mnsss101 Medicine Collection, 1845-1920 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
2003

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 Collection Overview Medicine Collection1826-1972 MS 453 9 boxes; 8 volumes (4 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, and articles pertaining to women in the field of medicine, including physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries. Women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies are also documented. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

Jane Arminda Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Services, n.d.

The Medicine Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, articles, and books pertaining to women in all fields of medicine. The collection dates from 1826 to 1972. Materials on women physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries include mostly biographical information on individuals such as Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Edith Cavell, Alice Hamilton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Walker. The Physicians section also includes files on countries other than the U.S. Files on women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies include primarily published material related to specific institutions in the U.S. and Great Britain. There two boxes of bulletins from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There is also general material related to women in the health professions.

 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy all copyright holders. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Medicine Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

 Additions to the Collection

Periodic additions to collection are expected.

History of the Collection

Materials in this subject collection were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors.

Finding aid revised in 2002 by Gayla Spaulding, intern. Recent additions may not be reflected in the finding aid.

Search Terms Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania-- History--Sources Medical education--United States--History--Sources Medicine--History--Sources Medicine--Societies, etc.--History--Sources Missionaries, Medical--History--Sources Nurses--History--Sources Women in medicine--History--Sources Women medical students--History--Sources Women physicians--History--Sources Women's hospitals--History--Sources Physicians 1 1 Bibliographies Countries (not U.S.) 1 2 General: "Les femmes docteurs en medecine dans tous les pays" by Haryette Fontanges, 1901 1 3 Australia 1 4 Canada 1 5 China England 1 6-7 Biographies 1 8 Phipson, Edith Pechey 1 9 France 1 10 Germany 1 11 Greenland 1 12 India 1 13 Italy 1 14 Japan 1 15 Latin America 1 16 Netherlands 1 17 Scotland 1 18 Thailand United States General 2 19 Miscellaneous 2 20 Articles, 1895-1966 2 21 Clippings 2 22 Pamphlets, 1850-1972, n.d. 2 23 States: women in medicine, Kansas, New York, South Biographical materials 2 24 General: articles on women doctors 2 25 Baker, Sara Josephine 2 26 Baumgartner, Leona, 2 27 Blackwell, Elizabeth

[See also Books on Shelf]

2 28 Blackwell, Emily 2 29 Bradley, Frances Sage 2 30 Call, Emma 2 31 DeVoll, Sarah Wood (Howard) 2 31a Hahn, Pearl 2 32 Hamilton, Alice 2 33 Jacobi, Mary Putnam 2 34 Mosher, Eliza M. 2 35 Pierson, Mary Wright 2 36 Pratt, Elsie Seelye 2 36a Spock, Benjamin 2 36b Standish, Hilda Crosby 2 37 Tracy, Martha 2 38 Walker, Mary Edwards 2 38a White, Priscilla Medical missionaries 3 39 Miscellaneous Biographies 3 39a Beals, Rose Fairbanks 3 40 Berry, Katherine F. : Katie-San by Berry, 1962 3 41 Dyer, Lora Genevieve 3 42 [File missing] Nurses and nursing General 3 Wide Neighborhoods by Mary Breckinridge

[See Books on Shelf]

4 43 Pamphlets and articles, 1862 Biographical materials 4 44 Cavell, Edith 4 45 Delano, Jane A. 4 46 Dock, Lavinia 4 47 Hancock, Cornelia 4 48 Geller, Anne Dravo vanKirk 4 48a Kells, Maud V. 4 48b Low, Sarah 4 49 Maass, Clara 4 50 Nightingale, Florence 4 51 Nutting, Mary Adelaide 4 52 Army nurses 4 53 Black nurses 4 54 Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Louisville, KY Countries (not U.S.) 4 55 General: pamphlets and articles 4 56 England: Liverpool Nurses Training School 4 57 Japan Health professions 5 58 General: pamphlets Conferences: reports of proceedings 5 59 Women's Leadership and Authority in the Health Professions, UC Santa Cruz, 19-21 Jun 1977 5 International Conference on Women in Health, Washington D.C., 16-18 June 1975 Hospitals 6 60 American Women's Hospital Service 6 61 L'Hopital Sainte Justine, Montreal 6 62 New York Infirmary 6 63 St. Louis Children's Hospital 6 64 Uplands Sanatorium, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee 6 Vincent Memorial Hospital. "The Vincent Show" 6 65 Women's Institute of New York City, 1872 Medical Schools and Societies Medical Schools 7 66 General 7 United States 7 67 Miscellaneous: articles 7 68 Johns Hopkins Medical School 7 69 New England Female Medical College/Female Medical Education Society (Boston)

[See also New England Hospital Records, SSC]

 7 70 Women's College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York 7 70a Women's Medical College of Baltimore 7 71 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

[See also Box 8]

7 72 England: medical schools and organizations Medical Societies 7 73 American Medical Women's Association 7 74 Massachusetts Medical Society 7 75 Medical Women's International Association. 7 76 Medical Women's National Association 7 77 New England Women's Medical Society 7 78 "Women's physicians and their state medical societies" article by Phoebe Peck 7 79 Philadelphia Medical Society 7 80 Women's Medical Association of New York City 8-9 Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: Bulletins, 1889-1960 Books on Shelf The Annual of Allentown Nurses College, Vol. VII (1926) Alsop, Gulielma. History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 Philadelphia, 1950 Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D. Address on the Medical Education of Women (1856) Breckenridge, Mary. Wide Neighborhoods, a story of the Frontier Nursing Service. New York, 1952 Lutzker, Edyth. Women Gain a Place in Medicine. New York, 1969 Thoms, Adah B. Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. New York, 1929 Nursing School Today and Tomorrow. Final report of the Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools. New York, 1934 McLaren, Eva Shaw. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. London, 1919 Oversize Materials Flat File Poster: "Send Us a Lady Physician"