Bellevue Hospital

Group portrait of nine doctors standing outside of the Bellevue Hospital Gatehouse, circa 1885. The gate is visible to the right, and a large gaslight is also visible on the exterior of the building.

Group portrait of doctors standing in front of the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary, circa 1885.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff of 1884 on the steps of the old Bellevue Administration Building. The registration records for this photograph list the names of doctors from top to bottom as: L.W. Hubbard, E. Hurd, Le Febre, Hurd, Herman M. Biggs, Gwyer, Sayre, Benjamin, Herman, Rutherfurd, Roberts, Frankenburg, Hubbard, John R. Conway, Hiram H. Seelye, John Weldon, Robert T. Morris, Wildman, Condict W. Cutler, Wm.T. Oppenheimer.

Group portrait of the first staff of medical interns at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1856.

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.

Two women physicians working in a Bellevue Hospital laboratory. The doctor on the right is Elaine Pandia Ralli, MD (1894-1968). Dr. Ralli received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1925. She taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Ralli was an authority on diseases of metabolism and nutrition and a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation for outstanding achievement as a woman in medicine.

Men, women and children waiting to be seen in a clinic at Bellevue Hospital, staffed by doctors and nurses.

Interior view of a Bellevue Hospital amphitheater during a dry clinic, with students watching the doctors from above. The caption reads: “Dr. Stewart conducting a ‘dry clinic.’”

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.

Photograph of four horse-drawn Bellevue ambulances. Attendants dressed in white stand beside the ambulances, while drivers are seated inside the carriages.