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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 S. Irick Drexel scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: unknown container
Identifier: MC-00-041
Scope and content note
This scrapbook contains news clippings describing Mary S. Irick Drexel's work as the Chairman of the Bureau of Canteen Service of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Division of the American Red Cross during World War I. Most of the articles relate to Canteen Services in Philadelphia. All the clippings are from the years 1917-1919, except for one clipping from 1956, which describes the removal of the Red Cross Booth from the City Hall courtyard.
Dates:
1917-1919, 1956; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1919
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Schramm, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-091
Overview
Schramm, Inc. is a manufacturing company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, that has had strong ties to Drexel University for almost one hundred years. Founded by Christian D. Schramm in Philadelphia in 1900, the company moved to its current location in 1917. In its early years, Schramm sold small gasoline engines and portable air compressors, but in recent decades the firm has specialized in the manufacture of drilling equipment. The Schramm, Inc. records include board and stockholders’...
Dates:
1836-2018; Majority of material found within 1900-1983
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Lida Poynter collection on Dr. Mary E. Walker
Collection
Identifier: WM-026
Abstract
The Lida Poynter collection on Dr. Mary E. Walker consists of Poynter’s unpublished manuscript and research notes on the life of Dr. Mary E. Walker. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a physician who served as a surgeon during the Civil War. She was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service and remains the only woman to have received the Medal. Throughout her life, she wrote, lectured and taught on medicine, dress reform, suffrage, and women’s rights, in general. In addition to Poynter's...
Dates:
circa 1850-1946
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