News and Views reports on news of general interest about the people, programs and activities of NYU Langone Medical Center

News and Views reports on news of general interest about the people, programs and activities of NYU Langone Medical Center

Physicians taking a skin graft using Thiersch's method, ca. 1889. The man with the razor is Theodore Dunham, assisted by Franz Torek (surgeon to the Babies Ward). Information below from Registration Record: This photograph appears in the journal "The Post Graduate" (303), with the caption "Taking the Grafts." The notation on the back states that it is Thiersch's method of taking the grafts and the surgeon with the Razor is Theodore Dunham assisted by Franz Torek, surgeon to the Babies'Ward.

An image of one of the stained-glass windows on the ward. Photographic (letterpress halftone) re-print. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1904, opposite page p.16), caption reads "In Memory of Irene Ball Woodruff."

Two nurses are seen in the kitchen preparing milk for the babies. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1903, opposite page p.48), with the Caption "Kitchen for Prepration of the Milk for the Babies."

Four young boys are shown sitting in the hospital solarium at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital.

Three nurses are seen on the Roof Garden, with several young patients, one in a baby carriage. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1901, opposite page p.88), with the caption "The Children's Hour on the Roof Garden."

Several children and a nurse are seated or resting in the Sunbeam Playroom.

Eight children are seated at a table on the Roof Garden. There are two nurses with them. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1903, opposite page p.16, with the caption "Taking Lunch on the Roof Garden".

An interior view of the rooftop solarium at the hospital.