Corydon L. Ford papers 1841-1900 1873-1900

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Corydon L. Ford papers 1841-1900 1873-1900

Dr. Corydon L. Ford was a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Michigan Department of Medicine and Surgery (now the Medical School), He taught from 1854 to 1894. The collection contains reports on his faculty activities, scattered correspondence, lecture notes, syllabi, plates, and other papers relating largely to his work in the Medical School; also visual materials.

2 linear feet

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6388994

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan. Department of Medicine and Surgery

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The University of Michigan was the first state university to operate a medical school. Medicine was the second oldest field of study there, after classics. The program was started in 1850, and at that time the course lasted only a few months. In a letter dated October 10, 1938, a proposal to form a Medical School collection as part of the Michigan Historical Collections was submitted to Dr. A. C. Furstenberg, Dean of the Medical School. He replied in December that the ex...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Ford, Corydon L. (Corydon La), 1813-1894

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Physician, teacher, and lecturer; originally of Lexington, N.Y.; professor and lecturer at Geneva and Buffalo, N.Y., Castleton, Vt., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Medical College. Married Jannie Chapman Messer in 1865 at Pittsfield, Mass. From the description of Corydon L. Ford notebook, 1853. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 757728134 Professor of anatomy at University of Michigan. From the description of Corydon La Ford papers,...