Physicians
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
College of Physicians Picture File #1
Collection
Identifier: PF1
Scope and Contents
The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.
Dates:
circa 1890-1990
College of Physicians Picture File #2
Collection
Identifier: PF2
Scope and Contents
The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.
Dates:
circa 1890-1990
College of Physicians Picture File #3
Collection
Identifier: PF3
Scope and Contents
The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.
Dates:
circa 1880-1990
College of Physicians Picture File #4
Collection
Identifier: PF4
Scope and Contents
The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.
Dates:
circa 1890-1990
Dome collection of portraits
Collection
Identifier: Dome
Scope and Contents
The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection consists of over 2,100 portraits of doctors (possibly all dermatologists). The collection is likely part of the materials donated by the American Academy of Dermatology during the 1970s.
Dates:
undated
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
George Bacon Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-04
Overview
The George Bacon Wood Papers collection documents George Bacon Wood’s professional and personal life from 1813 to 1870. Dr. George Bacon Wood was an accomplished physician and author, and also lectured at several medical institutions in the Philadelphia region. Materials located in the collection include correspondence, manuscript drafts, lecture notes, financial material, and some graphic material. The collection contains six series arranged by their relative size: “Correspondence,”...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1813-1870; 1793-1921
Joseph McFarland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/346
Overview
The Joseph McFarland papers consist of two collections and documents Dr. McFarland’s medical career, particularly his involvement in parotid tumor and tetanus vaccination research from 1900 to 1943. Dr. McFarland was born in Philadelphia on February 9th, 1868, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. He continued to study and teach on pathology at various institutions in Philadelphia throughout his career. The collection contains two series, “Correspondence” and...
Dates:
1895-1943, undated
Reverend Frank L. Norton collection of physicians' invoices
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/267
Scope and Contents
This is a small collection of bills for medical and dental services,
1877-1881, provided to Reverend Frank L. Norton and his wife
from several physicians in Connecticut, the District of Columbia,
Massachusetts, and New York. The bills list fees charged.
Physicians represented are: C. H. Atwater, J. P. Bloss, Reed
B. Bontecou, W. W. Clapp, William Baker Crain, F. D. Edgerton,
I. N. Goff, L. B. Hoff, Frederick I. Knight, P. Brynberg Porter,
and E. Z. Webster.
Dates:
1877 - 1881
Sturgis Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P-STURGIS
Overview
The Sturgis Photograph Collection was donated to the College in the early 1980s by Doctors Katharine R. and Samuel B. Sturgis. It contains a large number of the College's pictures and oversize documents (diplomas, certificates, etc.). The subjects of the materials range from portraits of physicians, early hospital buildings, group photographs of medical societies, and class photographs of medical school students, to lecture matriculation cards and medical illustrations. Researchers should...
Dates:
undated
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