{"id":1096,"date":"2019-04-23T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:28:17","slug":"saving-our-heritage-the-scholarship-winners-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/saving-our-heritage-the-scholarship-winners-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Our Heritage – The Scholarship Winners\u2019 Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor\u2019s\nnote: For the past number of years, the NTCI Foundation\u2019s archivist, Nancy\nBaines, has been working on a labour of love \u2013 the cataloguing and digitizing\nof the University Scholarship Winners\u2019 photographs. In the following article,\nNancy shares this journey.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\nattended NT any time prior to the 1990s, you will probably remember the rows of\nscholarship photos that lined the main wall of the foyer. Discretely framed,\nwith five faces to a frame, these photos of former NT university scholarship winners,\ndisplayed our bragging rights to academic excellence from 1919 to 1986 when\nthis practice was discontinued. Sometime in the 1990s, these photos were taken\ndown and carelessly stored anywhere that space could be found for them. Some\nwere piled in the back of the auditorium under the stairs, others in the former\n\u201ckitchen-cum- archives room\u201d in the basement and still others were placed in\nthe boiler room and caretakers\u2019 room. There they languished until it was\ndecided to build the new school.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I\ntook over the care of the archives, I did not realize that the photos were so\nunloved. But eventually, realizing that something had to be done to preserve\nthem, I appealed to the TDSB\u2019s conservationist for advice on how to take better\ncare of them. Needless to say, 348 framed photographs took up too much space to\nproperly store them in their frames. So, several months before the big move, I\nhad the caretakers comb the school to locate all the photos. Then I removed\nthem from their frames, carefully noting the information about them. Fortunately,\nI also had a typed list that a former secretary had kept of the winners. After\ndestroying the frames, I got some pleasure in smashing the glass to little\npieces, wrapping it and putting the whole mess out for the garbage. But no more\ncould be done until well after the move. Then I took on the chore of scanning\nthe photos and placing the pictures themselves into binders, recording each\nname and scholarships won. All this has been done to the best of my ability and\nnow four large binders are available for anyone who would like to see them. We\nalso have a USB key with the scanned photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However,\nmuch to my dismay, some of the framed photos never resurfaced when we went\nlooking for them in 2010.  The following\nphotos \/ scholarship information are missing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n