Blackwell Medical Society of Rochester, N.Y.: Clippings and ephemera

Newspaper clipping and programs regarding the Blackwell Medical Society of Rochester, N.Y. (formerly the Practitioner's Society), an organization of women graduates of medical colleges, founded in 1887, to cultivate the science and art of medicine and to promote professional friendship. Marion Craig Potter was a physician and suffragist, who was the first woman physician to be appointed to the Rochester City Hospital, around 1898. She served as Vice President of the Medical Women's National Association, as President of both the Blackwell Medical Society and the Women's Medical Society of New York State, and belonged to the Committee of Medical Women of the Council of National Defense during World War I