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Academy Library & Archives 2012 Activity Report
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the 2012 Activity Report which provides a comprehensive and detailed look into the happenings of the Academy Library & Archives.
Dates:
2012
ANSP Library, Catalogs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0376
Scope and Contents
The first catalog was published in the 1st series of the Journal, v. 4, 1817-1824, The next was made by Isaac Hays, 1824-1834, followed by one published with the Act of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1836. Additions through 1850 are interleaved in a special library copy of the 1837 catalog. From 1850-1915, the catalogs were made by librarians J. D. Sergeant and Edw. J. Nolan. In 1915, when they were copied on the typewriter, they were then called shelf lists, duplicating the card catalog in a...
Dates:
1824-1943
ANSP Library Committee, Papers
Collection — Box: Coll. 424-425
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0424
Scope and Contents
Very early the library committee functioned as a unit for some years, became the library and publication committee, then again has been called simply the library committee. In this collection we have old documents, dated administrative matters, and a list of restricted books as of 1824. Of the more recent committee which was erected in the early 1930's we have a progress report signed by J. Percy Moore for 1935, bound volumes of minutes 1936-62, folders of unbound correspondence and...
Dates:
1844-1958
ANSP Library, Journal of Additions
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0368
Scope and Contents
These so-called librarian's books record the day to day accessions for the dates covered. In 1885 the card catalog was started by E. J. Nolan, replacing the ledger form of catalog. On the title-page of the 1856-65 volume is a list of librarians and dates of service, signed by Nolan. Edward J. Nolan himself became librarian in 1862 and was for years the only paid member of the staff of the Academy. The Journals cover the years 1845-50, 1850-56; 1856-65, 1865-73, 1873-76, 1876-85.
Dates:
1845-85
ANSP Library, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0456
Scope and Contents
The miscellaneous group of documents, reports, lists and evaluations of
the library are here grouped together for convenience rather than for subject
unity. In 1940 the Director asked all curators to give a detailed evaluation of
the library holdings in his speciality. Nine such reports are in the file
signed by the curators. F. W. Pennell made an additional report on the articles
lacking in the field of Scrophulariacea. A subscription list of the people
who clubbed together to buy the...
Dates:
1831-1954
ANSP museum specimen collection donation records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0195
Scope and Contents
The early daily records in book form, as 'Curator's books," the weekly sheets, 'Additions to the Museum," and the Wurtz' card file "Donations to the Museum" are preserved in this collection.
Dates:
1847-1930
Blueprints and architectural drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UR-03-017
Scope and content note
This collection consists of approximately 5 c.f. of blueprints and other architectural drawings or surveys relating to the construction, renovation, or landscaping of various locations on Drexel University campus between 1930 and 2000.Most well represented are the construction of campus libraries (Hagerty Library and what is today the Korman Center) and dormitories (Van Rensselaer Hall, Kelly Hall, Calhoun Hall, Caneris Hall); the collection also includes plans of renovations to...
Dates:
1930-2000
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Catharine Macfarlane papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-047
Overview
Catharine Macfarlane graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1898, and later became an instructor in obstetrics at the college and a professor of gynecology. She was the first woman to be elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1935. Macfarlane devoted much of her career to cancer research and prevention, specifically pelvic cancer. In 1956, she became the first woman to serve as Chairman for the Medical Society of Pennsylvania’s Commission on Cancer....
Dates:
1895-1971; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1960
George Washington Tryon, Jr., Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0373
Scope and Contents
Gunsmith by trade, conchologist by avocation, Tryon's connections with the Academy extended from 1859-76, during which time he was a curator, secretary of the Board of the Building Fund, founder of the Conchological
Section and editor of the American Journal of Conchology and the Manual of Conchology. Deposited his collections and library in the Section, and set up a permanent trust fund towards its support.These papers concern the erection of the fund through the sale of Academy...
Dates:
1888
Hahnemann University photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: HU-001
Abstract
The Hahnemann University Photograph Collection is an extensive collection that covers the people and buildings of Hahnemann from its beginnings in 1848 as the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania to 2004 as Hahnemann University Hospital.Much of the collection is a photographic record of the buildings that were used and constructed by the organization throughout its history. The photographs consistently span the lifetime of the school and hospital from the mid-1840s to turn...
Dates:
circa 1840-2004
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