Portraits

Photograph of Royal Albert Schaaf, MD, standing at a podium during an Alumni Day event in February 1959. Dr. Schaaf received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1913.

Three-quarter head-and-shoulders view of Dr. Pouferor, a French colleague of Dr. Howard Fox. Photo is inscribed in French, "a mon collegue et ami le Professeur Howard Fox - cordial souvenir de son d....(?)" Dimensions are for image only.

Portrait of Professor Omovaenheim (first name not available), signed, "To Dr. Howard, For with the best regards, Vienna, 6/VII 1931, Prof. Omovaenhein".

Portrait of Willard Parker, MD (1800-1884). Parker was one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine and became president of the Academy in 1856. He taught as Professor of Surgery at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons for more than thirty years, beginning in 1839.

Charcoal portrait of John Osborn Polak, MD (1870-1931). The drawing is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner. Dr. Polak taught as Instructor and Professor at New York Post-Graduate Medical School from 1894 to 1907. He was the author of the “Manual of Obstetrics” (1913) and the “Student’s Manual of Gynecology” (1913).

Portrait of Burton C. D’Lugoff, MD. Dr. D’Lugoff received his MD. from New York University School of Medicine in 1957. He served as a Fellow in Pathology at the College of Medicine from 1957 to 1958. At the time this portrait was taken, he was the Directory of Community Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals.

Portrait of Severo Ochoa, MD (1905-1993). Dr. Ochoa was appointed Research Associate at New York University School of Medicine in 1942, after which he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (1945), Professor of Pharmacology (1946), Professor of Biochemistry (1954), and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Ochoa was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in1959 for his discoveries in biochemical genetics and nucleic acids.

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 Everard Lawrence Oliver, MD (1876-1955), dressed in military uniform. The photograph is inscribed, “To Colonel Howard Fox with sincere regards, Everard Lawrence Oliver.” Dr. Oliver received his MD from Harvard Medical School and later taught there as a professor of dermatology. He also served as the chief dermatologist of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Carte de visite portrait of Henry Drury Noyes, MD (1832-1900). Dr. Noyes was Professor of Ophthalmology at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1870 to 1898. He also authored a textbook on diseases of the eye.