| 4 | Creator: | Albrecht-Weinberger, Karl | Requires cookie* | | | | Chance, Burton, b. 1868 | | | | | Weinberger, Frederick | | | | Title: | Burton Chance correspondence, 1930-1952
| | | | Dates: | 1930-1952 | | | | Abstract: | The letters are mainly between Burton Chance and Samuel Wood, a librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons of England who conducted bibliographic work for Chance. They concern the history of ophthalmology, with reference to Sir William Bowman, Joseph Lister, and John Milton's vision problems, among other information that Wood supplied Chance. There are also letters from Karl and Frederick Weinberger concerning personal matters. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C36p | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albrecht-Weinberger, Karl | Bowman, William, Sir, 1816-1892 | Chance, Burton, b. 1868 | Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912 | Medical publishing -- United States. | Medicine -- History. | Milton, John, 1608-1674 | Ophthalmology -- History. | Royal College of Surgeons of England. | Weinberger, Frederick | Wood, Samuel | |
| 5 | Creator: | Court, Thomas H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Collection on microscopes and other optical instruments, 1588-1935
| | | | Dates: | 1588-1935 | | | | Abstract: | This collection was assembled by Court and was partly used in the book, "The History of the Microscope" (with Reginald S. Clay, London, 1932). There is historical correspondence (including some by Court), documents, broadsides, and photographs, concerning microscopes and instruments. This includes material on Joseph Bonomi, James Epps, John Lee, Edward Nairne, and others. There is significant material on Cornelius Varley: account book, autobiographical sketch, watercolors and sketches, etc. This collection also contains a large number of deeds pertaining to the property of John Lee (1783-1866), Fellow of the Royal Society and an amateur astronomer. In addition, there are about 300 pamphlets, including early trade and auction catalogs, used by Court for his research. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.078.M582 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Astronomy. | Autobiographies. | Bonomi, Joseph, 1796-1878 | Broadsides. | Court, Thomas H. | Deeds. | Epps, James | Medicine -- History. | Microfilm Collection | Microscopy -- History. | Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806 | Photoprints. | Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History. | Sketches. | Varley, Cornelius, 1781-1873 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Harrison Shryock papers, [ca. 1918-1972]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1918-1972 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains primarily professional correspondence and papers, but there is substantial material concerning Shryock family history. Most of the collection relates to Shryock's intellectual and social life at the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University-- institutions where he made contributions as a professor of history and especially as a medical historian. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh86 | | | | Extent: | 23.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the History of Medicine. | American Association of University Professors. | American Council of Learned Societies. | American Philosophical Society. Library. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 | Boyd, Julian Charles, 1931-2005 | Bradley, Sculley, 1897- | Bridenbaugh, Carl, 1903-1992 | Butterfield, L. H., (Lyman Henry), 1909- | Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973 | Cochran, Thomas Childs, 1902- | Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003 | Cohn, Alfred E., (Alfred Einstein), 1879-1957 | Curti, Merle Eugene, 1897- | Duke University -- Faculty. | Dupree, A. Hunter | Fulton, John F., (John Farquhar), 1899-1960 | Garrison, Fielding H., (Fielding Hudson), 1870-1935 | Harrison, Ross G., (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | Hindle, Brooke, 1918-2001 | Historians. | Historical Society of Pennsylvania. | History -- Study and teaching. | Johns Hopkins University. Faculty. | Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 | Kollmorgen, Walter Martin, 1907- | Koyré, Alexandre, 1892-1964 | Leake, Chauncey Depew,1896- | Long, Esmond R., (Esmond Ray), 1890- | Marshall, John | Medicine -- History. | Medicine -- United States. | Nichols, Roy F., (Roy Franklin), 1896-1973 | Olmsted, John W. | Pierson, George Wilson, 1904- | Pogo, Alexander, 1893- | Shryock family. | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Sigerist, Henry E., (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957 | Temkin, Owsei, 1902- | University of Pennsylvania. Faculty. | Viets, Henry R., (Henry Rouse), 1890-1969 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Requires cookie* | | | | Klebs, Arnold C., (Arnold Carl), 1870-1943 | | | | Title: | George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1982 | | | | Abstract: | The Corner collection includes correspondence, biographical and research data, lectures, publications, notebooks and drawings, and also photographs. He was both a scientist, specializing in mammalian reproduction and the female reproduction cycle (being a co-discoverer of the hormone progesterone along with Willard M. Allen), and a medical historian writing both biography and institutional history. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.11 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Allen, Willard M., 1904-1993 | American Association for the History of Medicine. | American Association of Anatomists. | American Philosophical Society. | Bartlemez, George W., b. 1885 | Beebe, William, 1877-1962 | Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 | Berle, Adolf Augustus, 1895-1971 | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros, (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Ebert, James David, 1921-2001 | Evans, Herbert Martin | Gandhi, Mahatma , 1869-1948 | Garrison, Fielding H., (Fielding Hudson), 1870-1935 | Hormones, Sex. | Human reproduction -- Endocrine aspects. | Institute for Sex Research. | International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee. | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kinsey, Alfred C., (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Klebs, Arnold C., (Arnold Carl), 1870-1943 | Lindbergh, Charles A., (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 | Medicine -- History. | Medicine -- Research -- United States. | Mencken, H. L., (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | National Association for Retarded Children. | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | Planned Parenthood Federation of America. | Raacke, Ilse Dorothea, 1925- | Reproduction. | Rhesus monkey. | Rockefeller Institute. | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 | Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953 | Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.. | Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960 | Stockard, Charles R., (Charles Rupert), 1879-1939 | Streeter, George Linius, 1873-1948 | Sudhoff, Karl, 1853-1938 | University of Oxford. | University of Rochester. | Weed, Lewis H., (Lewis Hill), 1886-1952 | Whipple, George Hoyt, 1878- | Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Inc. | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron, 1904-1993 | |
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