Nurses

Group portrait of nine Bellevue nurses in uniform, spring of 1893.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff, Fourth Surgical Division, 1893. The doctors and nurses are photographed with patients in one of the Bellevue Hospital children’s wards. Caption reads: “G. N. Newbury, M. M. Little, A. V. O’Neill, 1893 – 4th Surgical Division.”

Posed photograph showing a blood transfusion at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870s. The image is captioned “Old Time Blood Transfusion.” A large group of doctors and nurses are attending to a patient lying in bed receiving the transfusion from another man, seated upright in a chair.

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.

Exterior view of Bellevue Hospital Ward 40, also known as Sturgis Pavilion. Child patients can be seen beneath a tent in outdoor cribs and cots, with doctors and nurses in attendance. The Sturgis Pavilion was used by the third medical division for the treatment of female patients until it was torn down in 1924. The building faintly visible behind Sturgis Pavilion housed a ward for treating alcoholism (upper floor) and an ambulance garage and stable (lower floor).

A child lying in bed with a doll. Information from Registration Record: Child in bed, endowed by Marie Heye Clemens, 1894

A little girl sitting up in hospital bed. Attached to the head of the bed is a shield and printed on it "Endowed by Marie Heye Clemens, 1894"

Doctors and nurses are seen in a Men's Ward at Bellevue. Some patients are in bed, others sitting in chairs. The time period is circa 1870-1880.

In a children's ward, several doctors are standing around another doctor, who is seated with a child in his lap. There is another child seated on a stool nearby.

A doctor, nurses and several patients are seen in the ward. Some of the patients are in their cribs or beds, others are seated in rockers or at tables.