Painting of Sir Frederick Grant Banting, seated and attired in academic regalia with facsimile signature. Banting was one of the discoverers of insulin and received the Nobel Prize in 1923.
Dr. Beard was virologist at the Duke University School of Medicine from 1937 to 1973. This was taken around the time of his University of Chicago graduation (BS) in 1925.
Bookplate: Bearded scholar reading in a grape arbor supported by doric columns. Foxglove growing at left. Greek inscription on cross beam [Proverbs 8:21].
Bookplate: A physician examines a flask of urine while taking the pulse of a woman. Another woman looks on. Composition inspired by a Jan Steen painting.
Bookplate: Aesculapius with staff in a medallion surrounded by a border with a stag pursued by a hunter with gun, a chemical retort, and a raven. On verso is 04047.
Bookplate: A surgeon operates in the background. The grim reaper is in the foreground. A book is open to an image of a snake curled around a chalice to form a caduceus.
Bookplate: Naked male infant standing atop a pillar urinating into a test tube attached by a clamp to a stand. Around the stand and test tube is wound a snake.