Lot Of 3 Cabinet Card Signed Dr. Southgate Leigh offers Memorial Hospital Norfolk VA

Very nice Lot of 3 different poses from different time periods Cabinet Card Photos of Dr. Southgate Leigh of Virginia. The two older photos are signed by Leigh only one is dated which is the oldest (far right in photo taken in NY) dated March 11, 1892. Second oldest on far left (taken in Norfolk) is also signed undated but likely around 1905. Third one (taken in Brockton, MA) the largest image in middle is around 1920. These come from the personal collection of Dr. Arpad Gerster (look him up quite a guy) who I believe went to school with Leigh and obviously must have become friends. Left to right photos measure 5 x 7.25", 7 x 10.25" and 4.25 x 6.5" overall. Conditions are good the 1892 photo has offers foxing and fading and all have wear along edges here and there. Zoom in on pics as part of description. This is an outstanding historical collection from an amazing man who helped start a hospital which has gone on (though a few mergers and name changes) to help millions of people. This will ship fast and FREE signature required. Contact us with any questions we try our best and please follow our store we focus on rare and unique and stories behind it.

Copied from another site about Dr. Leigh:
Annals of Surgery, Jun 1937
SOUTHGATE LEIGH
1864-1936
DOCTOR SOUTHGATE LEIGH was born May 2I, I864, in Campbell County, Va., and died in Norfolk, Va., March 6, 1936. An only son of John Perviance and Fanny Cowdrey Leigh, he was left an orphan early in life and made his home with an aunt, Mrs. Pegram, for whom, in loving memory, he named the admirable hospital he built and operated to the time of his death. His early education was in the private school of Mr. Galt. After an academic and medical course at the University of Virginia under such able teachers as Doctors Cabell, Mallet, Towles, and Dabney, he received the degree in medicine, in i888. Going to New York, he matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, and was given a second degree of M.D. His internship was at Mt. Sinai Hospital where he was directly under that eminent surgeon Dr. Arpad Gerster, from whom he received honored consideration and was given special and prolonged service.
A year in Vienna rounded out a well grounded medical education, and he returned to Norfolk, in I893, and entered the practice of his profession.
Endowed with abundant energy, he sought an outlet in clinical work and was largely instrumental in organizing the first Clinic at St. Vincents Hospital. He helped energize the old Retreat for the Sick, afterward the Norfolk Protestant Hospital, and was, by his vision, largely responsible for its present excellent topographic location. Later he built and administered the Sarah Leigh hospital and Clinic which now is in the process of being made a memorial to his memory through the activities of his many admiring friends. His driving energy led him to interest himself in the civic affairs of the city in which he held various important positions and in recognition of which he received the medal as "First Citizen" from the Cosmopolitan Club.
He was a faithful attendant at the meetings of many medical societies and was honored by the presidencies of the Norfolk County Medical Society, The Seaboard Medical Association, The Southern States Association of Railway Surgeons, Norfolk and Western Association of Railway Surgeons, Chesapeake and Ohio Association of Railway Surgeons and the Medical Society of Virginia.
He gave generously of his time and talents to his many patients, regardless of pecuniary reward, and also to his civic activities. His death came suddenly from cerebral hemorrhage while making a report of his successful effort to increase the membership of the Association of Commerce. As an evidence of the esteem in which he was held the funeral was attended by a very large gathering from all walks of the citizenry of the City. Married, in I905, to Alice Creekmore, she survives with two sons - Dr. Southgate Leigh, Jr., and Watkins Leigh-and two daughters: Mrs. Martin H. Caples and Mrs. Lester M. Minkel, both of New Jersey.