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Jessie Laird Brodie, MD collection before processing (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Guest post from intern Tracy Ulmer

The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories was created with the intent to make small archival collections known. Processing the collections, as this blog post explores, can be different depending on the collection and space allowed.

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Hahnemann Hospital and Nurses’ Building, 15th Street, circa 1910 (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

PACSCL Hidden Collections comes to DUCOM

The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections (PACSCL) started a new phase of uncovering "hidden collections" in small archives. The Legacy Center joined in this phase with processing materials from Hahnemann Medical College, including papers from former deans, faculty members, and academic departments.

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Constantine Hering, circa 1850s (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Constantine Hering: The Father of American Homeopathy

This blog post is about Constantine Hering, considered the "father of homeopathy" in America and was one of the founders of the first homeopathic medical college in America. Homeopathy is based on the concept that like cures like.

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Neatline timeline tool (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Timelines as exhibits?

This blog post explores three options the Legacy Center considered for a new digital history project including an interactive timeline.

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Mary Putnam Jacobi, undated (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Mary Putnam Jacobi: Still famous after 150 years

Mary Putnam Jacobi is a 1864 graduate of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. This blog post explores her life and impact on medicine 150 years after she began practicing medicine.

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Dr. Mary Branson (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Early Women in Homeopathy: A Resource Guide

In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was difficult for women to become physicians, much less homeopathic physicians with a formal education in a male dominated field. This blog post introduces the Legacy Center's Early Women in Homeopathy: A Resource Guide.

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Legacy Center digital collection interface (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

On The Move … Again

The Legacy Center is adopting Islandora as the new software to manage and preserve its repository. The Center wants to have a test ready by late fall and then continue to have all of the digital content on the site.

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Mastery interns with interviewee Mary Ellen Bradley (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Internship Experience

Two Mastery Charter school 10th graders completed their 16-week long internship at the Legacy Center by focusing on the history of community service at 91ÖÆƬ³§. They did interviews and made a site map for the placements of service.

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Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler coin (The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections)

Is that Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler? Misidentification, copyright, and pesky historical details

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman to earn her medical degree in the US from New England Female Medical College. As of 2013, there are no identifiable pictures of Crumpler.

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