Letter from B.N. Chatterjee to Dean of The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Letter dated November 29, 1902 from B.N. Chatterjee to the Dean of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. After completing three years of medical study at Calcutta University, Chatterjee wrote to Hahnemann Medical College inquiring about the possibility of completing his fourth year of study there.
Obituary note for Dr. Amar Nath Mukerjee
Obituary announcing the death of Dr. Amar Nath Mukerjee, one of the first students from India to earn a medical degree in the United States. Dr. Mukerjee was massacred, along with all the members of his family except a sister, during a caste uprising shortly after he returned to India.
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.
"Brief Biographical Sketches of Three Foreign Students"
Document from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania Library titled “Brief Biographical Sketches of Three Foreign Students”. The document includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.
Information Card on Dr. Anandibai Joshee
Special congratulatory letter from Queen Victoria reads, “Queen Victoria expressed her interest and appreciation when the first Hindu woman to receive a medical degree in any country -- Dr. Anandibai Joshee -- graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886.”
Letter from F.B. McCuskey to Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Letter dated April 6, 1930 from F.B. McCuskey, Missionary in Charge at the American Presbyterian in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, to the Dean of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, requesting the College update their records to reflect a change of address for Dr. Dora Chatterjee, who moved to Rawalpindi after marrying her husband, Mangat Rai. Dr.
From Dr. Alsop's Article "The Art of Healing"
Excerpt from an article title “The Art of Healing” mentioning Dr. Maya Das, one of the first women from India to earn her degree in medicine in the United States. “Miss Maya Das was a Hindoo girl, very slim, with clear-cut, aristocratic features, who went through her medical training side by side with us, never missing an answer, never absent, never slighting a piece of work, always perfect.”
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].