Chemistry 312 practical test.
Detroit Convention with: Sandell, Hume, Marion and Joe Bushey, as well as Stenfers, Fall 1962.
The future site of the Alberta Special Waste Treatment Facility, Swan Hills Treatment Centre: [?]; Bert Huffman; Walter Harris; Jacquie Champion; and Brenda Nelson.
Harris standing at the base of a mountain. Image found inside card from Audrey and Willard F Allen. Willard Allen was a friend and fellow chemistry teacher at the University of Alberta.
Letter to Harris from President Harry E Gunning commemorating him on five years as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department, dated July 4, 1979.
Two cold rooms one for storing volatile and unstable chemicals and the other is equipped as a laboratory.
Philips Electronics Inc. x-ray diffraction equipment for the analysis of crystalline compounds.
Electronics Shop featuring a Type 536 Oscilloscope with type B plug-in being used.
Main supply room for the storage and retrieval of chemicals, glassware and other equipment needed for teaching and research. The supply room was located in the basement of the Physical Science Centre.
Harris in his lab coat talking to others.
Chemistry Department Staff at the University of Alberta: HE Gunning, HB Dunford, P Kebarle, D Darwish, C Bigelow, F Birss, HS Frank (Physical Chemistry visiting speaker), WE Harris, RN O'Brien, GR Freeman, RU Lemieux, RK Brown.
Chemical Analysis "Crew": R Kratochvil, J Plambeck, D Rabenstein, P Harris, L Ziola, B Burrows, G Horlick, G Johanson, WE Harris. Dated August 1973. Photograph taken outside of the Chemistry Building.
Caption reads: "Symposium on Analytical Chemistry in honor of professor Walter E Harris on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Alberta August 15, 1980". The Symposium was organized by the analytical group at the University of Alberta. It consisted of eighteen presentations by Harris' fellow colleagues from across North America.
Walter Harris' certificate for becoming an Honorary Fellow of The Chemical Institute of Canada.
Letter congratulating Harris on becoming a Member of the Order of Canada from the Prime Minister Jean Chretien, dated October 13, 1998.
Letter on the occasion of Walter's 90th Birthday celebrations from former student Misae Masuda, dated April 29, 2005.
Letter with official seal on the occasion of Walter's 90th Birthday from Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin.
Harris's University of Alberta B.Sc. Diploma with official seal.
The Society of the Sigma Xi Diploma certifying Harris was elected as a member of the Minnesota chapter on May 31, 1944.
Photograph of Brian L. Evans receiving the Order of Canada medal by the Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson.
B&W portrait of Brian L. Evans taken during the Canadian Chinese Delegation. circa 1970s
Photograph of Marc Berder, Bernard Favre, Judy Lytton, and Leilini Muir taken in the kitchen of Leilani's home in Devon. Photo by Doug Wahlsten, July 6, 2003
Harris wearing his Order of Canada medal surrounded by family and friends on November 7, 1988. The "family show and tell" celebration was organized by Harris' daughter Margaret in honour of him becoming a member of the Order of Canada.
Harris after the University of Waterloo's fifty-fourth Convocation wearing academic hood and gown. Pictured here with Chancellor James Hadsworth; [?]; WAE (Pete) McBryde, former Dean of Science; and Douglas Wright, President of Waterloo.
New Chemistry Building under construction with steel beams in place.
New Chemistry Building under construction with bricks being laid.
Card attached to image reads "President Myer Horowitz [University of Alberta] presenting bookends to Walter Harris in honor of 30 years on faculty 1976".
Opening of the President's Advisory Committee on Campus Review office at the University of Alberta, likely in the Department of Chemistry.
Site for new Chemistry building, December 1958.
Swan Hills Treatment Centre opening: Anka S; Walter Harris; Murdo McKenzie; John Devereau; Al Schoening; Frank Belyea; Joe Molho, Former Mayor of Swan Hills.
Swan Hills Treatment Centre opening: John Devereau; Jennifer McJuade[?]; Bert Huffman; Al Schoening; and Phyllis Harris seated.
Harris leaning on his Pontiac car, with his friends taking pictures at a mountain viewpoint. Image found inside card from Audrey and Willard F Allen. Willard Allen was a friend and fellow chemistry teacher at the University of Alberta.
Harris presenting an Inuit carving to Harry E Gunning at an appreciation event held to celebrate Gunning's past contributions as a Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and new role as President of the University of Alberta.
Photograph taken in the Inorganic and Analytical Research Laboratory. Image focuses on the Leeds & Northrup Electro Chemograph Type E with a built in Speedomax Recorder designed for polarography analysis. Machine commonly used in the study of kinetics and mechanism of inorganic reactions. Image also appears in "New Physical Sciences Centre" booklet advertising the newly built facility.
Two technicians working on glass lathes in the Glass Blowing Shop. This room was used for the building and design of new glass equipment for research. The shop was located in the basement of the physics-mathematics wing.
Physical Science Center at the University of Alberta built to house three departments of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. The building officially opened May 24, 1961 and was designed by the Department of Public Works.
Graduate Research Laboratory in the Physical Science Center.
Physical Chemical Research laboratory with two people at work on high vacuum lines.
President's Advisory Committee on Campus Review Steering Committee: Henry Kreisel, Fred Enns, Bill Jopling, Walter E Harris. For coloured version see accession no. 2012-27-3.5.
Image taken inside chemistry lab of: Donaldo Oliveria, Trevor Higgins, George Scheil, Walter Harris, and Boris Rudenko, dated February 1971.
Close up photograph of Harris. Cropped version of this photograph was used for the article "Chemists reflect on the legacy of Walter Harris, key builder of one of country's top analytical chemistry programs" appearing in Folio November 15, 1996.
Photograph of Harris and John Taylor, from the National Bureau of Standards in Washington DC. Taylor was a presenter at the June 1988 Chemical Institute of Canada's conference , held in Toronto.
The Fisher Scientific Lecture Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada is awarded for commendable achievement and scholarship in statistical science praising the impact of statistical methods of scientific investigation. Harris won this high esteemed for his outstanding leadership in analytical chemistry and contributions in Gas Chromatography. His award lecture "Gas Chromatography- Developments in Temperature Programming and Pyrolysis GC" was presented during the 52nd Canadian Chemical Conference and Exhibition in Montreal on May 28, 1969. This is the second year that the award had been given out.
Nashville School with the whole school pictured, young Harris in the front row.
Co-60 gamma ray unit used in cobalt therapy, the use of gamma rays to treat medical issues such as tumors. The Physical Science Centre had a special "cave" built out under the basement with a Co-60 gamma ray unit for the initiation of radio chemical reactions. Slide found in box labeled AECL for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Slide likely used in lecture or public talk.
National Research Universal, Atomic Energy of Canada United in Chalk River, Ontario. Harris spent one summer in Chalk River with R Betts on the isotopic separation of sodium-22 and sodium -24. Slide found in box labeled AECL for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, likely used in lecture or public talk.
Photograph of Judy Lytton and Leilani Muir
In France. From left to right, Photograph of Michele Carlier, Wim Causio, Leilani Muir and Doug Wahlsten.
Harris being awarded the Government of Alberta's Achievement Award by Premier Peter Loughheed on November 2, 1974.
Order of Canada award documentation given to Harris with official seal, dated May 6, 1998.
Harris with Therese Gareau and another unknown woman at the Medical Research Council of Canada reception on October 22, 1998. It was held in the Fountain Room of the National Arts Centre.
Harris at the Medical Research Council of Canada reception with Dr Friesen the President of the MCR in the background.
Chemistry-Physics-Mathematics building under construction with steel beams in place, September 21, 1959.
Physical Science Center building under construction, November 1958. The foundation was contracted out to Poole Construction Co Ltd.
Chemistry building under construction, April 1959.
Site for new Chemistry building, December 1958.
Chemistry building at the University of Alberta, August 1980.
Harris accepting the University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award from the University of Alberta President Roderick Fraser on October 2, 2003.
Swan Hills Plant opening.
Physical Science Center at the University of Alberta.
Chemistry-Physics-Mathematics building under construction, February 1959. The steel frame was erected by C.W. Carry Ltd and Calgary Structural Steel Ltd.
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on a field trip to Steep Rock Mine in Atikokan, September 1984. TAC went as part of their efforts to research the Canadian Shield. During WWII, the lake at this site had been drained and iron ore was recovered. It had since been refilling with water. Harris' job was to complete a risk assessment of the area. Slide found in the container labeled Hazardous Wastes.
Hume at the Detroit Convention, Fall 1962.
Walter Harris, John Devereau and their wives posing in front of a sign at a gas station near Swan Hills Treatment Centre.
Harry E Gunning posing with Harris at Gunning's appreciation event.
Physical Sciences Auditorium with 400 sloping seats full of students. The auditorium was housed in a seperate wing to the North of the Mathematics-Physics building and was used for large lecture classes, special lectures and public meetings. A projection booth is also located at the back of the room.
Undergraduate laboratory with private working areas for up to twenty students. The side benches and cabinets display equiptment and materials in general use.
The Metrpolitan-Vickers MS-2 model being operated by a technician in the Mass Spectrometer Laboratory.
Physics machine shop with wood and metal-working equipment to create materials for research and undergraduate laboratories. The machine shop was located in the basement of the physics-mathematics wing.
Harris standing in an active undergraduate chemistry laboratory.
Harris in the laboratory.
Unknown photograph owned by SG Davis. After Davis' passing, it was found among the files in his office and acquired by Harris.
Close up photograph of Harris. Note on the back reads "Planned Parenthood".
Image of Harris taken and sent to the Royal Society.
Image of Harris and Habgood. Harry Habgood co-authored Programmed Temperature Gas Chromatography with Harris, the first book published by anyone in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta.
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) photograph taken June 1989. Missing from the photo is John Convey. List of member credentials is attached to the original photo.
