Education

Scope and Contents Collection contains graduate program surveys, alumni association materials (e.g. constitution, bylaws, minutes, recipe book, bulletins, reunion photos), Department of Baccalaureate Nursing files and meeting minutes, Department of Nursing reports and minutes, course outlines, faculty minutes, Nightingale lamps, pin pillow, program evaluation reports, employee files (restricted), and student transcripts (restricted).

Overview Fred Fortess was an authority on the use of fabrics in clothing and a long-time professor at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University). He worked at the Celanese Fibers Marketing Company for 31 years before joining the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science in 1973 as Director of Apparel Research and head of its School of Textiles. He served as President of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) as well as on numerous other...

Scope and Contents An inaugural essay on camphor presented to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy for the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy, 1880-1881 session ; accompanied by five supporting letters from preceptor Henry T. Peck (M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1881) and previous employers.

Scope and Contents 8 page typewritten memoir of Chromis' attendance at the Jefferson Training School for Nurses in the early 1920's. Also included is a snapshot of nurses on the porch outside the Children's Ward on the roof of Jefferson Medical College Hospital, ca. 1920.

Scope and Contents 31-page typed ms., in three installments, describing Mrs. Eppley's three years of training at Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing, 1955-1958.

Scope and Contents Letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, mimeographed teaching materials and other papers related to Stemler's training at the Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing and to general activities at the hospital, 1947-1950. The collection also includes Stemler's Obstetrical Nursing Care Study (1950) and several printed menus for patients at Jefferson Hospital (1948).

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, photographs, letters and other papers related to Mrs. Richards' nursing career. The collection also includes a clipping and announcement on the death of W. Parker Runyon at Jefferson Hospital, 1928. Many of the photographs appear to have been made by Dr. Clerf.