The Legacy Center Blog

Coming Up Black by David A. Schulz (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

We Are Connected, History Connects Us

Archives intern, Caren Teague, tells of her experience working at the Drexel College of Medicine's Legacy Center and the...

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Two wooden boxes thought to contain medical instruments (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Subject: 26-D-4's Box 92 Discoveries

The David Hottenstein collection at the Drexel College of Medicine's Legacy Center contained an unidentified box of medi...

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International Conference of Women Physicians, 1919 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

We Are Not Coexisting but Existing Together: 100 Years of Medical Women's International Association

Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center houses the records of the Medical Women's International Associatio...

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Elizabeth Clark to Ada Peirce McCormick pet nam Dearest Pie-faced Angel-child

Deep bonds and intimate friendships: Letters to Ada Pierce McCormick

The Ada Peirce McCormick papers at the Drexel College of Medicine's Legacy Center is made up largely of personal corresp...

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Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss on the cover of the October 1944 edition of Medical Women’s Journal (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Birth Control, Sex Education, and Eugenic Feminism: The Peculiar Activism of Women Physicians

Eugenic feminism was a movement that overlapped with the social hygiene movement, women's suffrage and the birth control...

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Elizabeth Cisney Smith and Augustus Edwin Smith around the time of their marriage, 1903 (Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Tea at the Turn of the Century: Exploring Small Town Life with Elizabeth Cisney Smith

The Isabel Smith Stein collection on Elizabeth Cisney Smith explores the life of Dr. Elizabeth Cisney Smith, a 1911 grad...

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Dr. Eleanor Way-Allen calling card.

Visiting Friends: Encounters in the Alumnae Files

The Alumnae Files of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania are files that track the graduates of the college throu...

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The complete nervous system dissection known as “Harriet” (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Dissecting Harriet Cole: Uncovering Women's History in the Archives

Harriet is a complete dissection of the cerebrospinal nervous system, dissected and mounted in 1888 by anatomist Dr. Ruf...

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Doris Bartuska, MD circa 1987 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

The Story of Dr. Doris Bartuska: Sexism in Medicine during the 1950s to 1980s

The Doris Bartuska papers contain the work of Dr. Doris Bartuska, a 1954 graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Penn...

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