1956 Press Photo Dedication of the Urban Maes Memorial laboratory in LSU

Famed Endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye, seated left, director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal, was in New Orleans Saturday to speak at the dedication of the Urban Maes Memorial laboratory in the LSU medical school. Others participating in the dedication were Dr. Floyd R. Skelton, seated right, director of research for the Urban Maes Research Foundation, sponsors of the new laboratory. Standing, from left, Dr. Maxwell Lapham, dean of the Tulane University medical school; John C. MacKenzie, director of Touro Infirmary, and Dr. William Frye, dean of the LSU medical school.

Photo is dated 1956.

Photo measures 8 x 7.5 inches.