Portraits

Signed portrait of Malcolm Morris, MD (1849-1924). Inscribed "To Dr. Howard Fox, from Malcolm Morris, London, 1913." Morris founded the British Association of Dermatologists in 1920.

Signed portrait of Ignatz Leo Nascher, MD (1863-1944). Dr. Nascher received his MD from University Medical College in 1885. He coined the term “geriatrics.”

Portrait of Norton Nelson, MD (1910-1990). Dr. Nelson joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine in 1947. From 1954 to 1979, he served as the first director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at New York University.

Portrait of Harry Most, MD (1907-1994). Dr. Most received his MD from University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1931. He taught at New York University School of Medicine from 1941 to 1993, eventually serving as the Herman M. Biggs Professor of Preventive Medicine and the chair main of the Department of Preventive Medicine from 1953 to 1973. Dr. Most received the NYU Medical Alumni Achievement Award in 1974. He was an original contributor to the study of tropical diseases, trichinosis, malaria, amebiasis, schistomiasis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

Portrait of Henry Mitchell MacCracken, DD, LLD (1840-1918). MacCracken was the sixth chancellor of New York University from 1891 to 1910. Caption printed below photograph reads: “Member, 1885-, President and Trustee, 1900-”

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 Louis Neham, signed.

Head and shoulders portrait of Dr. Henry E. Meleney, Third Hermann M. Biggs Professor of Medicine, 1941-1953. Inscribed, "To my loyal friend and colleague, Henry Most, Henry E. Meleney."

Portrait of Robert Timmons McCluskey, MD. Dr. McCluskey received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine in 1947. He later became the Chief of the Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Portrait of Carlos Frederick MacDonald, MD (1845-1926). Dr. MacDonald received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1869. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1889 to 1898 as Professor of Mental Diseases. He then taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, first as Professor of Mental Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence (1898-1907) and then as Emeritus Professor (1907-1909).