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Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) Two Contemporary Newspaper Accounts of her Graduation from Medical School, 1849.
Including:
1) The New-York Organ, a Family Companion, February 3, 1849, with a piece on page 244 in the first column headlined, Medical Diploma to a Lady, four leaves, some spotting, 15 x 10 1/2 in.
2) Vermont Watchman & State Journal, Montpelier, May 3, 1849, featuring a front page story titled, Account of a Female Doctor-- Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., a very long article mentioning Blackwell's graduation at the beginning, consisting of a fuller biographical sketch and news of her future plans; a lovely example, 24 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.
"The public, through the newspapers, has been pretty generally informed that Miss Elizabeth Blackwell was a regular student of Geneva Medical College, and received the diploma of that institution at its last commencement. As she is the first medical doctor of her sex in the United States, the case is naturally enough one of those questionable matters upon which there must be a great variety of opinions, and the public sentiment is, besides, influenced by the partial and inaccurate statements of facts and conjectures which usually supply the place of correct information. To help your readers to a better understanding of the whole matter than they can gather from these uncertain sources, and especially to inform those who feel something beyond a merely curious interest in it, I venture to furnish you a hasty sketch of her course, and such notions of herself and of her aims as the proprieties of the case seem to warrant."
