Group portrait of the New York University College of Medicine class of 1944, taken during their third year. When the United States entered World War II, NYU College of Medicine compressed its normal four-year MD program into three years, and almost all the College’s male students enrolled in the United States Army or Navy. Enlisted students served on active duty while in school in return for a small salary of approximately $21/month, a stipend for room and board, and paid tuition. Upon graduation, students were expected to enter the United States Army Reserve for the duration of their medical internships.

Portrait of Fred Wise, MD (1881-1950). Dr. Wise served as the clinical chief of the Skin and Cancer Unit of New York Post-Graduate Hospital until his retirement in 1947.

Portrait of John Marquis Converse, MD. Dr. Converse taught at the New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant in Surgery (1939-1947), an Instructor in Surgery (1947-1948), Assistant Professor of Clinical Plastic Surgery (1948-1952), Associate Professor of Clinical Plastic Surgery (1952-1957), and Lawrence D. Bell Professor of Plastic Surgery (1957-1981). He also served as the head of the Institute for Reconstructive & Plastic Surgery.

Portrait of Henry Honeyman Hazen, MD (1879-1951). Dr. Hazen was an important dermatologist who taught at Howard University Medical School from 1911 to 1944 and served in many public health roles within United States government.

Portrait of Howard Troy Phillips, MD (1891-1949), in a sailor’s uniform. The picture is inscribed: “To Howard Fox, Lt. Colonel U. S. Army. from Howard T. Phillips H. A. [Hospital Apprentice] [?] U. S. Navy.” Phillips was a dermatologist and served in the United States Navy during the First World War.

Group portrait of the nurses of the Margaret Fahnestock Training School prior to their departure for France during World War I. They served with the Post-Graduate Hospital Unit. Photograph printed on page 16 in the 33rd Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1916-1917.

Portrait of Marion Baldur Sulzberger, MD (1895-1984). Dr. Sulzberger became director of the New York Skin and Cancer Unit in 1947. From 1949 to 1960, he served as Professor of Dermatology and chairman of the Department of Dermatology at New York University Medical School. Dr. Sulzberger was named professor emeritus in 1960.

Group portrait taken at the signing of the formal agreement uniting the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital with the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center. Pictured: Chancellor of NYU, Harry Woodburn Chase (seated, left); Attorney and Post-Graduate Board member Charles S. McVeigh (seated, right); Medical Center Director Edwin A. Salmon (standing, left); and Elmer Ellsworth Brown (standing, right).

Portrait of Rush Harrison Kress (1877-1963). Kress served as president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, established by his brother, from 1955 to 1963. The Kress Foundation distributed approximately 31,000 artworks to museums throughout the United States. Through the Foundation, Rush Kress also gifted $8,375,000 to the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center to provide post-graduate training for practicing physicians.

Signed portrait of Charles Clayton Dennie, MD (1883-1971), in military uniform. Inscribed “To my very good friend Dr. Howard Fox, Charles C. Dennie.”

An American dermatologist, Dennie was studying dermatology and syphilology at The Hospital St. Louis in Paris in 1914 when World War I broke out. He would later serve in the United States Army Medical Corps. Dr. Dennie became head of the Department of Dermatology at Kansas University School of Medicine, where he spent his career.