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

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

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

Photograph of two doctors and a nurse in the Bellevue Hospital Laboratory. One doctor is seated in front of a microscope while the other is standing, selecting a bottle from a wall rack holding dozens of bottles. The nurse stands beside him.

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

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

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

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