Harry Woodburn Chase
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Portrait of Harry Woodburn Chase. Chase served as Chancellor of New York University from 1933 to 1951.
Portraits
May Edward Chinn
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Portrait of May Edward Chinn, MD (1896-1980), print made from an image in the 1926 Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Chinn received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926. She was the first Black woman graduate of University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Dr. Chinn went on to have an important role as a cancer researcher, working for the Strang Clinic at the New York Infirmary from 1944 to 1974. She was later awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from both Columbia University and New York University (1980).
Keizō Dohi
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Signed portrait of Keizō Dohi, MD (1866-1931). The inscription reads, “To Dr. Howard Fox, with high regards, K. Dohi.” Dr. Dohi was a Japanese dermatologist trained at the Vienna School of Dermatology. He served as professor and chair of the department of dermatology and syphilology at the Imperial University of Tokyo.
Herbert Celler
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Portrait of Herbert L. Celler, MD. The photograph is mounted and signed “Dr. Celler."
Nathan Smith Davis
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Portrait of Nathan Smith Davis, MD (1817-1904), known as the “Father of the American Medical Association.”
Biography on the back of the image reads:
While serving as a representative of the Broome County Medical Society in the New York State Society, Dr. Davis offered resolutions calling for a lengthening and grading of the medical course of instruction. It was the discussion of these resolutions which led to the calling of a National Medical Convention in 1846 at NYU Medical Department. This was the organizational meeting of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Davis graduated from the College of Physicians of Western New York at Fairfield before he was 21 years of age. Dr. Davis served on the faculties of several medical schools and also helped to organize the Illinois Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society.
Well-known as a writer and orator, Dr. Davis also edited several professional journals and in 1883 became the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Temperance was one of his favorite topics and he lectured frequently on subjects connected with hygiene and popular science.
Medical students said that they acquired knowledge from all of their professors but their inspiration came from him.
Biography on the back of the image reads:
While serving as a representative of the Broome County Medical Society in the New York State Society, Dr. Davis offered resolutions calling for a lengthening and grading of the medical course of instruction. It was the discussion of these resolutions which led to the calling of a National Medical Convention in 1846 at NYU Medical Department. This was the organizational meeting of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Davis graduated from the College of Physicians of Western New York at Fairfield before he was 21 years of age. Dr. Davis served on the faculties of several medical schools and also helped to organize the Illinois Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society.
Well-known as a writer and orator, Dr. Davis also edited several professional journals and in 1883 became the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Temperance was one of his favorite topics and he lectured frequently on subjects connected with hygiene and popular science.
Medical students said that they acquired knowledge from all of their professors but their inspiration came from him.
Charles Clayton Dennie
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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.
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.
V. Paris Castello
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Head and shoulders photograph of V. Paris Castello, mounted and signed, "To Dr. Howard Fox, with kindest regards from his friend and pupil, V. Paris Castello, Havana, May 31, 1930."
Lewis A. Conner
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Signed portrait of Lewis Atterbury Conner, MD (1867-1950). The inscription reads, “With sincere regards, Lewis A. Conner.” Dr. Conner served as a Tutor in the Practice of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1895 to 1896. A cardiologist who believed in treating heart disease as a matter of public health, he founded and served as first president of both the New York Heart Association and the American Heart Association.
John Marquis Converse
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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.
Howard Fox
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Portrait of Howard Fox, MD (1873-1954), inscribed “To Mr. Edgar S. Tilton, With Best Wishes of Howard Fox, M.D.” Dr. Fox taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1925 to 1938 as Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, after which he held the position of Professor Emeritus from 1948 to 1954.