Photograph of skull and opened footstool

University Archives and Records Center
University of Pennsylvania

Guide to the
Horace Palmer Beck (1920 - 2003)
Collection, ca. 1897

UPT 50 B393

1 Cubic ft.

 

 

 

 

 

Access is granted in accordance with the Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.

 

Gift of Horace Palmer Beck, Jr. (1920-2003) A.B. 1943, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1952

Box 1

 

 Skull used for anatomical dissection in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School circa 1897; in original box (mahogany), converted into a footstool.

 

Other items donated by Beck are in the University Archives' collections:

  • Francis Hopkinson (Signer of the Declaration of Independence.), two documents signed as Loan Commissioner for the Continental Congress (Archives General Collection, items 576 and 577)

  • William Penn. Document signed, on vellum, October 17, 1681, deeding 125 acres in Pennsylvania to his first wife's half sister, Mary Penington (Archives General Collection, item 778)

  • Benjamin Franklin. Printed document printed by Franklin at his press in Passy, France, completed in manuscript, signed by Franklin and his grandson, William Temple Franklin, Passy, May 24, 1783. A passport issued to Messrs. Morgan, Harris, Carter & Collins for safe passage to Nantes via Orleans. (view facsimile)

 

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