Records, 1927-1990.

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Records, 1927-1990.

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This collection contains all the official records the trust established for the benefit of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The first two series contain the minutes and supporting papers in the form of correspondence and reports used for the meetings of the trustees from 1927 to 1977, 1989 and 1990. The Alfred Fitler Moore Estate series contains legal documents and correspondence relating to the duty of the trustees in reporting their actions to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court which has jurisdiction over the trust primarily from 1923 to 1977. It also includes several published agreements between the trustees of the will of Alfred Fitler Moore and the University of Pennsylvania. The general file series contains primarily financial records, such as audits and investment reports. There is also correspondence relating to the expenditure of the trusts funds and assets for the Moore School, particularly the Electromagnetic Wave Research Laboratory and Education Center near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the Graduate Research Center, and the X-Ray Laboratory Fund.

7 cubic feet.

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6691568

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

University of Pennsylvania. Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

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Moore, Alfred Fitler, 1854-1912.

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University of Pennsylvania. School of Engineering and Applied Science

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University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Treasurer.

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University of Pennsylvania. Trustees of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

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The Trustees for the Moore School of Electrical Engineering were established by a bequest in the will of Alfred Fitler Moore. After creating several life trusts for his family, Moore directed that the remainder of his estate be applied to a trust for the creation of school of electrical engineering which would be named the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Upon the termination of the life trusts in 1923, a board of trustees for the school was formed and it entered into an agre...