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Nathan Francis Mossell

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Original – Nathan Francis Mossell (1856 – 1946) was the first African-American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1882. He did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia and London. In 1888, he was the first black physician elected as member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in Pennsylvania. He helped found the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in West Philadelphia in 1895, which he led as chief-of-staff and medical director until he retired in 1933.

Reason

There aren't many good photos of Mossell out there, as a glance at the image we were until recently using in his article will prove very quickly. While there was a fair bit of damage - the hand on the right being particularly bad - this image has a nice pose, a bit of personality, and is generally pretty good for 1882. Just over 2 inches wide originally, and still looks great zoomed in fairly far. It would, of course, be nice if we had the negative instead of a print - the paper fibres were probably the biggest problem here - but what's preserved is what's preserved in the end.
Unedited image here, if you want to compare.
Not sure he has the biggest firsts out there, but I'd say he's plenty interesting enough.

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Nathan Francis Mossell

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others or Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Science_and_engineering depending on whether you think that doctors come under science.

Creator

H.D. Carns & Co.; restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 02:06, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 16:50, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support --DreamSparrow ^Chat 19:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:55, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 09:08, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 16:20, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Promoted File:Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:21, 22 March 2022 (UTC)