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The images capture the handwritten minutes, including signatures and dates, and provide a visual record of the faculty’s decision‑making process.
@faculty_meeting_minutes_1855:document {title: "Female Medical College of Pennsylvania Faculty Meeting Minutes, November-December 1855", creator: [@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania, @ellwood_harvey, @edwin_fussell, @mark_g_kerr, @sylvester_birdsell, @kersey_g_thomas, @ann_preston], institution: @drexel_legacy_collections, created_start: @date_1855_11_19, created_end: @date_1855_12_17, language: "en", subjects: ["minutes","meetings","faculty","medical education","women in medicine","medical colleges"]}
@female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania:organization {founded: @date_1850_06_25, description: "First college in the world regularly organized for the education of women for the medical profession"}
@drexel_legacy_collections:organization {name: "Drexel Legacy Collections"}
@ellwood_harvey:person {full_name: "Ellwood Harvey", title: "Dean", lifespan: "1820-1889"}
@edwin_fussell:person {full_name: "Edwin Fussell", lifespan: "1813-1882"}
@mark_g_kerr:person {full_name: "Mark G. Kerr"}
@sylvester_birdsell:person {full_name: "Sylvester Birdsell"}
@kersey_g_thomas:person {full_name: "Kersey G. Thomas"}
@ann_preston:person {full_name: "Ann Preston"}
@dr_gillingham:person {full_name: "Dr. Gillingham"}
@preston_retreat:place {address: "20th & Hamilton Sts., Philadelphia", city: @philadelphia, state: @pennsylvania}
@board_of_corporation:organization {name: "Board of Corporation"}
@committee_fussell_thomas:organization {type: "committee", purpose: "apply to President and Managers of Preston Retreat"}
@committee_harvey_fussell:organization {type: "committee", purpose: "lay subject of board election before Corporators"}
@resolution_rent_preston_retreat:concept {description: "Faculty agree to rent or lease the Preston Retreat"}
@resolution_form_committee_fussell_thomas:concept {description: "Form committee of Drs. Fussell and Thomas to apply to Preston Retreat"}
@resolution_suggest_board_cooperators:concept {description: "Suggest to the Board of Cooperators of the Institution"}
@resolution_elect_board_members:concept {description: "Elect Harvey, Fussell, Kerr, Birdsell, Thomas to Board of Corporation"}
@resolution_no_lectures:concept {description: "No lectures shall be delivered after Saturday Dec. 22nd until Monday Dec. 31st"}
@resolution_recommend_fussell_harvey:concept {description: "Committee to recommend Prof. Edwin Fussell and Prof. Ellwood Harvey to Corporators for election to Board"}
@nov_19_1855_meeting:event {date: @date_1855_11_19, location: @philadelphia, presiding: @edwin_fussell, present: [@mark_g_kerr, @kersey_g_thomas, @ann_preston, @sylvester_birdsell, @edwin_fussell]}
@nov_19_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_rent_preston_retreat
@nov_19_1855_meeting -> formed committee -> @committee_fussell_thomas
@nov_19_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_form_committee_fussell_thomas
@dec_3_1855_meeting:event {date: @date_1855_12_03, location: @philadelphia, present: [@ann_preston, @edwin_fussell, @mark_g_kerr, @kersey_g_thomas, @dr_gillingham, @sylvester_birdsell, @ellwood_harvey]}
@dec_3_1855_meeting -> reported -> "Committee on Preston Retreat reported no answer from President and Managers"
@dec_3_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_suggest_board_cooperators
@dec_17_1855_meeting:event {date: @date_1855_12_17, location: @philadelphia, present: [@ann_preston, @mark_g_kerr, @dr_gillingham, @sylvester_birdsell, @ellwood_harvey]}
@dec_17_1855_meeting -> discussed -> "Propriety and expediency of electing Harvey, Fussell, Kerr, Birdsell, Thomas to Board of Corporation"
@dec_17_1855_meeting -> formed committee -> @committee_harvey_fussell
@dec_17_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_elect_board_members
@dec_17_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_no_lectures
@dec_17_1855_meeting -> passed resolution -> @resolution_recommend_fussell_harvey
@faculty_meeting_minutes_1855 -> contains -> @nov_19_1855_meeting
@faculty_meeting_minutes_1855 -> contains -> @dec_3_1855_meeting
@faculty_meeting_minutes_1855 -> contains -> @dec_17_1855_meeting
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@file_a092_001_092_jpg -> depicts -> @dec_17_1855_meetingNov. 19th, 1855. The Dean being absent, Dr. Fussell was appointed to preside. Present, Drs. Kerr, Thomas, Preston, Birdsell & Fussell. The following resolutions were passed. Resolved, that the Faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania agree to rent or lease the Preston Retreat located at 20th & Hamilton Sts. Phila. upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon between the Faculty and Trustees of the said Preston's Retreat. Resolved, that Drs. Fussell and Thomas be a committee to make written application to the President and Managers of the Preston Retreat for that building for the purposes of a Female Medical College, and Hospital for Lying-in Women and Diseases of Women and Children. Ellwood Harvey, M.D. (Dean) December 3rd, 1855. Present, Preston, Fussell, Kerr, Thomas, Gillingham, Birdsell and Harvey. Committee on Preston Retreat reported that they had addressed the President and Managers of that Institution, but had received no answer. The following resolutions were passed unanimously: Resolved that we respectfully suggest to the Board of Cooperatorers of this Institution
the propriety and expediency of electing Ellwood Harvey, M.D., Edwin Fussell, M.D., Mark G. Kerr, M.D., Sylvester Birdsell, M.D., and Kersey G. Thomas, M.D., members of the Board of Corporation. Resolved, that Drs. Harvey and Fussell be a committee to lay the subject of the above resolution before the Corporators. Ellwood Harvey, M.D. Dean of the Faculty December 17th, 1855. Present: Preston, Kerr, Gillingham, Birdsell & Harvey. At the request of Dr. Preston, and none objecting, her name was crossed off from the minutes of the last meeting. Her reason for making the request was her absence during a part of the meeting. It was resolved that no lectures shall be delivered after Saturday Dec. 22nd until Monday Dec. 31st. The action of last meeting in regard to recommending certain persons to the Corporators for election to their Board was reconsidered; and it was unanimously resolved that the committee then appointed should recommend to the Corporators for election to their Board Prof. Edwin Fussell and Prog. Ellwood Harvey. Meeting adjourned. Ellwood Harvey, Dean.
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