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

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.

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.

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

Children and nurses in front of a Christmas tree on the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital Orthopedic Ward. This photograph was published with the caption “Christmas in the Orthopedic Ward” on page 65 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1906.

Franz Torek, MD, and Nurse Hughes in the treatment room of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital Orthopedic Ward with a patient. The patient is being fitted for an “extension apparatus.” This photograph was published on page 88 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1904.

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

Several female patients, a doctor, and a nurse, on the Charles Carroll Lee Memorial Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. This photograph was published with the caption “The Charles Carroll Lee Memorial Ward” on page 66 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1904.

Interior view of doctors and nurses visiting patients on the Charles Carroll Lee Memorial Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. This photograph was published with the caption “The Charles Carroll Lee Memorial Ward” on page 34 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1909.

Photograph of stained-glass window in the Orthopedic Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. The window is inscribed with the caption, “Token of the love Sarah Gibbs Thompson bears to these little children. Christmas 1899.” The caption beneath the photograph reads, “Mrs. Thompson’s Window in the Orthopedic Ward.”

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.