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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

George L. Harrison, Jr., Photographs from Hunting Expeditions, 1903-1914

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2012-049
Scope and Contents This collection contains approximately 1300 glass and nitrate film negatives taken by and of George L. Harrison, Jr., and his wife Mary Ingalls Harrison, on their expeditions and travels in the early 20th Century. Importantly, a number of Academy specimens (mammals and birds, at least) were collected by Harrison et al. and remain in the Academy collections today.Further, the collection includes an external hard-drive with a set of digital images of the negatives, professionally...
Dates: 1903-1914

George Vaux, Jr., Photographs of glaciers

 Collection — Box Oversize Small Collections 3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0486
Scope and Contents

Lawyer and geologist, elected a member of the Academy in 1892 and its treasurer from 1894 to 1927. The five mounted photographs were to illustrate his 'Observations made in 1906 on glaciers in Alberta and British Columbia," published in the Proceedings for 1906.

Dates: 1906

Crawford H. Greenewalt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates: 1951 - 1993

Hahnemann Medical College records

 Collection
Identifier: HU.098
Overview

Hahnemann Medical College administrative and student records, primarily 19th century, including class schedules, matriculation and lecture tickets, student notebooks, newspaper clippings, and a dissection lab photograph. Also contains article drafts for the publication "Hospital Tidings."

Dates: 1870-1950; Majority of material found in 1870-1890

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

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

Harry Whitney Correspondence and Photograph Albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0788
Scope and Contents

Academy trustee Harry Whitney made a photographic record of his expeditions to the Arctic, and preserved the record in these albums. The correspondence concerns Eskimo artifacts.

Dates: 1908-1931

Henry N. Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-010
Overview Henry (Hal) Williams, MD, practiced homeopathic medicine out of his home office in Lancaster, PA from 1950 to 1993. Collection reflects Williams’ practice and interest in anthroposophical medicine, historical homeopathic texts, homeopathic journals, and homeopathic remedies. There is also documentation reflecting the activity of his wife, Dorothea Weiand Williams, his daughters, and his father, James M. Williams, professor of sociology at Hobart College. Materials include wooden homeopathic...
Dates: 1850-1989