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Old world girls to be M.D.'s
A newspaper article describing the upcoming graduation of Miss Dora Chatterjee as only the third "Native Hindu" woman to graduate from the college.
Full length portrait of Gurubai Karmarkar
Photograph of Gurubal Karmarkar, a graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1892.
Gurubai Karmarkar
Photograph of Gurubai Karmarkar, an 1892 graduate from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Students (including Gurubai Karmarkar) posing for a photo
Photograph of Hu King Eng, Gurabai Karmarkar, and Mary H. Platt, members of the Class of 1892 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Thirty-Fourth Annual Commencement of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1886
Commencement invitation and placard belonging to Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.
"An Event for Hindostan and for Philadelphia, also." / "Distinguished Brahmin Lady in Philadelphia."
Newspaper clippings from April 1886 highlighting the arrival of Dr. Anandibai Joshee’s family in Philadelphia for her commencement ceremony. Dr. Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.
Autograph Card for Gopal Vinayak Joshee
Autograph card signed in English and Marathi by Gopal Vinayak Joshee for Cornelia Kahn, a classmate of Anandibai Joshee at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.
Autograph Card for Anandibai Joshee
Autograph card signed in English and Marathi by Anandibai Joshee for Cornelia Kahn, a classmate at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Anandibai Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.
Letter from C. Sunthanker to Miss Bosworth
Letter dated December 23, 1910 addressed to Annie Bosworth from Dr. Chumpa Sunthanker, one of the first women from India to earn her degree in medicine in the United States. Dr. Sunthanker writes, “My greatest desire is to help my own women in their suffering, they need their own sex to help them and comfort them in their grieve [sic].
Letter from C. Sunthanker to Miss Bosworth
Letter dated February 19, 1911 addressed to Annie Bosworth from Dr. Chumpa Sunthanker, one of the first women from India to earn her degree in medicine in the United States. Dr. Sunthanker writes of her work with Dalit leprosy patients in Sholapur, Bombay Presidency.
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