Collection, 1871-1944.

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Collection, 1871-1944.

Within the Papers series (1871-1944), the material pertains to Richards involvement in the University of Pennsylvania as a student and as a professor and alumnus. His activities included membership in the Philomathean Society, the Alumni Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa and a cast member of the play "The Acharnians." The collection also contains a certificate of membership to the Franklin Institute in 1925.

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Physics.

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Richards, T. W. (Thomas Webb), 1836-1911

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Taken from a label used in a University Exhibition (found in the T.W.R. Collection control file): "T.W. Richards was the son of Benjamin Moore Richards, a Welsh-born tailor living in the rear of a Lombard Street townhouse. Neither Thomas nor his brother, William Trost Richards, enjoyed formal education beyond the year 1846, but both apparently demonstrated early artistic genius. William Trost was later to become a well-known marine artist, while Thomas apprenticed with Samuel Sloan, one of Phila...