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Finding Aid

College of Dentistry Photographs Collection
RG 30.01.25
Collection Dates: 1883-1967
10.25 linear ft.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department.

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Acquisition and Processing Information: The College of Dentistry Photographs Collection was transferred from the College of Dentistry to the University Archives in February 2007. They were originally mounted on poster board but were removed for preservation and digitization purposes. Guide posted to the Internet in May 2009.

Photographs: Entire collection

College of Dentistry Class of 1891
College of Dentistry Class of 1891


Scope and Contents

The College of Dentistry Photographs Collection consists of individual portrait images of the College's graduates, arranged by year of graduation and, within each year, alphabetically by name of individual. Graduating class years represented in this collection are from 1883 to 1967. The photographs were originally mounted on large cardboard backing as composite images, with each composite grouping representing the members of a given graduating class. With the exception of the years 1893, 1894 and 1899, the photographs were separated from the cardboard backing by University Libraries conservation staff and placed in individual sleeves after undergoing digitization. Because of their unique artistic characteristics, the three composite boards for the above-noted years have been preserved intact and are housed at the University Archives.

The online version of this collection is at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/dentistry.


Related Materials

"Historical Sketch of Dentistry at Iowa." Iowa Alumnus 13, no. 8 (May 1916): 5-7, illus.

University of Iowa. College of Dentistry. A Proud Heritage, 1882-1982, the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. Iowa City, 1982. 44 pp., illus., bibliog.

Weidenbach, Amelia Rose. "History of the University of Iowa: The College of Dentistry." M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1944.



Box Contents List

Box 1

1883-1889

Box 2

1890-1892

Box 3

1892 (continued)-1896

Box 4

1898

Box 5

1900, 1901

Box 6

1902

Box 7

1903

Box 8

1904-1906

Box 9

1907

Box 10

1908

Box 11

1909, 1910

Box 12

1911

Box 13

1912, 1913

Box 14

1914

Box 15

1915

Box 16

1916

Box 17

1917

Box 18

1920, 1922, 1926, 1927

Box 19

1928, 1929

Box 20

1930, 1931

Box 21

1932, 1933

Box 22

1934, 1935

Box 23

1936, 1937

Box 24

1938, 1939

Box 25

1940, 1941

Box 26

1942, 1945

Box 27

1946, 1948

Box 28

1949, 1950

Box 29

1951, 1952

Box 30

1953, 1954

Box 31

1955, 1956

Box 32

1957, 1958

Box 33

1959, 1960

Box 34

1961, 1962

Box 35

1963

Box 36

1964, 1965

Box 37

1966

Box 38

1967