Photograph of two physicians taking a skin graft from a patient using Karl Thiersch’s method, circa 1889. The man with the razor is Dr. Theodore Dunham (right), assisted by Dr. Franz Torek (left). Dr. Torek was the surgeon to the Babies Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and Dr. Dunham taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in the fields of Clinical Microscopy and Applied Pathology from 1898 to 1903. The photograph was published on page 303 of “The Post Graduate” journal with the caption “Taking the Grafts.”

Franz Torek, MD (1861-1938), served as surgeon and adjunct professor of surgery at the New York Post Graduate Hospital from 1890 to 1915.

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

Patients in a ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1890.

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

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

Interior photograph of an unidentified ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1880s. Patients are seen reclining on beds with light coming in through a window.

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.

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

Interior view of the Bellevue Hospital Children’s Ward, circa 1870-1890.

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