New York University School of Medicine

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.

Head and shoulders photograph of John Canary. Mounted in cardboard. Signed "John Canary" and on back, "With Compliments of John Canary" Ink stain near mouth of subject.

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.

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.

Photograph taken behind the scenes 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.

From left to right: Herb Fleet, Vice President of Medical Communications, Inc. and Account Executive for Eli Lilly’s & Co.; Wes Kenney, the Director of the telecast (DuMont); Al Molinaro, Promotion and Production Director for Medical Communications; his son; Bob Emerick, Narrator; Morris Mayers, Director of Closed Circuit Division of DuMont; Ed Rasp, TV Program Director for Medical Communications; Eric Herud, Chief Facilities Engineer for DuMont; Steve Olshewski, Vice President of Paul Klemtner and Co. and Executive Vice President of Medical Communications, and Paul Klemtner.

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

Signed portrait of Joseph V. Brumlik, MD, inscribed “To [E.C.] Libman, In great Esteem and Profound Admiration.” Dr. Brumlik taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Instructor in Clinical Medicine (1945-1948), Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (1948-1959), and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (1959-1979).

Portrait of Paul E. Bechet, MD, inscribed “To Howard Fox, in memory of many friendly years, Paul E. Bechet.” Dr. Bechet taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology (1921-1922) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology (1933-1944).

On the back of photograph, the photographer's stamp reads: "Haas Photographer, 695 Fifth Avenue, NYC."

Portrait of Theresa Bischoff, MD. Dr. Bischoff served as Clinical Professor of Health Care Management at New York University School of Medicine from 1993 to 2004.

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.