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Edwin Ashley Salmon

Edwin Ashley Salmon

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Portrait of Edwin Ashley Salmon. Salmon served as the first Director of the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center from 1947-1953. He was chairman of the NY City Planning Commission at the time of his appointment, as well as chairman of the Hospital Council of Greater New York.

NYU Medical Center - Merger with New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital

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Group portrait taken at the signing of the formal agreement uniting the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital with the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center. Pictured: NYU Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase (seated, left); Attorney and Post-Graduate Board member Charles S. McVeigh (seated, right); Medical Center Director Edwin A. Salmon (standing, left); and Elmer Ellsworth Brown (standing, right).