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Collection of medical missionary publications and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WM-069
Abstract

A collection of correspondence and published material from various medical missionary organizations documenting the progress and goals of these missionary organizations, as well as missionary work and life in locations throughout China, India, and Korea. The collection also includes issues of The Medical Missionary and Medical Missionary.

Dates: 1853-1972 inclusive,1900-1950 bulk ; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

Mary Pauline Root papers

 Collection
Identifier: WM-257
Overview Dr. (Mary) Pauline Root (b. 1859, d.1944) was a graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1883. She was the first female doctor to receive an internship at Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia, and was reportedly the first female doctor to be sent on a mission by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). She carried out medical missionary work from 1885-1893 at a women's hospital in Madurai, India. Root completed post-graduate work at the Manhattan Eye and...
Dates: 1883 - 1985

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: WM-AHE5
Description

Approximately 20,000 images from the mid 1800s to 2000, illustrating women medical students at work and play, women physicians at work in offices, hospitals, and in clinics domestically and abroad, portraits, college faculty and administrators. Images post-1970 include male medical students and male physicians.

Dates: 1850 - 2000