Portrait photograph of Howard Locke, c. 1911

University Archives and Records Center
University of Pennsylvania

Guide to the
Howard Van Locke, 1887 - 1941,
Memorabilia Collection,1907 - 1999 (bulk 1907-1910)

UPT 50 L814

16 Items

Prepared by Kaiyi Chen
1999

 

 

Provenance
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
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PROVENANCE

Gift of Gwen Locke Gibson to the University Archives, 1999.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Snapshot of Howard Locke and his medical school roommate Stephen Mitterling in their roomHoward Van Locke was born in Dublin Mills, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, in January 1887. Locke attended the Medico-Chirurgical College (the 1916 merger of this institution with the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania led to the formation of the Graduate School of Medicine at Penn in 1919). After his graduation in 1911, Locke practiced in Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, for twenty-nine years until his death in September 1941.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This memorabilia collection consists of eight photographs, seven miscellaneous personal documents or objects related to Locke's experience at the Medico-Chirurgical College, as well as a reminiscent account of Howard Van Locke by his daughter Gwen Locke Gibson.

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Photograph of Medico Chirurgal College Class of 1911

 

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