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Hand (Francis C.) at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School Memorabilia Album
Biomed.0645  
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Francis C. Hand at the University of Pennsylvania medical school memorabilia album
    Creator: Hand, Francis C.
    source: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0645
    Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 memorabilia album)
    Date: circa 1875
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Purchased from Palinurus Antiquarian Books (American Association for the History of Medicine Book Fair), 28 April 2019.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 8873505 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Francis C. Hand at the University of Pennsylvania medical school memorabilia album (Collection 645). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Scope and Contents

    "Commercial album of blank leaves containing 34 mounted, signed, medical lecture admission tickets between 1872-1874 and additional inserted ephemera pertaining to exams and graduation. Some water damage to covers; front hinge broken; shaken; contents clean."
    "An album of memorabilia pertaining to the medical education and graduation of Francis C Hand at the Univ. of PA. The lecture admission tickets are engraved and printed on various color coated card stocks. They measure appx. 194 x 227 mm. Each card is signed by Francis and counter-signed by the professor responsible for the course. The courses were in surgery, obstetrics, materia medica, anatomy, institutes of medicine, medical theory etc.. There is Agnew for surgery; Joseph Leidy for anatomy; Rogers for chemistry; Carson for materia medica; Stille for theory, etc. Hand was trained as a surgeon and presented a paper on the excision of the knee joint for graduation."
    Source: Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2019.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Palinurus Antiquarian Books