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Description
Bust-length portrait. "Mary Ellen Hofmann, M.D., Aunt Mamie" -- handwritten on verso. 1990-2316. Mary Ellen Hofmann was born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of German American parents (Johann Cristian and Anna Maria (Norick) Hofmann). She came to California in 1876 most likely with her sister Sarah Elizabeth, joining her brother, Joseph A. Hofmann, in San Francisco. She worked as a seamstress prior to attending Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific. She graduated with a M.D. in homeopathic medicine in 1896 and set up a private practice in San Francisco, remaining there from 1896 to 1906. She moved to Los Angeles, practicing medicine there until her death in 1919. T. Bodine.
Type
image
Format
Portraits. Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001496328CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Hofmann, Mary Ellen,, 1843-1919--Portraits German Americans--California--Photographs Physicians--California--San Francisco Physicians--California--Los Angeles Photographic prints Portrait photographs Cabinet card photographs
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