Description
The period 1872-1882 is represented in this collection by annual
catalogs,valedictory addresses and scattered issues of the Pacific Medical
Journal. The decades 1882-1902 are represented by annual catalogs, valedictory
addresses, scattered issues of the Pacific Medical Journal and a copy of Hans
Barkan's 1954 history of the school.
Background
The Cooper Medical College of San Francisco was founded in 1882 by Levi
Cooper Lane. He named the school for his uncle, Dr. Samuel E. Cooper, who had
founded the first medical school in California--the University of the Pacific
School of Medicine--in 1858.
Availability
Collection is open for research.