For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868

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For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868

This initiative will digitize, describe, an provide access to 140,000 pages of lecture tickets, course schedules, theses, dissertations, student notes, faculty lecture notes, commencement addresses, opening addresses, and matriculation records from Philadelphia, 1746-1868. The project will emphasize not only the voices of the medical greats, but also the often unheard voices of students and others. Project parters for this initiative are:

Sponsorship

The items in this collection are being digitized and made accessible through a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, 2016-2019. The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Imaging was undertaken by the staff of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect those of the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Licensing

Images

All images and their contents from the For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868 project are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for more information on terms of use:

Metadata

For all manuscript descriptions and other cataloging metadata, the copyright holder is the mansucripts' holding institution. For example, if the manuscript is from The Library Company of Philadelphia, then the copyright for the manuscript descriptions and other cataloging metadata is ©2020 The Library Company of Philadelphia. The metadata is licensed for use under a Creative Commons CC0 Licensed version 1.0 (CC0-1.0):

For a description of the terms of use, see the Creative Commons deed:

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