Nurses from Base Hospital No. 38 on camels in Egypt, ca. 1942. (Art/Photo Collection, K2-021)

Art/Photograph Collection

This section contains images of Jefferson faculty, alumni, buildings, amphitheaters, and events, as well as a small number of works of art on paper.

Many of the images from the Art/Photograph collection are searchable online in PHDIL, the Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library. A collaborative effort between the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the PHDIL database consists of a variety of images from each institution pertaining to the history of healthcare, medical education, military medicine and life in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

For information regarding Jefferson-owned artwork, or faculty presentation portraits, please contact Ms. Jean Givey in the President's office at 215-955-2255 or Jean.Givey@jefferson.edu.

The list below gives a broad overview of the various collecting areas in the Art/Photograph section at the University Archives:

1. Individual Portraits
   
2. Group Portraits
   

   B1 - Interns & Residents
   B2 - Faculty/Administration
   B3 - University Organizations
   B4 - Class Portraits
   B5 - Other
   

   Architectural rendering, Foerderer Pavilion entrance, ca. 1952. (Art/Photo Collection, C5-038)

3. Places
   

   C1 - Surgical Amphitheaters ("Pits")
   C2 - Hospital (1877)
   C3 - Hospital (Old Main, 1907)
   C4 - Hospital (Thompson Annex, 1924)
   C5 - Hospital (Foederer Pavilion, 1954)
   C6 - Hospital (Gibbon Building, 1978)
   C7 - Residence Halls
   C8 - Scott Building and Medical Office Building (MOB)
   C9 - Campus Views (general)
   C10 - Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
   C11 - College Building (Prune Street, 1825)
   C12 - College Building (Ely Building, 1828)
   C13 - College Building (1898)
   C14 - College Building (1929)
   C15 - Curtis Clinic (1931)
   C16 - Daniel Baugh Institute (1911)
   C17 - Edison Building
   C18 - Demolition and Construction Sites
   C19 - Library (1898 and 1929 College Buildings and Scott Building)
   C20 - Jefferson Alumni Hall
   C21 - Other buildings/facilities
   C22 - Bluemle Life Sciences Building

4. Nursing
   

Anatomy/dissection room, Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy, ca. 1912. (Art/Photo Collection, E-007)

5. Anatomy/Dissection Scenes
   
6. JMC Alumni Association (sponsored events)
   
7. Children's Rehabilitation Hospital
   
8. Events and Special Programs
   
9. Objects
   
10. TJU Departments
    
11. JMC-Sponsored Military Hospitals
    

    K1 - Morgan Lantern Slide Collection (Base Hospital 38, World War I)
    K2 - Evan B. Hume Collection (Base Hospital 38, World War II)
    

12. TJU Hospital Women's Board

Z.   Provenance Collections

While the majority of photographs are divided into the general subject areas listed above, the following have been kept together to document their provenance - that is, the organization or individual that created or accumulated the materials. By keeping a collection of materials together rather than breaking it down into separate subjects, it provides the researcher with information about how the person or organization accumulated and used the items. (Italic face indicates a finding aid is available.)

+ oversize (maximum 16.5 x 20 in. - flat box storage)
++ oversize (maximum 21 x 30 in. - map case storage)
* special oversize (maximum 42 x 30 in. - map case storage)