Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Drexel Institute student sitting in a rocking chair writing in her diary, circa 1899
File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Caption
Dixie keeping her diary
Dates:
circa 1899
Drexel Institute student writing a letter at a desk , circa 1899
File — Box 1, Folder: 3
Caption
The Cavalier is stricken with the engagement malady. ‘Third Story front.' Mr. Dill writing to his sweetheart
Dates:
circa 1899
Exterior of Boarding House Row after the 1899 blizzard , 1899
File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Caption
Boarding House Row was private housing used by Drexel students, possibly in the vicinity of 34th Street near the University of Pennsylvania.
Caption
The snow drifts were a sight to behold for many days. Boarding House Row after the blizzard of 1899
Dates:
1899
Interior of Virginia Carter Castleman's room, circa 1899
File — Box 1, Folder: 14
Scope and content note
"These ferns are my envy." Inside wall and side of "Third story front," showing the Penn pillow, red and blue, and J.H.'s fern.
Dates:
circa 1899
Interior of Virginia Carter Castleman’s room on Boarding House Row, circa 1899
File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Caption
‘Third story back’ in Boarding House Row, No. 3427. A Cozy Corner
Dates:
circa 1899
Parke R. Kolbe, 1899-1942, bulk: 1932 - 1942
Series
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and content note
Series 4: Kolbe, Parke R. 200 Folders This is the largest series in the collection. There is material on the Athletic Departments of Drexel during Kolbe’s tenure including budgets, data from local colleges athletic departments during the 1930’s, and a study from 1931 on athletic departments within the Middle Atlantic region correspondence with the Board of Trustee Committee on Athletics, reports on the responsibilities for the Athletic Departments of various universities, correspondence and...
Dates:
1899-1942; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1942
Parke R. Kolbe administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract
Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1931-1941
Virginia Carter Castleman photograph collection
Collection — Box C, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: PC-00-001
Overview
This collection consists of nineteen photographs showing aspects of student life at Drexel in 1898-1899.
Dates:
1898-1899