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American Medical Women's Association records
Collection
Identifier: WM-037
Overview
American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) was founded on November 18, 1915, by a dedicated group of women physicians at the Chicago Women’s Club. Originally called Medical Women’s National Association (MWNA) until 1937, AMWA has advocated for women in the medical professions and the equal treatment of women in medicine since its inception. AMWA continues to serve the United States and the international community in medical service needs and acts as an important lobbying force for...
Dates:
1847 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1917-1978
American Women's Hospitals Service photographs
Collection
Identifier: WM-144-a
Overview
The American Women's Hospitals (AWH) developed from the War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association (later called the American Medical Women's Association) in 1917, to provide, register and finance American women physicians for war work; to offer medical and emergency relief to refugees; and, later, to provide international public health service. In 1959, AWH became an independent agency and remained such until 1982 when it re-merged with the American Medical Women's...
Dates:
1917 - 1982
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
Schall collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-005
Overview
John Hubley Schall earned his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in 1893. Materials represent the life and work of Dr. Schall, his wife, Nina Schall, M.D. (Cornell Medical School, 1906) and probably their son, John Schall, also a physician, who likely owned some of the journals in the collection. Materials in the collection include photographs, illustrations, correspondence, notes, lectures and speeches, and publications.
Dates:
1893 - 1982
Stella Yates Botelho papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-363
Overview
Stella Yates Botelho, M.D. (b. 1919) is an alumnus of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (M.D. 1949) and the University of Pennsylvania (A.B. 1940). She specialized in the field of physiology and had a distinguished career as a researcher and teacher. The papers include materials documenting both her personal life and professional career. While in medical school, Botelho contracted tuberculosis and spent nearly a year at Eagleville Sanatorium, which is discussed in her diary from this...
Dates:
1823 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1919 - 1981
West Philadelphia Hospital for Women records
Collection
Identifier: WM-001
Abstract
Founded by Dr. Elizabeth Comly-Howell in 1889, the West Philadelphia Hospital for Women was established in order to provide a place in West Philadelphia where women could be treated by women. In 1929, the hospital merged with the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. At the time of the merger, it was arranged that all maternity cases would be sent to the West Philadelphia Hospital, and surgical cases would be kept at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia...
Dates:
1899 - 1932
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