Becker Archives Database

Allen O. Whipple and Evarts A. Graham at the first Graham Medal Presentation.

VC079-i079044
Item
1955

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Banquet for Dr. Evarts A. Graham celebrating his 20th anniversary as professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, Chase Hotel.

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October 12, 1939

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Typed captions accompanyinng the photograph identify many of the seated guests by table number.

Close-up view of a Lister Medal awarded to Evarts A. Graham.

VC079-i079048
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circa 1942

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Close-up view of a Lister Medal awarded to Evarts A. Graham.

VC079-i079049
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circa 1942

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Close-up view of an Evarts A. Graham Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Surgery.

VC079-i079045
Item
1955

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Typed caption on the back of one of the prints reads: "Graham medal for outstanding contributions to surgery. Awarded in honor of Dr. Evarts A. Graham, emeritus Bixby professor of surgery at Washington University. Designed by H. Richard Duhme, Jr."

Close-up view of an Evarts A. Graham Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Surgery.

VC079-i079046
Item
1955

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Typed caption on the back of one of the prints reads: "Graham medal for outstanding contributions to surgery. Awarded in honor of Dr. Evarts A. Graham, emeritus Bixby professor of surgery at Washington University. Designed by H. Richard Duhme, Jr."

Composite portrait of the original members of the American Board of Surgery.

VC079-i079058
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n.d.

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Copy of a daguerreotype re-enacting the original amputation using anaesthesia.

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n.d.

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The print is mounted on a board. Several captions are glued to the back of the print, the first of which reads: "3. Letheon. Photographic copy of a daguerreotype by Southworth and Hawes of 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston, showing many of the surgeons who were present at the amputation which proved to the world that anaesthesia is practical re-enacting the original scene a few years later."

Evarts A. Graham and James Gilmore.

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n.d.

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Handwritten caption on the back of one of the photographs reads: "Evarts A. Graham, M.D. with hat, with James Gilmore D.D.S. His 1933 patient."

Evarts A. Graham and James Gilmore.

VC079-i079056
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n.d.

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Evarts A. Graham in academic regalia.

VC079-i079057
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June 1951

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

Evarts A. Graham performing an operation.

VC079-i079066
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circa 1945

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The photograph is mounted on foamcore. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "Dr. Evarts A. Graham / Assisting him: Dr. Richard Carlin, Dr. Henry Schwarz."

Evarts A. Graham performing an operation.

VC079-i079065
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circa 1945

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The photograph is mounted on foamcore.

Evarts A. Graham performing an operation.

VC079-i079064
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circa 1945

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The photograph is mounted on foamcore. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "Dr. Evarts A. Graham / Assisting him: Dr. Richard Carlin / Scrub Nurse: Malvina Isach Brooks, a Washington University School of Nursing alumna from the Class of '45 / Circulating Nurse: Charlene Galloway Smith, a Washington University School of Nursing alumna from the class of '46."

Evarts A. Graham performing an operation.

VC079-i079067
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circa 1945

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The photograph is mounted on foamcore. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "Dr. Evarts A. Graham / Assisting him: Dr. Richard Carlin, Dr. Henry Schwarz."

Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

VC079
Collection
1930-1955, 1995

This collection consists of 43 photographs of Evarts A. Graham and his colleagues, and 1 drawing. Depicted subjects include inscribed studio portraits of Graham's former students and colleagues, studio portraits of Graham, views of Graham performing an operation, group portraits of the American Board of Surgery, and views of Graham receiving the Lister Medal. Also included in the collection are several exterior views of Graham's St. Louis home, taken in 1995. The drawing depicts three mice smoking and was drawn by Ernst Wynder, Graham's student and coauthor on a study linking smoking with lung cancer.

Graham, Evarts A. (Evarts Ambrose), 1883-1957

Evarts A. Graham receiving the Lister Medal from Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, President of the Royal College of Surgery of England.

VC079-i079047
Item
1942

Part of Evarts A. Graham Photographs and Drawings

The man in the middle of Graham and Webb-Johnson is identified on the back of the photograph as Mr. Frederick Gill, President of the College of Surgeons, Ireland.