Portraits

Portrait of Arthur Canfield Upton, MD (1923-2015). From 1980 to 1992, Dr. Upton served as the chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He became Professor Emeritus of Environmental Medicine in 1992.

Portrait of William Henry Welch, MD (1850-1934). Dr. Welch taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Pathology from 1878 to 1884.

Portrait of Mills Sturtevant, MD (1882-1945). Dr. Sturtevant held the role of Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1933 to 1945 at New York University College of Medicine.

Portrait of Webb William Weeks, MD (1886-1940). Dr. Weeks taught at New York University College of Medicine as a Professor of Ophthalmology from 1916 until his death in 1940. From 1928 to 1940, he was the head of the Ophthalmology Department.

Portrait of Jonathan W. Uhr, MD (1928-2024). Dr. Uhr received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1952. He became the Chair and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1972 and later held the position of Professor Emeritus of Immunology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Signed portrait of John Murray Steele, MD (1900-1969), in military uniform. Dr. Steele served as Professor of Medicine at New York University College of Medicine.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of David Wechsler, MD (1896-1981). Dr. Weschler served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology at New York University College of Medicine from 1941 to 1947 and Associate Clinical Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology from 1947 to 1955. He later served as Clinical Professor of Clinical Psychology (1955-1971), Professor of Psychology (1971-1975), and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology (1975-1981) at the New York University School of Medicine.

Portrait of John Elmer Weeks, MD (1853-1949). Dr. Weeks taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University as a Lecturer and later Clinical Professor of Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology. He served as the head of the Department of Ophthalmology from 1901 to 1921.

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).

Signed portrait of [T. B. W. Stelwajar], MD, at age fifty.

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