New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital

Nurses on the roof garden of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital with some patients from the Babies Ward.

Photograph of two physicians taking a skin graft from a patient using Karl Thiersch’s method, circa 1889. The man with the razor is Dr. Theodore Dunham (right), assisted by Dr. Franz Torek (left). Dr. Torek was the surgeon to the Babies Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and Dr. Dunham taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in the fields of Clinical Microscopy and Applied Pathology from 1898 to 1903. The photograph was published on page 303 of “The Post Graduate” journal with the caption “Taking the Grafts.”

Franz Torek, MD (1861-1938), served as surgeon and adjunct professor of surgery at the New York Post Graduate Hospital from 1890 to 1915.

James P. Fisk, MD (left, with beard), performs surgery on a child in the Babies Ward operating room of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, circa 1897. He is assisted by two nurses and two male doctors.

Four young boys sitting in the solarium on the roof of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Several children from the Babies Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in the ward’s “Sunbeam Room.” Some are seated at a table, while others are in chairs around the room.

Eight nurses standing on the roof garden of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, each nurse holding two babies, with several other children seated or in carriages. This photograph was published with the caption “The Babies’ Wards Roof Garden” on page 67 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1907.

Three nurses caring for their charges in the Jamie Ward Pediatric Wing of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital, ca. 1901. This photograph was published with the caption “A Corner of the Jamie Ward (Babies’ Wards)” on page 29 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1907.

Two nurses at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital shown with 17 babies on a bed. This photograph was published with the caption “Lining up of Babies’ Wards Patients” on page 25 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1907. The photograph was also used by the Department of Public Relations in the 1967-1968 NYU Handbook.

Two nurses standing on the roof garden of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital with several young patients, some lying in cribs. This photograph was published with the caption “The Outdoor Treatment of Pneumonia” on page 49 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1906.

A nurse observes several children in the Zaidee Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Two of the children are African American. This photograph was published with the caption “The Zaidee Ward (Babies' Wards)” on page 81 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1905.