Historic Images

Doctors, accompanied by nurses, visiting with a patient on rounds at Bellevue Hospital, 1891.

Photograph of doctors attending patients in Bellevue Hospital’s Third Medical Division, 21st Ward (the Gynecology Ward) in 1890. A handwritten caption below the image describes the scene.

Doctors visiting male patients in Ward 19 at Bellevue Hospital, 1896.

A nurse working at a desk in Ward 12 of Bellevue Hospital.

Doctors and nurses performing surgery on a patient at Bellevue Hospital.

Five doctors from Bellevue Hospital’s Fourth Surgical Division operate on a male patient in the Ward 23 Annex operating room, 1893.

Photograph of doctors and a nurse operating on a patient while observed by students in a surgical amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital, 1893.

Photograph of the Director’s Room of the Bellevue Hospital Library. A display case holds medical instruments. The large memorial tablet honors Dr. James Rushmore Wood, Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College.

Photograph of a ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1890.

Three doctors and three nurses attending to a patient on an operating table, while a man appears to be administering ether to the patient holding a mask over his nose and mouth.