Blog - The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections at Drexel University College of Medicine

Timelines as exhibits?

This blog post explores three options the Legacy Center considered for a new digital history project including an intera...

Mary Putnam Jacobi is a 1864 graduate of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. This blog post explores her life an...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was difficult for women to become physicians, much less homeopathic physicians w...

The Legacy Center is adopting Islandora as the new software to manage and preserve its repository. The Center wants to h...

Two Mastery Charter school 10th graders completed their 16-week long internship at the Legacy Center by focusing on the ...

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman to earn her medical degree in the US from New England Fema...

The Gross Anatomy Lab at the College of Medicine is where medical students are assigned a cadaver and spend the fall and...

In the 1930s, over 63 hospitals and medical schools operated in Philadelphia, including Hahnemann Medical College, one o...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, suffragist and dress reformer. This blog post foll...