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Franz Frederick Exner Photographs, 1901 (inclusive)

Extent:
9 items
Abstract:
Franz Frederick Exner applied for admission into the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in the Chemistry Ph.D. program in 1900. The collection includes one photograph album containing 43 photographs. Dating from 1901, the photographs document turn-of-the-Century Philadelphia architecture and public spaces, as well as, significant buildings on the University of Pennsylvania's campus.

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Committee to Produce Greek Play Records, 1886 (inclusive)

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1 cubic feet
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On May 14 and 15, 1886, a group of seventy Penn students put on Aristophanes' Acharnians, a Greek play set in 425 B.C. satirizing the Peloponnesian War. An audience of nearly three thousand turned out for the performance, which took place at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. This collection provides valuable insight into the 1886 Penn production of The Acharnians.

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Elias White Hale Papers, 1848 (inclusive)

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1 item
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Elias White Hale attended the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from October 1846 to 1848. His preceptor was Dr. Joseph B. Ard. In 1848, he received his M.D. degree from the University. This collection contains a draft copy of the final essay of Elias White Hale required for his graduation from the School of Medicine. The essay is on the topic of pneumonia. It describes the illness at its various stages.

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Frederick Raymond Weimert Photo Album Photographs, 1910 (inclusive)

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1 item
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Frederick R. Weimert graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912 with a B. S. in Chemical Engineering. The Scrapbook contains 46 images, mostly postcards the University of Pennsylvania around the early Twentieth Century.

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William M. (William Marshall) Hollenback Papers, 1936-1944, undated (inclusive)

Extent:
2.5 cubic feet
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William Marshall Hollenback starred on the varsity football team at the University of Pennsylvania from 1904 – 1908 where he earned All-American honors at the position of fullback. After graduating in 1908 with a degree in Dentistry, Hollenback went on to serve as head coach for Penn State (1909, 1911-1914), the University of Missouri (1910), Pennsylvania Military College (1915) and Syracuse University (1916). Three main scrapbooks, which span the dates [1906] to 1960, are the centerpieces of this collection. Newspaper clippings about Hollenback and the University of Pennsylvania football team's exploits from 1906-1908, including later retrospective articles, comprise the bulk of the material in the scrapbooks.

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Samuel W. Pennypacker Collection, 1906 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 item
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Samuel W. Pennypacker studied Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903-1907. The collection consists of a catalog from an auction held in April 1906 to auction off Samuel W. Pennypacker's library.

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Leo Yanoff Letters, 1927 (inclusive)

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0.25 cubic feet
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Leo Yanoff was a member of the University of Pennsylvania's Class of 1930. He later went to Harvard Law School where he earned an L.L.B. in 1933 and became a judge of the Essex County (N.J.) Superior Court. These letters were written by Leo Yanoff to his parents between September and November 1927 and document his thoughts during his first months as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania

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Frank Meter Papers, 1905-1948, undated (inclusive)

Extent:
0.75 cubic feet
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Frank Meter was a 1910 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. His papers contain material from the time he was a student as wll as a small amount of material created after he graduated. The papers consist of notebooks, photographs of his Dental School classmates and other unidentified people, two copies of The Penn Dental Journal, a 1910 Dental School yearbook, and two pamphlets from the Psi Omega Dental Society annual banquets in 1909 and 1910.

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Samuel N. Weigle Photograph Collection, ca. 1940 (inclusive)

Extent:
9 items
Abstract:
Samuel N. Weigle attended Wharton where he received his BS in Economicson February 14, 1942. The Samuel N. Weigle Photograph Collection is comprised of nine images taken in and around the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia in the early 1940s.

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William Schleif Papers, 1898, 1933-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 cubic feet
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William Schleif was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 26, 1868 and earned a Ph.G. in 1890 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia) and a M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1895. The William Schlief papers document the efforts of the Executricx of his estate, Elsie Warren Heiser, to have his will probated.

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John R. Coleman Speech, 1970 (inclusive)

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1 item
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On 15 January 1970 the Benjamin Franklin Associates held a dinner in honor of Gaylord P. Harnwell. The keynote speaker was University of Pennsylvania trustee John R. Coleman. Audio recording of a speech given by Dr. John R. Coleman, president of Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania trustee, describing Harnwell's contibutions to the University of Pennsylvania.

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Houston Hall Centennial Celebration Collection, 1996 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract:
In January, 1996, the University community marked the centennial of Houston Hall and combined it with the annual celebration of the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, the University Founder's Day. The collection consists of two parts, miscellaneous memorabilia related to the centennial celebration.

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Ephraim Avigdor Speiser Papers, 1921 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 items
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Dr. Ephraim A. Speiser, chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School, was a noted archaeologist and authority on the life and literature of the ancient and modern Near East. He received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and a Ph.D. from Dropsie College in 1924. This collection consists of two notebooks of Ephraim A. Speiser during his time as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1921.

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