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F.R. Packard slide collection (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2305

Scope and Contents note

The Packard slide collection contains approximately 1200 lantern slides on medical history. Slides include: portraits of physicians and scientists; instruments and equipment; frontispieces of medical texts; illustrations of anatomy and medical procedures; caricatures; and buildings. The collection also includes a card index of images and their sources.

Dates

  • undated

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open for research.

Biographical/Historical note

Francis Randolph Packard (1870-1950) graduated from the biological department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 and from its medical department in 1892. He did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins under William Osler. He served as resident physician at the Children’s and Pennsylvania Hospitals. In 1895 he began to practice privately and after three years he specialized in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He was professor of laryngology and otology at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine and was laryngologist and otologist to the Pennsylvania, Children’s, Bryn Mawr, and Chestnut Hill Hospitals, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the Eastern State Penitentiary, and the State Asylum for the Insane at Norristown. At the College of Physicians he was secretary, honorary librarian, vice-president, president (1931-1933), and censor.

Extent

19.25 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
F.R. Packard slide collection undated CoPSp.ACC2305
Date
2012
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English
Sponsor
This collection-level EAD record is a product of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository

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Contact:
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Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001

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