Interior views

This is a somewhat faded image of Bellevue Hospital's Third Medical Division, 21st Ward (the Gynecology Ward) in 1890.

Doctors visiting male patients in Ward 19, 1896. The photo has stains in several spots, perhaps from water or ink.

A nurse working at a desk in Ward 12 of Bellevue Hospital.

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

Five doctors from Bellevue Hospital’s Fourth Surgical Division operate on a male patient in the Ward 23 Annex operating room, 1893.

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

Photograph of the Director’s Room of the Bellevue Hospital Library. A display case holds medical instruments. The large memorial tablet honors Dr. James Rushmore Wood, Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College.

Photograph of a ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1890.

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.

Interior view of the Bellevue Hospital Children’s Ward, circa 1870-1890.