Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, M.D.

Files

digital facsimile

Title

Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, M.D.

Date

1940s

Photographer

Mosley, John W.

Description

Dr. Nathan Francis Mossell was the first African American to earn a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1882. He was founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital; the first African American member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; a member of the Niagara Movement; founder of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP; co-founder of the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine and Allied Sciences; a civil rights activist; and nationally prominent physician and surgeon.

Subjects

African American physicians
African American men
African American civil rights workers

People

Mossell, Nathan Francis, 1856-1946

Geographic Subject

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Format

image/jp2

Type

Photographs

Rights

This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. For access to the original or permission to publish, please contact the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection (blockson@temple.edu; 215-204-6632).

Contact

blockson@temple.edu

Digital Collection

John W. Mosley Photograph Collection
John W. Mosley Photographs
William Still Collection

Repository

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection

Digital Publisher

Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries

Folder

Mosley, John W.--Photographs--Physicians

Directory

BPA001X3119400000001