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Collection
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection
Title
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection
Object ID
MG0480
Date Range
1791-1988
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Collection
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection
Title
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection
Description
The Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection contains records of doctors and a midwife who practiced in Lancaster County. Susanna Rohrer Müller's account book is a record of her work as a midwife from 1791 to 1815. The other volumes in this collection contain medical school notes, records of births, ephemera, and medicinal formulas.
Date Range
1791-1988
Year Range From
1791
Year Range To
1988
Date of Accumulation
1791-1988
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 11
People
Bowers, Moses K.
Carpenter, Alexander H.
Collatte, Joseph
Harnley, Isaac
Kauffman, Christian
Kauffman, John
Landis, Christian
McCressan, George
Meyers, Jacob
Müller, Susanna Rohrer
Schaffner, Meade D.
Steward, A.
Welchans, George R.
Wiles, Alice Miller
Witmer, John
Ziegler, James
Subjects
Account books
Advertising
Business records
Delivery (Obstetrics)
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Midwives
Physicians
Railroads
Search Terms
Account books
Advertising
Business records
Delivery (Obstetrics)
Finding aids
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Lancaster Academy of Medicine
Manuscript groups
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Midwives
National Prohibition Act
Pectoral Elixir
Pennsylvania Medical College
Physicians
Railroads
Extent
1 box, 9 folders, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0480
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Strasburg Pharmacy Records (MG0282)
Heinitsh Business and Family Records (MG0447)
Bucher-Ortmann Pharmacy Collection (MG0211)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection (MG0480), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-480
Other Number
MG-480
Classification
MG0480
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 27 August 2021.
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Collection
Dr. Martin L. Herr Family Collection
Title
Dr. Martin L. Herr Family Collection
Object ID
MG0126
Date Range
1772-1970
Physicians Probate records Related Materials at LancasterHistory: See also the Photograph Collection Processing History: Processed and finding aid prepared in 1998-1999. This collection has been documented, preserved, and managed according to professional museum and archives standards. The finding aid was
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Collection
Dr. Martin L. Herr Family Collection
Title
Dr. Martin L. Herr Family Collection
Description
The Dr. Martin L. Herr Family Collection contains correspondence, photographs, Civil War documents, marriage certificates, bonds and promissory notes, a patent, and estate papers. Documents pertaining to Dr. Herr's medical career and an article on midwifery are also part of this collection.
Date Range
1772-1970
Year Range From
1772
Year Range To
1970
Date of Accumulation
1772-1970
Creator
Herr family
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Herr, Martin Light
Subjects
Family archives
Letters
Search Terms
Correspondence
Family archives
Finding aids
Letters
Manuscript groups
Midwifery
Patents
Physicians
Probate records
Extent
1 box, 33 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English, German
Object ID
MG0126
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
See the Photograph Collection
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at the Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-126
Classification
MG0126
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared in 1998-1999. Added to database 26 December 2023.
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The education of a physician in early 19th century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo894
Author
Atlee, John L.
Date of Publication
1987.
presidency, and it was published in the first volume of the Journal of the AMA. Because it describes so well the education of physicians in the early nineteenth century, it is reprinted here with the kind permission of the American Medical Association. It should be noted that no fewer than nine physicians
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Responsibility
by John Light Atlee, M.D.
Author
Atlee, John L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
78-88 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 91, no. 2
Summary
"In 1882 Dr. Atlee presented his inaugural address to the American Medical Association upon assuming its presidency, and it was published in the first volume of the Journal of the AMA. Becasue it describes so well the education of physicians in the early nineteenth century, it is repirnted here with the kind permission of the American Medical Association." [from the introduction]
Subjects
Atlee, John L. - 1799-1885.
Physicians - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 91, number 2 (1987), p. 78-88Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.91
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Marriages of the medical profession, Lancaster city and county

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10110
Date of Publication
1981, 1984.
Call Number
610.69 E92
Responsibility
compiled by Melvern L. Evans, Jr.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
1981, 1984.
Physical Description
unpaged ; 29 cm.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Marriage - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Medical personnel - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Physicians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
610.69 E92
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"Pennsylvania medical men of the American Revolution and era" : a history of the Revolution and era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1469
Author
Wright, Karl Eugene.
Date of Publication
1981.
Call Number
973.375 W951
Collection
St. Joseph's School of Nursing Photograph Collection
Object ID
SJ-03-01-27
Date Range
c. 1982
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
St. Joseph's School of Nursing Photograph Collection
Description
Left to right, as identifed on the back of the photograph: Mr. Aldrich, FHS Pres.; Sr. Margaret, SJH Pres.; Mr. Bibri, Chairman of Trustees; and Dr. Bieber, Med. Staff Pres.
Provenance
Gift of Martha Lyons Brown, R.N.
Date Range
c. 1982
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Search Terms
Nursing
Medicine
St. Joseph's School of Nursing
St. Joseph Hospital
Nuns
Doctors
Physicians
Hospitals
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
5 x 7 inches
Object ID
SJ-03-01-27
Notes
Two copies of similar photograph
Images
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
1-20-03-30
Date Range
1988
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Henry Wentz and his grandmother, Annie Wentz. Photograph in studio folder.
Provenance
From MG-235 Henry S. Wentz Coll.
Date Range
1988
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Wentz, Henry
Wentz, Mary
Axe, Nancy
Search Terms
Doctors
Medicine
Physicians
Health care
Children
Women
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
1-20-03-30
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-18-01-21
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Man holding jacket that says "Lancaster PA. Team Physician" with ten women standing behind him and three women and one man on the sofa on either side of him. Picture in folder.
Year Range From
1980
Year Range To
1989
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Physicians
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-18-01-21
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-25-03-21
Date Range
1914
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Dr. Joseph Houston
Provenance
Gift of Nancy Slaugh Leech Mohr and Helen Louise Slaugh Freeburg in memory of the Slaugh Family. See also MG-733.
Date Range
1914
Creator
Ball, Ella Grace
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Houston, Joseph
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Doctors
Physicians
Medicine
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
6.75 x 10.5 inches
Object ID
2-25-03-21
Images
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