Group portraits

Series of individual portraits set in illustrated frames and labeled “Medical Faculty of the University of New York and the Founders of the Medical Department.” Clockwise from upper left corner: Valentine Mott, MD, Professor of the Principles and Operations of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological Anatomy; Theodore Frelinghuysen, Chancellor; Granville Sharp Pattison, MD, Professor of General, Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy; Martyn Paine, MD, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica; John William Draper, MD, Professor of Chemistry; Gunning S. Bedford, MD, Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children; John Revere, MD, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.

Photograph of medical librarian Gilbert Clausman (center) receiving an 1867 diploma on behalf of the New York University School of Medicine Library. To his left: Morris F. Weiner, MD, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College class of 1929. To his right: Reverend David M. Cory, grandson of the physician Dr. David M. Cory, Bellevue Hospital Medical College class of 1867.

Photograph of Anthony S. Bogatko, MD, and William C. MacTavish, MD, receiving Alumni Meritorious Service Citations from Francis L. Valente, Alumni Federation President, at the June 4, 1958 Commencement Exercises. Dr. Bogatko received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1919. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Assistant in Surgery (1922-1927) and Instructor in Surgery (1930-1936). He then taught at the New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (1936-1941) and Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery (1941-1963). Dr. MacTavish received his MD from the New York University College of Medicine in 1949.

View of the NYU Medical School’s 28th Street building, acquired from Cornell's Medical College in 1931. The photograph was taken circa 1951 and given to Dr. de la Chapelle by Mr. Simmons, photographer for the Medical Center.

Photograph taken during the ceremony awarding Joseph Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, MD, the New York University Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Dr. Pasteur Vallery-Radot (second from left) was the grandson of Dr. Louis Pasteur and the head of France’s Department of Public Health in the years following World War II. This photograph was taken in the Medical Science Building on December 20, 1956. Also featured are Dr. George Ellis Armstrong, President Carroll Vincent Newsom, and Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger.

Portrait of the class of 1892 from the Margaret Fahnestock Training School for Nurses. The graduates are dressed in their uniforms, wearing corsages, and carrying bouquets. This photograph was published with the caption “Mrs. Va Zant and Class of 1892” on page 48 of the Alumnae Association’s publication "The History of Nursing at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital," edited by Lena Dufton.

Group portrait of the class of 1924 from the Margaret Fahnestock Training School for Nurses.

Group portrait of the nurses of the Margaret Fahnestock Training School prior to their departure for France during World War I. They served with the Post-Graduate Hospital Unit. Photograph printed on page 16 in the 33rd Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1916-1917.

New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital house staff on the steps of the hospital, circa 1914-1915. Written on the back of the photograph: “Dr W.G. L[illegible] (left), George Cahill (rt.).”

Group portrait taken at the signing of the formal agreement uniting the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital with the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center. Pictured: NYU Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase (seated, left); Attorney and Post-Graduate Board member Charles S. McVeigh (seated, right); Medical Center Director Edwin A. Salmon (standing, left); and Elmer Ellsworth Brown (standing, right).