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Historical Exhibits from the Archives

 

Administration

• Advisory and Overseer Boards at the University of Pennsylvania

• Institutional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania

• Trustees Minutes

Art at Penn

• Young Franklin statue

• Holiday Greeting Cards: "To Hannah and Spence"

• Eadweard Muybridge, 1830 - 1904

African-American history at Penn:

• African Americans at Penn: Biographies and Personal Papers

• African American Pioneers in Mathematics

• Diversity at Penn: A Timeline

Biographies

Campus buildings

• Mapping Penn: Land Acquisitions, 1870-2007

• Penn Campuses to 1900

• Penn's West Philadelphia Campus 1870-1900: A Documentary History of Title

• "Carriage House" at the Rear of 3905 Spruce Street

• Annenberg School of Communication Construction: Images from the Saalbach Collection

Campus tours, snapshots in time

• Penn in the 18th Century

• Penn in the 19th Century

Commencement

Computing Research and Innovation at Penn after ENIAC

Diversity at Penn: A Timeline

Events

• Presidential Visits to the University of Pennsylvania

Faculty and staff

• Lists of Faculty and Staff

Financial topics

• Tuition and Other Educational Costs at Penn

General histories of the University

• Brief History of the University

• A Pennsylvania Album: Undergraduate Essays on the 250th Anniversary

• Timelines of Penn's history

Graduation

• Commencement

• Degrees Conferred by the University of Pennsylvania, 1757-2003

Heraldry

International Penn

• A Brief History of Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania

Publications

• Gazette Centennial, 1902-2002

• Penn yearbooks

Schools of the University

• Brief histories of the twelve schools of the University

• Penn yearbooks

Sports

• Athletic Association

• Baseball

• Penn Baseball in the 19th Century

• Professional Baseball Players Who Attended Penn

• Basketball

• Philadelphia Big 5 Basketball: Statistics and brief history

• John Wideman and the 1963 City Champions

• Crew

• Penn Crew in the 19th Century

• 1901 Henley Regatta

• Cricket

• Penn Cricket in the 19th Century

• Football

• Penn Football in the 19th Century

• Olympics

• Penn in the Olympics

• John Baxter Taylor's Olympic Gold Medal

• Track and Field

• John Baxter Taylor's Olympic Gold Medal

Students

• Student matriculation lists from college catalogues

• Undergraduate Experience at Penn during the 20th Century: Images in Flux

• College Class of 1757, first class to graduate from the College

• College Class of 1865

• Medical Class of 1889

Student Organizations

• Fraternities

• Philomathean Society

• Student Governance, from the Houston Club to the UA

Student Traditions

• Bowl Fight

• Class Day

• Hey Day

• Junior Cane March

• Push Ball Fight

• Rowbottom

• Skimmer

• Sophomore Cremation

Symbols of the University

• Penn Colors

• Seals and Arms

Trustees

• Lists of Trustees

Wars

• International Crises: Penn's Involvement in the Global Conflicts in the 20th Century

• Penn's Base Hospitals in World Wars I and II

West Philadelphia

• West Philadelphia Community History Center
  

• Mapping Penn: Land Acquisitions, 1870-2007

• Penn and West Philadelphia: Historical Studies of the Relationship between the University and its Urban Environment

• University City Science Center: "Come to Where the Knowledge Is"

Women at Penn

• 125 Years of Women at Penn: A Timeline

• Distinguished early graduates, faculty, and benefactors of the University

• Postcards: Penn College Girls

• Quotations

 

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