Finding Aid for the Francis C. Hand at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School Memorabilia Album Biomed.0645
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 12.
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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.
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:
8873505
[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.
"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.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books