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Edwin Ashley Salmon

Edwin Ashley Salmon

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Portrait of Edwin Ashley Salmon (1902-1965). Salmon served as the first Director of the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center from 1947 to 1953. He was chairman of the New York 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: Chancellor of NYU, 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).