New York University Medical Archives

Head and shoulders portrait of C. Travers Stepita M.D., Professor of Clinical Urology.

Dr. Thomas M. Rivers discussing the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine with Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper. 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.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Mr. Paul Klemtner mentions key contributors during the opening 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.

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

The television studio crew tends to a baby klieg light that exploded above Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. four minutes before 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.

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

Illustration of the 1856 Annual Medical Commencement at the New York University Chapel at Washington Square, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.

View of the NYU Medical School’s 28th Street building from the northeast, taken from about four stories high. The building was acquired from Cornell's Medical College in 1931. Photograph by Edward E. Jackson.

An exterior view of the James F. McKernon Building of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Print of a painted portrait of George David Stewart, MD, with short biography below image. Dr. Stewart received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1889. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Adjunct Lecturer of Anatomy (1895-1896), Adjunct Professor of Anatomy (1896-1897), Professor of Anatomy, and Professor of Clinical Surgery.

Illustration titled “Dislocations of the Femur. Enlarged from Sir A. Cooper. For the Use of Professor Mott’s Class.” The illustration shows five nude men, each with a caption detailing the dislocation or fracture. Professor Mott may be Dr. Alexander Brown Mott (1826-1889).

An illustrated view of Blackwell’s Island, now Roosevelt Island, and the East River from 86th Street.