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Portrait of Walter Levy, MD. Dr. Levy received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1924. He served as the Alumni Association President from 1951 to 1952.

Portrait of Samuel Leidesdorf (1881-1968). Mr. Leidesdorf joined the board of the New York University Medical Center in 1948, initially serving as the Chair of the Building Committee. He served as Chairman of the Board from 1956 until his death in 1968.

Reproduction of a painting of Samuel Leidesdorf (1881-1968). Mr. Leidesdorf joined the board of the New York University Medical Center in 1948, initially serving as the Chair of the Building Committee. He served as Chairman of the Board from 1956 until his death in 1968.

Portrait of Osceola Currier McEwen, MD (1902-2003), better known as Currier McEwen. Dr. McEwen received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Instructor in Medicine from 1932 to 1933, and at the NYU College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine from 1933 to 1939. Dr. McEwen made major breakthroughs in the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism, clinical, pathologic, immunologic studies of rheumatic fever, systemic lupus erythematosus and various types of arthritis.

Image of Jesse Waring Mahoney, MD, from p. 51 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Mahoney received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1940. He served as chief of surgery at Bellevue Hospital Center for 20 years.

Portrait of Leopold Lichtwitz, MD (1876-1943). In 1919, Dr. Litchwitz became the head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Hamburg’s Altona Municipal Hospital. He eventually became director of the hospital. In 1931, he became director of Berlin’s Rudolf Virchow Hospital. He was removed from his post by the Nazi regime in 1933. After emigrating to the United States, Dr. Lichtwitz became director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital.

Head and shoulders portrait of T.E. Lenear, seated at angle. Inscribed, "With kindest regards, T.E. Lenear."

Portrait of Walter Levy, MD. Dr. Levy received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1924. He served as the Alumni Association President from 1951 to 1952.

Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.

Image of Milton Levy, MD, from p. 34 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Levy joined the faculty of the New York University Medical College in 1930. From 1956 to 1970, he served as the chairman of the biochemistry department at New York University Dental School.