Portrait of George Barclay Wallace, MD (1874-1948). Dr. Wallace served as Professor of Pharmacology and head of the Department of Pharmacology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University.
Portrait of Douglas Symmers, MD (1879-1952), with the inscription “To Chubby and Clarence-Douglas Symmers.” Dr. Symmers served as Professor of Gross Pathology at New York University College of Medicine from 1934 to 1945. He also served as the Director of Laboratories at Bellevue Hospital.
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Faneuil Dunkin Weisse, MD (1842-1915). Weisse received his MD from University Medical College in 1864. He taught at University Medical College from 1861 to 1890 as Professor of Dermatology (1867-1875), Professor of Practical and Surgical Anatomy (1876-1889), and Professor of Surgical Pathology (1874-1876). He later taught at the New York College of Dentistry.
Portrait of Richard Lightburn Sutton, MD (1878-1952). The photograph is inscribed, “For Dr. Howard Fox, with the good wishes of Richard Sutton, 6/20/25.” Dr. Sutton was an important American dermatologist, known among other things for his identification of Sutton’s disease (canker sores).
Carte de visite portrait of William Henry Welch, MD (1850-1934), as a young man. Dr. Welch taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Pathology from 1878 to 1884.
Dr. Webb Weeks, former Professor of Ophthalmology and a member of the faculty from 1916 until his death in January 1940. He headed the department from 1928-1940.
Signed portrait of Fred D. Weidman, MD (1881-1956). Dr. Weidman was a dermatologist, spending his career as a teacher and researcher in Philadelphia. In 1926-27, he designed an important survey and public health report on the treatment of ringworm and other fungal diseases in the United States and abroad.
Signed portrait of John Murray Steele, MD (1900-1969), in military uniform. Dr. Steele served as Professor of Medicine at New York University College of Medicine.