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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.

Portrait of William K. Ford, MD.

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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.

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.

Signed portrait of John Canary. The back of the photograph is inscribed “with compliments of John Canary.”

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Image of Lauretta Bender, MD (1897-1987), from p. 56 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Bender was an Instructor in Psychiatry at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1931 to 1936, She then taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (1936-1941), Associate Professor of Psychiatry (1941-1951), and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (1951-1958).

Photograph of Alan Weyl Bernheimer, MD (1913-2006), writing at a desk. His name is printed above the image. Dr. Bernheimer taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant in Bacteriology (1941-1942), Instructor in Bacteriology (1942-1945), Assistant Professor of Microbiology (1945-1952), Associate Professor of Microbiology (1952-1958), and Professor of Microbiology (1958-1984). In 1984, he was named Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. Dr. Bernheimer also served as chair of Basic Medical Sciences from 1969 to 1974.