…Doctors Blackwell” tracks Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell’s lives and their work bringing medicine to women — and women to medicine. Elizabeth Blackwell, the book explains, believed from an early age…
Read More…neighborhoods and set an example of perseverance, education and healthcare for all — Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the United States to receive a medical…
Read More…passing only ten years before Blackwell began renting there. Blackwell’s hospital opened its doors on May 12, 1857, the 37th birthday of Florence Nightingale, whom Blackwell had befriended earlier in…
Read More…on GVSHP’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map that are associated with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and her groundbreaking work. Born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol England, Blackwell was born…
Read More…Changed The Course of History Watch Video of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling See Photos of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling Listen To Our Podcast About the Blackwell…
Read More…Doctors Blackwell on the groundbreaking sisters and doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. Nimura will be joined by Dr. Vivian Pinn, recipient of the Blackwell Medal of the American Medical Women’s…
Read More…of East 7th street, a slum district of immigrants at mid century, attracted the attention of one Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in modern history to receive…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell In 1849, groundbreaking physician Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree. Two years later, she moved to New York City…
Read More…our heroines, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America and a pioneer who transformed the role of women in society and public health from right here in Greenwich Village,…
Read More…women, staffed by women, and run by women, founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. Blackwell was the first woman in America to receive a degree in medicine, blazing the trail for…
Read MoreAn Rong Xu for The New York Times Elizabeth Blackwell February 3, 1821- May 31, 1910 Physician and Public Health Reformer Blackwell was the first woman in America to receive…
Read MoreCo-sponsored by Women of NoHo Janice P. Nimura will speak on her dual biography (forthcoming from W. W. Norton, 2021) on the groundbreaking sisters and doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell who,…
Read More…charge. (Note plaque is on the Crosby Street Side.) Photos of dedication event here: http://bit.ly/blackwellphotos and video here: http://bit.ly/blackwelldedication Elizabeth Blackwell Plaque at 58 Crosby Street Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry The first African…
Read More…victorious. 80 University Place 80 University Place, 2020. 80 University Place served as the home and first medical office of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America. Blackwell established…
Read More…the dedication event here: http://bit.ly/blackwellphotos and the video here: http://bit.ly/blackwelldedication. Elizabeth Blackwell was also a subject of our 2021 outdoor interactive exhibition, VILLAGE VOICES. A shadowbox honoring Dr. Blackwell was placed at…
Read More…Greenwich Village, having attended the Little Red Schoolhouse just a half-dozen blocks to the south of the prison. The Women’s House of Detention was demolished in 1974. 14. Elizabeth Blackwell,…
Read More…body systematically collected and distributed life-saving supplies such as bandages, blankets, food, clothing, and medical supplies. Elizabeth Blackwell. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Blackwell also partnered with several prominent male physicians…
Read MoreThe history of medical and public health advancements have played a key role in our neighborhoods’ stories. While the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America is…
Read More…called the Blackwell’s Island Bridge; Blackwell’s Island was the prior name for Roosevelt Island (which later became Welfare Island, and then Roosevelt Island). Due to the concentration of hospitals on…
Read More…three such remarkable women: African American Sarah Smith Garnet, Chinese American Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Julia Ward Howe. 19th Amendment Centennial StoryMap Doctors In The House: Blackwell Sisters and…
Read More…Sister Doctors In a Time of Need: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and The Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children on Bleecker Street — Janice P. Nimura wrote a dual biography…
Read More…Suffrage-centennial focused: Sister Doctors: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell The Blackwell sisters changed medicine, broke glass ceilings, and served women’s health in the Village — keep an eye out for a…
Read More…Eustis, and other Village residents and supporters who lent their voices to this project. Berenice Abbott W.H. Auden James Baldwin Jean-Michel Basquiat Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Wise Brown e.e. cummings Merce…
Read More…as those who made the biggest difference. To vote for your top 10 picks, click here. (l. to r., top to bottom) Abbott, Arbus, Abzug, Baez, Barnes, Blackwell, Brownmiller. To…
Read More…as those who made the biggest difference. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. (l. to r., top to bottom) Abbott, Arbus, Abzug, Baez, Barnes, Blackwell, Brownmiller. To…
Read More…Blackwell, Brownmiller. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Berenice Abbott — Pioneering photographer whose iconic images defined a changing early 20th century New York. Diane Arbus —…
Read More…career. 80 University Place In the late 19th century, this building housed the home and office the America’s first female doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell. 61 Fourth Avenue In 1955, this became the…
Read More…as much as 150 years old. In January we were sued by a notorious developer seeking to prevent us from working to protect our neighborhoods. We unveil historic plaques honoring Elizabeth Blackwell, the…
Read More…give a speech to the unemployed community there but was intercepted in her travels by the police, who arrested her for incitement to riot. She served one year on Blackwell’s…
Read More…Crown Heights. Her sister, Susan Smith McKinney Steward, was the first African American woman physician in New York, pioneering a legacy of women in medicine along with Villager Elizabeth Blackwell. Sarah…
Read More…proud to honor and highlight this remarkable history. Past plaques have marked the former homes of James Baldwin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank O’Hara, Martha Graham, The Fillmore East, the San…
Read More…backing comes from the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute in Bristol, England, the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, prominent academics at NYU and FIT, and the author of Wedded to…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
Read More
…placed a plaque on the building marking its service as home to the first hospital run by and for women, led by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America….
Posted April 12, 2023
Read More…plaque unveiling on Thursday, October 6 — CLICK HERE Learn more about our historic plaque program, honoring figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs, Jean-Michel Basquiat to Elizabeth Blackwell, here….
Read More…former homes of Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank Stella, Martha Graham, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Blackwell; the headquarters of the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine; Julius’…
Read More
…a plaque on the building marking its service as home to the first hospital run by and for women, led by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America. 58…
Posted March 31, 2023
Read More
…placed a plaque on the building marking its service as home to the first hospital run by and for women, led by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America….
Posted April 1, 2023
Read More…here) was placed on the building at 50 East First Street in 2012. Just this month we dedicated our twelfth plaque to the first woman doctor in America, Elizabeth Blackwell…
Read More…first woman doctor in America, Elizabeth Blackwell; and the offices of the Village Voice newspaper. The influential publishing house Grove Press moved here in 1964, publishing Alex Haley’s The Autobiography…
Read More…Billie Holiday, music producer John Hammond, first American woman doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, the International Worker’s Order, the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, swing musician Benny Goodman, and renowned authors…
Read More…of women in medicine along with Villager Elizabeth Blackwell. Garnet, seated, with her family Though her time in Greenwich Village was brief, Garnet’s presence in the neighborhood highlights a time…
Read More…became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, which was established by Elizabeth Blackwell, the country’s first female medical doctor. The first alteration of record in 1891 lists a…
Read More