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Dr. J. B. Carrell scrapbooks
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Held at: Union Library of Hatboro [Contact Us]243 South York Road, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 19040
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Union Library of Hatboro. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Dr. John Beans Carrell was born in 1850 and died at 100 years. In 1946 he was honored by Sons of American Revolution with the Distinguished Service Medal. He was instrumental in having laws passed for the licensing of physicians and RN titles awarded to licensed nurses. A friend of the Union Library of Hatboro, his home was on York Road in Hatboro, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
This collection is comprised of five volumes of newspaper clippings scrapbooks on Hatboro, compiled by Dr. J. B. Carrell, circa 1920-1960s. Most of the scrapbooks have been indexed.
Gift of Carrell family, circa 1950.
In spring of 1956, the Union Library of Hatboro Board of Directors asked Latta Pinkerton (a member of the Board) to organize Dr Carrell's newspaper clippings into a scrapbook. This would become the 3rd volume of Carrell scrapbooks (10/56). The other volumes were completed and donated by Dr. Carrell or his family.
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- Union Library of Hatboro
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- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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