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A memento of the Dean's reception, held October 10, 1885
Photograph of Anandabai Joshee, Kei Okami, and Tabat M. Islambooly, students from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania taken in 1885.

"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.

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.”

Engineering News-Record (August 26, 1971)
An article from the weekly publication, Engineering News-Record, regarding structural engineer, Fazlur Khan. The article describes the personality and skills of Khan, as well as the structural aspects of Khan’s design for the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world at the time.

Engineering News-Record (February 10, 1972)
Engineering News-Record publication from February 10, 1972 featured an article about “avant garde high-rise designer,” Fazlur R. Khan. The publication described Khan as “Construction’s Man of the Year” for his engineering designs of the John Hancock Building and Sears Tower in Chicago, One Shell Plaza in Houston, and several other buildings across the United States.

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