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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Cyanotype of Anatomy Class with Students and Cadaver. Philadelphia, 1895. Period Prussian blue tinted image of five medical students: Margaret Fee, Clara T. Israel, Kate W. Kopp, Magdalena B. Reiser, and Jennie S. Sharp, gathered around a table working on a cadaver, with a human skull; on a period card mount, the students identified by their last names in ink on the mount dated 1895 in the same hand; all are listed as students graduating circa 1895 in published Annual Announcements of the College; one corner of the mount chipped and taped back into place on verso, the photograph unaffected by the chip to the mount; cyanotype: 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; mount: 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was founded in 1850. According to Laura Heath Hills's Souvenirs of the Class of 1896, the class of 1895 proudly bore the nickname, "The Mongrels," as bestowed upon them by their Dean. http://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1865/record/islandora:2481#page/2/mode/1up