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Head and shoulders photograph of Lido J. Nils, inscribed, "To Lt. Col. Howard Fox, with [finest esteem], Lido J. Nils."

Image of Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr., MD (1908-1995), on p. 42 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. In 1941, Dr. Pappenheimer joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at New York University College of Medicine. He served as assistant professor (1941-1946), associate professor (1946-1949), professor (1949-1958), and chair of the Department of Microbiology (1956-1958).

Signed portrait of Reuben Ottenberg, MD. Dr. Ottenberg was a hematologist known for his breakthrough research on blood transfusions. In 1907, he performed the first the blood transfusion using blood typing and crossmatching at Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. Ottenberg also discovered that group O blood donors could serve as universal donors.

Portrait of Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919). Osler was the first physician-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital and one of the Big Four founding professors of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Among his many accomplishments, he established medical residencies as the training standard, taught medical students through bedside instruction on the wards rather than lectures, and founded medical library associations in both Great Britain and North America.

Portrait of Jack Orloff, MD. Dr. Orloff received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1943. From 1974 to 1988, he was the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Orloff was a leader in advancing the discipline of physiology. His work included investigations in acidification of the urine, hypokalemic alkalosis, the metabolism and excretion of ammonia and the endocrine control of sodium excretion.

Portrait of Carroll Vincent Newsom (1904-1990). Newsom was President of New York University from 1956 to 1962.

Photograph of Carroll Vincent Newsom (1904-1990) standing at a podium. Newsom was President of New York University from 1956 to 1962.

Portrait of Meyer J. Kutisker, MD. Dr. Kutisker received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1917. He taught as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the New York University College of Medicine.

Head and shoulders portrait of V. Lenar, signed and dated, 1916.

Portrait of Egbert Le Fevre, MD (1858-1914). Dr. Le Fevre received his MD from University Medical College in 1883. He taught as Adjunct Professor of Practice of Medicine (1895-1898), Associate Professor of Therapeutics (1898-1905), Professor of Physical Diagnosis & Diseases of the Chest (1898-1905), and Professor of Clinical Medicine (1905-). From 1898 to 1914, he served as Dean of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The medical school library was named after him.