Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls

Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls

In 1891, graduates from the Women’s Medical College in  Baltimore founded the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls to provide out-patient medical care and advice to women. Establishing an evening clinic was important because many working...
International Women’s Day 2023

International Women’s Day 2023

To celebrate International Women’s Day today, I thought I would share a few vignettes about women and MedChi. In 1882, the Women’s Medical College was founded by several members of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty. The aim was to provide a medical...
Under Construction

Under Construction

As we have been going through the 55 boxes of books and ephemera that we received a few weeks ago, we are discovering all sorts of goodies! Among those goodies are a series of photographs of the construction of our 1909 building. We have seen a few of these,...
Semi-Annual Meeting,

Semi-Annual Meeting,

Ocean City, 1908 We have not sorted through even a dozen of boxes from the Maryland Center for History & Culture, and have found treasures galore. About half of the boxes of ephemera and all of the books are catalogued, but the rest of the ephemera is...

An Upcoming Acquisition

I thought you might like to know of some exciting news! We are about to take possession of book collections from three of our most notable members. Several decades ago, MedChi deaccessioned a large number of items to the Maryland Historical Society (now the Maryland...