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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the Mütter Museum III
Series
Identifier: CPP 7005-02
Overview
The Mütter Museum was founded in 1856 when Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter bequeathed his personal medical museum to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. From Thomas Mütter’s collection, the museum grew as a noted repository for unique collections of medical specimens across the world.This collection of the records of the Mütter Museum span the years 1892 through 2015, although the bulk of the material dates from 1988 through 2007. The records document the past exhibits displayed in...
Dates:
1892-2015; Majority of material found in 1988-2007
Records of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/019
Scope and Contents
Volume of copies of outgoing correspondence, 1844-1861, of Robert Milham Hartley, first Corresponding
Secretary and General Agent of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Volume
documents organization and first years of relief work of Association. Correspondence concerns funding appeals
and donations; organizational matters; letters on individual charity cases; and statistical reports of diet, fuel use,
employment, and emigration. Extracts of printed reports and...
Dates:
1844 - 1861
Records of the Office of the Librarian III
Series
Identifier: CPP 13/007-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains records from 1948-1981, encompassing Morse's career at the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, primarily as Librarian. The contents of some boxes of records in this collection were haphazard; many boxes, however, had clear indications of Morse's filing system, and where discernible, this arrangement was preserved.The collection contains a great deal of information on Morse, who appears as a conscientious administrator, a librarian dedicated...
Dates:
1948-1984
Records of the Philadelphia County Medical Society
Record Group
Identifier: MSS 3/013
Scope and Contents
The records of the Philadelphia County Medical Society document the activities of two committees within the Society: the Committee on Maternal Welfare and the Committee on Archives.The Committee on Maternal Welfare records consists of records of committee meetings, materials used in
conducting maternal mortality surveys, maternal death reports,
and correspondence. The records, 1944 to 1973, were maintained
by M. Agnes Gowdey, recording secretary of the Committee on
Maternal...
Dates:
1912 - 1943
Records of the Silas Weir Mitchell Associates Committee
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/024-01
Scope and Contents
The records of the Chairman of the S. Weir Mitchell
Associates Committee of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, spanning 1959 to 1979, consist of minutes from
committee meetings, correspondence, membership information,
and miscellaneous material, including resolutions,
clippings, programs, and sketches. The collection consists
of the records of George I. Blumstein, chairman of the S.
Weir Mitchell Associates Committee from 1960 to 1968.Series 1 contains typescript and...
Dates:
1959 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969
Records of the Sydenham Medical Coterie
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/005
Scope and Contents
The records of the Sydenham Medical Coterie span the duration
of its existence, from 1870 to 1980, and give a reasonably complete
account of its proceedings and activities.The organizational records of the Coterie (Series 1) contain the
original manuscript constitution, adopted in 1870 with emendations
to 1873. Bound with the constitution is the socalled "black
list" (ca.1873-1896), a record of patients who were delinquent
in payment of bills. The members of the Coterie...
Dates:
1870 - 1980
Robert Abbe papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/146
Content Description
This collection was assembled by Robert Abbe and contains scrapbooks and other memoranda relating to Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Joseph Lister, Edward Jenner, and Benjamin Rush. Included in the scrapbooks are correspondence, portraits, and newslippings. For a more detailed description of the materials included, please the "Scope and Content" note for each item.
Dates:
1781 - 1927
Samuel D. Gross correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/135
Scope and Contents
The Samuel D. Gross papers consist of two collections, including records of the American Surgical Association correspondence, photographs, and newsclippings. For a more detailed description of the materials included, please the "Scope and Content" note for each item.
Dates:
1851 - 1899
Samuel X. Radbill papers II
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/037-05
Overview
Samuel X Radbill (1901-1987) began his medical career as a general practitioner in 1926 and became a pediatrician in 1938, when he was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Radbill was perhaps better known as a medical historian, and collector of bookplates and old and rare medical texts than as a pediatrician. He believed that the study of medicine’s past was useful to its practice, and he encouraged many of his professional colleagues to examine the history of their specialties. The...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1987; 1635 - 1987
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
