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J. Allen Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt in 1934 and was a resident physician at Vanderbilt University Hospital from 1940 to 1941. He served on the Vanderbilt clinical faculty from 1949 to 1977, reaching the rank of Associate Clinical Professor.…

Photographic portrait of Isaac Alexander Bigger. Dr. Bigger was a surgeon who earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1919. He eventually became Associate Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt, where he remained until 1930, when he…

Photographic portrait of Irwin B. Eskind. Irwin Eskind was born in Nashville, TN on January 25, 1925. He was educated in the Nashville public schools and received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1945 and 1948.

Probably an interior shot of US AEF Base Hospital 47 in Beaune, France. The hospital opened in the fall of 1918 until January of 1919. The decorations suggest this might be December of 1918. The photographer is unknown, but appears to have some…

Construction workers prepare a column in the new hospital for a concrete pour.

Construction workers work with hospital infrastructure.

Interior view of the hospital entrance. To the left is the telephone operator's station. The operator at the time was Mrs. O'Brien, Dr. Alfred Blalock's mother-in-law.

Two men inspect the half-finished interior of the Round Wing.