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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:: 2 volume (300 pages)
Abstract:: These notebooks belonged to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, doctor Samuel Proctor Kerns and contain notes on lectures given by Jacob M. Da Costa at Jefferson Medical College from 1889 to 1891 on diseases of the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems.

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

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