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1960s - 1980s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA white midwife's uniform overdress worn by Amanda Carey Carter. The white dress has a front closure of plastic buttons (top) and steel snaps (bottom). It has a rounded collar, a stitched design on the front, and a pleated skirt. The fabric appears to be a…
Biography
Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines,…
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Mildred Eulalia Gibbs (December 25, 1850 – October 25, 1935) was an American educator, one of the earliest African-American women to earn a physician's degree from an American medical school, and also one of the first to obtain a doctorate from an American…
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Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010) was an American physician and anti-abortion activist. The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first…
1922–2012
Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Bateman, M.D. (1922 – January 25, 2012) was an American physician and medical administrator. She was West Virginia's mental health commissioner in 1962, and was the first woman and first African-American to hold the position.
March 1, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.59.1a, 2011.174.59.1b, 2011.174.59.1c, 2011.174.59.1d, and 2011.174.59.1e. Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in…
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Miles Vandahurst Lynk (June 3, 1871 – December 29, 1956) was an American physician and author noted for his efforts to create opportunities for African Americans in science, specifically for medical doctors. He was known both as the founder, editor and…
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Milford Graves (August 20, 1941 – February 12, 2021) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, Professor Emeritus of Music, researcher/inventor, visual artist/sculptor, gardener/herbalist, and martial artist. Graves was noteworthy for his early…
1892–1949
Miller Fulton Whittaker (December 30, 1892 – November 14, 1949) was an American architect, educator, and college president. He served as the third president of South Carolina State College (now South Carolina State University) from 1932 until his death in…
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Millie and Christine McKoy (also spelled McCoy; July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African-American pygopagus conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The United African Twins", "The Carolina Twins", "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and "The Eighth…
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Millie Essie Gibson Hale (27 February 1881 – 6 June 1930) was an American nurse, hospital founder, social activist, and civic worker. In 1916 she founded Millie E. Hale Hospital with her husband, John Henry Hale, M.D., in Nashville, Tennessee, the first…
1997–
Milo Coltrane Clarke (born 31 March 1997) is an English actor. Following stage roles including 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, 24 Italian Songs and Arias, The Alchemist and The Play That Goes Wrong, Clarke was cast in the BBC medical drama series Casualty as…
1935–2017
Milton Andrew Gordon (May 25, 1935 – April 18, 2017) was an American mathematician and academic administrator. He served as the fourth president of California State University, Fullerton from 1990 to 2012, making him the fourth African American president…
Biography
Milton Dean Slaughter is an American theoretical and phenomenological physicist and affiliate professor of physics at Florida International University. Slaughter was a visiting associate professor of physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics,…
1946–
Minion Kenneth Chauncey Morrison (born 1946) is an American political scientist. He is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Morrison studies comparative politics and American politics, and has…
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Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (September 16, 1861 – 1947) was an American schoolteacher and inventor. In 1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent.
Loading image…1907–1967
Miriam Daniel Mann (1907–1967) was one of the first Black female computers for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
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Miriam Mason Higgins Thomas (June 22, 1920 – September 15, 2002) was an American chemist, based in the United States Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Massachusetts.
1937–2018
Miriam Rossi (born Miriam Frances Senhouse) (31 January 1937 – 11 July 2018) was emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, and a pediatrician in the division of Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She was Associate…
Feb. 1867–July 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous medical papers, February 1867–July 1868, are arranged chronologically. Included are ration returns, requisitions for medical and hospital supplies, receipt rolls of hired men, reports of persons and articles hired, contracts, monthly…
Aug. 1866–Nov. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Miscellaneous Records and Reports”.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous records and reports, August 1866–November 1868, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. This series includes contracts between the chief medical officer and individuals (August 1866–March 1867), inventory and…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous records, January 1866–November 1867, are arranged by type of record. Included are reports of vaccinations, leases, reports of inspections, reports of clothing, reports of patients admitted, reports of freedmen treated, and rosters of…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of miscellaneous requisitions approved, May 1867–January 1869 (83), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains a list of certificates of nonindebtedness and a list of notification of settlement of accounts.
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