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Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration lung cancer screening study, 1958-1964 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Dr. Irena Grasberg Koprowska (born 1917) worked in pathology and participated in a study on the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer: The American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Cooperative Study for the Evaluation of Radiologic and Sputum Cytologic Screening in the Early Detection of Lung Cancer while working at Cornell University. The Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Screening Study consists of correspondence, data sheets, supporting notes, and reports dating from 1958 to 1964. The collection also includes microscope slides and photographic prints of the microscope slides. The material focuses on the lung cancer screening study conducted from 1958 to 1868 by Dr. Irena Koprowska, in conjunction with Dr. George Papanicolaou’s laboratory at Cornell, where she worked before coming to Hahnemann Medical College. The two co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear. It was...(see more)

Held at: Drexel University: College of Medicine Legacy Center [Contact Us]

William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection, circa 1700-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:: 16 linear foot (17 boxes) and 7 oversize box
Abstract:: The William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection comprises 12,870 printed bookplates dating primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, many of which were from the libraries of famous individuals or produced by significant artists. The collection also contains additional material relating to Brewer's collection, including Mrs. Augusta LaMotte Brewer's address book and printing plates and blocks, as well as reference material relating to bookplates.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

John Jackson albums of specimens of dried flowers and plants, approximately 1810-1819 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 volume (146 pages)
Abstract:: This collection consists of two albums of specimens of dried and pressed plants and wild flowers made by early nineteenth-century London Grove, Pennsylvania, botanist John Jackson between 1810 and 1819. One of the albums was given to Dr. Francis Alison (1751-1813), son of the Presbyterian minister and educator Rev. Dr. Francis Alison (1705-1779).

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Analytical herbarium : designed for the use of students and private collectors, 1886-1887 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.33 linear foot (1 volume)
Abstract:: Analytical Herbarium : Designed for the Use of Students and Private Collectors was published in Farmington, Maine, in 1886 and used to collect botanical samples between May and June 1887.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Jeanie Groome Black travel diaries, 1890 october 13-1891 november 8 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 volume
Abstract:: These three bound diaries were kept by Delaware resident Jeannie Groome Black during her travels in Europe with a group of ten Delawareans from October 13, 1890, to November 25, 1891.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Notes on trips to Paris, Normandy and Brittany : Notes on a trip through the Smoky Mountains in 1935, 1933-1939 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 volume (approximately 400 pages)
Abstract:: These two travel journals belonging to Emily Sowden contain descriptions of trips to France, the Southeast United States, and Latin America in the 1930s. The entries feature itineraries with commentary and are supplemented by numerous postcards, photographs, small maps, and plant specimens.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Thomas Ward travel journal, 1860 june 12-september 15 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (208 pages)
Abstract:: This journal was kept by Thomas Ward, Jr., and chronicles his sightseeing trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1860. Entries provide a record of the voyage and a summary of each day of sightseeing.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Sarah Marks Stockton travel journal, 1858-1860 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (184 pages)
Abstract:: This journal of New Jersey resident Sarah Marks Stockton chronicles her travels in Italy and stay in Rome as a member of high society from 1858 to 1860. Stockton’s journal contains extremely detailed autograph entries describing her stay in Italy with her children while her husband John P. Stockton served as the American minister to the Papal States.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary, 1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Album of beautiful seaweeds, souvenir de Torquay, circa 1860-1870 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (+ 1 leaf)
Abstract:: A herbarium by an unknown collector was probably created in the 1860s. The album of twenty-four leaves comprises seaweed specimens collected at Torquay, England, specimens of plant and tree leaves, and color prints.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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