Repository: University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Cornelius Nolen Weygandt Papers, 1849-1907 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6.5 cubic feet
Abstract:: Cornelius Nolen Weygandt was born in Philadelphia in 1832 and had a career in banking at the Western Bank, located on the south side of Chestnut Street just west of Fourth Street, in the heart of Philadelphia's nineteenth-century financial district and lived most of his married life in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The Cornelius Nolen Weygandt Papers consists of personal diaries and related correspondence and ephemera that chronicle Weygandt's life from 1849 – 1907.

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Cornelius Weygandt Papers, 1787-1955 (inclusive) 1920-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 5 cubic feet
Abstract:: Cornelius Weygandt attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD in 1901. Weygandt had a fifty-five year career as a teacher in the Department of English at Penn, and also obtained literary success for his storytelling skills. The Cornelius Weygandt Papers document his literary efforts primarily from the 1920s to the 1950s. The majority of the collection contains unpublished of essays and books he had prepared and may have planned to publish.

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Michael Zuckerman Papers, 1960-2007 (inclusive)

Extent:: 37 cubic feet
Abstract:: Michael Zuckerman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an A.B. in 1961 and obtained his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in 1967. He started teaching history at Penn in 1965 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1967, Associate Professor in 1970, and Professor in 1984. His research interests have focused on American social history and colonial American history. The collection documents the career and achievement of Michael Zuckerman as a history professor and researcher.

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Hui-lin Li Papers, 1831-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:: 20 cubic feet
Abstract:: Hui-lin Li was educated at Soochow University and Yenching University in China and received his PhD in biology from Harvard University in 1942. After holding a number of research fellowship positions in both the United States and Taiwan, he came to the University of Pennsylvania as a research associate in 1952 and became a faculty member in the field of botany in 1963. The collections documents the professional career and life of Dr. Li as a professor of botany and researcher.

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Harry Mathias Martin Papers, 1944-1972 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 cubic feet
Abstract:: Harry M. Martin attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, and received his doctorate in 1916. Martin served on the faculty of the University from 1931 to 1934 as Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Parasitology, from 1934 to 1943 as Associate Professor, and from 1943 to 1962 as Professor. The papers of Harry Martin reflect the range of his work at the University as well as his research efforts in animal parasitology.

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Mudd Family Papers, 1919-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 cubic feet
Abstract:: Dr. Stuart Mudd and his wife, Dr. Emily Hartshorne Mudd were two outstanding members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty. Dr. Stuart Mudd served the Medical School's Pathology Department and was a world-renowned microbiologist hailed for his work in freeze-drying blood plasma and combating patient infections in hospitals. Dr. Emily Hartshorne Mudd served as the founder and Director of the Marriage Council of Philadelphia, and as Professor of Family Study in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania. This collection contains assorted published articles by both Stuart and Emily Mudd largely in the form of journal articles or offprints of journal articles.

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Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture Records, 1970-1994 (inclusive) 1983-1994 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 cubic feet
Abstract:: The Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture was founded in 1987 with these major objectives: to "generate and promote scholarship about the Black Diaspora", "to provide space and facilities for writers, artists, and academics" to promote interdisciplinary research in black literature and culture, "to bring results of academic research to public attention," and "to assist the inner City schools with specialists' expertise." This collection documents the operations of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture since its founding in 1987.

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Eleanor Corkhill Adams Addison Diary, 1939-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 item
Abstract:: Eleanor Corkhill Adams Addison married William Henry Fitzgerald Addison who came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1905 when he was appointed as a Demonstrator of Normal Histology. Shortly after he received his M.D. from the University in 1917, he was became a full Professor of Normal Histology and Embryology in the School of Medicine. This diary kept by Eleanor Corkhill Adams Addison (faculty wife) from December 31, 1939 to May 21, 1944. It provides an intimate account of a wide range of faculty and campus life during the Second World War.

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Alfred Bendiner Papers, 1921-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 cubic feet
Abstract:: Alfred Bendiner received both a bachelor of architecture degree in 1922 and a master's degree in 1927 from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1937, when he accompanied the University Museum's archeological expedition to Tepe Gawra and Khafaji, Iraq, Bendiner's task was to draw architectural blueprints of these sites. He was also architect to the university's Tikal-Tikal archeological expedition to Guatamala in 1960. These papers include Alfred Bendiner's published articles and his drawings (originals and reproductions) done for publications by his class and by the University of Pennsylvania.

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James Morton Boice Scrapbook, 1893-1915 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume/s
Abstract:: James Morton Boice received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899 and MD from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1904. His scrapbook documents his undergraduate life at Penn and some of his post-graduate travels abroad and later work in a number of Philadelphia hospitals.

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