Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents This unbound scrapbook contains clippings, leaflets, typescript letters and reports, reprints, and other printed ephemera related to vaccination and the anti-vaccination movement. Material comes from a variety of anti-vaccination societies and leagues from across the country and internationally, including in Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Terre Haute, and Toronto. The National Anti-Vaccination League in London and the Anti-Vaccination Society of America are particularly well represented. Also...

Scope and Contents The Collection contains a single volume, 1862-1919, originally used as a patient register for wounded U.S. Civil War soldiers recovering at Philadelphia (Pa.) area military and civilian hospitals. It was later used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings. The patient register is in the handwriting of wartime nurse Hiram J. Noyes. The wounded are listed by hospital, but there are multiple lists for each hospital in no identifiable order. There is no index. Among the hospitals...

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This collection consists of a single volume scrapbook of clippings from newspapers, medical journals, and other publications, all on the topic of cancer. Many clippings relate to the use of radium and its efficacy in the treatment of cancer. Other topics include diet, various treatments and reported cures, tests, and discoveries surrounding the disease. Clippings date primarily from 1913-1914, with one clipping from 1911. A typed index is included at the beginning of the volume.

Abstract Douglas P. Murphy (1893-1971) served as a surgeon in the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I. During his military service, Murphy worked in several medical hospitals in France from 1917 until the war’s end in 1918. Surviving the war intact, and even managing to get married during his time overseas, Murphy returned home to Philadelphia and opened his own obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) practice. His clinical experience eventually...

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This scrapbook contains material related to the case surrounding the grave robbing at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia and the subsequent Anatomy Act in Pennsylvania. Also included are notes (1880-1881) acknowledging receipt of museum specimens, reports and lists of bodies delivered to medical schools (1881), and W. S. Forbes' History of the Anatomy-Act of Pennsylvania (1898).

Abstract Frank Janczak Hartman (1893-1986) was a radium specialist and consultant who also worked as a “radium hound,” searching for pieces lost by area hospitals and industry until his retirement in 1956. The Frank J. Hartman papers provide an insightful view into the changes atomic energy brought to society. Hartman, who owned two companies dealing with radium, clearly saw the product’s value, but he also recognized the potential dangers and the damage that could result from the improper usage,...

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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.

Scope and Contents The first extensive autograph collection of Fellows of the American Surgical Association was donated to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by John B. Roberts in 1903. Roberts had been working on this project for some years. The collection, viewed as an adjunct to a similar photograph collection, was sorted alphabetically and housed in a post binder. An envelope containing a few additions made on 17 January 1917 was filed with this binder. On 16 April 1925, Astley...

Scope and Contents This collection contains mostly marketing, advertising, and communications materials from Joseph C. Ferguson's optician business, which operated in Philadelphia, PA in the early 20th century. The materials primarily date from the 1920s. The collection contains scrapbooks, and some loose materials, which were likely intended for scrapbooking. Series I: Scrapbooks contains five scrapbooks of marketing materials and newspaper clippings. Scrapbook 1 contains clippings...

Abstract This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing informational illustrations and pamphlets about a variety of health topics. Allergy testing and gastrointestinal maladies comprise the bulk of the material. Materials include charts to inform proper caloric intake, color illustrations of various diseases, and charts to help differentiate between diseases with similar symptoms. Not much is known about Joseph Ulman. This collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of...