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Towne Scientific School records

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Call Number:
UPD 2.1
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
8.99 cubic feet (7 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Towne Scientific School records (1912-1950) UPD 2.1, University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Date:
1912-1950 (inclusive)
Creator:
Towne Scientific School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Form:
Minutes (administrative records), Ledgers (account books), Financial records, and Correspondence
Abstract:

This collection has not been fully processed. The following preliminary inventory is available.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
J.M. Duffin
Finding Aid Date
September 2008
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Faculty minutes 1872-1885, with 2 entries 1887; 1912-1922.
Box 6
Towne Scientific School -- faculty minutes 1885 .
Box 6
1912-1915.
Box 1A Folder 1
1916-1920.
Box 1A Folder 2
1920-1929.
Box 1A Folder 3
1930-1941.
Box 1A Folder 4
1942-1950.
Box 1A Folder 5

Ledgers 1908-1910; 1910-1912; and 1912-1915 .
Box 4
Ledgers: 1920-1926, 1922-1923, 1930-1931; Mechanical Engineering 19401941; Towne Scientific School 1941-1943, 1943-1944, 1944-1945 (inc. NDRC 1944-45).
Box 4
Ledgers 1924-1925, 1926-1927, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, 1931-1932, 1932-1933, 1933-1934. (several dates are illegible) .
Box 5
Ledgers 1936-1937, 1937-1938.
Box 5
Ledger general expense, 1938, 1939-1940.
Box 5
Towne Scientific School general ledger: 1931-1932, 1932, 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1936-1937, 1937-1938, 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1940-1941. (Comprise a total of five books.) .
Box 5
Budget correspondence and faculty and personnel appointments .
Box 7
Budget miscellaneous 1931-1954.
Box 7
Chemistry, budget correspondence 1951-1953.
Box 7
Chemistry and chemical engineering, budget correspondence, #1, 1938-1944.
Box 7
Chemistry and chemical engineering, budget correspondence #2, 1945-1951.
Box 7
Civil engineering, budget correspondence 1933-1954.
Box 7
Mechanical engineering, budget correspondence 1939-1953.
Box 7
Mechanical and civil engineering, graduate courses and budget material 1938-1954.
Box 7
Metallurgical engineering, budget correspondence 1942-1954.
Box 7

Professor Robert H. Fernald: correspondence re. S.A.T.C., engineering education.
Box 2
Correspondence book, 1880-1882, Towne Scientific School.
Box 2
Correspondence re diplomas, 1919-1936.
Box 3
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, confidential proof. 1933.
Box 2
Agreement for cooperative research (1939).
Box 2
The Protection by Patents of Scientific Discoveries, Jan. 1934.
Box 2
Diary of John Frazer, 1912-1928.
Box 2
NDRC project #1611 (OEMsr 267).
Box 3
OSRD report No. 3144.
Box 3
ASTP.
Box 3
Engineering, science, and management war training, 1943-1944.
Box 3
National intelligence committee 1918.
Box 4
Civil engineering student aid fund, correspondence, deposit books, and 2 record books 1928-1942 .
Box 5
Towne Scientific School Library 1952-1954 .
Box 7
Committee on Policy 1931-1934.
Box 2
Towne Scientific School Executive Committee minutes: Sept. 10, 1913-April 8, 1925; April 29, 1925 to June 6, 1936; 1936-1949. One volume contains 1913 to 1916.
Box 6

Register of graduates, Department of Civil Engineering, Towne Scientific School. 1873-1888.
Box 1B
Record of professional life of graduates in dynamical engineering, University of Pennsylvania. 1876-1908 and 1908-1915.
Box 1
Record of professional life of graduates in mechanical and chemical engineering. 1916-1926.
Box 1
Record of professional life of graduates in mechanical and fuel engineering. 1927-1940.
Box 1
Towne Scientific School: list of students released early to enter government service. 1917 and 1918. .
Box 2
Minutes of the meetings of the Engineering Students Council, Dec. 6. 1924 to March 8, 1932.
Box 2

Graduate courses 1930-1938.
Box 3
Miller J. Sullivan and Carl S. Carlson--six notebooks, 1942-1944.
Box 4
Mechanical engineering: 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1941-1942, 1942-1943.
Box 5
Chemistry, faculty & personnel appointments 1952-1954.
Box 7
Chemical engineering, faculty and personnel appointments 1951-1953.
Box 7
Civil Engineering, Faculty and Personnel Appointments 1932-1953.
Box 7
Mechanical engineering, faculty and personnel appointments 1940-1955.
Box 7
Metallurgical engineering, faculty and personnel appointments 1945-1953.
Box 7

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