Records of the Committee on Collections of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

This collection, spanning ]935 to 1973, consists of minut~s from the monthly meetings of the Committee on College Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which document the committee's activities over a forty-year period. ]n addition to minutes, the collection includes copies of the committee's annual reports, deed of gift forms, and financial information.

The minutes of the Committee on College Collections contain information on the responsibilities and activities undertaken by the committee since its establishment in 1935. The minutes reveal that in the first few years of its existence, the committee concentrated on defining its duties, drafting deed of gift forms, and cataloging items already owned by the College. The minutes from later years contain lists of new accessions and their donors, recommendations to Council about accepting or refusing items offered to the College, and reports on the repair, cleaning, or loaning of items, especially paintings, belonging to the College.

The minutes contain copies of the committee's annual reports, which provide a list of accessions and a summary of the committee's activities for the year. Also present are annual financial statements, which reveal how the committee spent its annually appropriated funds. The minutes also reflect the cooperation between the Committee on College Collections and the Committee on the Mutter Museum; on occasion, miriutes or reports of the Committee on the Mutter Museum are interfiled with the minutes and reports of the Committee on College Collections.

The minutes of the Committee on College Collections were originally housed in five loose-leaf binders. The binders were disbound, but the volume divisions have been preserved in the finding aid. Loose pages, consisting of deed of gift forms and financial reports, were contained in Volumes 2 and 3.