University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of
A 1765 admission ticket to "A Course of Lectures" given by Dr. John Morgan, the founder and first professor of medicine at Penn's Medical School
A c. 1815 illustration of the Ninth Street campus, including the medical department (left) and the college building (right)
An illustration of Penn's College Hall from a pocket guide to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876
A c. 1933 postcard showing the Upper Quad section of the Quad Dormitories looking north to Memorial Tower
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician,
Rush's birthplace in the Byberry section of Philadelphia, photographed in 1959
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 a portrait by John Trumbull depicting Rush and General George Washington entering from the background with Captain William Leslie, shown on the right, mortally wounded
Ticket to an 1807 lecture given by Rush, then a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine professor
A c. 1818 portrait of Rush by Charles Willson Peale