Students, Medical

View of surgeons, assistants, and nurses working in the operating amphitheater of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, taken from the balcony. Some spectators are watching the operation. This photograph was published in the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1903.

Photograph of Edward Gamaliel Janeway’s clinic being held in one of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College amphitheaters; Dr. Janeway is seated on the right.

Edward Gamaliel Janeway, MD (1841-1911) served as Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Pathology and Practical Anatomy during his time at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College (1881-1907). He served as the first dean of University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College when it merged in 1898. In 1878, Dr. Janeway hired the famous pathologist Dr. William Welch upon his return to the United States. From 1875 to 1881, Dr. Janeway served as the New York City Health Commissioner.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital’s House Staff, Fourth Medical Division, 1922.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff, July-December 1909. Back row (left to right): J. I. Fort, 4th Surgical Division; J.H. Wyckoff, 3rd Medical Division; A.H. Schmidt, 3rd Gynecological Division; W. Hess, 2nd Gynecological. Front row (left to right): C. C. McLean, 1st Medical; H.V. Guile, 4th Medical; H.J. Steele, [2nd] Surgical; J.R. Bradley, 2nd Surgical; D.H. Moore, 1st Surgical; T. McRae, 4th Gynecological; T.R. Pooley, 2nd Medical.

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.

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.