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American Medical Women's Association records

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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

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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

Anne Taylor Kirschmann papers

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Identifier: 2000-015
Scope and Contents

1 bound dissertation - "A Vital Force: Women Physicians and Patients in American Homeopathy"

Dates: 1999

Black Women Physicians Project

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Identifier: WM-178
Overview The Black Women Physicians Project records contains documentation of the lives and careers of Black women in medicine, compiled by Margaret Jerrido, who served as an Archivist at the Medical College of Philadelphia. Started in the 1980s by Jerrido, BWPP is an artificial collection (a collection with materials from disparate sources intentionally arranged for research use) and includes not only Biographical Reference Files, but also oral histories, planning materials that supported BWPP, and...
Dates: 1807 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1992

Bradford collection of biographies of Homeopathic Physicians

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Identifier: HU-064
Overview

Dr. Thomas L. Bradford (1847-1918) was a practicing homeopathic physician in Maine, Europe and Philadelphia. While practicing and teaching in Philadelphia he served as curator for the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. From 1896 to 1916, he collected, organized and maintained material for 35 scrapbooks of biographical information about homeopathic physicians.

Dates: 1868 - 1918

Catharine Macfarlane papers

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Identifier: WM-047
Overview Catharine Macfarlane graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1898, and later became an instructor in obstetrics at the college and a professor of gynecology. She was the first woman to be elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1935. Macfarlane devoted much of her career to cancer research and prevention, specifically pelvic cancer. In 1956, she became the first woman to serve as Chairman for the Medical Society of Pennsylvania’s Commission on Cancer....
Dates: 1895-1971; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1960

Northwestern University Woman's Medical School records/Chicago Woman's Medical College

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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

Commonplace book

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Identifier: HU.085
Overview

This undated, unsigned book of a homepathic physician is similar to other student notebooks, and it contains descriptions of medical conditions and their remedies.

Dates: n.d.-n.d.; Majority of material found in n.d.-n.d.

Custis family papers

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Identifier: 2012-009
Overview Papers of the Custis family, 1851-1967. Collection contains materials reflecting the training and practice of homeopathic physicians, Horace Hatch Custis, Jr. (Hahnemann Medical College class of 1937), his uncle Gregg Custis, Jr. (Hahnemann Medical College class of 1888), and Gregg’s son J.B. Custis, Sr. (New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital class of 1878). Gregg began his career working for the railroad; however, after retiring, he attended medical school. His son, J.B. Custis,...
Dates: 1851-1967

Doris Bartuska papers

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Identifier: WM-300
Overview Born and raised in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Dr. Doris Bartuska graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1954, where she also served her internship and residency. An endocrinologist, she joined the faculty in 1958, was an Associate Dean for Curriculum, President of the Medical Staff, and a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Alumni Association. Dr. Bartuska was Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism as well as the Endocrine...
Dates: 1948-2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2005

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Allen, H.C. (Henry C.) 1
Allen, Timothy Field 1
American Cancer Society 1
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Bartuska, Doris Sophie Gorka, M.D. (1929-2013) 1
Bates, Mary Elizabeth 1
Botelho family 1
Botelho, Stella Y., M.D. (Stella Yates), 1919-2015 1
Brodie, Jessie Laird, M.D. (1898-1990) 1
Business and Professional Women's Club 1
Center for Population Research (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)) (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)) 1
Chicago Woman's Medical College 1
Chodos, Alan 1
Comly, Elizabeth Howell 1
Corner, George Washington (1889-1981) 1
Crippen, Hawley Harvey 1
De Martinez-Alvarez, Josefina Villafane 1
Dew, Louis E. 1
Dolley, Sarah Read Adamson (1829-1909) 1
Dunning, Thomas S. 1
Eagleville sanatorium (Eagleville, Pa) 1
Elston, Anny, M.D. (1895-1975) 1
Evans family 1
Farrington, E.A. (Ernest Albert) 1
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania 1
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Haseltine Systems 1
Haseltine, Florence (1942-) 1
Haseltine, William R. 1
Hughes, Richard 1
Humphreys, F. (Frederick) 1
International Serbian Education Committee 1
Jerrido, Margaret 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Kirschmann, Anne Taylor, 1944- 1
Knerr, Calvin B., M.D. (Calvin Brobst), 1847-1940 1
Kuhlenbeck, Hartwig (-1897) 1
Longshore, Hannah, M.D. (1819-1901) 1
Longshore, J. S., M.D. (Joseph Skelton) (1809-1879) 1
Longshore, Thomas E., M.D. 1
Lovejoy, Esther Pohl, M.D., 1869-1957 1
Macfarlane, Catherine, M.D., 1934- 1
McClelland, James Henderson 1
Medical Women's International Association 1
Moore, Thomas 1
Morani, Alma Dea, M.D., 1907-2001 1
Morton, Rosalie B. S., M.D. (Rosalie Slaughter), 1876-1968 1
Nims, Robert 1
Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.). Woman's Medical School 1
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 1
Pearce, Louise (b. 1886) 1
Peck, Elizabeth L. 1
Philadelphia Club of Medical Women 1
Potter, Marion Craig, M.D. 1
Poynter, Clara Eliza Axtell 1
Poynter, Lida 1
Radnor High School (Wayne, Pa) 1
Reyersbach, Gertrud Clara 1
Root, Mary Pauline, M.D. 1
Schall, John Hubley 1
Schall, Nina 1
Sisters of the Good Shepherd 1
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Smith, Henry M. 1
Smith, Julia Holmes 1
Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research 1
Stein, Isabel (nee Smith) 1
Steiner, Prudence L. 1
Thomas, A. R. (Amos Russell), 1826-1895 1
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Vischer, Carl V. (Carl Victor), 1867-1906 1
Walker, Mary Edwards, M.D. (1832-1919) 1
Wesselhoeft, C. (Conrad) 1
West Philadelphia Hospital for Women and Children 1
Williams, Henry N. 1
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