MC 46 Jacqueline C. Mancall papers, 1974-2003, 6 cubic feet

The Jacqueline C. Mancall papers consist primarily of speeches, publications, conference materials, and grant records projects from the career of a Drexel information science professor.
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MC 32 J. Rodman Paul papers, 1917-1935, 0.33 Cubic feet

This collection contains some of the papers of J. Rodman Paul, trustee of the Drexel Institute from 1904-1941. read more >>>

MC 41 Mary S. Irick Drexel scrapbook, 1917-1956, 1 volume

This scrapbook contains news clippings describing Mary S. Irick Drexel’s work as the Chairman of the Bureau of Canteen Service of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Division of the American Red Cross during World War I. read more >>>

MC 9 Rosalind Schulman papers, 1974-1978, 1 cubic foot

Rosalind Schulman was a professor of economics in Drexel’s College of Business Administration from 1965 to 1979.  Before earning a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964, she spent twenty years as national research director for the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America.  read more >>>

MC 8 Bohdan T. Hnatiuk papers, 1963-1998, 2.33 cubic feet

Bohdan Taras Hnatiuk was a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics from 1960 until 1995.  He was born in the Ukraine in 1915; earned his doctorate in engineering from the Technical University in Danzig, Germany, in 1945; and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.  Before coming to Drexel he taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1951 to 1957 and at West Virginia University from 1957 to 1960.  read more >>>

MC 6 Belver Griffith papers, 1969-1986, 1 cubic foot

Belver Griffith was a professor at Drexel’s College of Information Studies from 1962 until his death in 1999.  He was widely known in the field of information studies for his work on scholarly communication in the sciences, bibliometrics, and citation analysis.  The Belver Griffith papers consist primarily of his correspondence with scholars studying scientific communication and information science, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.  read more >>>

MC 37 Pages from the Past, 1491-1937, 24 items

24 Leaves issued as a set by Foliophiles Inc. [Washington, D.C.?] in 1964.

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MC 35 Manuscript and printed leaves from books, 1115-1769, 1 cubic foot

Twenty-four individual leaves representing the history of books from early manuscript leaves on vellum to printed texts on biblical, legal and natural history subjects. read more >>>

MC 13 Genevieve A. Shryock notebooks, 1910-1911, 6 volumes

The notebooks of library school student Genevieve  Shryock contain class notes, class schedules, copies of exams and other examples of her academic work, as well as a few photographs.

MC 43 Kathryn Musser Smith collection, 1914-1966, .25 linear feet

This collection contains the papers of Kathryn Musser Smith, 1916 graduate of the Drexel Institute.  The collection which ranges from 1914-1966 consists of ephemera generated during Smith’s tenure as a student and includes commencement programs, dance cards, class schedules and correspondence.  read more >>>

MC 4 Howard Pyle collection, 1894-1940, .25 linear feet

Howard Pyle, noted American illustrator, was an art instructor who headed the Drexel Institute’s School of Illustration from 1894 to 1900.  This collection contains correspondence and pamphlets documenting Howard Pyle’s time as an instructor in the school of illustration at Drexel.  read more >>>

MC 33, William B. Shoe papers, 1898-1943, 1 linear ft.

This collection contains items relating to the career and life of Drexel alumnus William B. Shoe. The bulk of the collection deals with his business life, with business licenses, blueprints and professional correspondence. There are also a number of photographs related to the launch and construction of his projects. The personal life of Mr. Shoe is primarily represented in his personal narrative, and with the inclusion of some photographs of students taken at the Drexel Institute, though he is not identified in any of these.

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MC 34 Eleanor Reeves scrapbook, 1931-1934, 0.17 cubic feet

The collection consists of Eleanor Edmunds Reeves’s scrapbook, which dates approximately from 1930-1934.   Ms. Reeves attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry during those years.

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, which document various Drexel sporting and social events, and ephemera such as train tickets, advertisements, and registration cards.  The scrapbook also includes correspondence from several “Little Sisters” (incoming freshmen) who were assigned by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) to Ms. Reeves for an introduction to the campus, and a few Institute records, such as her registration cards and an infirmary bill.

Original order has been maintained where apparent. The pages of scrapbooks have been removed from binding and individual pages placed in folders.

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MC 32 J. Rodman Paul papers, 1917-1935, 0.33 cubic feet

This collection contains the papers of J. Rodman Paul, trustee of the Drexel Institute from 1904-1941.

MC 5 Documentation Abstracts, Inc., records, 1966-1969, 2 cubic feet

Documentation Abstracts was an abstracting and indexing service started in 1966 by ADI (the American Documentation Institute, later the American Society for Information Science) and ACS/DCL (the American Chemical Society’s Division on Chemical Literature).  They began publishing a journal of abstracts on information science literature in 1966.  Documentation Abstracts was later referred to as Information Science Abstracts starting in 1969 and Information Science and Technology Abstracts from 2001 to the present.  The collection consists of the records kept by Richard Snyder, director of the Science and Technology Library at the Drexel Institute, during his period of involvement with Documentation Abstracts, first as the Special Libraries Association’s representative to the corporation and later as treasurer and acting business manager, from its founding in 1966 through 1969.

This collection is unprocessed.  A preliminary inventory list is available in the archives; contact the archivist at archives@drexel.edu for more information.

MC 38 George W. Childs Scrapbooks, 1836-1874, 5 volumes

Volume 1 (1813-1867) begins with newspaper clippings about the 1836 “Philadelphia Public Ledger” and its owners Swain, Abell, and Simmons. There are also clippings from this time period regarding Childs’ own businesses, Childs and Peterson Publishers (announcements and reviews of books published and letters from authors and readers) and Childs Booksellers (advertisements). Volume 2 (1851-1866) contains additional information on the Philadelphia Public Ledger’s original owners, as well as a photograph of its original location on Chestnut Street. Also included are excerpts from Casper Sauder Jr.’s series on the history of Chestnut Street and its proprietors. Volume 3 (1867-1874) begins with announcements and advertisements for books published by Childs and Peterson, including “Bouvier’s Law Dictionary” and the “Dictionary of English Literature”. Volume 4 (1871-1874), the last scrapbook in the collection, contains newspaper clippings focused primarily on Childs’ social and philanthropic activities. This volume includes letters from Mayor Daniel Fox, George S. Phillips and David Stewart as well as letters from many prominent Philadelphians on such topics as gifts to the poor and to local hospitals, assistance for Horticultural Hall, the Edgar Allen Poe gravesite, and for the zoological society which Childs supported with A.J. Drexel.

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MC 39 George W. Childs obituary notices scrapbooks, 1894-1895, 4 volumes

This collection is made up of 4 volumes of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings surrounding the death, funeral, and will of George W. Childs, as well as many commemorative biographical articles that ran in the weeks following his death. There are two sets of two volumes each. The sets are nearly identical, containing essentially the same articles, but arranged differently. “Volume I of the Obituary Notices of Geo W. Childs” contains clippings primarily from New York newspapers, including the New York Times, Press, Daily News, Evening Telegram, Recorder and Herald. This volume also features clippings from newspapers in Philadelphia, including the Inquirer, Bulletin, and Telegraph. Volume II features similar clippings from more distant cities, including Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, Richmond, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Paris. The scrapbooks were donated to the library of the Drexel Institute by James Paul, Jr., the husband of A.J. Drexel’s daughter, Frances Katherine. Paul was a close friend of the Childs family and was one of the executors of Childs’ will, and may be responsible for the assembly of the scrapbooks.

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George W. Childs collection, 1845-1967

MC 10, 1 cubic foot

George W. Childs (1829-1894) was the founder and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, a noted philanthropist, and a longtime friend of Anthony J. Drexel.  He was influential in encouraging Drexel to establish a school for the education of men and women, and he served on the institute’s board of trustees from the school’s founding until his death.  The bulk of the collection consists of scrapbooks containing clippings published on the event of Childs’s death and shortly after it.  The rest of the collection consists of publications about Childs, memorial addresses in his honor, and some correspondence, including a letter signed by President Grover Cleveland from 1891.  Most of the material is from the 1890s, but a few later articles and letters about Childs were found with the collection.

This collection is partially processed.  A preliminary inventory is available in the archives; contact the archivist at archives@drexel.edu for more information.

MC 1 Drexel family collection, 1826-1991, 9.3 cubic feet

The collection contains correspondence, memoirs, genealogical charts, newsletters, pamphlets, family reunion material, scrapbooks, legal documents, publications, and newspaper clippings related to the descendants of Francis Martin Drexel. Includes a diary written by Francis Martin Drexel in 1826-1830 and three letters authored by Anthony J. Drexel, the founder of Drexel University. The bulk of material dates from the twentieth century and is contained in eleven volumes of scrapbooks that begin with the death of Anthony J. Drexel in 1893.

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