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Register of the Esther Rosencrantz Papers, 1920-1950
MSS 51-1  
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Description
Includes correspondence, manuscripts/typescripts, pamphlets, reprints, photographs.
Background
Esther Rosencrantz was born in San Francisco, November 18, 1876. She received her undergraduate education at Leland Stanford Junior University, graduating A.B. in 1899. She attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University, from which she received her MD in 1904, being the first woman from California to receive a medical degree from Hopkins. While at Hopkins, Dr. Rosencrantz studied under the great four: Welch, Kelly, Halsted and Osler. The last, Dr. William Osler created such an impression on Dr. Rosencrantz that throughout her life she collected any materials by or about Dr. Osler that she could buy, exchange or coax from other collectors. Her collection, now part of the Special Collections Division at UCSF, is perhaps the most comprehensive (up to the time of her death in 1950), outside of that at the Osler Library at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
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Collection is open for research.