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Woman's / Medical College of Pennsylvania records

  • 1850 Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
  • 1867 Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
  • 1970 Medical College of Pennsylvania

Records cover 1848 - 2000

The records of the Medical College of Pennsylvania are organized under the following headings. The headings link to further information and the related accession descriptions.

See also: Index to the Women in Medicine collection descriptions, both subject and personal name.


BOARD OF CORPORATORS

Board minutes, 1850-1998 14 ln. ft.
Minutes of the Board, containing correspondence and reports from Board committees, faculty, students, and others; group of correspondence and resolutions, 1901-1902, concerning the relationship of WMC with the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Sarah Logan Wister Starr, President of the Board 1923-1941, [1931-1940], 43, 69

Executive Committee, 1876-1919, 1922-1998 2 ln. ft.
Minutes, 1876-1919, 1922-present, with communications from faculty, students, and others.

Vida Hunt Francis, 268
John W. McPherson 175
Sheppard, Walter Lee, 42

PRESIDENTS

Following is an incomplete list of Presidents the College, from its founding in 1850 to 1988, when the school began its affiliation with the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation, or AHERF.

The names are followed by dates for which we have relevant materials and the accession numbers of the collections in which those materials can be located. Collections include scattered reports, minutes, correspondence, speeches, and other materials relating to presidential activities.

  • 1850 - William J. Mullen, [1850], 196, 401, 404
  • 1853 - Charles D. Cleveland
  • 1862 - T. Morris Perot
  • 1893 - Mary E. Mumford
  • 1913 - Emily Sargent Lewis
  • 1935 - Chevalier Jackson, M.D., 162, 268, 409
  • 1941 - Ellen C. Potter (Acting), [1903-1954], 5, 71, 73, 230, 40, 70, 122, 196
  • 1943 - Herbert F. Goodrich (Acting)
  • 1944 - Herbert F. Goodrich
  • 1946 - Louise Pearce, M.D., 283
  • 1951 - Burgess L. Gordon, M.D., [1951-1952], 196
  • 1957 --No listing
  • 1958 --No listing
  • 1959 - Marion Fay, Ph.D., [1942-1975], 5, 36, 70, 90, 196, 275, 300, 1993.6
  • 1964 - Glen R. Leymaster, M.D., [1964-1970], 196, 275
  • 1970 - Marion Fay, Ph.D. (Acting) (see above)
  • 1971 - Bernard Sigel, M.D. (Acting)
  • 1974 - Robert J. Slater, M.D. , [1973-1974], 5, 196
  • 1976 - Jeanne D. Brugger, [1992] 1992.X.4.2
  • 1977 - Robert E. Cooke, M.D., [1977-1979], 196
  • 1979 - Maurice C. Clifford, M.D. (Acting) (see below)
  • 1980 - Maurice C. Clifford, M.D., [1979-1981], 278, 337398
  • president-elect Irving Henry Leopold, [1970], 196
  • 1986 - D. Walter Cohen, D.D.S., [1987], 303

DEANS

Following is a partial list of Deans of the College, from its founding in 1850 to 1988, when the school began its affiliation with the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation, or AHERF.

The names are followed by dates for which we have relevant materials and the accession numbers of the collections in which those materials can be located. Collections include reports, minutes, correspondence and speeches.

  • 1850 - James F.X. M'Closkey, M.D.
  • 1851 - N.R. Moseley, M.D., [1850-1856], 5, 147
  • 1852 - David J. Johnson, M.D.
  • 1855 - Ellwood Harvey, M.D., [1853 -1856], 5, 77
  • 1856 - Edwin Fussell, M.D., 5, 71, 77
  • 1866 - Ann Preston, M.D., [1855-1870], 2, 5, 289
  • 1872 - Emeline H. Cleveland, M.D.
  • 1874 - Rachel Bodley, M.D., [1875-1886], 5, 133, 291, 292, 298, 322
  • 1888 - Clara Marshall, M.D., [1891-1908], 5 33, 292
  • 1917 - Martha Tracy, M.D., [1927-1940], 5, 248, 147 , 268
  • 1941 - Margaret D. Craighill, M.D., M.D., [1941-1943], 5, 36, 70, 71, 90, 196, 275, 300, 1993.6
  • 1946 - Marion Spencer Fay
  • 1964 - Glen R. Leymaster, M.D. 196, 275
  • 1969 - Bernard Sigel, M.D., [1970-1974], 5, 147
  • 1974 - Robert J. Slater, M.D. (Acting), 36, 196
  • 1975 - Alton I. Sutnick, M.D.[1967-1983], 5, 176, 183

Other collections related to Deans include:

  • Associate Deans 229
    Statistics on student status, enrollment, and attrition from a 20 year survey, (1944-1963), of the WMC medical students who were 30 years or over when they matriculated. 6 in.
  • Faculty 41, 92

ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS

Alumnae/i Relations

Alumnae Files, 73

Archives 120, 307, 390

Comptroller 293

Development and Public Affairs 180, 75 (fundraising)

Graduate Office 182

Public Relations 73, 78, 133

Registrar 266

MEDICAL STUDENTS

  • Alumnae/i Files (DAFs)
  • Registration Books 72
  • Student Association 72
  • Theses 1850-1888, 1926-1930 List of theses [PDF]
  • Alumnae/i Association 72, 73
  • Executive Committee Minutes, [(1906-1918)-1951] 73
  • Graduate Council - Charter revisions, 1934; minutes and related correspondence and reports, 1914-1945. 2.5 in. 73

CLINICAL AND TEACHING DEPARTMENTS

Community and Preventive Medicine

  • Judith Mausner, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor (Epidemiology) 232

Maternity

  • Admissions book, 1910-1924; case books, 1923-1960; delivery;and operations brief book, 1910-1926; out-practice book, 1924-1933. 6 books 77

Operating Room

  • Log book, 1937-1943, listing patient name, operation, surgeon, assistant, and anesthetist. 1 volume 77

Pathology

  • Pathology Autopsy Reports 1933-38,1956-1963 143; 205
  • Museum Technique Instruction Book of Iseult V. Finlay, medical student, ca.1925. 2.5 in. 79
  • Surgical Pathology, [1922-1929], 1953-1957. 6 volumes 79
  • Specimen case books, [1922-1929], listing patient name, result of study, and including some autopsy reports; surgical diagnosis casebooks, 1953-1957.
  • Uterine Cancer Cytology Research Project records, [1957 - 1962]. 3 ln. ft. 79

NURSING

  • School of Nursing 74
  • Nursing Alumnae/i Association - Scrapbook, 1966. 77

HOSPITALS and CLINICS

Broomall's Out-Practice and Maternity Hospital

  • Clinic case books, 1890-1900, 1903. 9 volumes 77

Clinic of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1856-1858, 1854-1855

  • Case books containing history and treatment for patients of Edwin Fussell, M.D., 1856-1858, Elwood Harvey, M.D., 1856, and Kersey G. Thomas, M.D. 1 volume 77

Hospital and Dispensary of the Alumnae of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

(AKA the South-Eastern Dispensary for Women and Children, and renamed the Amy S. Barton Dispensary between 1904 - 1906.)

  • Managing Board
    • Minutes, 1895-1917, letterbooks, 1905-1917, of the Corresponding Secretary of the Board. 1.5 1n. ft. 77
  • Clinic
    • Case books, 1895-1900, includes some student lecture notes [1894-95]; printed annual reports, 1896-1904. 8 volumes 77

Hospital of the Medical College of Pennsylvania

Accessions 77, 181, and 207 all contain materials related to the Hospital. Specific holdings include these sub-divisions:

  • Annual Reports, [1937/38-1967/68]. 203
  • Clinical Chiefs, 1967-1978>
    • Minutes of this ad hoc committee concerned with major decisions affecting the hospital. 1 volume 18
  • Administrative Board
    • Minutes, 1942-1966, of the Board which was concerned with general policy issues and was comprised of Dean, Comptroller, a representative from the Medical Staff, and the Medical Director. 4 ln. ft. 181
  • Medical Board
    • Minutes, 1942-1960,1962-1977, of the Medical Board which set medical policy and was headed by the Medical Director. 2.5 ln. ft. 181
  • Medical Staff
    • General staff minutes, 1917-1932. 77
    • Minutes, correspondence. 181
  • House Staff: newsletter, 1964-1977, of hospital residents. 6 in. 181
  • Associate Board of Managers
    • Minutes, 1919-1922, of the Associate Board, AKA the Junior Auxiliary. 1 volume