In anticipation of York University’s first-ever virtual Red & White Day, the archives has selected a number of historical images featuring Keele campus, Glendon campus, and York University Libraries. These images provide a great opportunity to upgrade your virtual background and show off your #YUspirit on Thursday, October 29th, 2020. To set your virtual background: Save an image, launch Zoom, click on the up arrow beside the camera, click "choose virtual background," and select York background image. Note that a number of official York University Zoom backgrounds have also been made available by the university.

Keele Campus

Glendon Campus

York University Libraries

A fan favourite photograph

And by special request from Bill Benton, associate librarian at York University Libraries:

This photograph was taken for a Toronto Telegram story entitled “I’m here… now where is my university.”

Sources

York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, Murray George Ross fonds (F0398), The exterior of Frost Library, ASC02071.

York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, The Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433), The Hilliard Residence at Glendon, 1966, ASC01173; A crowd the opening of Glendon, 1963, ASC34126; Students at York Hall, 1961, ASC34045; Murray Ross at a desk in the field that would become Keele Campus, 1962, ASC01639.

York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Computing and Network Services fonds (F0477), Flashback to the 106 bus stop in front of Ross, 1981, ASC00270; Geese and the pond, ASC01770; Ross and Curtis Lecture Hall, 2006, ASC01041.

York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Department of Campus Planning fonds (F0046), A crowd in front of Ross, 1969, ASC35929; Convocation with the Ross building in the background, 1971, ASC35863; The C.U.B. Control Centre, 1970, ASC35940; The top of central square with the Ross building in the background, 1976, ASC41041; The interior of Steacie Library, 1965, ASC35905; The view from the fifth floor of Scott Library, 1972, ASC35952; Study carrels at Scott Library, 1982, ASC00275.

York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University photograph collection (F0091), an aerial view of Keele campus with the CN tower in the background, ASC01638.

This post was originally published as a Twitter thread for the Archive's Association of Ontario's 2020 Archives Awareness Week.