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Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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o commemorate the charityof those benefactois of the Hospitalwho have endowed beds in the departmentfor Ciironic DiseasesMrs. Matthew M. BaiudAlexander BrownMrs. Henry DisstonAnthony J. Drexei^Mrs. Susan Cox ErwinHenry C. GibsonMrs. Mary M. JohnsonMiss Sarah MarshallMiss Ellen MasonMiss Ida MasonH. Pratt McKeanMrs. Thomas H. PowersThomas A. ScottMiss M. R. Smith Chauncey R. P.auoh in memory of his father EDWIN P. BAUGH On the door of a room in the Gibson Wing is this inscription Room for Sick Nurses Presented to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Proceeds of a Conceit, April 21. 1903. by Mrs. Frederick Giger In the Sun Parlor of the Gibson Wing, on the third floor: This Solariumwas erected through the generosity ofRobert P. de Silver1905 In the Gibson Wing, on the third floor, a brass tablet in-scribed : MAXWELL SOMMERVIDLE ROOM. In the Agnew Surgical Pavilion, on the second floor, is a brass tablet inscribed: This Room endowed in the memory of MOLTON H. FORREST, M.D. 1897
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IS7 In the main building, third floor, a brass tablet inscribed:This Operating- Room is Presented to the Hospital of The UNr\ERSiTY of Pennsylvania by James Dundas Lippincott in memory of his uncle JAMES DUNDAS A. D. 1900 THE HENRY PHIPPS INSTITUTE FOR THESTUDY, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TU-BERCULOSIS was founded in 1903, turned over to the Uni-versity in 1910, and its new building formally dedicated in May,1913, Mr. Henry Phipps, the founder, having first decided toerect the present building at the northeast corner of Seventhand Lombard Streets. The site is in the midst of one of thecongested districts of Philadelphia and is surrounded by a largetenement house population. This location was chosen as beingin a section of the city in which tuberculosis was most prevalent,and was made possible by a special law permitting the establish-ment of the Hospital within the city limits. The original sitewas at Third and Lombard Streets. The building faces StarrGarden Park, a civic center of t

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