Iga Mori: An Online Exhibit of a Stanford Medicine Pioneer

1876 woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年) depicting the appearance of US Commodore Matthew Perry’s Navy fleet in Japan.
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cooper Medical College, at the intersection of Webster and Sacramento Streets in San Francisco. It became Stanford’s School of Medicine in 1908.
Image courtesy the Stanford Medical History Center

Iga Mori as he appeared in his Class of 1891 graduation picture at Cooper Medical College.
Image courtesy of the Stanford Medical History Center

Iga Mori is standing on the left in this photograph. His colleague and fellow Cooper Medical College graduate, Sanzaburo Kobayashi, is standing in the center.
Image courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, Victor Mori Collection

Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was a patient of Iga Mori.
Image courtesy of the Hawai'i State Archives

The Honolulu Board of Health used this cordon as part of the quarantining of residents of Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1900. Additional measures included updating Chinatown’s sewer system and an attempted controlled burning of selected buildings.
Image courtesy of the Hawai’i State Archives.

Levi Cooper Lane was a physician and surgeon who served as President of Cooper Medical College from 1882 until his death in 1902.
Image courtesy of the Stanford Medical History Center

California Governor Henry Gage’s proclamation that no plague existed in the state was published in the San Francisco Call on June 14, 1900.
Image courtesy of the California Digital Newspaper Collection

Motokazu Mori was a physician and the son of Iga Mori. He was incarcerated in internment camps in New Mexico and Texas, as authorized by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.
Image courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, Victor Mori Collection

Ishiko Mori was a physician and the daughter-in-law of Iga Mori. She was incarcerated in internment camps in California and Texas. After WWII, she pursued biomedical research at the University of Hawai’i.
Image courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, Victor Mori Collection

In this undated family photo, Iga Mori is center and his son, Motokazu Mori, is on the far right.
Image courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, Victor Mori Collection

In this photograph by White House photographer Yoichi Okamoto, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act into law.
Courtesy of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.

The Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association is the largest organization of Asian Pacific Islander American medical students in the US. Stanford Medicine is home to one of the roughly ninety chapters across the country.