New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital

Nurses on the Roof Garden with some patients from the Babies Ward.

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.

Dr. James P. Fisk (with beard), along with a colleague, performs surgery on a child, in the Babies' Ward operating room, ca. 1897.

Four young boys are shown sitting in the hospital solarium at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital.

Several children from the Babies Ward are shown in the "Sunbeam Room," some seated at a table, others in chairs around the room.

Eight nurses are standing on the Roof Garden, holding two babies each, with several other children seated or in carriages in front. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (1907, opposite page p.96), with the caption "The Babies' Wards Roof Garden."

Three nurses caring for their charges in the Jamie Ward Pediatric Wing, ca. 1901. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (1907, opposite page p.28), with the caption "A Corner of the Jamie Ward (Babies' Wards)."

Two nurses at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital shown with 17 babies on a bed. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (1907, opposite page p.24), with the caption "Lining up of Babies' Wards Patients." This photograph was also used in the NYU Handbook (001.A6, 1967-1968, p.2), by the Dept. of Public Relations of NYU Medical Center.

Two nurses are shown outdoors with several of their young patients, some in cribs. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (1906, opposite page p.48), with the caption "The Outdoor Treatment of Pneumonia."

A nurse observes several children in the Zaidee Ward, two of them African-American. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1905, opposite page p.80), with the caption "The Zaidee Ward (Babies' Wards)."