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

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.

Exterior photograph of Bellevue Hospital Wards 38 and 39, taken prior to 1931.

An exterior view of Wards 38 & 39 of Bellevue Hospital, taken prior to 1931.

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.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital Ward 40, also known as Sturgis Pavilion. Child patients can be seen beneath a tent in outdoor cribs and cots, with doctors and nurses in attendance. The Sturgis Pavilion was used by the third medical division for the treatment of female patients until it was torn down in 1924. The building faintly visible behind Sturgis Pavilion housed a ward for treating alcoholism (upper floor) and an ambulance garage and stable (lower floor).

An exterior view of Bellevue Hospital’s Marquand Pavilion, from an opposite street corner. Several pedestrians are visible, including a woman with a baby carriage and a child selling fruits or vegetables from a cart. A handwritten caption on the bottom of the photograph reads: “Marquand Pavilion Bellevue 1891.”

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff, Fourth Surgical Division, 1893. The doctors and nurses are photographed with patients in one of the Bellevue Hospital children’s wards. Caption reads: “G. N. Newbury, M. M. Little, A. V. O’Neill, 1893 – 4th Surgical Division.”