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Badminton records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-017
Scope and content note
Badminton records consists of eleven folders which covers the years 1975 to 1988.
The eleven folders contains mainly statistics on the team members who played on the team during the period and the scores between Drexel and its opponents. the folder also contains several letters, two newspaper clippings, photographs, a publication and a tournament booklet (1985).
Dates:
1975-1988
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Baseball records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-009
Scope and content note
The collection contains three boxes of records related to Drexel’s baseball team that were created between 1944 and 1995. The collection is arranged by year and includes newspaper clippings, statistics, photographs, letters, media guides, official scorebooks and yearbooks.The first box in the collection contains both original and photocopied newspaper clippings from local newspapers which covers the team between the years 1951 and 1988. The box also contains statistics which were...
Dates:
1944-1995
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Eleanor Reeves scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: unknown container
Identifier: MC-00-034
Scope and contents note
The collection consists of Eleanor Edmunds Reeves’s scrapbook, which dates approximately from 1930-1934. Ms. Reeves attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry during those years. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, which document various Drexel sporting and social events, and ephemera such as train tickets, advertisements, and registration cards. The scrapbook also includes correspondence from several “Little Sisters” (incoming freshmen) who were...
Dates:
1931-1934
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Evening College records
Collection
Identifier: UR-04-002
Overview
The Drexel Evening College was founded in 1891, as the Department of Lectures and Evening Classes within the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, and held its first classes in 1892. A program of study geared towards working adults, it offered courses in drawing, decorative painting, modeling, woodcarving, stained glass, mathematics, bookkeeping, stenography and typewriting, chemistry, physics, shop work in wood and iron, cookery, dressmaking, millinery, physical culture,...
Dates:
1921 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1988
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Football records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-002
Abstract
The football team had its unofficial beginning at the Drexel Institute in 1892 as a student-organized sport and was discontinued by Drexel's Board of Trustees in 1973. Records consist of game programs, newspaper clippings, administrative files, rosters, score sheets, and press material. The bulk is from 1950 to 1973; materials prior to 1950 consists mainly of game programs. Administrative files include a brief history of the football program up to the 1930s.
Dates:
1920-1994; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1973
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Frank Thomson papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-002
Abstract
Frank Thomson (1841-1899) was a senior administrator of the Pennsylvania Railroad and served as its president from 1897 to 1899. This collection documents his career on the railroad, beginning with his service with the United States Military Railroads in the South during the Civil War, detailing an official state visit by the Russian Grand Duke Alexis, and ending with his promotion to president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and his death in 1899. Records include Mr. Thomson’s personal and...
Dates:
1826-1915; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1899
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Harry C. Rippel papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-088
Abstract
Harry Conrad Rippel (1926-2004) worked as a principal engineer at Franklin Institute Research Laboratory from 1952 to 1984 and was a leading authority on tribology, the study of friction, wear, lubrication, and the design of bearings. He studied mechanical engineering at Drexel Institute of Technology, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1952 and then a master’s degree in 1957. This collection contains the academic, professional, and personal papers of Mr. Rippel, spanning from 1943-2004,...
Dates:
1943-2004; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1984
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
John J. Nesbitt, Inc. and family records
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-063
Abstract
Albert J. Nesbitt was the first child of John J. Nesbitt, the founder of John J. Nesbitt, Inc., which manufactured heating and ventilating units for schools in the early twentieth century. In 1941, Albert became the president of the company after his father's death. The company continued producing heating and cooling elements for schools. During World War II, the company devoted their facilities to produce munitions for the Philadelphia Ordinance District for which they were awarded four...
Dates:
1910s-1970s
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Men's Basketball records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-003
Scope and content note
The collection contains nine boxes of records related to Drexel’s men basketball team that were created between 1953 and 2001, and cover the period from 1895, when Drexel played it first basketball game, to 2001. The collection is arranged by type of material. Newspaper clippings, statistics, programs, and media guides are all arranged chronologically by sport season.The first three boxes of the collection contain original and photocopied newspaper clippings dating from 1953 to...
Dates:
1895-2001
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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