Pathways in Medicine

Vignettes of Notable Faculty and Alumni/ae

The Posters

Wassaja

also known as

Carlos Montezuma, MD

Carlos Montezuma's medical school Class of 1888 portrait. Via Galter Special Collections.

Carlos Montezuma and six nurses at the Carlisle Indian School hospital, September 1893. Via Carlisle Indian School Digital Repository.

Front page of the November 1917 issue of Montezuma's journal Wassaja: Freedom's Signal for the Indian (Vol. 2, No. 8). Via Arizona State University.

Carlos Montezuma (second from right) with members of the Class of 1888 at a reunion in 1921 in Rochester, MN. Via Galter Special Collections.

Yasu Hishikawa, MD

Yasu Hishikawa, ca. 1871. Courtesy of Buswell Library Archives & Special Collections, Wheaton College, IL.

At left: 1885 photograph of foreign student Kei Okami (center), a classmate of Yasu Hishikawa's in Japan, with fellow foreign graduates Anandabai Joshee (left) and Tabat M. Islambooly (right) of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Drexel University Medical Archives.

First Bible Class, Kyōritsu jogakkō, 1879. A Japanese blogger posits that the woman on the far left could be Hishikawa. Courtesy of Buswell Library Archives & Special Collections, Wheaton College, IL.

Mary Harris Thompson, MD

Bust of Mary Harris Thompson by Daniel Chester French, 1902. Via Art Institute of Chicago.

At left: Mary Harris Thompson, ca. 1890s. Via HathiTrust.

Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, later called Mary Thompson Hospital, ca. 1885-95. Via HathiTrust.

Austin M. Curtis, MD

Austin Curtis's medical school Class of 1891 portrait. Via Galter Special Collections.

Surgical clinic, Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1900. Via GovInfo.

Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief, Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1900. Via GovInfo.

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Curated and designed by Katie Lattal, MA, Special Collections Librarian.