Historic Images

Portrait of Edgar Hunt, MD (1857-1907). Dr. Hunt received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1878.

Head and shoulders photograph of Walker James Highmaer, facing right. Inscribed, "TO my good friend and frequent traveling companion Howard Fox, Walker James Highmaer, May 11/22".

Portrait of George Hughes Kirby, MD (1875-1935). Dr. Kirby taught in the Department of Psychiatry at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1914-1918.

Portrait of Eric Richard Kandel, MD. Dr. Kandel received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1956. At the time of this portrait, he was Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry and Directory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kandel received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his research on memory storage in neurons.

Portrait of William Neill Hubbard, Jr., MD (1919-2018). Dr. Hubbard received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1944. A leader in medical education and the research and production of pharmaceuticals, he served as president of the Pharmaceutical Division of The Upjohn Company from 1974 to 1984.

Portrait of J. William Hinton, MD (1894-1973). Dr. Hinton taught as an Instructor in Surgery at University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1932 to 1941. He then taught at the New York University College of Medicine as Clinical Instructor in Surgery (1941-1944), Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (1944-1948), Professor of Clinical Surgery (1948-1949), and Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department (1949-1959). He also served as the director of the 4th Surgical Division, Bellevue Hospital.

Photograph of Albert Sol Keston, MD (1911-1992), seated in his office, from p. 34 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook.

Carte de visite portrait of Edward Lawrence Keyes, MD (1843-1924). Dr. Keyes received his MD from University Medical College in 1866. He became a Lecturer and then Professor of Syphilology and Genito-Urinary Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (1871-1889).

Portrait of Abraham Jacobi, MD (1830-1919), signed “Yours cordially, A. Jacobi.” Dr. Jacobi taught at University Medical College as Professor of Diseases of Children from 1867 to 1870. The first director of this specialty at Bellevue, Dr. Jacobi is known today as the “father of American pediatrics.” He served twice as president of the American Pediatrics Association.

Portrait of Kurt Hirschhorn, MD (1926-2022) with a microscope. Dr. Hirschhorn received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1954. Dr. Hirschhorn taught as an Instructor in Medicine (1956-1958), Assistant Professor of Medicine (1958-1964), and Associate Professor of Medicine (1964-1966) at New York University School of Medicine. He went on to become Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Hirschhorn was a seminal thinker in human genetics and immunology research.