Universities and colleges--Finance; Medical colleges; Women's colleges; Philadelphia (Pa.); Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1913-04-02
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 77
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) was founded in 1850, was the second medical institution in the world established to train women in medicine and offer them the M.D. degree. The New England Female Medical College had been established two years earlier in 1848. Originally called the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the college changed its name to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867. The associated Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1861. The school was later renamed as the Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP) after opening its doors to men in 1970. The college built a new campus in East Falls in the 1920s, which combined teaching and the clinical care of a hospital in one overall facility. It was the first purpose-built hospital in the nation. In 1993, the college and hospital merged with Hahnemann Medical School. In 2003, the two colleges were absorbed by the Drexel University College of Medicine, the world's first medical school for women and the nation's first college of homeopathy." [SOURCE: "Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Medical_College_of_Pennsylvania. Accessed 27 Aug. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University