Exterior views

Photograph of a drawing of the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital on 20th Street (2nd Avenue is to the left). To the left (on the corner of Second Avenue) is the Roosa building, purchased in 1894. To the right is the Hewitt building, purchased in 1912.

A view of the front entrance of the Carnegie Laboratory, around 1945. The Carnegie Laboratory, originally part of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, opened in 1884, and was the first lab devoted to pathology and bacteriology.

A close-up view of the front doors of the laboratory. The Carnegie Laboratory, originally part of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, opened in 1884, and was the first lab devoted to pathology and bacteriology.

Photograph of four horse-drawn Bellevue ambulances. Attendants dressed in white stand beside the ambulances, while drivers are seated inside the carriages.

Exterior view of the Bellevue Hospital Gatehouse entrance, erected in 1885 on the north side of 26th Street midway between First Avenue and the East River and the East River, demolished in 1929. The Gatehouse originally had gas lanterns on either side of the gate; in this photograph they have been removed, which dates the image to later in the structure’s existence.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital from the East River, circa 1880s.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital from the East River. A construction project is in progress.

Angled exterior view of Bellevue Hospital from the East River. This could be either the A & B or the L & M building.

A horse-drawn ambulance stands at the bottom of the steps of the Bellevue Hospital Administration building.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital Administration Building and the grounds. Some men on foot and a horse-drawn carriage or ambulance are near the steps of the Administration Building. The railing at the top of the two staircases in the photograph was a section of the original railing in place at Federal Hall in Manhattan in 1789 when George Washington took the oath of office as President.