<I>Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans Collection</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1896-1995
name: label: Created by
content: Matilda Arabella Evans, American, 1872 - 1935
label: Subject of
content: Matilda Arabella Evans, American, 1872 - 1935
notes: label: Caption
content: See more about this collection in the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archive (SOVA) here: https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAAHC.A2019.109 or contact NMAAHC Archives at nmaahc-archivalcollection@si.edu.
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content: The Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans Collection documents how she broke boundaries as one of the first African American women physicians to have her own practice. The collection highlights her role as a physician and the great impact she had on the health and welfare of the African American community. The collection is comprised of educational material, business records, photographs, publications, and reference materials collected by and about Evans and her work.
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content: Series:
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content: Educational Materials: Materials include report cards from Evans' medical education and a photograph of her at Oberlin College.
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content: Business Records: Materials include licenses, certificates, and documents from Evans' medical practice.
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content: Photographs: Materials in this series include photographs of Evans and her family as well as photographs of the hospitals she founded.
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content: Publications: Materials include writings and ephemera related to Evans and the Evans clinic as well as a biography authored by Evans of her benefactor and mentor Martha Schofield.
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content: Reference Material - Materials in this series are divided into two subseries, Awards Ephemera and Research Material. The first subseries contains ephemera from events honoring Evans' legacy posthumously. The second subseries has photocopies of research material aggregated abotu Evans and her work.
place: label: Place collected
content: Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
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content: Activism
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content: American South
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content: Business
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content: Children
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content: Communities
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content: Education
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content: Health
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content: Medicine
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content: Race discrimination
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content: Women
label: Topic
content: World War I
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans Collection
label: Classification
content: Archival Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Leatrice Trottie Brown in memory of Dr. Matilda A. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: A2019.109
objectType: label: Type
content: documents
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content: ephemera
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content: snapshots
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content: photographs
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content: letters (correspondence)
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content: books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: archival materials
label: Dimensions
content: Archives: 1.6Feet