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ULMANN, DORIS. 1882-1934. A Book of Portraits of the Faculty of the Medical Department of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1922. Folio (402 x 268 mm). 37 photogravure plates with tissue guards. Publisher's cloth-backed blue boards. Faint offsetting from plates. RARE BOOK OF PORTRAITS BY ULMANN, a leading photographer of the day. Henry Hurd, one of her subjects and the former superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, described this volume as "an effort on the part of Miss Ulmann to portray the personality and character of the Faculty of the Medical Department of the Johns Hopkins University ... In future years, the book will possess great value as an historical representation of the men who made the Medical School a genuine power in advancing medical education in the United States" ("Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin," volume 34, 1922). The subjects of the portraits include several leaders of 20th century American medicine, including John J. Abel, Lewellys F. Barker, Joseph C. Bloodgood, Max Broedel, Thomas S. Cullen, Thomas B. Futcher, William H. Howell, Henry M. Hurd, Howard A. Kelly, Florence R. Sabin, William S. Thayer, William H. Welch, J. Whitridge Williams, and Hugh H. Young. See P.W. Jacobes, The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann, Lexington, KY: 2001.