCR-May-1985-photo-by-Steve-Dehal-courtesy-UTARMS.jpg?itok=3QgPpSdp)
![Description of POL315Y, Sexual Politics, as "Political issues arising from gender relations and differences in sexual orientation; the political mobilization around those issues in North America and Western Europe."](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1985-86-arts-science-calendar-POL315-sexual-politics-course-cropped.jpg?itok=NG8azQiD)
![Demonstrators on steps of college, with signs saying "No to racist science" and "Racist Jensen get off campus"](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1985-anti-racist-demonstration-UC-photo-by-Steve-Dehal-courtesy-UTARMS.jpg?itok=IbUb4hdS)
![East Hall, including rows of empty desks and stained glass window](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980s-or-1990s-ph2832-used-2017-12-15-east-hall-exam-desks.jpg?itok=PGUuyUKq)
![Ed Doolittle](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/uoft-bulletin-1991-ed-doolittle-photo-by-jewel-randolph.jpg?itok=EJmNhEbK)
![Covered walkway in University College quadrangle, with two men walking hand in hand](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_960/public/assets/images/1980s-ish-estimated-UC-quad-men-holding-hands-courtesy-varsity-and-UTARMS-cropped.jpg?itok=DPBOVFzL)
Images from the 1970s and 1980s at University College (and the University of Toronto), compiled by the UC Librarian.