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Letter from Marybai T. Kukde to Miss Bosworth
Letter dated October 18, 1921 addressed to Annie Bosworth, a friend of Dr. Mary Kukde, one of the first women from India to receive her degree in medicine in the United States. Stationed at a remote hospital in Pudukkottai, Dr. Kukde writes, “There is more need here in this native state than many other places. There is no woman doctor here but one old apothecary.”

Letter from Marybai T. Kukde to Miss Bosworth
Letter dated November 14, 1922 by Dr. Mary Kukde, one of the first women from India to receive her degree in medicine in the United States. Dr. Kukde, stationed at Ranee Hospital in Trichy (Tiruchirappalli), writes about her work, monsoon season, and life in an Indian state not under British rule.

Brief Biography fo Tugabai Kukde
A brief biography of Mary Kukde, one of the first women from India to receive her degree in medicine in the United States, dated April 6, 1911. The biography, written by Edith Brown, M.D., Principal of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, states that Dr. Kukde attended the College from January 1903-March 1906 and lists the classes she took.

Anandibai Joshee to Alfred Jones
A letter from Anandibai Joshee to Alfred Jones dated June 18, 1883 requesting admission in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Letter from Shevantibai M. NiRambe to Dr. R. Bodley
Letter from Shevantibai M. NiRambe to Dean of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rachel Bodley. Writing from India, NiRambe expresses her desire to study medicine in England or the U.S., and mentions that she had read Bodley's introduction for Pandita Ramabai's book The High Caste Hindu Woman (1888).

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.

"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.

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