Girl Doctors? No Way! — 1946
by Paula Bosse
Photo from the UT Southwestern Library (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Female medical students were fairly uncommon back in the 1940s, and, as this photo is described in the UT Southwestern archives, they were “so rare that they merited this photo captioned ‘Freshman Girl Students’ in the 1946-47 Southwestern Medical College yearbook, Caduceus.” I love this photo.
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Photo is from the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library and can be accessed here.
Click photo for larger image.
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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
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