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School of Dental Medicine. General Records

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Call Number:
UPC 4.5
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
2.375 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1878-1983 (inclusive) and 1878-1977 (bulk)
Abstract:
The School of Dental Medicine opened in 1878. A century later it was the third largest dental school in the United States. The School of Dental Medicine General Records is an eclectic group of items that document the students and faculty from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.

The School of Dental Medicine can trace its origin back to 1877 when the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees sought to establish a department of dental medicine based on a proposed by the medical faculty. A special committee of the medical faculty approached the two existing dental schools in Philadelphia – the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and the Philadelphia Dental College – to explore a possible merger with the University. At that time both faculties declined the proposal, however Dean Charles J. Essig, and Drs. Drs. Edwin T. Darby, George T. Barker and James Tyson of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery expressed their interest in the idea. As such, they were invited to join the faculty of the University and establish the new Department of Dentistry of the University of Pennsylvania, which opened in 1878.

Over the course of the next century, the Department of Dentistry would grow in size and scope. The Thomas W. Evans Museum and Institute Society affiliation with the school allowed for the construction of a new building at 40th and Spruce Street (completed in 1915), which included both the Dental School with its new lecture halls, clinics, and laboratories, and the Evans Museum. Expanded facilities were necessary as the student body increased with the admission of women in 1914 and the mergers with the Dental Department of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1916 and the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (founded in 1856) in 1909. In 1921, Dean Charles R. Turner approved the establishment of the School of Dental Hygiene, whose chief administrative officer and faculty were to be staffed by members of the faculty of the Dental School. After completing a one-year training course, the student was awarded a certificate of proficiency. J.L.T. Appleton, dean from 1941 to 1951, emphasized the role of dentistry in the health professions and strengthened association with the Graduate School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The school changed its name in 1964 from the School of Dentistry to the School of Dental Medicine. When the Dental School celebrated its centennial anniversary in 1978, it was the third largest in the United States with over 700 dental, hygiene and postgraduate students and a faculty of about 100 full-time and 300 part-time teachers.

The School of Dental Medicine General Records is an eclectic group of items that document the students and faculty from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. This includes application material, class information, financial records, department catalogues, and reports. Those seeking administrative information on teh School of Dental Medicine should consult the Deans Records.

The School of Dental Medicine General Records are organized into one series, which is arranged alphabetically.

The School of Dental Medicine General Records were transferred to the University Archives from the Dental School Library in 2015 (Accession 2015:018, and 2015:025).

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University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Joseph - James Ahern
Finding Aid Date
September 2015
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Alumni Day Program, 1960 April 29.
Box 1 Folder 1
Annual Report of the Directors of the Alumni to the Trustees, ca. 1917.
Box 1 Folder 2
Appleton, Joseph Luke Biographical Material, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 3
Applicant Names, Colleges, and Home States, 1967-1969.
Box 1 Folder 4
Applications for Class, 1957-1961.
Box 1 Folder 5
Applications for Class, 1961, 1965-1967.
Box 1 Folder 6
Applications for Class, 1962-1964.
Box 1 Folder 7
Background and Official Action on Change of Name of School and Name of Degree offered in Dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, 1964.
Box 1 Folder 8
Class Fund Ledger, 1930-1941.
Box 1 Folder 9
Class Fund Ledger, 1941-1944.
Box 1 Folder 10
Class Lists, 1923-1935.
Box 2 Folder 1
Class of 1924 Fiftieth Reunion, 1974.
Box 1 Folder 11
Class of 1927 Class Day Exercises Program, 1927 June 14.
Box 1 Folder 12
Class of 1930 Dental Reception, 1926 December 3.
Box 1 Folder 15
Commission on Dental Accreditation Evaluation Report, 1983 December 1.
Box 1 Folder 14
Concerning the First Women Graduates of the Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1975 January 30.
Box 1 Folder 15
Cryer Society of Oral Surgery Minutes and Membership Lists, 1912-1927.
Box 4
Dental Alumni Society Program, 1915.
Box 1 Folder 16
Dental Aptitude Testing Program Report of Scores, 1969.
Box 1 Folder 17
Dental School Blueprints (oversized), 1913.
Box OS 1
Dental School History Draft by Milton B. Asbell (1), 1978.
Box 1 Folder 18
Dental School History Draft by Milton B. Asbell (2), 1978.
Box 1 Folder 19
Department of Dentistry First Annual Announcement 1878-79, 1878.
Box 1 Folder 20
Department of Dentistry Catalogue and Announcements, 1885-1890.
Box 1 Folder 21
Department of Dentistry Catalogue and Announcements, 1891-1899.
Box 1 Folder 22
Department of Dentistry Catalogue and Announcements, 1899-1908.
Box 1 Folder 23
Department of Dentistry Catalogue and Announcements, 1910-1912.
Box 1 Folder 24
Dora and George Hellerick Endodontic Clinic Dedication Ceremony, 1971 October 15.
Box 1 Folder 25
Financial Reports and Statements, 1916-1919.
Box 2 Folder 2
Financial Reports and Statements, 1920-1929.
Box 2 Folder 3
Financial Reports and Statements, 1930-1939.
Box 2 Folder 4
Financial Reports and Statements, 1932-1939.
Box 2 Folder 5
Financial Reports and Statements, 1940-1950.
Box 2 Folder 6
Financial Reports and Statements, 1941-1948.
Box 2 Folder 7
Financial Reports and Statements, n.d.
Box 2 Folder 8
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1879.
Box 1 Folder 26
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1880.
Box 1 Folder 27
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1881.
Box 1 Folder 28
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1882.
Box 1 Folder 29
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1883.
Box 1 Folder 30
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1884.
Box 1 Folder 31
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1885.
Box 1 Folder 32
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1886.
Box 1 Folder 33
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1887.
Box 1 Folder 34
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1888.
Box 1 Folder 35
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1889.
Box 1 Folder 36
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1890.
Box 1 Folder 37
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1891.
Box 1 Folder 38
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1892.
Box 1 Folder 39
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 40
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1894.
Box 1 Folder 41
Graduates and Class Statistics, 1895.
Box 1 Folder 42
Graduation Excercises of the Class in Oral Hygiene, 1923-1929.
Box 1 Folder 43
Graduation Excercises of the Class in Oral Hygiene, 1930-1939.
Box 1 Folder 44
Graduation Excercises of the Class in Oral Hygiene, 1940-1949.
Box 1 Folder 45
Gradutes, 1879-1893.
Box 3 Folder 1
Gradutes, 1894-1900.
Box 3 Folder 2
Gradutes, 1901-1910.
Box 3 Folder 3
Gradutes, 1911-1919.
Box 3 Folder 4
Gradutes, 1931-1939.
Box 3 Folder 5
Gradutes, 1940-1949.
Box 3 Folder 6
Gradutes, 1950-1959.
Box 3 Folder 7
Gradutes, 1960-1969.
Box 3 Folder 8
Gradutes, 1970-1973.
Box 3 Folder 9
Kirk Dental Society Treasurer's Record, 1913-1924.
Box 3 Folder 10
Lester W. Burket Alumni Lectures, 1972-1977.
Box 3 Folder 11
Orland, Franz T., "Herman Prinz (1868-1957) Foremost Pharmacologist and Dental Historian", 1972.
Box 3 Folder 12
Pennsylvania State Dental Society Annual Meeting, 1923.
Box 3 Folder 13
Philadelphia Dental Health Services (1), 1956-1958.
Box 3 Folder 14
Philadelphia Dental Health Services (2), 1956-1958.
Box 3 Folder 15
Pierre Fauchard "Elmer S. Best Award" Photographs, 1963 April 24.
Box 3 Folder 16
Prinz, Herman Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology Certificate, 1938 June 1.
Box 3 Folder 17
Proposed Budgets Cancer Training Grant, 1949-1953.
Box 3 Folder 18
Proposed Budgets Caries Control Laboratory, 1950-1955.
Box 3 Folder 19
Proposed Budgets Edwin T. Darby Professorship of Operative Dentistry Fund, 1954-1955.
Box 3 Folder 20
Proposed Budgets H.D. Justi and Son, Inc. Grant, 1948-1954.
Box 3 Folder 21
Proposed Budgets Microbiology Department, 1954-1955.
Box 3 Folder 22
Proposed Budgets Navy Contract, 1950-1954.
Box 3 Folder 23
Proposed Budgets Office of Naval Research Grant, 1948-1954.
Box 3 Folder 24
Proposed Budgets Oral Pathology Department, 1954-1955.
Box 3 Folder 25
Proposed Budgets Pathology Department, 1953.
Box 3 Folder 26
Proposed Budgets Pathology Department National Cancer Institute, 1953-1954.
Box 3 Folder 27
Proposed Budgets W. K. Kellog Foundation, 1953.
Box 3 Folder 28
Sawyer, Raymond W. Certificate of Examination, 1931.
Box OS 2
Scholarships, 1920-1934.
Box 2 Folder 9
Testing and Grading, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 29
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute Graduates, 1881-1906.
Box 2 Folder 10
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1913-1919.
Box 3 Folder 30
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1920-1929.
Box 3 Folder 31
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1930-1939.
Box 3 Folder 32
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1940-1944.
Box 3 Folder 33
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1945-1947.
Box 3 Folder 34
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry Announcements, 1948-1950.
Box 3 Folder 35
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Institute Society - Thomas Evans Will, Charter, and By-Laws, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 36

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