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Photograph of Stephen Smith, MD (1823-1922), standing in the Palm Room of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan. Dr. Smith served as Professor of Anatomy (1867-1872) and Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery (1861-1866) at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He also served as Professor of Clinical Surgery (1874-1894), Professor of Orthopedic Surgery (1874-1882), and Emeritus Professor (1894-1896) at University Medical College.

A well-known surgeon and public health officer, he undertook a survey of New York City Health conditions in 1865 on behalf of the Council on Hygiene and Public Health. The Report of the Council, referred to as the Magna Carta of municipal sanitation in the United States, resulted in a law passed in 1866 which established the Health Department. Dr. Smith was a founder of and the first president of the American Public Health Association.

Carte de visite portrait of Frank Hastings Hamilton, MD (1813-1886), leaning against a chair. Dr. Hamilton taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Military Surgery, Fractures and Dislocations from 1861 to 1875, and as Professor of Principles of Surgery from 1866 to 1875.

Carte de visite portrait of George Thomson Elliot, MD (1827-1871). Dr. Elliot received his MD from University Medical College in 1849. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children from 1861 to 1869 and Professor of Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and Children and Clinical Midwifery from 1869 to 1871.

Signed photogravure portrait of Benjamin Fordyce Barker, MD (1818-1891). Dr. Barker taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1890 as Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1861-1869), Professor of Clinical Midwifery (1869-1870), and Professor of Clinical Midwifery and Diseases of Women (1870-1890).

Mounted photograph of Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Lecture, circa 1880's.

Students watching an operation in the Operating Room Amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital in the 1890's. The dimensions are for the image only, not the board upon which it is mounted.

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

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

Two doctors and a nurse at work while being observed by spectators in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater.

Doctors and nurses performing surgery while observed by seated and standing spectators in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1890s.