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Miss Sarmi
Harold Swenson registering Miss Sarmi, Hindu student, 15-year old freshman.
Pandita Ramabai, The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888)
Originally published in Marathi, The High-Caste Hindu Woman by Pandita Ramabai (alternatively spelled Pundita Ramabai) was translated into English for this 1888 edition. Ramabai was born in 1859 in Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family.
Dr. Anandibai Joshee, M.D., Class 1886
A portrait photo of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, M.D., Class of 1886 at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
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.
Women medical missionaries in India
From left: Dr. Mabell Sammons Hays, Dr. Mary Maya Das Lal, Dr. Anna Ruth Winter Korteling. Mabel and Anna graduated from the Woman's Medical College in 1923 and Mary in 1908. The photo was taken in Allahabad, India.
A memento of the Dean's reception, held October 10, 1885
Photograph of Anandabai Joshee, Kei Okami, and Tabat M. Islambooly, students from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania taken in 1885.
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.