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Learned Lab Construction, ca. 1960
A man walks into the medical school courtyard through the doorway of the uncompleted Learned building.
Learned Laboratory Building under Construction, 1960
The first two floors of the Learned Lab were completed in 1952, but it wasn't until 1961 that the building was finished.
Learned Laboratory, ca 1961
A view of the Learned Laboratory (and the Medical School and Hospital behind it) as seen from the main Vanderbilt campus.
Leonard Wright Edwards
Photographic portrait of Leonard Wright Edwards. Leonard Wright Edwards attended Southern Normal University in Huntingdon, Tennessee, and graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School with his M.D. in 1912. Following graduation, Edwards was appointed…
Leslie McClure Smith
Leslie McClure Smith (1905-1992) received the MD degree from Vanderbilt University in 1930. 
Letter from Dr. Ewing to William Rice Farris
Letter encouraging William Rice Ferris to recruit friends to attend the medical school.
Levi Watkins
Levi Watkins, Jr., MD became the first African American student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine when he enrolled in 1966. Dr. Watkins graduated in 1970 to become the first African American to graduate from Vanderbilt School of…
Librarian and Students with Rare Book
Graduate nursing student Carmela Camacho of La-Paz, Bolivia (left), poses with librarian Eileen Cunningham (second from left), medical student Irwin Eskind (far right) and others while looking at a rare volume from the medical library's collection. …
Light Hall Construction, ca. 1976
A view of the early stages of the construction of Light Hall, with the VA in the background. The parking lot in the foreground is the present location of Vanderbilt Hospital.