The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia County, dedicated 2007.

3601 Spruce St.

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The nation's first independent biomedical research institution was founded in 1892 by Isaac Jones Wistar. It houses the anatomical collection of the Wistar and Horner Museum. Many critical vaccines and the albino Wistar rats used in medical research were developed here.

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1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1880 · Philadelphia, Camden. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1884 · Philadelphia, Camden. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · The Matthews-Northrup up-to-date map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1901 · Philadelphia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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