East 26th Street Building

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19th or early 20th century view of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College building located at the southwest corner of East 26th Street and First Avenue. The building originally belonged to the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, but was transferred to NYU when the two medical schools merged in 1898. Dimensions are for image only.

New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital - Skin Graft

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Physicians taking a skin graft using Thiersch's method, ca. 1889. The man with the razor is Theodore Dunham, assisted by Franz Torek (surgeon to the Babies Ward). Information below from Registration Record: This photograph appears in the journal "The Post Graduate" (303), with the caption "Taking the Grafts." The notation on the back states that it is Thiersch's method of taking the grafts and the surgeon with the Razor is Theodore Dunham assisted by Franz Torek, surgeon to the Babies'Ward.