Doctors and nurses performing surgery on a patient at Bellevue Hospital.

Photograph of doctors and a nurse operating on a patient while observed by students in a surgical amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital, 1893.

Photograph of doctors and nurses attending a patient during surgery while observed by students in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1880s.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital’s House Staff, Fourth Medical Division, 1910, posed in an operating room in their surgical gowns. Caption reads: “Fourth Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1910. John F. McGrath, Thomas McCrae, Robert Wylie (gynecologist), Cyrus F. Wade, Lawrence H. Rogers.” The nurses pictured are not named in the caption.

Three doctors and three nurses attending to a patient on an operating table, while a man appears to be administering ether to the patient holding a mask over his nose and mouth.