AMWA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS

Traveling Exhibition on American Women Physicians in WWI

The exhibition includes 10 books, 15 photo boards and other resources on the subject matter.  There is no cost for the exhibit. We just ask that you help ship the materials to the next destination. The exhibit fits into two large flat rate priority mail boxes for the large exhibit and one large flat rate priority box for the small exhibit. Apply to host the exhibit here.

Books:

  • A Woman Surgeon — Rosalie Slaughter Morton, 1937
  • Certain Samaritans — Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 1928
  • Ladies of Grecourt — Ruth Gaines, 1920
  • The House of the Good Neighbor — Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 1920
  • Bellevue in France — Anna Tjomsland, 1941
  • Women’s Oversea Hospitals U.S.A. of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1919 (Reprint)
  • American Women in World War I: They Also Served — Lettie Gavin, 1997
  • Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War — Kimberly Jensen, 2008
  • Women Doctors in War — Judith Bellafaire & Mercedes Herrera Graf, 2009
  • In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I — Elizabeth Foxwell (editor), 2015

Venues local to the San Francisco Bay Area may include by request:

  • Women and War Work — Helen Fraser, 1918
  • The Doctor’s Duffel Bag — M. Louise Hurrell, 1920
  • Mine Eyes Have Seen — Afreda Withington, 1941

Photograph Credits:

1696 Heritage, Bain News Service / Library of Congress, The Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD), National World War I Museum and Memorial, OHSU Historical Collections and Archives, Smith College Archives, YMCA of the USA Archives, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Consider hosting the event in conjunction with screening of AMWA’s film on Women Physicians in WWI (17 min) and an accompanying film The American in Paris (58 min). The first film is available for download on-line and the second film will be included in the exhibit box.

Download the WWI Exhibit Poster

Exhibit Handout Page 1   Exhibit Handout Page 2

Large Exhibit contents:
15 photo boards, 15 display easels, 10 books (current and historic), information sheets, postcards, artificial red poppy, The American in Paris DVD, marketing posters, and AMWA’s Centennial Book. The books should be displayed in a glass case for safe-keeping if left out unattended. The other materials are replaceable and can be displayed however you like.

Small Exhibit contents:
All of the above except the 10 books.

Exhibit coordinators: Victoria Sefcik and Iris Dupanovic

CURRENT SCHEDULE
(we have 4 full exhibits and 2 small exhibits)

September 2018 — past

  • PCOM Georgia Campus Library
  • Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • UConn Health HMS Library

October 2018 — past

  • UIC Health Sciences Library
  • Western University of Health Sciences Library
  • UConn Health HMS Library
  • CA Department of Veteran Affairs

November 2018 — past

  • Minnesota Dept of Veterans Affairs
  • UIC Health Science Library – Rockford
  • UConn Health HMS Library
  • UIC Health Sciences Library
  • Western University of Health Sciences Library
  • Robert Wood Johnson Library

December 2018 — past

  • USUHS
  • Robert Wood Johnson Library
  • Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences
  • UConn Health HMS Library
  • Western University of Health Sciences Library

January 2019 — past

  • Thomas Jefferson University – Scott Memorial Library
  • Qunnipiac University
  • SIU Medical Library
  • Health Sciences Library System – University of Pittsburgh
  • TTUHSC

February 2019 — past

  • Quinnipiac University
  • SIU Medical Library
  • Health Sciences Library System
  • UIC Peoria
  • TTUHSC
  • University of North Texas

March 2019 – past

  • Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm
  • Rocky Vista University – CO
  • Rocky Vista University – SU
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • UIC Peoria
  • University of North Texas
  • PCOM Georgia Campus Library

April 2019 – past

  • University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
  • UIC Peoria
  • University of North Texas
  • Reno

May 2019 – past

  • Reno
  • New Mexico Military Museum

June 2019 – past

  • Georgia Department of Veteran Services
  • New Mexico Military Museum

July 2019 – past

  • New Mexico Military Museum

August 2019 – past

  • Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine-Virginia Campus

September 2019 – past

  • Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine-Virginia Campus

October 2019 – past

  • Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine-Virginia Campus

November 2019 – past

  • Missouri Veterans Commission – Women Veterans Program
  • University of New England

December 2019 – past

  • University of New England

January 2020

 

February 2020

 

March 2020

  • University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Banner –
    University Medical Center Phoenix
  • Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation

April 2020

 

May 2020

 

June 2020

 

July 2020

August 2020

 

September 2020

  • Northwestern Feinberg SOM
  • Western Michigan University School of Medicine

October 2020

  • Penn State College of Medicine
  • Northwestern Feinberg SOM
  • Western Michigan University School of Medicine

November 2020

  • Northwestern Feinberg SOM
  • Western Michigan University School of Medicine

December 2020