Call Number:

086

Repository:

Drexel University: College of Medicine Legacy Center

Extent:

0.2 linear feet (1 (half document box))

Language:

English

Date:

1896-1936 (inclusive)

Creator:

Miller, Iva M. Townsend

Abstract:

Dr. Iva M. Townsend Miller, Acting Director Council on Health Education, Shanghai, was a field worker for the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA). In the 1930s, AMWA appointed Miller to compile data on women missionaries for use in a history of "Medical Women of the World". This collection contains Miller's correspondence with medical missionaries (seeking biographical information), 1934-1936; two notebooks with Miller's research notes on missionaries, 1896-1935; lists of medical women missionaries; reprints and original publications of women in foreign missionary societies, 1901; reprint of an article written by Miller, 1928; and news clipping and reprints of an article featuring Miller, 1936.