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Photographic portrait of Thomas Fearn Frist Sr. Thomas Frist Sr. received his undergraduate education from the University of Mississippi and his medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1933. In 1968, in partnership with his son, Dr. Thomas Frist…

Photographic portrait of Thomas Evans Brittingham. Dr. Brittingham came to Vanderbilt University from Washington University in 1963. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1950, where the dean wrote a nasty letter about how Dr. Bittingham did…

Photographic portrait of Thomas Atchison. Dr. Atchison was born in Kentucky in 1818. He graduated from Transylvania Medical College in approximately 1838 and later moved to Nashville. Atchison served as the Chair of Materia Medica of the joint…

Photographic portrait of Theodore R. Austin. Theodore Roe Austin grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, the son of a general practitioner. He came to Vanderbilt University in 1925, received the BA in 1929, and his MD in 1932. From Vanderbilt he went to…

The description on the reverse of this postcard states "[t]his series of nine buildings brought together under one roof, contains the laboratories of the departments of the medical school, lecture rooms, administrative offices, library, and all the…

The skywalk to the Clinic garage is visible to the left, but the drop-off circle had not yet been constructed.

An ambulance drives down 21st Ave. in front of Vanderbilt Hospital and Medical Center North.

The letters forming the building's name, seen through the trees.

In 1970, the Werthan Building was completed, replacing the iconic entrance to the Vanderbilt Hospital.