The Legacy Center Blog

Mary Walker, 1890 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Mary Edwards Walker, Part I

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker attended Syracuse Medical College after spending some time being a schoolteacher. After her marr...

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Mary Walker, 1864 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Using stories to tell history

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the only woman physician to serve as a surgeon during the Civil War and the first woman to r...

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Pew grant advisory team (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Playing with the Past: A Digital History Toolkit

The Legacy Center was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP) of The Pew Center for Arts &...

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Staff of the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Request for Proposals: Anniversary Project (oral histories and calendar)

To help commemorate the Drexel University College of Medicine Institute for Women's Health and Leadership's 20th anniver...

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"Blackguardism," newspaper clipping from the Evening Bulletin, November 8, 1869 from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania clipping scrapbook: Volume 1 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

“Go tomorrow to the hospital to see the She Doctors!”

The Legacy Center presented a program to students from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy to assist in creating a newspape...

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Student with Dr. Mary Dratman and technicians in the endocrinology lab, 1951 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Mary B. Dratman papers

The Legacy Center received a second donation of papers from Dr. Mary Bagan Dratman, a 1945 graduate of Woman's Medical C...

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

19th century homeopathic medicine journal now online

The Legacy Center digitized the Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzte (Correspondence Paper of Homeopathic Physi...

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Matilda Evans, class photo

Two Women, Two Paths

Students at Constitution High School worked with the primary sources of Eliza Grier (Woman's Medical College of Pennsylv...

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"Any Questions?" - article in the The British Medical Journal (BMJ, Vol. 2, No. 4799, Dec. 27, 1952, pp. 1431-1432. (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Schamberg's Well-Known Kissing Party: Mistletoe, syphilis, and other holiday hazards

Syphilis is a disease that can be transmitted through simple affectionate actions such as a kiss. This blog post elabora...

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