University of Pennsylvania
Organization
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
John Ashhurst, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/075-02
Overview
The John Ashhurst Papers collection documents the life and professional career of Dr. John Ashhurst from 1846 to 1901. John Ashhurst was a prominent Philadelphia surgeon who worked at the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as well as the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He also wrote extensively on the subject of surgery, writing the book The Principles and Practice of Surgery, which was published in several editions. Located in the collection are...
Dates:
1846-1901, undated
Leidy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/155
Scope and Contents
The Leidy family papers consist of two discrete collections, including lecture and admission cards, correspondence, and newsclippings. The first collection of Leidy family material, MSS 2/155-01, contains lecture admission cards and related material, 1830-1866, from the medical educations of Napoleon B. Leidy and Philip Leidy at the University of Pennsylvania and the pharmaceutical education of Thomas Leidy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The series includes several cards...
Dates:
1830 - 1933
Marcus A. Franklin lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/129
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents Marcus A. Franklin's medical education
at Jefferson Medical College, 1868-1870. The collection contains
Franklin's matriculation card, admission cards to lectures at
Jefferson and the medical library of Pennsylvania Hospital,
and an examination schedule. Faculty members whose lectures
Franklin attended are: John Barclay Biddle, J. Solis Cohen,
S. Henry Dickson, Samuel D. Gross, R. J. Levis, J. Aitken Meigs,
Joseph Pancoast, William H. Pancoast, B. Howard...
Dates:
1868 - 1870
Max B. Lurie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/115
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, personal papers, addresses,
and writings, 1926-1967, of Max B. Lurie, documenting his life,
professional career, and research into genetic resistance to
tuberculosis.Lurie's professional correspondence, 1928-1966, is preserved
in Series 1. Principal correspondents are Lurie's colleagues
or collaborators in tuberculosis research, many of them associated
with the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania,
including Samuel...
Dates:
1926 - 1957
Nathan L. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/213
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Nathan L. Hatfield's papers, 1821-1826, documents his medical education and early career and personal interests. The collection contains notes on lectures from both
the University of Pennsylvania and the first session of Jefferson Medical College. Also included are a few samples of Hatfield's writings, such as the draft of an application to the Managers
of the Philadelphia Alms House for resident student status, essays, a eulogy on Samuel Williston Lebeau, and the...
Dates:
1821 - 1826
Robert H. Colhoun lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/231
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents Robert H. Colhoun's medical education
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1832. The collection contains
Colhoun's matriculation ticket, signed by William E. Horner
and tickets admitting him to the lectures of Thomas C. James
and William Dewees on midwifery and Nathaniel Chapman on the
institutes of medicine and clinical practice.
Dates:
1832 - 1833
William Gerry Morgan typescript on the history of the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/132
Scope and Contents
Address for University of Pennsylvania’s Celebration of Medical Progress, 10-11 Oct. 1930, but never delivered. Morgan highlights university’s outstanding events, individuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Morgan, and Benjamin Rush, and contributions to medicine.
Dates:
circa 1930
William Wood Gerhard papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/183
Scope and Contents
This small collection of W. W. Gerhard's papers, 1834-1845, documenting his education and early career, contains letters received and sent, some correspondence of his brother, lawyer Benjamin Gerhard, and a few receipted bills and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection is composed of letters sent to Gerhard, 1834-1837, from colleagues, many of whom studied with him in Paris, The letters, several in French, describe medical student life and conditions there. Included are letters from A....
Dates:
1834 - 1845
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