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W.W. Hagerty Library (Drexel University)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Library records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-05-002
Overview The Library records contains documentation of the Drexel University Library from its creation in 1891 to 2003. Drexel University Library has been housed in three different buildings; the Main Building (1891-1958), the Korman Center (1959-1982) and W.W. Hagerty Library (1983-2010). The library was also responsible for running the library school until 1962, with the exception of the years 1914 to 1922 when the library school was suspended. The documents in this collection constitute a record...
Dates: 1891-2013

Office of the President records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-005
Overview This collection consists of subject files created by the Office of the President during the tenures of the first six presidents of the Drexel Institute: James MacAlister (1840-1913, president 1891-1913), Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936, president 1914-1921), Kenneth Matheson (1864-1931, president 1921-1932), Parke R. Kolbe (1881-1942, president 1932-1942), George P. Rea (1894-1978, president 1942-1944), and James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), as well as during the interim presidency of...
Dates: 1891-1965; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1954

Richard W. Schneider records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-03-002
Overview Richard Schneider was a senior administrator at Drexel from 1985 to 1992. A retired rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard Reserves, he graduated from the Coast Guard Academy and served eight years of active duty before returning to the academy as an assistant professor and assistant dean of academics. He later earned a master's degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate in public policy from the University of Delaware and worked as an executive officer at the College of Marine...
Dates: 1973-1993

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Academic libraries 1
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Administrative records 1
Annual reports 1
Clippings 1
College trustees 1
Deans (Education) 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 1
Drexel University -- History 1
Education, Higher -- Administration 1
Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Exhibition records 1
Financial records 1
Home economics -- Study and teaching 1
Libraries 1
Libraries -- Designs and plans 1
Libraries and education 1
Library buildings -- Pennsylvania. 1
Library science 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Minutes 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
Newsletters 1
Personnel records 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Publications 1
Questionnaires 1
Reports 1
School budgets 1
Slides (photographs) 1
Statistics 1
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 1
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 1
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 1
Women -- Education (Higher) 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
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