Canadian jazz musician, Oscar Peterson, performing for patients outside the Evel Pavilion at the Mountain Sanatorium, July 1947.

Elizabeth Bagshaw (pictured right) and others at a meeting of the Hamilton Branch of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC), [between 1969-1975].

Doctors, nurses, and staff, outside the McMaster University Medical Centre promoting the Regional Perinatal Unit in 1978. Here, mothers with high-risk pregnancies and high-risk newborns could be treated jointly rather than being separated.

Neonatal Nurse Pam Stevens (Department of Pediatrics) checking the vitals of a preterm infant, [ca.197-?].

With guidance from their tutor (center) three students in the Undergraduate Medical Program examine a patient at the Cardiorespiratory Unit at the McMaster Division of Chedoke-McMaster Hospital, 1979.

Second year psychiatric nursing students engaged in a tutorial on “interviewing” at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, [ca. 1980].

Aerial Shot of the McMaster University Medical Center (also known as the Health Sciences Centre) during construction in 1969.

Interior of the Health Sciences Library, featuring the main level on the second floor, [between 1972-1975].

A member of the Radiology Department examining x-ray films, [197-?].

Dr. Mark Halton from the Pathology Department inspecting a readout of results for protein separation using a column chromatography method, 1975.

Joanne Carson viewing a section of a specimen in a Philips 300 Electron Microscope at McMaster, 1979.

A patient being scanned by a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) machine that was created by the Radiology Department at McMaster University, [198-?].

Nurse Practitioner (Family Practice Nursing) graduates with School of Nursing Director Dorothy Kergin (pictured front left), posing at the foot of the stairs in the Health Sciences Library, [1975?].

Aga Khan School of Nursing graduates, 1990. The Aga Khan Project began in 1979, and was a 23-year collaboration with the Aga Khan University (AKU) School of Nursing in Karachi, Pakistan which was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. AKU students and faculty came to learn in Hamilton, and McMaster Nursing faculty taught in Pakistan.

MD students attending their White Coat Ceremony in 2004. Each year in early October, MD Students are invited along with their families to an evening at which they are presented their first white coat. McMaster University’s first White Coat Ceremony took place in 2003.

The Midwifery Program graduating class of 2012. Graduates are sitting in a line showcasing red shoes. Wearing red shoes is a tradition amongst Midwifery graduating classes in Ontario – to stand out from the crowd.