"Honoring the Memory of Anandibai Joshee, M.D."
Event program for a commemoration of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States, hosted by The Association of Indians in America, Inc. and the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania on April 24, 1976.
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.”
"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.
Anandabai Joshee
Image of Anandabai Joshee, known as the first Hindu woman to receive a Degree of Doctor of Medicine in any country, from Pandita Rambai's The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888).
The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee
Published in 1888, The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee by Mrs. Caroline Healy Dall is a lengthy biography about Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. Joshee was the cousin of Pandita Ramabai, who herself traveled to the U.S. in the 1886 and published the Marathi travelogue United Stateschi Lokastithi any Pravasvrutta (1889).