Commemorative Items
Brass bust of Moses Maimonides, a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
By Karen Leigh
2001
The brass door plaque from the former Rodnan Rare Book Room (1985-2020), where the Gerald Rodnan gout collection had been housed before the new rare book room was built in the library.
1985
The spade used to break ground for the new building erected for the School of the Health Professions at the University of Pittsburgh in 1954. The new facility was opened in 1957. The Alan Magee Scaife Hall serves as the home of School of Medicine till this day.
1954
Key presented to Dr. Robert A. Moore, Vice Chancellor of the Health Professions, by Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield at the dedication of the Health Professions Building.
1957
Capitan's Chair - a wooden black chair with University of Pittsburgh seal and name - personalized for doctor G.P. Rodnan with a brass plaque - is one of traditional gifts to honor employees at the University of Pittsburgh achieving certain milestones.
1967?
The whistle and Dr. Davenport Hooker were an inseparable pair. For every student who took the anatomy class, it will be forever associated with the image of the memorable Professor Davenport Hooker, Chair of Anatomy Department School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh from 1919 to his retirement in 1956. Framed.
Manufacturer unknown.