Fifth year medical students 1893 including Misses Amy de Castilla( 1868-1898) and Emily Mary Page Stone (1865-1910)

Maker
Talma and Co. (estab. 1892)
Date
1893
Description
Photograph of fifth year medical students, 1893, in studio setting with tasselled curtains. Present in photograph: D. McM. Officer, P.P. Dowling, H. Spence, S.J.D. Read, J. Ramsay, H.G. Kelly, S.C. Jamieson, L.W. Roberts, F.A. Newman, B. Loughrey, H. Anderson, Miss E.M.P. Stone, Miss A. de Castilla, E.A. D'Ombrain, F.C. Acton, L.N. Ashworth (BA), F.C. Madden.

Mounted sepia group photograph of fifth year medical students, 1893, in studio setting with tasselled curtains. Present in photograph: D. McM. Officer, P.P. Dowling, H. Spence, S.J.D. Read, J. Ramsay, H.G. Kelly, S.C. Jamieson, L.W. Roberts, F.A. Newman, B. Loughrey, H. Anderson, Miss E.M.P. Stone (1865-1910), Miss A. de Castilla (1868–1898), E.A. D'Ombrain, F.C. Acton, L.N. Ashworth (BA), F.C. Madden.

The seven women who entered the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine in
1887 were Misses Lilian Alexander MA, Elizabeth and Annie O’Hara, Helen Sexton, GraceClara Stone (called Clara), Grace Vale and Margaret Whyte. The women entered the school at the same time, but they did not graduate together. None were deliberately failed, but some had to miss a year through illness—one being Lilian Alexander, who commented, ‘I’ve studied so long that I am too tired to go on, I simply must have a rest before I continue withmy medical work’. Dr Clara Stone and Dr Margaret Whyte were the first graduates, in 1891,followed by Dr Helen Sexton and Dr Elizabeth O’Hara in 1892. Dr Alexander graduated in 1893, and Dr Annie O’Hara and Dr Grace Vale in 1894. Two other women joined the course—Misses Amy de Castilla( 1868-1898) and Emily Mary Page Stone(1865-1910), a cousin of Constance and Clara Stone—who graduated in 1893.
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Object detail

Maker

Talma and Co. (estab. 1892)

Date

1893

Medium

photograph and ink, mounted

Measurements

54.2 x 64.6 cm

Accession Number

MHM00511

Inscriptions

name/inscriptions ▫ handwritten on mount: above image, '5th YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS 1893', and below image, 'D.McM.Officer. P.P.Dowling. H.Spence. S.J.D.Read. J.Ramsay. H.G.Kelly. S.C.Jamieson. L.W.Roberts./F.A.Newman. B.Loughbry M.A.C.E./R.H.Anderson. Miss E.M.P.Stone. Miss A.de Castilla. E.A.D'Ombrain. F.C.Acton./L.N.Ashworth B.A. F.C.Madden.'
maker's mark ▫ across bottom of mount: 'TALMA', coat-of-arms logo, and 'SWANSTON ST./OPP TOWN HALL/MELBOURNE'
on mount, recto: 'S I/10'
on mount, recto: '8'
on mount: '17'

Object Type

photographic medium/photograph

Medical History Museum Category

Melbourne Medical School

Museum

Medical History Museum