UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Historical Exhibits on University History

Administration

• Advisory and Overseer Boards at the University of Pennsylvania

• Institutional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania

• University Leaders and Trustees

African American Presence

• African Americans at Penn: Biographies and Personal Papers

• African American Pioneers in Mathematics

• Diversity at Penn: A Timeline

Alumni

• William Guggenheim Honor Cup Award

Art, Decorative Objects and Memorabilia

• Statues on campus

• Holiday Greeting Cards: "To Hannah and Spence"

• Eadweard Muybridge and his Animal Locomotion Studies

• Postcards: Penn College Girls

• Towne Silver

• University of Pennsylvania China

Athletics

• Athletic Association

• Baseball

• Penn Baseball in the 19th Century

• ProfessionalBaseball Players Who Attended Penn

• Basketball

• Philadelphia Big 5 Basketball: Statistics and brief history

• John Wideman and the 1963 City Champions

• Crew

• Rowing at Penn: The Early Years, 1854-1901

• Cricket

• Penn Cricket in the 19th Century

• Football

• Penn Football in the 19th Century

• Olympics

• Penn in the Olympics

• Alvin Kraenzlein's Four Individual Gold Medals

• John Baxter Taylor's Olympic Gold Medal

• Swimming

• Origins and Overview

• Track and Field

• Alvin Kraenzlein's Four Individual Gold Medals

• John Baxter Taylor's Olympic Gold Medal

• Women's Athletics

• The Early Years, up to 1930

Biographies

Campus buildings and maps

• Mapping Penn: Land Acquisitions, 1870-2007

• Penn's Campus Growth, 1870-2009 (slide show)

• 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

Commencement

• Commencement programs and history

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

Diversity at Penn: A Timeline

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

International Penn

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

Medical History

• Philadelphia Medical History and the University of Pennsylvania

• Tickets to the Healing Arts: Medical Lecture Tickets of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Publications

• Gazette Centennial, 1902-2002

• Penn yearbooks

Research

• Computing Research and Innovation at Penn after ENIAC

Schools of the University

• Brief histories of the twelve schools of the University

• Department of Mines, Arts, and Manufactures in Context

• The Evolution of Penn’s Medical School in the Middle and Late Nineteenth Century

Special Events

• Presidential Visits to the University of Pennsylvania

Students

• Lists of students, by class year

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

• College Classes of 1811, 1831, 1852, 1865, 1875, and 1887

• Medical Class of 1889

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

Student Organizations

• Fraternities

• Philomathean Society

• Student Governance, from the Houston Club to the UA

• University Magazine, 1875-1885

Student Traditions

• Bowl Fight

• Class Day

• Hey Day

• Junior Cane March

• Push Ball Fight

• Rowbottom

• Skimmer

• Sophomore Cremation

Symbols and Heraldry of the University

• Penn Colors

• Seals and Arms

Trustees

• Lists of Trustees

Wars

• Penn in the Civil War

• 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

• Timeline

• Quotations

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

• Penn's Women Trustees

• Postcards: Penn College Girls

• Women's Athletics at Penn: The Early Years