A graduate of Cornell Medical School, Dr. Addison B. Scoville Jr. came to Vanderbilt in 1939 as a resident. Upon receiving the National Research Council Fellowship, he became an instructor in pathology in 1942. 
A crane is seen in the background, as part of the construction of the 1964 addition to Medical Center North. That addition has since been swallowed by MRB III, a biomedical sciences research building.
Vanderbilt Hospital and School of Medicine, ca 1925. Prepared for a print publication, and labeled on the reverse "The three million dollar School of Medicine."