Faculty, medical

Signed engraving of a photographic portrait of Gunning Samuel Bedford, MD (1806-1870). Dr. Bedford taught at University Medical College as Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women from 1841 to 1864.

Signed carte de visite portrait of John C. Draper, MD (1835-1885). Dr. Draper received his MD from University Medical College in 1857. He taught at University Medical College as Professor of Chemistry from 1865 to 1885.

Group portrait of the Third Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital, 1929.

Students observing doctors perform surgery in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1890s.

Two doctors and a nurse at work while being observed by spectators in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater.

Doctors and nurses performing surgery while observed by seated and standing spectators in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1890s.

Carte de visite portrait of Alexander Brown Mott, MD (1826-1889). Dr. Mott taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1889, first as Professor of Anatomy (1861-1871) and then as Professor of Surgery (1871-1889).

Carte de visite portrait of Alexander Brown Mott, MD (1826-1889). Dr. Mott taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1889, first as Professor of Anatomy (1861-1871) and then as Professor of Surgery (1871-1889).

Photograph taken during the ceremony awarding Joseph Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, MD, the New York University Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Dr. Pasteur Vallery-Radot (second from left) was the grandson of Dr. Louis Pasteur and the head of France’s Department of Public Health in the years following World War II. This photograph was taken in the Medical Science Building on December 20, 1956. Also featured are Dr. George Ellis Armstrong, President Carroll Vincent Newsom, and Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger.

Photograph of Professor Joseph Decatur Bryant, MD (1845-1914), leading his Surgical Clinic at Bellevue Hospital Medical College circa February 1910. Medical student Isidore Harry Goldberger, donor of the photograph, is fourth from right in the second row of the audience.

Dr. Bryant received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1868. He taught as a Professor of Surgical Anatomy, Surgery, and Orthopedic Surgery at Bellevue Hospital College from 1875 to 1914. Dr. Bryant also served as the Commissioner of Health of both New York City and New York State, Surgeon-General of the National Guard, and personal physician to President Grover Cleveland. In 1893, he operated on Cleveland for sarcoma of the left upper jaw.