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www.wireheading.com/robert-heath.html This sounds kind of scary.

Dr. Robert Heath, mentioned in note above, was born in 1915, so that's probably not him in the photo. However: Dr. George M. Heath of St. Louis was developing a tuberculosis serum in 1913. Here is NYTimes mention: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04EEDE1F3AE633A...

Thanks guess I didn't read far enough or compare dates.

I started a Wikipedia entry on him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Heath

Richard Arthur Norton (1958 - ) you are a good contributor.

ROCKEFELLER GIVES WORD; And Sea Breeze Camp, Child-Saving Station, Gets Ready to Open. April 17, 1910, Sunday Page 12, 770 words John D. Rockefeller has authorized the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor to reopen Junior Sea Breeze for its fifth season. The child-saving station at Junior Sea Breeze is supported entirely by Mr. Rockefeller and has been in operation for four years at Sixty-fourth Street and East River, in the shadow of the Rockefeller Institute. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980DEED81539E433A...

Friedrich Franz Friedmann (1876-1953), German-born tuberculosis researcher; in 1913 he was noted for giving something called the "turtle vaccine" at his New York City clinic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Franz_Friedmann

"Dr. F. F. Freidmann leaving hospital" is the inscribed caption. The hospital part may prove significant.

Pennylrichardsca and lifeasdaddy: thank you for the additional information about Dr. Friedmann and the additional caption information. We will update the photo information and reload the description.

Some searching in the NYT reveals that Friedmann was in the country from March through June 1913 and in the news frequently The turtle vaccine, Friedmann's intent to patent it , and his ethics were clearly controversial and the vaccine was banned by the New York Health Board on May 29, 1913 according to the NYT the next day. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C02E0DB143FE633A... The date on the stamp is March 24(?) 1913. An article on March 25, 1913 suggests he visited several hospitals that day: Hospital for Deformities and Diseased Joints (where the crowds to see him were noted), Mount Sinai, and Montefiore Home, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE5DD1F3AE633A... FRIEDMANN PATIENT DIES IN BELLEVUE; Prof. Ostrander, Treated on Friday, Expires from Tuberculosis of the Lungs and Kidneys.

www.tevak.org/pdf/dergi/2007/pdfsno1/44_46.pdf is a history of the Hospital for Joint Diseases and has a picture circa 1910, which does not have such a staircase in evidence.