by Meg | Mar 4, 2020 | Cultural Exchange, Marcia for the Holidays
I had the opportunity to speak with a group from the University of Baltimore on the topic of Women, Employment & Adversity. As my subject, I chose Marcia Noyes.Marcia Crocker Noyes was the librarian here at MedChi. She arrived here for a short visit in 1896, after...
by Meg | Jan 9, 2020 | Architecture, Cultural Exchange, Portraits
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, MD, was an energetic young physician in Baltimore at the turn of the 19th/20th century. He had everything: good looks, talent as a physician, enough money and a gorgeous house. But, sadly, he didn’t have a long life, dying in his 40s from...
by Meg | Jan 7, 2020 | Cultural Exchange, Ex Libris, Library & Books
18 Tiny Deaths:The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern ForensicsMedChi and the Center for a Healthy Maryland are proud to host the launch for 18 Tiny Deaths on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. in MedChi’s historic...
by Meg | Dec 11, 2019 | Art, Cultural Exchange, Portraits
Dr. Allan Jensen recently shared an article from the University of Rochester’s Review Magazine. It was from the “Ask the Archivist” columnist about a painting in their collection, one Azariah Boody. What struck me was that MedChi has two...
by Meg | Dec 2, 2019 | Art, Cultural Exchange, Portraits
Last week, I was showing the artist, Sam Robinson around MedChi’s collection of portraits, and when we stopped to more closely examine one, he realized it was by an artist named Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941).A month or so ago, Sam had shown me a...
by Meg | Oct 24, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, History of Maryland Med, Physicians
On Saturday, October 26, the Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine will re-open in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Edward Elisha Stonestreet of Rockville, graduated from the University of Maryland medical school. He served as one of the town’s doctors...
