| Creator |
Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist. |
| Contributor |
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), daguerreotypist. |
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Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer. |
|
Simons, M. P. publisher. |
| Title |
President and faculty of the Female Medical College of Penna. [graphic] : To the students of the Female Medical College of
Penna, this print is most respectfully dedicated by their most obt. svt. M. P. Simons. / On stone by A. Newsam from dags.
by Simons; lith. of P. S. Duval, Philada.
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| Publisher |
Philadelphia: Published by M. P. Simons, daguerreotypist, Chestnut St. opposite the State House, Philada |
| Date |
[ca. 1850] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph; 56 x 39 cm.(22 x 15.25 in.) |
| Description |
Commemorative print containing bust-length portraits, within a decorative border, of the original faculty of the first degree
granting U.S. medical college for women that opened in 1850. Faculty includes William S. Mullen, President; N. R. Moseley,
Prof. of Anatomy General, Special and Surgical; Jas. F. X. McCloskey, Prof. of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Jos.
Longshore, Prof. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; C. W. Gleason, Prof. of Physiology and Surgery; M. W. Dickeson,
Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; and A. D. Chaloner, Prof. of Chemistry. Border designed as Gothic-style columns
and arches decorated with female figures, including Wisdom and Peace. Also contains a vignette below the portraits depicting
a classical style building with columns, possibly the building rented by the college at 229 Arch Street or an unexecuted rendering
of the future permanent medical college building. Female Medical college was renamed Womens Medical College in 1867.
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| Notes |
Not in Wainwright. |
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Philadelphia on Stone |
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POS 625 |
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 904 S 57 |
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Simons, a prominent Philadelphia daguerrean, photographed over twenty daguerreotype portraits of members of Philadelphia medical
faculties that were published as engravings by Virgil F. Harrison in 1846.
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Address label pasted on verso for Mrs. Aldona L. Dickeson. |
| Subject |
Chaloner, A.D. -- Portraits. |
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Dickeson, Montroville Wilson -- Portraits. |
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Gleason, C. W. (Cloye W.) -- Portraits. |
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Longshore, J. S. (Joseph Skelton), 1809-1879 -- Portraits. |
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McCloskey, James F. X. -- Portraits. |
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Moseley, N.R. -- Portraits. |
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Mullen, William James, 1805-1882 -- Portraits. |
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Female Medical College of Pennsylvania -- Faculty. |
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Female Medical College of Pennsylvania -- Buildings. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1840-1850. |
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Portrait prints -- 1840-1850. |
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Commemorative prints -- 1840-1850. |
| Printer |
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), publisher. |
| Location |
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 904 S 57 |
