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Hindu Students Flay Missionary
An article from the January 18, 1908 issue of the San Francisco Call describing a public protest by sixteen UC Berkeley students at a speech on India by J. Lovell Murray, a Christian evangelist who had worked in India. According to the article, a Stanford student heard Murray's lecture about India, found it offensive, and tipped off Indian students at UC Berkeley.

Letter from B.N. Chatterjee to Dean of The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Letter dated November 29, 1902 from B.N. Chatterjee to the Dean of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. After completing three years of medical study at Calcutta University, Chatterjee wrote to Hahnemann Medical College inquiring about the possibility of completing his fourth year of study there.

Obituary note for Dr. Amar Nath Mukerjee
Obituary announcing the death of Dr. Amar Nath Mukerjee, one of the first students from India to earn a medical degree in the United States. Dr. Mukerjee was massacred, along with all the members of his family except a sister, during a caste uprising shortly after he returned to India.

Thirty-Fourth Annual Commencement of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1886
Commencement invitation and placard belonging to Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.

"An Event for Hindostan and for Philadelphia, also." / "Distinguished Brahmin Lady in Philadelphia."
Newspaper clippings from April 1886 highlighting the arrival of Dr. Anandibai Joshee’s family in Philadelphia for her commencement ceremony. Dr. Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.

Autograph Card for Gopal Vinayak Joshee
Autograph card signed in English and Marathi by Gopal Vinayak Joshee for Cornelia Kahn, a classmate of Anandibai Joshee at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.

Autograph Card for Anandibai Joshee
Autograph card signed in English and Marathi by Anandibai Joshee for Cornelia Kahn, a classmate at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Anandibai Joshee was the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.

"Brief Biographical Sketches of Three Foreign Students"
Document from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania Library titled “Brief Biographical Sketches of Three Foreign Students”. The document includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first woman from India to receive a degree in medicine in the United States.

Information Card on Dr. Anandibai Joshee
Special congratulatory letter from Queen Victoria reads, “Queen Victoria expressed her interest and appreciation when the first Hindu woman to receive a medical degree in any country -- Dr. Anandibai Joshee -- graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886.”

Letter from F.B. McCuskey to Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Letter dated April 6, 1930 from F.B. McCuskey, Missionary in Charge at the American Presbyterian in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, to the Dean of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, requesting the College update their records to reflect a change of address for Dr. Dora Chatterjee, who moved to Rawalpindi after marrying her husband, Mangat Rai. Dr.

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