Operating rooms

A nurse stands near a piece of equipment in the operating room of the Babies’ Wards at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. This photograph was published with the caption “The Operating Room (Babies’ Wards)” on page 57 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1903.

Several doctors and nurses in an operating room of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

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.

Three nurses are seen in an operating amphitheater, preparing for an operation. This photograph was published with the caption “Preparing for an Operation” on page 41 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1903.

Interior photograph of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College operating room amphitheater, circa 1880s. A cadaver is laid out on the operating table. Doctors dressed in suits pose for an audience of spectators.

Interior photograph of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College operating room amphitheater, circa 1880s. A cadaver is laid out on the operating table. Doctors wearing suits pose for an audience of spectators.

Doctors performing an operation on a patient in the Bellevue Hospital Crane Room while attended by three observers, circa 1899.

Doctors performing an operation on a patient in the Bellevue Hospital Crane Room, circa 1899.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital’s House Staff, Fourth Medical Division, 1910, posed in an operating room in their surgical gowns. Caption reads: “Fourth Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1910. John F. McGrath, Thomas McCrae, Robert Wylie (gynecologist), Cyrus F. Wade, Lawrence H. Rogers.” The nurses pictured are not named in the caption.