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Manuscript/Mixed Material The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell

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About this Item

Title

  • The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell

Names

  • Blackwell, Alice Stone (Author)

Created / Published

  • Woman's Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, [June 12, 1909]

Headings

  • -  Miller, Anne Fitzhugh (1856-1912)
  • -  photomechanical print
  • -  Miller, Elizabeth Smith (1822 -1911)
  • -  Blackwell, Alice Stone (1857-1950)
  • -  Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910)
  • -  William Smith College
  • -  Barry, Katherine
  • -  Geneva, New York
  • -  women and health
  • -  Kemble, Fanny
  • -  women physicians
  • -  Clippings

Genre

  • Clippings

Notes

  • -  At the William Smith College ceremony presenting the portrait of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell to Blackwell House, Alice Stone Blackwell gave an extensive biographical sketch of her aunt, and noted that in the 60 years since Dr. Blackwell received the first medical degree granted a women, over 7,000 women physicians were practicing in the United States.
  • -  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, photomechanical print of portrait, scrapbook page 146

Medium

  • clipping

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll
  • series: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 7 (1908-1909)

Source Collection

  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Repository

  • Rare Book And Special Collections Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

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Chicago citation style:

Blackwell, Alice Stone. The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell. [Woman's Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002077/.

APA citation style:

Blackwell, A. S. (1909) The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell. [Woman's Journal, Boston, Massachusetts] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002077/.

MLA citation style:

Blackwell, Alice Stone. The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell. [Woman's Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002077/>.