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Harrison Allen portrait clipping
Portrait of Harrison Allen. From the Simon Gratz collection [0250A]. Allen was an American physician and anatomist, born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and in 1862 became a surgeon in the United States Army and s...
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| Collection: | Simon Gratz autograph collection (#0250A) |
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| Box Number: | Box Case 7, Box 26 |
| Folder Number: | Folder 10 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14101 |
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Portrait of Harrison Allen. From the Simon Gratz collection [0250A]. Allen was an American physician and anatomist, born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and in 1862 became a surgeon in the United States Army and served until the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. In 1865 he was made professor of comparative anatomy and medical zoölogy at the University of Pennsylvania. He was transferred in 1878 to the chair of physiology, which he occupied until 1895. In addition to many papers contributed to medical journals, he authored a number of books. |
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