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Photographs

 Subject

Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

College of Physicians Picture File #1

 Collection
Identifier: PF1
Scope and Contents

The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.

Dates: circa 1890-1990
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

College of Physicians Picture File #2

 Collection
Identifier: PF2
Scope and Contents

The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.

Dates: circa 1890-1990
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

College of Physicians Picture File #3

 Collection
Identifier: PF3
Scope and Contents

The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.

Dates: circa 1880-1990
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

College of Physicians Picture File #4

 Collection
Identifier: PF4
Scope and Contents

The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection of photographs contains portraits of College of Physicians of Philadelphia Fellows, other Philadelphia-area and well-known physicians; group photographs from conferences; photographs of Philadelphia-area medical schools and hospitals; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Mütter Museum and College buildings.

Dates: circa 1890-1990
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Correspondence concerning Robert Abbe from the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/003-02
Abstract

The office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was created during the organization of the College in 1787. The Secretary is the appointed officer of record. His original duties were to record the minutes and transactions of the College and preserve its documents and correspondence.

This collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs pertaining to Associate Fellow Robert Abbe and the custodianship of the Abbe Cabinet.

Dates: 1919 - 1939; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1929
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Dixon family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 382
Abstract Edward H. Dixon (1808-1880) was a New York City surgeon. Dixon earned his M.D. from Rutgers Medical College in 1829 or 1830, and then studied material medica, theory and practice, and therapeutics under Dr. John Francis; and surgery under Dr. Alexander Mott. Afterwards, Dixon accepted positions at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and House of Refuge. Later, he opened his own practice as a consulting surgeon, as well as a private surgical hospital.He married his wife, Sarah S. Hart, in...
Dates: 1842 - 1893
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Dome collection of portraits

 Collection
Identifier: Dome
Scope and Contents

The provenance of this collection is unknown. This collection consists of over 2,100 portraits of doctors (possibly all dermatologists). The collection is likely part of the materials donated by the American Academy of Dermatology during the 1970s.

Dates: undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

E. B. Krumbhaar papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Abstract Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Edward A. Schumann papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/244
Scope and Contents This small collection of letters, pathological specimen registers, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material, 1903-1963, documents the career and obstetric and gynecological practice of Edward A. Schumann. Series 1 contains three folders of letters, 1916-1958, from, primarily, obstetricians and gynecologists. The letters concern Schumann's speaking engagements; his presidency of the American Gynecological Society; his appointment as professor of gynecology at the...
Dates: 1903 - 1963
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Edward Oram Shakespeare papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/338
Scope and Contents The papers of Edward Oram Shakespeare reflect the versatility of his interests. The bulk of the medically-related papers concern his work on the Cholera Commission, as an attendee at the International Sanitary Conference and during his service in the Spanish American War. Other medical material includes publications and correspondence. Most of non-medical material consists of family papers, which contain a great deal of genealogical material.Original order was almost...
Dates: 1727 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1900
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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