Doctors, accompanied by nurses, visiting with a patient on rounds at Bellevue Hospital, 1891.

Doctors and nurses attending female patients in Ward 20 at Bellevue Hospital.

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.

Female patients and children resting in their beds in the Bellevue Hospital Marquand Pavilion, circa 1890. Nurses and two men who may be doctors are present. A caption beneath the image reads, “Marquand Pavilion for Women and Children, Bellevue Hospital.”

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.

Male patients resting in their beds in the Bellevue Hospital Sturgis Pavilion. Nurses and two men who may be doctors are present. A caption beneath the image reads, “Sturgis Pavilion was built in 1879. It was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Osborn.”

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.

Posed photograph showing a blood transfusion at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870s. The image is captioned “Old Time Blood Transfusion.” A large group of doctors and nurses are attending to a patient lying in bed receiving the transfusion from another man, seated upright in a chair.

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).