Library Company of Philadelphia

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 12:00 am EST
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Who was Sarah Mapps Douglass? An educator, an abolitionist, one of the first black women to enroll in medical school, and the creator of perhaps the earliest surviving signed painting by an African American woman. While her accomplishments are numerous, her name remains unknown. We’ll raise a Forget-Me-Not(tini) inspired by one of her earliest paintings, while we remember this remarkable Philadelphia woman. The ingredient list for our cocktail (and mocktail) will be sent roughly two weeks before the event.

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Wed, Feb 22 2023, 12am | 0 seconds
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Hare Compendium Laboratory 1827

Engraving of the “Chemical Laboratory and Lecture Room” from Robert Hare, A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, for the use of his pupils (Philadelphia, 1827)