Occupation: Surgeons - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: .1 linear foot (66 items)
Abstract:: The Robert B. McKee papers consist of correspondence, military orders, medical supply inventories, casualty reports, and other material related to service as a surgeon in the 1st Delaware Calvary regiment during the Civil War.

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

Extent:: 7 linear foot (circa 4000 items) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

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

Extent:: 7 cubic feet
Abstract:: Dr. J. William White received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1871. He began his career at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1874, and rose through the ranks as a surgeon and specialist in Venereal Diseases. In 1912 White was named a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. White was also active in Philadelphia's civic life, and made extensive annual trips to Europe. The J. William White collection consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, diaries in manuscript form and typescripts of those diaries, diplomas and certificates, pamphlets and books written by and about White and his family, and letters from White's voyage on Professor Louis Agassiz's Hassler Expedition of 1872.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Colonel Thomas William Ellsworth Christmas was a surgeon in the Army Medical Corps specializing in eye, ear, nose and throats. His collection of photographs comprises images of military hospital installations taken near Pusan during the Korean War. Photographs show hospital facilities, personnel, other army facilities, images of Prison of War Compound #93, nurses, surgeons, Korean Horticultural and the Research Institute in Tongnae.

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

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