Women in medicine

Overview: Diaries, correspondence, financial records, etc., of the Blackwell family

Overview: Tapes and transcripts of 24 oral histories of the Family Planning Oral History Project, an oral history project of the Schlesinger Library, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Overview: The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Overview: Tapes and transcripts of oral histories and supporting documentation from the Women in the Federal Government Oral History Project, an oral history project of the Schlesinger Library.

Overview: Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development, a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in 1972.

Overview: Correspondence, drafts research notes, etc., documenting the preparation of volume four of Notable American Women, The Modern Period, a biographical dictionary of American women.

Overview: Correspondence, articles, speeches, notes, clippings, and awards of physician Alice Hamilton.

Overview: Correspondence, photos, clippings, etc., of Dorothy Brewer Blackall, publicity director for the New England Hospital for Women and Children.

Overview: Correspondence, professional papers, etc., of Edith Banfield Jackson, pediatrician and child psychiatrist.

Overview: Correspondence, photographs, articles, etc., of Eliza T. Ransom, physician and founder of the first Twilight Sleep Hospital in America.