A young boy in a sailor suit, with a small bag in hand, standing in the roof garden of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Portrait of Robert Ward, MD (1908-1972). Dr. Ward held the role of Professor of Pediatrics from 1949 to 1958 at the NYU School of Medicine.

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Three young girls on the roof garden of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital Orthopedic Ward. The girls are using crutches. The photograph was published with the caption “Three Little Cripples (Orthopedic Ward)” on page 57 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1900.

Portrait of a young girl reclining in a wicker chair built to support her legs. This photograph was published in the Report of the Babies’ Wards, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1901.

Signed portrait of Joseph Victor Klauder, MD, in military uniform. Inscribed “To Colonel Howard Fox, with pleasant recollections of Base Hospital, Camp Upton, and of Ward E4, Joseph Victor Klauder.” Dr. Klauder was an American dermatologist based out of Philadelphia, PA.

Portrait of Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919). Osler was the first physician-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital and one of the Big Four founding professors of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Among his many accomplishments, he established medical residencies as the training standard, taught medical students through bedside instruction on the wards rather than lectures, and founded medical library associations in both Great Britain and North America.