Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Faculty Council records
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-001
Overview
The records of the Faculty Council provide comprehensive documentation of the early activities and the nearly century long development of the Faculty Council, the elected body of representatives of the faculty of Drexel University. The Faculty Council had numerous name changes which are represented in the meeting minutes; Institute Faculty (1947) and University Faculty (1970). The materials date between 1894-1989, with a gap in materials from 1897-1902 and 1904-1912. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1894-1989; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1979
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Faculty Council records
General Correspondence, 1891-1958, bulk: 1920 - 1945
Series
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and content note
Series 8: General Correspondence, 65 foldersThis series includes folders which were from the Office of the President generally without reference to a specific President and those folders which included the papers of multiple Presidents of Drexel. A large section of this series is those folders which were marked “miscellaneous”. These often included a page or two on a specific topic and this had been combined with a few other unrelated items. This series varies greatly but...
Dates:
1891-1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital records
Collection
Identifier: HU.069
Overview
These records from the late 19th century/early 20th century contain Hahnemann Hospital Medical and Surgical Staff Minutes, and Johnstown Homeopathic Dispensary finances and papers. Hahnemann Hospital was opened in 1890 as a teaching hospital for the Hahnemann Medical College and by the time it moved to its permanent location in 1928, it was one of the most modern and technologically developed hospitals in the nation. Johnstown Homeopathic Dispensary was a branch of the Philadelphia...
Dates:
1890-1916; Majority of material found in 1890-1916
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 School of Medicine Board of Trustees and Corporate administration records
Collection
Identifier: HU.025
Overview
Oversize corporate records and documents of Hahnemann and related hospitals and organizations, maintained by the Executive Vice President and Hospital Director, and by the Office of Housing and Property Management, including: financial statements, 1907-16, charters and amendments, agreements, deeds, citations, certificates. Also includes honorary fraternities Sigma Xi and Alpha Omega Alpha, Hahnemann Club of Philadelphia, Homeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, Washington Medical College of...
Dates:
1867-1996; Majority of material found in 1920-1996
Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital records
Collection
Identifier: HU.068
Overview
Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, known for most of its history as Hahnemann Medical College, was founded in 1848 by Drs. Constantine Hering, Jacob Jeanes, and Walter Williamson as an institution for standardizing the practice of Homeopathy. After a brief split in 1867 that resulted in two schools existing at the same time, the college was renamed Hahnemann Medical College in 1869. Hahnemann continued expanding through the early 20th century, and became a highly regarded medical...
Dates:
1856-1914; Majority of material found in 1856-1914
Homeopathic medical societies' records
Collection
Identifier: HU.074
Overview
Records of 19th-century homeopathic societies including the Homeopathic Institute of Philadelphia, American Provers' Union, Hahnemann Society of Northampton, and the Philadelphia Postgraduate School of Homeopathics. The Homeopathic Institute of Philadelphia appears to be the Philadelphia branch of the American Institute of Homeopathy. The American Institute of Homeopathy was founded in 1844 as a response to the death of homeopathy’s pioneer, Samuel Hahnemann. The Philadelphia branch was...
Dates:
1834-1900; Majority of material found in 1890-1900
James Creese administration records
Collection — Box OV13, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: UR-01-007
Overview
James Creese served as the president of the Drexel Institute from 1945 to 1963. His tenure began with a tremendous influx of students in the post-WWII years and continued to oversee tremendous growth of the Institute, both in the physical expansion of its campus and in the development of its academic programs, especially in engineering and cooperative education. Such extensive development required major capital investments, for which two major fundraising campaigns were undertaken during...
Dates:
1941-1967
North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art records
Collection
Identifier: HU-COLL-073
Overview
The North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art, known as the Allentown Academy, was a short lived, yet influential homeopathic medical school in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Opened April 10, 1835 by several prominent homeopathic physicians, Allentown Academy was the first homeopathic medical school in the United States, and educated the first generation of American homeopaths that would go on to bring homeopathy to new heights in the country. Due to low enrollment and financial...
Dates:
1835 - 1840
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