hominidmedia: people: kate newcomb


media introduction:

image credit: "Dr. Kate sometimes traveled on snowshoes to see her patients" is the image title give by PBS Wisconsin. [.html]. Also hosted by Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb Museum in Woodruff, Wisconsin. [.html].

Ralph Edwards (host) This Is Your Life "Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb": season 2 episode 25, 17 March 1954.

Dr. Kate Museum Introduction [.youtube]

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PBS-WI. Wisconsin Biographies: Kate Newcomb PBS Wisconsin. Hosted by [PBS WI].

Daniel Hagen. "Tour of the Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb Museum and the World's Largest Penny in Woodruff, WI" 19 July 2021. hosted by [.youtube].
Hagen is a producer and host for WJFW-TV in Rhinelander. He took a tour of the museum and the world's largest penny.

standard narrative:

Newcomb appears in Wisconsin history curriculum:
Rebecca Hogue Wojahn. Dr. Kate Angel On Snowshoes. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009.

hominidmedia: "Rural Vanguardism and Frontier Republicanism"
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primary sources:

Adele Comandini. Doctor Kate Angel on Snowshoes. Lac Du Flambeau: Arrow Enterprises, 1980. (First published by Rinehart & Company, 1956).
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