Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York

A postcard showing a collage of illustrations of Bellevue Hospital, from a two-postcard set. The card is labeled “Bellevue Hospital No. 2” and shows a variety of scenes from the hospital, including an operating theater, the Children’s Ward, the morgue, and the garden. The postcard is also labeled “Compliments of Lactopeptine.” Lactopeptine was a manufacturer’s name for a digestion-ferment product containing Pepsin and Pancreatin and sold in the 19th century.

Engraving showing a view of Bellevue Hospital as it looked in 1816, seen from the East River. In the bottom left corner of the print is the note: “Copyright 1905, Society of Iconophiles, N.Y.” The Society of Iconophiles printed limited edition engravings of New York City scenes and was active from 1894 to 1939.

Engraving showing the Bellevue Hospital Wharf as it was in 1795. A hospital boat can be seen discharging sick passengers. The caption beneath the image reads, “Bellevue Wharf, 1795, where the hospital boat landed the sick. Drawn on wood by Charles Parsons and engraved by C.B. Dolge.” This engraving was inspired by a 1795 watercolor painted by Dr. Alexander Anderson while he was the resident physician at Bellevue.

An exterior view of Bellevue Hospital in 1870, seen from a pier on the East River.

Doctors and nurses attending to reclining and seated patients in the Men’s Ward at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870-1889.

Group photograph taken in Ward 12, a children’s ward of Bellevue Hospital. Several doctors stand around a doctor seated with a child in his lap. Another child is seated in a chair nearby.

A doctor, nurses, and several patients on the Children’s Surgical Ward of Bellevue Hospital. Some of the patients are in their cribs or beds, while others are seated in rockers or at tables.

Photograph of two doctors and a nurse in the Bellevue Hospital Laboratory. One doctor is seated in front of a microscope while the other is standing, selecting a bottle from a wall rack holding dozens of bottles. The nurse stands beside him.

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

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.