Medical thesis of the first African-American graduate of the Medical Institution of Yale College, 1857Creed, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, d. 19001857First page of handwritten thesis, The Blood, written by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African American graduate of the Yale School of Medicine (1857). Thesis is bound with other theses from 1857.still image