Historic Images

View of Bellevue Hospital from a pier in the East River. The Chrysler Building is visible on the right, and the Empire State building is also faintly visible.

Exterior view of the Bellevue Hospital Administration Building.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital during a construction phase, with the East River in the background. The old morgue and the 26th Street Pier can be seen behind the steel beams of the new building. The dark building to the right in the middle ground is the Mills Training School for Male Nurses, which blocks part of the A&B building. A portion of the old O.D.P. is also visible. In the right foreground, the Psychiatric Pavilion is visible.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital Ward 40, also known as Sturgis Pavilion. Child patients can be seen beneath a tent in outdoor cribs and cots, with doctors and nurses in attendance. The Sturgis Pavilion was used by the third medical division for the treatment of female patients until it was torn down in 1924. The building faintly visible behind Sturgis Pavilion housed a ward for treating alcoholism (upper floor) and an ambulance garage and stable (lower floor).

Exterior view of tents on the Bellevue Hospital grounds, facing west, with the old Administration Building centered in the distance. These tents were erected to house the overflow of epidemic patients being treated at the hospital. A Bellevue nurse can be seen wearing a uniform dating from the second half of the 19th century.

Exterior view of a horse-drawn ambulance standing in front of a dispensary. Four men are standing behind the ambulance, with two holding a patient on a stretcher. A Bellevue nurse can be seen in the upper righthand corner of the photograph, standing on the landing of an outdoor stairway or fire escape.

A tent-like building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital, date unknown. The building’s construction resembles the temporary buildings erected by the military during WWII. A stamped caption in the lower lefthand corner of the photograph reads: “Bellevue Hospital, N.Y. City. Photographic Department. O.G. Mason.”

An exterior view of the Bellevue Hospital Administration Building and some of the grounds, from the East River side.

An exterior view of Bellevue Hospital taken from the East River.

A view of the Bellevue Hospital courtyard and drive inside the hospital entrance gate, looking north. The North Wing is in the background and the South Wing is in the left foreground. Two pavilions can be seen to the right. There are two motor vehicles parked on the right side of the street, facing front; the first is a small truck, with hard rubber tires.