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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.

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.

Doctors in the staff dining room of the Bellevue Hospital Administration Building, circa 1890.

A group of male patients using the reading room of the Bellevue Hospital Patient Library.

The Alms House Hospital, circa 1736.

Photograph taken during the ceremony awarding Joseph Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, MD, the New York University Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Dr. Pasteur Vallery-Radot (second from left) was the grandson of Dr. Louis Pasteur and the head of France’s Department of Public Health in the years following World War II. This photograph was taken in the Medical Science Building on December 20, 1956. Also featured are Dr. George Ellis Armstrong, President Carroll Vincent Newsom, and Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger.

Portrait of Lewis Thomas, MD (1913-1993). Dr. Thomas served as the Dean of the New York University School of Medicine from 1966 to 1969.

Two men reviewing images in the University Hospital (present day Tisch Hospital) Cytology Laboratory, circa 1955. One of the figures in the image is Emanuel L. Hecht, MD.

Dr. Hecht taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Instructor in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology (1945-1950), and Assistant Professor (1950-1955), and Associate Professor (1955-1960). He taught as Clinical Association Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New York University School of Medicine from 1970 to 1978.

Photograph of University Hospital (present day Tisch Hospital) under construction circa 1960-1963.