Interior views

Doctors performing an operation on a patient in the Bellevue Hospital Crane Room while attended by three observers, circa 1899.

Doctors performing an operation on a patient in the Bellevue Hospital Crane Room, circa 1899.

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.”

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.

Two women physicians working in a Bellevue Hospital laboratory. The doctor on the right is Elaine Pandia Ralli, MD (1894-1968). Dr. Ralli received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1925. She taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Ralli was an authority on diseases of metabolism and nutrition and a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation for outstanding achievement as a woman in medicine.

Men, women and children waiting to be seen in a clinic at Bellevue Hospital, staffed by doctors and nurses.

View of students studying in the bacteriology laboratory at New York University School of Medicine. The image is captioned “Research Bacteriologist Annis E. Thomson.”

Interior view of a Bellevue Hospital amphitheater during a dry clinic, with students watching the doctors from above. The caption reads: “Dr. Stewart conducting a ‘dry clinic.’”

Interior view of a Bellevue Hospital amphitheater during an operation, with students observing from above. The image is captioned “Dr. Bryant’s Clinic” and may refer to Dr. Joseph Decatur Bryant.

A child lying in bed with a doll. Information from Registration Record: Child in bed, endowed by Marie Heye Clemens, 1894