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Northwestern University Woman's Medical School records/Chicago Woman's Medical College
Collection
Identifier: WM-029
Abstract
The Woman’s Hospital Medical College of Chicago was founded in 1870 by Mary H. Thompson (1829-1895) and Dr. William Heath Byford (1817-1890) in order to provide equal education opportunities for female medical students in the Chicago area. In 1879, the name of the medical school was changed to the Woman’s Medical College of Chicago; and in 1892, it was taken over by the Northwestern University and renamed the Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School. Over the next ten years, financial...
Dates:
1870-1924, 1947
Marion Spencer Fay Papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-036
Abstract
Marion Spencer Fay (1898-1990) served as dean and president of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1943 to 1963 and promoted the recruitment of, education for, and recognition of women physicians. This collection includes the texts of many of Dr. Fay's speeches as well as a selection of professional and administrative papers from her time as dean and president of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1925 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1975
Hahnemann Medical College records
Collection
Identifier: HU.098
Overview
Hahnemann Medical College administrative and student records, primarily 19th century, including class schedules, matriculation and lecture tickets, student notebooks, newspaper clippings, and a dissection lab photograph. Also contains article drafts for the publication "Hospital Tidings."
Dates:
1870-1950; Majority of material found in 1870-1890
Hahnemann University Academic Affairs records
Collection
Identifier: HU-003
Overview
Hahnemann University’s long history began in 1848 with the founding of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. Over the years, the institution evolved in many ways, eventually becoming Hahnemann University and, later, the Drexel University College of Medicine. In the mid- to late-twentieth century, with the decline of homeopathy, Hahnemann re-invented itself as a nationally known academic medical center with prominence in cardiac surgery and cardiology, oncology, transplantation,...
Dates:
1848 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1994
Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration lung cancer screening study
Collection
Identifier: HU-002
Overview
Dr. Irena Grasberg Koprowska (born 1917) worked in pathology and participated in a study on the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer: The American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Cooperative Study for the Evaluation of Radiologic and Sputum Cytologic Screening in the Early Detection of Lung Cancer while working at Cornell University.The Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Screening Study consists of...
Dates:
1958 - 1964
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
George A. Hay collection of administrative files of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: WM-293-b
Overview
From 1925 to 1970, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC) underwent significant change, adapting to both survive and prosper in a transforming society. Administrative change was brought about and explored to spark institutional growth and/or to mollify financial stress. Among the more significant events in the College’s history was the 1930 move to new and larger facilities in East Falls, and an administrative reorganization in 1942. In the 1940s and 1960s, WMC also explored...
Dates:
1890 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1965
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