Alice Weld Tallant Papers, 1896-1958
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Alice Weld Tallant Papers
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Time of Creation of Alice Weld Tallant Papers
Tallant, Alice Weld, 1875-1958
Biographical History for: Alice Weld Tallant Papers
Biographical Note Alice Weld Tallant in uniform inCoulommier, France, 1918 Alice Weld Tallant was born in Boston on 14 July 1875. She attended private schools, and earned her A.B. from Smith College in 1897 and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1902. She did graduate work at the hospital of the New York Lying-In Society and later at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. She interned and assisted at New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston from 1902 to 1905. Tallant worked as "Examiner for Gymnasium and Lecturer in Hygiene" at Bates College from 1903 to 1904. She was Professor of Obstetrics at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and Obstetrician-in-Chief at College Hospital from 1905 to 1923. From 1922-28, she was an obstetrician at the Philadelphia General Hospital. She went overseas with the Smith College Relief Unit in World War I, serving from July 1917 until February 1918. While there, she served in the 6th French army military evacuation hospital and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1918. In 1922, she wrote a textbook on obstetrical nursing. From 1905 until her death in 1958, Tallant practiced obstetrics at the Woman's Hospital in Philadelphia. In addition to these responsibilities, throughout her life she worked in other hospitals and institutions in Philadelphia, including the Baby's Hospital from 1924 to 1942. Tallant also served as physician and social worker at the Joy Settlement from 1928 to 1938, and contributed her time and expertise to the Girls' House of Refuge from 1906 to 1950, first as visiting physician and then as consulting physician. Alice Weld Tallant died 31 May 1958.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The papers include a small amount of material related to her medical career after graduation from Johns Hopkins University in 1902, at Joy Settlement and St. Martha's House, Philadelphia; and more extensive documentation of her work in France during World War I, both as Director of Smith College Relief Unit, and later in a French Army Hospital. Letters (1902-1957) to and from Tallant include those of her grandmother, playwright Alice Brown, and Sophia Smith Collection Director, Margaret Storrs Grierson. Also included are biographical materials, photographs, radio scripts, memorabilia, and tributes from the French government and citizens.
Social settlements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources
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Women physicians--Pennsylvania--Biography--Sources
World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--France
World War, 1914-1918--War work--France
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Smith College. Relief Unit--History--Sources
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Contents
Correspondence
Alice Brown to the Anthony family, 1915-47
Miscellaneous from AWT (including accounts of relief work in France), 1902-58
Alice Brown to AWT, 1896-1948
AWT to Margaret Grierson, 1946-1957
Biographical material, clippings, and memorabilia 1912-58, n.d.
France
Smith College Relief Unit and medical relief work: correspondence, reports, photographs and memorabilia, 1917-18 [see also folder 3]
American Committee for Devastated France: correspondence, testimonials, medals and citations (including Croix de Guerre), 1918-19
Radio scripts, 1848, 1950
Philadelphia County Medical Society: plaque, invitation, photograph and testimonials, 1952
Writings by AWT: reprints and articles, 1915-26
Johns Hopkins Medical School: correspondence, 1955
Poems, n.d.
Photographs, 1897-1920s, n.d. [see also folder 8]
Awards
Box of medals
Johns Hopkins University: Fifty Year Alumnus medal
OVERSIZED MATERIALS
Johns Hopkins University medical diploma, 1902
Americain pour les regions devastees de la France: licenses and certificate, 1916-1923