Historic Images

Image of Elaine Pandia Ralli, MD (1894-1968). Dr. Ralli received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1925. She taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Ralli was an authority on diseases of metabolism and nutrition and a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation for outstanding achievement as a woman in medicine.

Portrait of Mortimer Gilbert Rosen, MD. Dr. Rosen received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1955. He later taught as Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Cabinet card portrait of Samuel Sherwell, MD (1841-1927). Dr. Sherwell received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1868. He served as a Professor of Dermatology at Long Island Hospital Medical College and was one of the founding members of the American Dermatological Association.

Photograph of Sol Sherry (1916-1993). Dr. Sherry received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939. He later became professor and co-head of the Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine.

Portrait of Paul Ferdinand Schilder, MD (1886-1940). Dr. Schilder was born in Vienna and received his MD from the Medical University of Vienna in 1909. A prominent Austrian psychiatrist, he emigrated to the United States in 1929. From 1930 to his death in 1940, he served as medical director of the psychiatric division of Bellevue Hospital and research professor of psychiatry at New York University College of Medicine.

Signed portrait of Warren N. Richter, MD, seated at a desk with a microscope. The inscription reads, “With best regards, Warren N. Richter.”

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Photograph of Bertha Rader, MD (1911-2011). Dr. Rader began her medical career as an EKG technician at Bellevue Hospital. After graduating from the New York University School of Medicine in 1945, Dr. Rader became Chief of the Cardiac Clinic, and ran the electrocardiography service at Bellevue Hospital for decades. She held the title of Associate Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine until 2000.

Portrait of Carl Julius Rothberger, MD (1871-1945). The photograph is signed, with a note in German to Dr. Emmanuel Libman dated December 12, 1932. Dr. Rothberger became Professor of General and Experimental Pathology at the University of Vienna in 1904, and held the position of deputy head of the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology from 1924 until he was forcibly retired by the Nazi government in 1936.

Photograph of Donal Sheehan, MD, wearing a lab coat. Dr. Sheehan taught at New York University Medical College from 1937 until his death, apart from a 1947-1948 term as general director of the Commonwealth Fund. He served as acting dean of the medical school for three years during World War II, as chairman of the Scientific Committee of the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center, and as director of the Medical Center from 1953-1955.

Portrait of James A. Shannon, MD (1904-1994). Dr. Shannon received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1929. He taught as an Instructor in Otorhinolaryngology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1933 to 1940, and then as Assistant Clinical Professor (1941-1947), Clinical Professor (1948-1950), and Professor (1951-1960) of Otorhinolaryngology at New York University College of Medicine. From 1955 to 1968, he served as Director of the National Institutes of Health.