The Legacy Center Blog

Dorothee Gold document (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Impermanence

Doris Phillips Wheeler was a 1941 Austrian graduate from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania who began medical schoo...

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Medical Women’s International Association Fourth Congress, 1937 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Modern Miracle Women: Dr. Catharine Macfarlane a Leader in the Fight Against Cancer

Dr. Catharine Macfarlane was a pioneer in cancer research in determining that yearly exams were necessary in finding can...

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Bound volumes of Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia meeting minutes (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

On the Evolution of Meeting Minutes: Formality and Degrees of Richness

Founded in 1868, the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia started as an educational organization for those who were inter...

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Elizabeth Hocker, MD circa 1917 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

"We called them our boys": Primary Sources on WWI Caregiving

Diana Lewis, 1912 graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Nurse's Training School served in the American...

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A patient in the American Women’s Hospitals’ Women’s Ward in Istanbul, Turkey (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Picture Perfect: Teaching Analysis Skills with Fundraising Photography

The American Women Hospitals used photographs for fundraising for their foreign and domestic causes. This blog post expl...

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Elizabeth Cisney Smith dissecting a cadaver with her class (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Hidden Collections 2015

Archivists follow guidelines for processing and describing collections that allow room for flexibility on collection org...

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Members of the class of 1944 of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania pose with Dr. Kuhlenbeck at Somerton Airport (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Tuberculosis Strikes the Class of 1944

Tuberculosis is caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis or one of a number of related bacteria. It most o...

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Doctor or Doctress public interface (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Tales from the Tech Side: A look at Doctor or Doctress from our developer

Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project that uses content found in the Legacy Center's collections to help stud...

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Thomas Lindsley Bradford (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Hear ye, hear ye! Bradford’s “labor of love” now digitized for all!

Dr. Thomas Bradford, librarian and lecturer on the history of medicine at Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, com...

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