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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Collection

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Physicians

Nurses and nursing

Health professions

Hospitals

Medical Schools and Societies

Books on Shelf

Oversize Materials

Medicine Collection, 1845-1920

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Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003

Collection Overview

Title:Medicine Collection
Dates: 1826-1972
Abstract: Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, and articles pertaining to women in the field of medicine, including physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries. Women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies are also documented.
Extent: 9 boxes; 8 volumes(4 linear ft.)
Language: English.
Identification: MS 453

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Jane Arminda Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Services, n.d.

The Medicine Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, articles, and books pertaining to women in all fields of medicine. The collection dates from 1826 to 1972. Materials on women physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries include mostly biographical information on individuals such as Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Edith Cavell, Alice Hamilton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Walker. The Physicians section also includes files on countries other than the U.S. Files on women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies include primarily published material related to specific institutions in the U.S. and Great Britain. There two boxes of bulletins from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There is also general material related to women in the health professions.

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Physicians

Box
Folder
11
Bibliographies


Countries (not U.S.)

2
General: "Les femmes docteurs en medecine dans tous les pays" by Haryette Fontanges, 1901

3
Australia

4
Canada

5
China


England

6-7
Biographies

8
Phipson, Edith Pechey

9
France

10
Germany

11
Greenland

12
India

13
Italy

14
Japan

15
Latin America

16
Netherlands

17
Scotland

18
Thailand


United States


General

Box
Folder
219
Miscellaneous

20
Articles, 1895-1966

21
Clippings

22
Pamphlets, 1850-1972, n.d.

23
States: women in medicine, Kansas, New York, South


Biographical materials

24
General: articles on women doctors

25
Baker, Sara Josephine

26
Baumgartner, Leona,

27
Blackwell, Elizabeth

28
Blackwell, Emily

29
Bradley, Frances Sage

30
Call, Emma

31
DeVoll, Sarah Wood (Howard)

31a
Hahn, Pearl

32
Hamilton, Alice

33
Jacobi, Mary Putnam

34
Mosher, Eliza M.

35
Pierson, Mary Wright

36
Pratt, Elsie Seelye

36a
Spock, Benjamin

36b
Standish, Hilda Crosby

37
Tracy, Martha

38
Walker, Mary Edwards

38a
White, Priscilla


Medical missionaries

Box
Folder
339
Miscellaneous


Biographies

39a
Beals, Rose Fairbanks

40
Berry, Katherine F. : Katie-San by Berry, 1962

41
Dyer, Lora Genevieve

42
[File missing]


Nurses and nursing


General

Box


3
Wide Neighborhoods by Mary Breckinridge

Box
Folder
443
Pamphlets and articles, 1862


Biographical materials

Box
Folder
444
Cavell, Edith

45
Delano, Jane A.

46
Dock, Lavinia

47
Hancock, Cornelia

48
Geller, Anne Dravo vanKirk

48a
Kells, Maud V.

48b
Low, Sarah

49
Maass, Clara

50
Nightingale, Florence

51
Nutting, Mary Adelaide

52
Army nurses

53
Black nurses

54
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Louisville, KY


Countries (not U.S.)

55
General: pamphlets and articles

56
England: Liverpool Nurses Training School

57
Japan


Health professions

Box
Folder
558
General: pamphlets


Conferences: reports of proceedings

59
Women's Leadership and Authority in the Health Professions, UC Santa Cruz, 19-21 Jun 1977


International Conference on Women in Health, Washington D.C., 16-18 June 1975


Hospitals

Box
Folder
660
American Women's Hospital Service

61
L'Hopital Sainte Justine, Montreal

62
New York Infirmary

63
St. Louis Children's Hospital

64
Uplands Sanatorium, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee


Vincent Memorial Hospital. "The Vincent Show"

65
Women's Institute of New York City, 1872


Medical Schools and Societies


Medical Schools

Box
Folder
766
General


United States

67
Miscellaneous: articles

68
Johns Hopkins Medical School

69
New England Female Medical College/Female Medical Education Society (Boston)

70
Women's College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York

70a
Women's Medical College of Baltimore

71
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

72
England: medical schools and organizations


Medical Societies

Box
Folder
773
American Medical Women's Association

74
Massachusetts Medical Society

75
Medical Women's International Association.

76
Medical Women's National Association

77
New England Women's Medical Society

78
"Women's physicians and their state medical societies" article by Phoebe Peck

79
Philadelphia Medical Society

80
Women's Medical Association of New York City

Box


8-9
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: Bulletins, 1889-1960


Books on Shelf


The Annual of Allentown Nurses College, Vol. VII (1926)


Alsop, Gulielma. History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 Philadelphia, 1950


Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D. Address on the Medical Education of Women (1856)


Breckenridge, Mary. Wide Neighborhoods, a story of the Frontier Nursing Service. New York, 1952


Lutzker, Edyth. Women Gain a Place in Medicine. New York, 1969


Thoms, Adah B. Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. New York, 1929


Nursing School Today and Tomorrow. Final report of the Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools. New York, 1934


McLaren, Eva Shaw. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. London, 1919


Oversize Materials


Poster: "Send Us a Lady Physician"