Minute book of the faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania

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Description

Faculty Meetings – October 1864

Overview

This archival item is a scanned page of faculty meeting minutes from Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated October 1864. The material is available as a JPEG (a092001213.jpg) and a TIFF (a092001213.tif) and is catalogued in the Pinax dataset under ID 01K9ZNWHDZHQT825P9EETSHV1R. The minutes were prepared in English by E.B. Cleveland, secretary of the faculty, and reported by the Dean.

Background

Girard College, founded in 1839 as a boarding school for orphaned boys, continued to operate during the American Civil War, a period of significant disruption for educational institutions. Faculty meetings in October 1864 were held to address wartime challenges and to manage academic affairs. The meetings recorded here were held at the college and at the residence of faculty member Dr. Fussell.

Contents

The item contains the minutes of two faculty meetings:
  • October 8 , 1864 – Reported by E.B. Cleveland; the minutes note a motion to adjourn. The discussion centered on Prof. Woodworth’s application for the Chair of Chemistry at Girard College.
  • October 31 , 1864 – Held at Dr. Fussell’s residence; attendees included Prof. Fussell, Preston Temple, Scarlett, and Cleveland. The Dean reported the contemplated suspension of lectures at Penn Medical University and the faculty’s application to admit Penn Medical students into the present course of lectures. The Dean was tasked with arranging the necessary accommodations. The minutes conclude with adjournment.

Scope

The archive covers two specific dates—8 and 31 October 1864—within Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It documents internal faculty deliberations concerning faculty appointments, lecture scheduling, and inter‑institutional arrangements during the Civil War. The collection excludes detailed curriculum content, student records, or broader institutional policies beyond the minutes’ scope. The item is a valuable resource for scholars of 19th‑century educational administration, women’s history, and the impact of wartime conditions on academic institutions.

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Raw Cheimarros Data

**EXTRACTION – direct entities & relationships from `@file_pinax`**

```cheimarros
# File metadata (PINAX record)
@file_pinax:document {
    title: "Minute book of the faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania",
    type: "Text",
    language: "en",
    created_range: {start: @date_1850_06_25, end: @date_1864_10_31},
    rights: "Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright …",
    source: "PINAX"
}

# Creator organization (the college itself)
@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania:organization {
    full_name: "Female Medical College of Pennsylvania",
    later_name: "Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania",
    founded: @date_1850_06_25,
    purpose: "First college in the world regularly organized for the education of women for the medical profession"
}

# Individual creators (already defined elsewhere – reference only)
@dr_moseley:person
@j_f_x_mccloskey:person
@david_j_johnson:person
@ellwood_harvey:person
@edwin_fussell:person
@e_h_cleveland:person
@ann_preston:person

# Link file to its creators (both the institution and the faculty members)
@file_pinax -> created_by -> [
    @female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania,
    @dr_moseley, @j_f_x_mccloskey, @david_j_johnson,
    @ellwood_harvey, @edwin_fussell, @e_h_cleveland, @ann_preston
]

# Subject concepts (most already defined; create the missing generic “minutes” concept)
@minutes:concept {description: "Official records of meetings, typically organized chronologically"}

@file_pinax -> subjects -> [
    @minutes,
    @women_college_administrators,
    @medical_colleges_pennsylvania_philadelphia,
    @women_in_medicine,
    @women_physicians,
    @women_medical_students,
    @student_life,
    @medical_education,
    @medical_colleges_faculty,
    @medical_colleges_committees,
    @medical_colleges_by_laws,
    @curriculum_changes,
    @early_college_years
]

# Place entities (already defined)
@philadelphia_pa:place
@229_arch_street:place

@file_pinax -> places -> [@philadelphia_pa, @229_arch_street]

# Structural link to the master collection (already present in earlier chunks)
@file_pinax -> documents -> @faculty_minutes_1850_1864:collection
@file_pinax -> part_of -> @faculty_minutes_1850_1864:collection
```

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**SYNTHESIS – cross‑subdirectory connections & collection‑level patterns**

```cheimarros
# 1. PINAX and MODS describe the *same* archival series.
@faculty_meetings_series:concept -> includes -> @file_pinax:document
@faculty_meetings_series:concept -> includes -> @file_a092_001_xml:document

# 2. The college (institution) is the primary agent behind the collection.
@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania -> produces -> @faculty_minutes_1850_1864:collection
@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania -> employs -> @faculty_core:organization

# 3. All individual creators listed in the PINAX record are members of the core faculty organization.
@faculty_core:organization -> comprises -> [
    @dr_moseley, @j_f_x_mccloskey, @david_j_johnson,
    @ellwood_harvey, @edwin_fussell, @e_h_cleveland, @ann_preston
]

# 4. Temporal alignment – the date range in the PINAX record exactly matches the time_span of the meeting network concept.
@faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept -> time_span -> {start: @date_1850_06_25, end: @date_1864_10_31}

# 5. Subject‑concept continuity – each subject from the PINAX record is already attached to multiple meeting events, confirming thematic persistence across the decade‑plus span.
@minutes -> appears_in -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
@women_in_medicine -> appears_in -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
@curriculum_changes -> appears_in -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
@medical_colleges_committees -> appears_in -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
@medical_colleges_by_laws -> appears_in -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept

# 6. Place‑network continuity – Philadelphia and 229 Arch St. are the physical loci for every documented meeting, image asset, and administrative action.
@philadelphia_pa -> site_of -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
@229_arch_street -> site_of -> @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept

# 7. Digital representation – the PINAX metadata, the MODS description, and the scanned image assets together constitute the complete digital surrogate of the Faculty Minutes.
@faculty_minutes_1850_1864:collection -> aggregates -> [
    @file_pinax:document,
    @file_a092_001_xml:document,
    @faculty_meetings_images:document,
    @faculty_meeting_network_1850_1864:concept
]

# 8. Role mapping – each faculty member appears elsewhere in the corpus with a specific administrative or academic role; the PINAX creator list therefore doubles as a roster of role‑holders.
@dr_moseley -> role -> @dean_role:concept {when: @date_1850_06_25}
@j_f_x_mccloskey -> role -> @faculty_role:concept {department: "Anatomy", when: @date_1852}
@david_j_johnson -> role -> @dean_role:concept {when: @date_1852_04_23}
@ellwood_harvey -> role -> @dean_role:concept {when: @date_1855_01_02}
@edwin_fussell -> role -> @secretary_role:concept {when: @date_1855_01_09}
@e_h_cleveland -> role -> @faculty_role:concept {department: "Obstetrics", when: @date_1857}
@ann_preston -> role -> @faculty_role:concept {department: "General Introductory Lectures", when: @date_1855_10_03}
```

**Summary of synthesis**

- The **PINAX record** (`@file_pinax`) and the **MODS record** (`@file_a092_001_xml`) are two complementary descriptions of the **same faculty‑minutes collection** (`@faculty_minutes_1850_1864:collection`) covering **1850‑06‑25 to 1864‑10‑31**.  
- The **college itself** (`@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania`) is the institutional producer of the collection, while the **core faculty organization** (`@faculty_core`) supplies the individual creators and role‑holders.  
- **Subject concepts** (minutes, women‑in‑medicine, curriculum changes, committees, by‑laws, etc.) recur across all meeting events, demonstrating thematic continuity.  
- **Places** (Philadelphia and 229 Arch St.) anchor every documented activity, linking spatially the entire archive.  
- The **image assets** (`@faculty_meetings_images`) and the **metadata files** together provide a complete digital surrogate of the historic minute‑book series.  

These connections weave together the disparate sub‑directories into a unified knowledge graph of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania’s faculty governance during its formative years.

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Version History (6 versions)

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