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Bradley E. Smith graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in 1957. After academic appointments at Columbia University, Yale University, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, Smith joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1969 as…

Photograph of a steam shovel breaking ground on the medical school addition in 1937. Bottom of the photograph is stamped "Jan 8 1937".

C. Gordon Peerman Jr. graduated from Tulane University and Vanderbilt School of Medicine (1949). He completed his residency training at Vanderbilt University Hospital in obstetrics and gynecology. Peerman then served on a Naval surgical team with the…

People in hard hats at the VU Hospital construction site.

Freshman nursing student Elsie Hlava and Miss Carra Lou McCaskill (instructor and president, alumnae association) light candles during the freshman capping ceremony. The candles symbolize Florence Nightingale's ("The Lady of the Lamp") dedication to…

Class of 1942 Capping Ceremony. In the living room of Mary Kirkland Hall. Mrs. J. H. Kirkland is seated at the extreme right of the picture (with black hat).

This building was named the "School of Nursing Building├óÔé¼┬Ø until 1934, when it was…

Class of 1942 Capping Ceremony in the living room of Mary Kirkland Hall. Miss Carra Lou McCaskill, Presidnet, Vanderbilt Nurses' Alumni Association. Dean Frances Helen Zeigler in cap with pleats.

This building was named the "School of Nursing…

Class of 1942 Capping Ceremony. In the living room of Mary Kirkland Hall. Frances Helen Zeigler, Dean, Vanderbilt School of Nursing; Miss Carra Lou McCaskill, Presidnet, Vanderbilt Nurses' Alumni Association; Miss Edna Hancock, President, Senior…

Katherine Avery's husband, Roy, was a professor of bacteriology at Vanderbilt Medical School from 1931-1953. This photograph appears to have been taken in a Vanderbilt laboratory.