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Three surgeons standing in an operating room performing surgery with several nurses and attendants observing.
Portrait of a man with a mustache.
Three-quarter length, standing, left pose; holding papers.
Man standing with one hand in his pants pocket wearing a pocket watch.
Exterior of two-story brick building.
Three surgeons and two nurses wearing medical uniforms performing surgery on a patient in an operating room.
Physician seated in a chair tending to the leg of a seated patient with a nurse standing in the background.

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Exterior of two-story brick building.

Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, 1895

Founded in 1895 by Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, a black owned and operated institution, served the black community of Philadelphia and provided professional opportunities to black physicians and nurses. In 1948, it merged with Mercy Hospital to form Mercy-Douglass Hospital and remained open until 1973.


Courtesy National Library of Medicine