The Legacy Center Blog

Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 1918 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Working with the Sources: The American Women’s Hospitals in the Near East

Full article following initial blog post written by Virginia Metaxas, Ph.D., Professor of History and Women’s Studies, S...

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

“We give our vote for a lady physician here”: Welcoming Doctor or Doctress

Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project of Legacy Center's collections designed to help students understand and...

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Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 1918 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Working with the Sources: The American Women’s Hospitals in the Near East

This blog post is an excerpt from Virginia Metaxas, Ph.D., Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Southern Connecticu...

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Hartwig Kuhlenbeck (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

The Mystery of the Shrunken Head

The Hartwig Kuhlenbeck collection contains materials from Dr. Kuhlenbeck, a professor at the Woman's Medical College of ...

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Doctor or Doctress beta header (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Beta has arrived for Doctor or Doctress?

Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project of Legacy Center's collections designed to help students understand and...

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Doctor or Doctress story page (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Almost beta: High school students and our (yet unnamed) digital history project

Philadelphia high school students tested the basic version of the Legacy Center's digital history project. The blog post...

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Jessie Laird Brodie, MD collection before processing (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Guest post from intern Tracy Ulmer

The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories was created with the intent to make small...

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Hahnemann Hospital and Nurses’ Building, 15th Street, circa 1910 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

PACSCL Hidden Collections comes to DUCOM

The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections (PACSCL) started a new phase of uncovering "hidden collections" ...

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Constantine Hering, circa 1850s (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Constantine Hering: The Father of American Homeopathy

This blog post is about Constantine Hering, considered the "father of homeopathy" in America and was one of the founders...

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