Historic Images

Dr. Thomas M. Rivers discussing the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine with Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Portrait of Robert Boggs, MD (1893-1967). Dr. Boggs taught at the New York University College of Medicine from 1945 to 1955. He also served as Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine and Dean of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Mr. Paul Klemtner mentions key contributors during the opening of the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Head and shoulders photograph of John Canary. Mounted in cardboard. Signed "John Canary" and on back, "With Compliments of John Canary" Ink stain near mouth of subject.

Image of Lauretta Bender, MD (1897-1987) from p. 56 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Bender was an Instructor in Psychiatry at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1931 to 1936, She then taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (1936-1941), Associate Professor of Psychiatry (1941-1951), and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (1951-1958).

Photograph of Alan W. Bernheimer writing at a desk. (1 negative, 1 smaller copy)

The television studio crew tends to a baby klieg light that exploded above Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. four minutes before the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Portrait of Robert Boggs, MD (1893-1967). Dr. Boggs taught at the New York University College of Medicine from 1945 to 1955. He also served as Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine and Dean of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Photograph taken behind the scenes of the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

From left to right: Herb Fleet, Vice President of Medical Communications, Inc. and Account Executive for Eli Lilly’s & Co.; Wes Kenney, the Director of the telecast (DuMont); Al Molinaro, Promotion and Production Director for Medical Communications; his son; Bob Emerick, Narrator; Morris Mayers, Director of Closed Circuit Division of DuMont; Ed Rasp, TV Program Director for Medical Communications; Eric Herud, Chief Facilities Engineer for DuMont; Steve Olshewski, Vice President of Paul Klemtner and Co. and Executive Vice President of Medical Communications, and Paul Klemtner.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Signed portrait of Joseph V. Brumlik, MD, inscribed “To [E.C.] Libman, In great Esteem and Profound Admiration.” Dr. Brumlik taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Instructor in Clinical Medicine (1945-1948), Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (1948-1959), and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (1959-1979).