New York University School of Medicine

Reprinted illustration from "The Daily Graphic" (Sept. 18, 1875). Captioned “Interior views in the New Medical Department of the University of the City of New York,” the illustrations depict (clockwise from upper left corner): the Anatomical Museum, the Dissecting Room, the Vivisecting Room, and the Lecture Room.

Overhead view of the New York University School of Medicine Library showing the circulation desk, card catalog area, and reference librarian’s desk, circa 1958.

The New York University School of Medicine Library stacks, circa 1958.

Overhead view of the New York University School of Medicine Library card catalog area, circa 1958.

View of the New York University School of Medicine Library reference reading room, circa 1958.

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, Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, and an unknown woman.

Series of individual portraits set in illustrated frames and labeled “Medical Faculty of the University of New York and the Founders of the Medical Department.” Clockwise from upper left corner: Valentine Mott, MD, Professor of the Principles and Operations of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological Anatomy; Theodore Frelinghuysen, Chancellor; Granville Sharp Pattison, MD, Professor of General, Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy; Martyn Paine, MD, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica; John William Draper, MD, Professor of Chemistry; Gunning S. Bedford, MD, Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children; John Revere, MD, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.

Photograph of medical librarian Gilbert Clausman (center) receiving an 1867 diploma on behalf of the New York University School of Medicine Library. To his left: Morris F. Weiner, MD, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College class of 1929. To his right: Reverend David M. Cory, grandson of the physician Dr. David M. Cory, Bellevue Hospital Medical College class of 1867.

Photograph of Anthony S. Bogatko, MD, and William C. MacTavish, MD, receiving Alumni Meritorious Service Citations from Francis L. Valente, Alumni Federation President, at the June 4, 1958 Commencement Exercises. Dr. Bogatko received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1919. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Assistant in Surgery (1922-1927) and Instructor in Surgery (1930-1936). He then taught at the New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (1936-1941) and Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery (1941-1963). Dr. MacTavish received his MD from the New York University College of Medicine in 1949.

NYU Medical School’s 28th Street building, acquired from Cornell's Medical College in 1931. The view is from the southeast corner of 27th Street and 1st Avenue at street level. “New York University” is inscribed on the building over the third floor windows.