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Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records

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Call Number:
UPC 508
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
2.25 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1852-1925 (inclusive) and 1856-1918 (bulk)
Creator:
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
Abstract:
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was founded in 1856. The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records document the administrative activities of the school.

Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was founded in 1856 with Henry C. Carey as President, with the faculty consisting of many of the former members of the closed Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery. The College initially operated at 528 Arch Street, then moved to Tenth and Arch Streets. The school suffered two setbacks in the nineteenth century. The first in 1863 when a number of its faculty left to found the Philadelphia Dental College. Later in 1877, the University of Pennsylvania approached the school regarding a possible merger to create a School of Dental Medicine at Penn. While the official reply was no, Dean Charles J. Essig, and Drs. Edwin T. Darby, George T. Barker and James Tyson were invited to join Penn's faculty and formed the Department of Dentistry which opened in 1878. By 1909 the College was short on funds needed to expand the faculty and modernize its equipment. That year a merger with the University of Pennsylvania was approved, forming the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records document the administrative activities of the school. The Records series consists of faculty and trustee minutes for the history of the school, while the publications series is composed of annual announcements from the nineteenth century which list the courses offered and names of officers, faculty, and students enrolled in the school. The Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery consist of the first announcement and a reunion program. There are no student records in the collection.

The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records are organized into three series: Records, Publications, and Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery. The Records and Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery series are arranged alphabetically, while the Publications Series is arranged by publication type then chronologically.

The majority of material for the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records were transferred to the University Archives from the School of Dental Medicine Library (Accession Number 2015:018, May 2015), with some records moved from the Dental School Library Historical Collection (UPC 4.11).

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Joseph - James Ahern
Finding Aid Date
July 2015
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Faculty Minutes, 1856-1885.
Box 1 Folder 1
Faculty Minutes, 1885-1892.
Box 1 Folder 2
Faculty Minutes, 1892-1899.
Box 1 Folder 3
Faculty Minutes, 1899-1904.
Box 1 Folder 4
Faculty Minutes, 1904-1918.
Box 1 Folder 5
Trustees Minutes, 1863-1886.
Box 1 Folder 6
Trustees Minutes, 1887-1918.
Box 1 Folder 7

First Annual Announcement Session 1856-7, 1856.
Box 2 Folder 1
Second Annual Announcement Session 1857-8, 1857.
Box 2 Folder 2
Annual Announcement Session 1858-59, 1858.
Box 2 Folder 3
Annual Announcement Session 1861-62, 1861.
Box 2 Folder 4
Annual Announcement Session 1862-63, 1862.
Box 2 Folder 5
Annual Announcement Session 1869-1870, 1869.
Box 2 Folder 6
Nineteenth Annual Announcement Session of 1874-75, 1874.
Box 2 Folder 7
Twenty-Second Annual Announcement for Session 1877-78, 1877.
Box 2 Folder 8
Twenty-Third Annual Announcement for Sessions 1878-79, 1878.
Box 2 Folder 9
Twenty-Fifth Annual Announcement for Session 1880-81, 1880.
Box 2 Folder 10
Announcement of the Spring and Fall Sessions with Catalogue for Sessions 1880-81, 1881.
Box 2 Folder 11
Twenty-Sixth Annual Announcement for Sessions 1881-82, 1881.
Box 2 Folder 12
Twenty-Seventh Annual Announcement for Session 1882-83, 1882.
Box 2 Folder 13
Announcement of the Spring and Fall Sessions with Catalogue for Sessions 1883-84, 1883.
Box 2 Folder 14
Twenty-Eighth Annual Announcement for Sessions 1883-1884, 1883.
Box 2 Folder 15
Twenty-Ninth Annual Announcement for Session 1884-85, 1884.
Box 2 Folder 16
Thirtieth Annual Announcement for Session 1885-86, 1885.
Box 2 Folder 17
Thirty-First Annual Announcement for Session 1886-87, 1886.
Box 2 Folder 18
Thirty-Second Annual Announcement for Session 1887-88, 1887.
Box 2 Folder 19
Thirty-Third Annual Announcement for Session 1888-89, 1888.
Box 2 Folder 20
Thirty-Fourth Annual Announcement for Session 1889-90, 1889.
Box 2 Folder 21
Thirty-Fifth Annual Announcement for Session 1890-91, 1890.
Box 2 Folder 22
Thirty-Sixth Annual Announcement for Session 1891-92, 1891.
Box 2 Folder 23
Thirty-Seventh Annual Announcement for Session 1892-93, 1892.
Box 2 Folder 24
Thirty-Eighth Annual Announcement for Session 1893-94, 1893.
Box 2 Folder 25
Thirty-Ninth Annual Announcement for Session 1894-95, 1894.
Box 2 Folder 26
Fortieth Annual Announcement for Session 1895-96, 1895.
Box 2 Folder 27
Forty-First Annual Announcement for Session 1896-97, 1896.
Box 2 Folder 28
Forty-Second Annual Announcement for Session 1897-98, 1897.
Box 2 Folder 29
Forty-Seventh Annual Announcement for Secession 1902-1903, 1902.
Box 2 Folder 30
Forty-Eighth Annual Announcement for Secession 1903-1904, 1906.
Box 2 Folder 31
Forty-Ninth Annual Announcement for Secession 1904-1905, 1904.
Box 2 Folder 32
Fiftieth Annual Announcement for Secession 1905-1906, 1905.
Box 2 Folder 33
Fifty-First Annual Announcement for Secession 1906-1907, 1906.
Box 2 Folder 34
Fifty-Second Annual Announcement for Secession 1907-1908, 1907.
Box 2 Folder 35
Fifty-Third Annual Announcement for Secession 1908-1909, 1908.
Box 2 Folder 36
Commencement Programs, 1876, 1878, 1882, 1897.
Box 2 Folder 36
Xi Psi Phi Fraternity, Zeta Chapter Programs, 1923, 1925.
Box 2 Folder 37

First (1852-53), Second (1853-54), Third (1854-1855), Fourth (1855-56) Annual Announcement, 1852-1855.
Box 2 Folder 38
Golden Jubilee Class of 1854, 1904.
Box 2 Folder 39

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