[T1S1] mother's family's emigration from Lithuania and settlement on a farm outside of Wilkes-Barre, PA; they found Lehigh Coal Company; mother's birth and education; father's residence in England for twenty-two years; leaves England to move to Wilkes-Barre, PA; discussion of Wilkes-Barre and the bus line that ran there; religious education in the family; parents' marriage in Wilkes-Barre; father's general store; movement of family around the state of Pennsylvania; father's business becomes a men's store called K and M Stores; his death; her siblings and their careers; her graduation from Radcliffe College; her war work that led to medical school; attending the University of Pittsburgh medical school; discussion of being female in a medical school at that time; opens her first office in the Homewood area of Pittsburgh; her work at West Penn Hospital in the Pediatric Ward; her retirement; patients that come to her home for treatment; the other women in her class at Radcliffe.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.154_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.154
"Frumerman, Pauline Marks - 1976" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Frumerman, Pauline Marks - 1976
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Frumerman, Dr. Pauline Marks, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh medical school, was one of the first females to practice medicine in the city; birth year, 1894.
Contributor
Frumerman, Pauline Marks (interviewee), Benson, Stephanie;Holmes, Nancy (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1976
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.154
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