Guide, William Gilmore Leaman, Jr. Photograph Album, c. 1916-1923, University of Pennsylvania Archives

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1920 photograph of William Gilmore Leaman Jr. (1899-1973), M.D. 1922 , at Maternity Service

University Archives and Records Center
University of Pennsylvania

Guide to the
William Gilmore Leaman, Jr., 1899 - 1973
Photograph Album, c. 1916 - 1923

UPX 12 L436

1 Item

Prepared by Robin Duncan
February 2009

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PROVENANCE

Gift of Evan Siegelman, M.D., August 2, 2006 (Accession 2006:67).

ARRANGEMENT

The collection consists of one series, containing a single photograph album. The photographs and album pages are maintained in the order they were received by the University Archives. It is not clear whether this was the original order of the album’s pages.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

William Gilmore Leaman, Jr. was born in 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His study at the University of Pennsylvania was interrupted by his service in the First World War as part of the forces assigned to Base Hospital No. 20. He graduated from the University’s Medical School in 1922.

While at the University of Pennsylvania, Leaman was president of the La Place Society as well as a member of the Phi Beta Pi fraternity and the John C. Heisler Anatomical Society. After his graduation, Leaman worked at the Southeastern Dispensary for the Diseases of Women. He later served as a professor at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and practiced cardiology at Philadelphia General Hospital.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This album contains 180 photographs taken from approximately 1916 to 1923. While in Medical School, Leaman took many photographs of his professors and classmates, including their work in clinics and the dissection room. Leaman also chronicled his demobilization from the army in 1919 and his post graduation service at the Southeastern Dispensary in 1923. Also in the album are photographs of family and of vacations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington D.C.

INVENTORY

One photograph album

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