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Print of President's House on Ninth Street converted for use as the University of Pennsylvania campus. Includes the rotunda added to the Medical School addition in 1817. Demolished 1829 for construction of twin buildings designed by William Strickland Print of President's House on Ninth Street converted for use as the University of Pennsylvania campus. Includes the rotunda added to the Medical School addition in 1817. Demolished 1829 for construction of twin buildings designed by William Strickland Print of twin buildings designed by William Strickland for Penn's Ninth Street campus. Medical Hall is on the left, and College Hall on the right. Erected 1829. Print dates from 1842

Penn in the 19th Century

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  • Overviews
  • "The University of Pennsylvania" by Francis N. Thorpe, Harper's Magazine, July 1895
  • African Americans at Penn in the 19th Century
  • African Americans at Penn: Biographies and Personal Papers
  • African American Pioneers in Mathematics
  • Campuses
  • Ninth Street campus, 1801-1829 and 1829-1871
  • West Philadelphia campus, 1872-1900
  • Graduating classes, snapshots in time
  • College Class of 1811
  • College Class of 1851
  • College Class of 1852
  • College Class of 1865
  • College Class of 1875
  • College Class of 1887
  • Medical Class of 1889
  • Penn in 1830
  • Penn in the Civil War subject guide
  • Publications

  • The Record, yearbooks of the College
  • University Catalogs
  • University Magazine
  • Sports
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  • Swimming
  • Student lists
  • Student Organizations
  • Fraternity Histories
  • Philomathean Society History
  • Zelosophic Society Papers
  • Student Traditions
  • Class Day (begun 1865)
  • Bowl Fight (begun 1867)
  • Sophomore Cremation (begun 1877)
  • Junior Cane March (begun in the 1890s)
  • Women at Penn
  • 125 Years of Women at Penn: A Timeline
  • Distinguished early graduates, faculty, and benefactors of the University
  • Quotations
  • Opening of the Graduate Department for Women, 1892

 

 

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