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Blue plaque № 29459

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. First degree-granting women's medical school in nation, founded 1850. Renamed (1867) Woman's Medical College of Pa. by Ann Preston, Dean. Coeducational, 1969. Became Medical College of Pa., 1970; Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 1996.

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