Historical Collections is Thomas Jefferson University’s digital archive. This archive holds a wide variety of material, including oral histories, commencement programs, student publications, historical photographs, course catalogs, yearbooks, lecture notes, theses, alumni bulletins, personal papers, and history books.
You can browse the collections, below, or use the Search function to the left.
If you are doing genealogical research, please check out our guide for tips on how to use this resource.
Browse the Historical Collections:
- East Falls Campus Oral Histories
- First Women at Jefferson Oral Histories
- Jefferson Nursing Oral Histories
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College Oral Histories
- Jefferson College of Biomedical Sciences Commencement
- Jefferson College of Health Professions and Jefferson College of Pharmacy
- Jefferson College of Nursing Commencements
- Jefferson College of Population Health Commencement
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College Class Day
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements
Jefferson History and Publications
- Ariel
- College and Clinical Record
- Historical Addresses
- Historical Films
- Historical Photographs of Jefferson
- History of the anatomy act of Pennsylvania, WS Forbes, 1898
- Jefferson History Books
- Jefferson Medical College Catalogs
- Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses
- Jefferson Medical College Records Books
- Jefferson Yearbooks
- Lecture & Matriculation Tickets
- Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College
- Posters: Jefferson History
- Thomas Jefferson University - A chronological history and alumni directory, 1824 - 1990, edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, and J. Woodrow Savacool, MD, 1992.
- Thomas Jefferson University - tradition and heritage, edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, 1989
- TJU Charter of Incorporation (1969)
- Yellow fever, a symposium in commemoration of Carlos Juan Finlay, 1955
- Jefferson Biographies
- Jefferson Medical College 19th century matriculates
- Jefferson Review
- JMC General Alumni Catalog (1917)
- John Plimpton Green Letters
- Samuel D. Gross, M.D. A Bibliography (1834-1887)
- The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)
- 125 Years of Nursing at Jefferson
- A Commitment to Excellence (TJU nursing school history) (1982)
- Caps & Capes
- Nursing Alumni Bulletins
Jefferson Medical Books and Notebooks
- Jefferson Medical College Theses
- Manuscripts and Journals
- Medical Student and Faculty Lecture Notes
- Rare Medical Books
- Regional anatomy McClellan, George 1896 Vol. 1
