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.

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.

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.

Portrait of Julian Richard Krevans, MD (1924-2015). Dr. Krevans received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine in 1946. He was named Alumnus of the Year in 1978.

Dr. Krevans was an acclaimed internist, hematologist, teacher, and administrator. From 1971 to 1982, he served as Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. As Physician-in-Chief of Baltimore City Hospital from 1963 to 1969, he was responsible for transforming Baltimore City Hospital into one of the leading teaching hospitals in the United States.

Portrait of John Hinchman Stokes, MD (1885-1961). The photograph is inscribed, “To my friend Howard Fox, with high esteem, John H. Stokes.”

A major figure in the fields of dermatology and syphilology, Dr. Stokes directed the United States Public Health Services’ Institute for the Study of Venereal Diseases (1937-1953), chaired the Committee on Research in Syphilis (1928), served as a consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army and the Secretary of War during World War II, and served as the American representative to the League of Nations as an expert in syphilis (1928-1955).

Carte de visite portrait of Frederic Shepard Dennis, MD (1850-1934). Dr. Dennis received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1874. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery (1881-1883) and Professor of Surgery (1883-1898). Dr. Dennis introduced Lister's antiseptic methods in operative surgery in the United States. His friendship with Andrew Carnegie is said to have influenced the gift of the Carnegie Laboratory to the College of Medicine. Built in 1884, this was the first laboratory in the country established for teaching and investigation in bacteriology and pathology. Dr. Dennis was made one of its directors.