Historic Images

Group portrait of the Third Surgical Division of Bellevue Hospital, 1929.

Group portrait of the Third Surgical Division of Bellevue Hospital, 1928.

Group portrait of the Third Surgical Division of Bellevue Hospital, 1927.

Students observing doctors perform surgery in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1890s.

Doctors and nurses attending to reclining and seated patients in the Men’s Ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1889.

Group photograph taken in Ward 12, a children’s ward of Bellevue Hospital. Several doctors stand around a doctor seated with a child in his lap. Another child is seated in a chair nearby.

A doctor, nurses, and several patients on the Children’s Surgical Ward of Bellevue Hospital. Some of the patients are in their cribs or beds, while others are seated in rockers or at tables.

Doctors and nurses attending patients in the Women’s Ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1880.

Five doctors operating on a patient. The seated doctor on the far right appears to be administering ether to the patient by holding a cone over his nose and mouth.

Doctors and nurses attending female patients in Ward 20 at Bellevue Hospital.