Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
E. B. Krumbhaar papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Overview
Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Fred B. Rogers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/354
Overview
Fred Baker Rogers was Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine and an active member of the medical community in Philadelphia and throughout the East Coast. He received his M.M.S. in Internal Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.D. from Temple University, and his M.P.H. from Columbia University. Rogers was a prolific author of articles and books on medical history, from local doctors to infectious outbreaks, with a specific focus on preventive...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948 - 1985; 1922 - 2000
J.F. McClendon scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 363
Overview
This collections contains pages from a scrapbook compiled by J.F. McClendon. The bulk of the material consists of photographs and biographies of notable doctors and scientists, interspersed with advertisements for medicines and other healthcare products. The six folders in this collection are arranged in alphabetical order by last name with the last folder labeled as ‘Men of Science R.H.H.’ The collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
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
Joseph Toner manuscript on William Kent Gilbert
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/043
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in an unknown hand with pencilled emendations by J. M. Toner, [ca. 1881], describes William
Kent Gilbert’s background and education, professional career and work at the Philadelphia Alms House
and in private practice, and his collections of early American medical imprints, autographs, portraits, and
engravings.
Published in "Report on American Medical Necrology," Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. 32, 1881, p. 503.
Published in "Report on American Medical Necrology," Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. 32, 1881, p. 503.
Dates:
1881
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