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Revisiting the Mary Pauline Root papers

Caitlin "KT" Abadir-Mullally details the process of reparative archives and necessity revisiting the Mary Pauline Root Papers

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Black Women Physicians Project: An Early Step in the Path Toward Reparative Archives

Jess Hutchison highlights her experience processing the Black Women Physicians Project and where the project fits into the history of reparative archives. 

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Hartwig Kuhlenbeck

Research Co-op Projects 2021: Dez Uwaomah

Dez Uwaomah discusses her starting research on Hartwig Kuhlenbeck, MD from the end of World War I in 1918 to his appoint...

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Engraving showing the sale of Manhattan Island. Source: Hearth, Amy Hill. “Strong Medicine” Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say. New York: Atria Books, 2008. P.4

Research Co-op Projects 2021: Amanda Lyles

Amanda Lyles introduces her research on the journeys of Indigenous women in medicine as early representatives of their c...

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Correspondence between Pauline Dinkins and Martha Tracy, 1919. (Legacy Center Archives & Special Collections)

The True Path to Diversity

The murder of George Floyd turned the United States and the world into a state of chaos. He wasn’t the first person to l...

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Illustration of "The Goblin Germs" from Jack O'Health and Peg O'Joy: A fairy-tale. (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Woman's Medical College vs the 1918 Flu Pandemic

In the aftermath of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, health officials struggled on defining ways to better help individuals. Witho...

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Dr. Tallant, professor of obstetrics at WMCP outside the college’s maternity clinic c. 1923 (From the Clara Dickinson scrapbook Acc1993.01)

"Guardian of the Health of Negro Women": The Work and Legacy of Dr. Virginia Alexander

Dr. Virginia Alexander graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1925. In the 1930s, she established...

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Women Physicians Deny They Are 'Disappointed' - Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania clippings scrapbook: Volume 5, page 490-491

"There is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity" - Controversies at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

The first 8 volumes (1867-1920) of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania clipping scrapbooks were digitized as par...

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Florence Haseltine at a young age. (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

"I answer to myself": Dr. Florence Haseltine and her path to women's health advocacy

The Florence Haseltine papers are available at the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center and are filled wi...

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