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.

Portrait of a young girl reclining in a wicker chair built to support her legs. This photograph was published in the Report of the Babies’ Wards, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1901.

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).

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.”