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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.

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.

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.

Head and shoulders photograph of Dr. William K. Ford. Very soft image.

Portrait of John Addison Fordyce, MD (1858-1925). Dr. Fordyce taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Assistant to the Department of Venereal Diseases (1889-1890) and Assistant to Department of Genito-Urinary Diseases (1890-1893) before becoming Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology (1893-1913).

Image of Morris B. Bender, MD, from p. 56 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Bender taught in the New York University College of Medicine’s Department of Neurology as an Assistant in Neurology (1938-1940), Instructor in Neurology (1940-1942), Assistant Professor (1942-1945), Associate Professor (1946-1951), and Professor (1951-1966).

Portrait of Hermann Michael Biggs, MD (1859-1923). Dr. Biggs received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1883, after which he interned at Bellevue Hospital from 1883 to 1884. His career at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College) spanned from 1884 to 1923. Dr. Biggs taught across a variety of medical disciplines, including Pathological Anatomy, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, and Principles and Practice of Medicine. He received world-wide recognition for his contributions to public health, concentrating on the application of the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. One of his many achievements was the establishment of the New York City Board of Health Laboratory.

Dr. Thomas M. Rivers discussing the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine with Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Portrait of Robert Boggs, MD (1893-1967). Dr. Boggs taught at the New York University College of Medicine from 1945 to 1955. He also served as Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine and Dean of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Mr. Paul Klemtner mentions key contributors during the opening of the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.