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Howard Childs Carpenter slide collection (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2307

Scope and Contents note

The collection contains approximately 250 glass lantern slides, measuring 3.25 x 4". Most of the slide are in black and white. The diverse images relate to child healthcare, nutrition, and disease prevention. Subjects include: the activities of the Department of Prevention of Disease; foreign children; infant care; sanitary kitchens and farms; portraits of physicians; cartoons; and graphs and diagrams. These slides probably accompanied... lectures given by Carpenter to community groups, mothers attending clinics at the Department for Prevention of Diseases, and students attending the Pennsylvania School of Social and Health Work. See more

Dates

  • undated

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open for research.

Biographical/Historical note

Howard Childs Carpenter (1878-1955) received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1900. In 1914 Carpenter founded the Department for the Prevention of Disease at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was appointed Professor of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in 1929. He was a member of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, The American... Pediatrics Society, and many other societies and associations. Carpenter was elected a fellow of College of Physicians in 1925. See more

Extent

3.25 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

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