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Bradford collection of biographies of Homeopathic Physicians
Collection
Identifier: HU-064
Overview
Dr. Thomas L. Bradford (1847-1918) was a practicing homeopathic physician in Maine, Europe and Philadelphia. While practicing and teaching in Philadelphia he served as curator for the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. From 1896 to 1916, he collected, organized and maintained material for 35 scrapbooks of biographical information about homeopathic physicians.
Dates:
1868 - 1918
Constantine Hering and Calvin B. Knerr family papers
Collection
Identifier: HU-100
Overview
Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), born and educated in Germany, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1833 and devoted his life to the study, practice and education of homeopathic medicine in the United States. As such, he is considered the father of homeopathy in America. Hering founded several schools and organizations devoted to teaching homeopathy, especially the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Arts, aka the Allentown Academy, in 1836, and the Hahnemann Medical College of...
Dates:
1820 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1940
Scrapbooks on Joseph Leidy
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0481
Scope and Contents
Primarily comprised of 7 scrapbooks containing news clippings assembled by various members of Leidy's family, the entries pertaining to his activities between the dates of 1857 and 1891. One book is concerned only with obituary notices and funeral ceremonies; two were compiled in manuscript by Joseph Leidy, II while on a visit to Switzerland in 1910-12 and record interviews with former friends of his uncle.
Dates:
1857-1912
Weiss family of Weissport, Pennsylvania papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0216
Abstract
The Weiss family was prominent in the coal business in eastern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s and 1800s. The Weiss family collection dates from 1777 to 1916 and documents, most fully, Jacob Weiss (1750-1839), Francis White (1773-1845), and Francis White (1819-1888). The papers include diaries, geological and surveying notebooks, maps and observations; personalia and biographical notes; transcribed documents, portraits, scrapbooks, business journals, daybooks, mercantile records and...
Dates:
1777 - 1916
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- Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia 2
- Allen, H.C. (Henry C.) 1
- Allen, Timothy Field 1
- Bradford, Thomas Lindsley, M.D. 1
- Crippen, Hawley Harvey 1
- Farrington, E.A. (Ernest Albert) 1
- Hahnemann, Samuel 1
- Hering, Constantine (1800-1880) 1
- Hughes, Richard 1
- Humphreys, F. (Frederick) 1
- Kent, J.T. (James Tyler) 1
- Knerr, Calvin B., M.D. (Calvin Brobst), 1847-1940 1
- Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 1
- Lippe, Adolph von 1
- McClelland, James Henderson 1
- North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art 1
- Paracelsus, 1493-1541 1
- Smith, Henry M. 1
- Smith, Julia Holmes 1
- Thomas, A. R. (Amos Russell), 1826-1895 1
- Weiss, Francis, 1773-1845 1
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