engravings (prints)

A print of an engraving of the front entrance to the Carnegie Laboratory, originally part of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, opened in 1884. The Carnegie Laboratory was the first lab devoted to pathology and bacteriology.

The image shows the wharf as it was in 1795, with a hospital boat discharging some sick passengers. The caption reads, "Bellevue Wharf, 1795, where the hospital boat landed the sick." This engraving was inspired by a 1795 watercolor painted by Dr. Alexander Anderson while he was the resident physician at Bellevue. It was drawn on wood and then engraved.