Photographs

Model Illustration of proposed University Hospital building.

Photograph of a painted portrait of Robert James Carlisle, MD (1859-1935). Dr. Carlisle received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1884. He served at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1887 to 1895 as an Assistant to the Chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1887-1892) and Assistant to the Chair of Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892-1895). Dr. Carlisle taught in the Department of Medicine at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1898 to 1935, becoming a full Professor of Medicine in 1924.

Portrait of Joseph Goldberger, MD (1874-1929) reading. Dr Goldberger received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1895. He is known for his discovery of the pellagra preventive factor.

Photograph of a bust of William Crawford Gorgas, MD (1854-1920). Dr. Gorgas received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1879. He was appointed to the US Army Medical Corps from 1880 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major General. Dr. Gorgas served as Chief Sanitary Officer in Havana, where, with Dr. Robert Ernest Noble, he worked to eradicate yellow fever and malaria. In 1904, Dr. Gorgas began his role as chief sanitary officer on the Panama Canal construction project.

Portrait of William Crawford Gorgas, MD (1854-1920), with caption: “William Gorgas 1854-1920. Controlled malaria and yellow fever at the site of the building of the Panama Canal.”

Dr. Gorgas received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1879. He was appointed to the US Army Medical Corps from 1880 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major General. Dr. Gorgas served as Chief Sanitary Officer in Havana, where, with Dr. Robert Ernest Noble, he worked to eradicate yellow fever and malaria. In 1904, Dr. Gorgas began his role as chief sanitary officer on the Panama Canal construction project.

Photograph of a bust of William Crawford Gorgas, MD (1854-1920). Dr. Gorgas received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1879. He was appointed to the US Army Medical Corps from 1880 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major General. Dr. Gorgas served as Chief Sanitary Officer in Havana, where, with Dr. Robert Ernest Noble, he worked to eradicate yellow fever and malaria. In 1904, Dr. Gorgas began his role as chief sanitary officer on the Panama Canal construction project.

Lewis Albert Sayre, MD (1820-1900), observes the change in the curvature of the spine as a patient self-suspends herself prior to being wrapped in Sayre's plaster of Paris bandage treatment. Dr. Sayre served as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1897 and as Emeritus Professor from 1897 to 1898.

Group portrait of nine Bellevue nurses in uniform, spring of 1893.

Group portrait of doctors standing in front of the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary, circa 1885.

Photograph of William Holme Van Buren, MD (1819-1883) set in illustrated frame. Dr. Van Buren taught at University Medical College as Professor of Diseases of Genito-Urinary Organs and Venereal Diseases (1851-1852) and Professor of Anatomy (1852-1866). He then taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Surgery from 1868 to 1883.