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Portrait of Eleanor Mayher Hackett (1937-2009)

Portrait of Samuel Eliot (1739-1820)

Debbie Burke, RN: Celebrating bravery, compassion and teamwork

Portrait of Henry P. Walcott, MD (1838-1932)

Surgical and medical tools from the mid-19th century

Publicity campaign, 1926

A Photographic Album

Ice room and cold storage, 1872

Early location of EEG laboratory

Nursing quarters, in a nurse’s words

MGH Community Health Centers

Plaster Apollo Belvedere

Jack W. Szostak, PhD

Former site of House Pupils’ bedroom, 1872

The Intern’s Step

A perspective from a COVID-19 ICU

Bulfinch Memorabilia

Former lives of the Trustees Room

Border of the 1847 addition

Banjo Clock

Ann Prestipino: On the shoulders of giants

Pavilion Wards, ca. 1878

Original exterior wall

Diet kitchen, 1924

Bulfinch yard, ca. 1919

Portrait of W. Gerald Austen, MD (1930- )

Portrait of Yvonne Munn, RN (1928-2017)

“The Back Bay Golden Goose” Cartoon

Portrait of Jerrold “Jerry” Rosenbaum, MD

Surgical wards, ca. 1897

Portrait of Jane Claflin

Portrait of Frederic A. Washburn, MD (1869-1949)

Site of Photo Studio and Darkroom, 1924

Samuel O. Thier, MD: Prison break!

Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1856

Former Location of Isolation Room

Site of Apothecary

Bust of Jacob Bigelow, MD (1786-1879)

Extraordinary times, extraordinary people

Edward P. Lawrence

Mannequin for simulation training

Shreve, Crump & Low receipt for gas conversion

Portrait of Ida M. Cannon (1877-1960)

Portrait of Sara E. Parsons, RN (1861-1949)

Bigelow Operating Theatre, ca. 1867

The Ether Dome through history

Site of Ward 4 laboratories, 1924

Portrait of Chester Middlebrook Pierce, MD (1927-2016)

Bigelow Operating Theatre, January 31, 1903

Portrait of James J. Mongan, MD (1942-2011)

Emery Brown, MD, PhD: Medicine transformed

Cantilevered Steps

Portrait of the Hon. William Phillips (1750-1827)

Portrait of John Collins Warren, MD (1778-1856)

Tent Ward, 1898

“Ether Day, 1846”

Latoya Brewster: An elevator ride up to history

Items from Thomas Hackett’s home study

Approximate site of beginning of 1846 extension

Anne Klibanski, MD: A decade for every floor

Potential site of Dodd’s X-ray

Joseph Garland

Site of House Pupils’ dining room, 1872

Wedding attire of J. Mason Warren, MD (1811-1867)

Former pediatric ward

Peter L. Slavin, MD: 200 years of patient care

Chelmsford granite

Simon Willard Cabinet Clock, 1821

The old nurses’ dining room in a nurse’s words

Original location of Treadwell Library

Ward 23, 1888

Veranda for the pediatric wards, 1937

Portrait of John Collins Warren (1778-1856)

Visit from Chinese doctors in 1972

Portrait of Nathaniel W. Faxon, MD

Changing attitudes about syphilis patients

A sign of the times

Anne Klibanski, MD: Women at the MGH

Ed Raeke: Recognizing veterans

Sarah Evans: The Fenway Park of medical history

Site of Balance Room, 1924

The lost cornerstone

John Herman, MD: The Phantom Seventh Floor

Nursing alumnae

Former location of chemistry laboratories

Portrait of Sally Johnson, RN (1880-1957)

Columbian Centinel

World War I effort, ca. 1917

Portrait of Fuller Albright (1900-1969)

Can of ether

Portrait of W. Nicholas Thorndike (1933-2021)

Group photo on the Bulfinch steps

The Legacy of William Augustus Hinton, MD

Isolation Room, 1924

WWII Honor Roll

Illustration of medical ward, 1963

Laundry chute

Maurizio Fava, MD: Cobb’s cunning analysis

Portrait of John Endicott Lawrence (1910-2007)

Portrait of Juan Manuel Taveras, MD (1919-2002)

Former location of women’s medical ward

Site of Laboratories and Culture and Media Rooms, 1924

You Are Here

“Ether Day 1846” character study

Portrait of Stanley Cobb, MD

David Ting, MD: Broom closet turned nerve center

Skylight

David Nathan, MD: Four decades in Bulfinch

The Ether Dome

Site of Resident Physician’s offices, 1872

The mystery of the Coat of Arms

Portrait of James Jackson, MD (1777-1867)

Portrait of Abraham Touro (1774-1882)

Portrait of Samuel O. Thier, MD (1937- )

Boston physicians, ca. 1860s

Illustration of an MGH pediatric ward, 1920s

Ether Day Commemoration, October 16, 1942

Aerial view of the MGH, January 27, 1937

Gay Ward plaque

What remains of the wharf

Portrait of Anna Lyman Gray (1853-1932)

The making of this tour

Ding

Portrait of Francis Sargent Cheever, MD (1909-1997)

Former site of West Surgical Ward 29, 1888

The building as artistic inspiration

Portrait of Charles A. Sanders, MD (1932- )

Building demolition, July 7, 1937

Sundial dedicated to nursing at MGH

Origins of the photo lab

Portrait of David C. Crockett (1910-2005)

Views of the MGH, ca. 1899

Charles Bulfinch, Boston’s – and MGH’s – first architect

Former location of patient toilets, 1924

Ambulance service, 1908 and 1912

Portrait of Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld (1939-2017)

Bronze head of Stanley Cobb, MD (1887-1968)

Medical ward, 1963

Joseph Betancourt, MD: Equity at the ground floor

Portrait of Roman DeSanctis, MD

Teaching skeleton, c. early 19th century

“Teeth in the bathroom!”

Sarcophagus and mummified remains of Padihershef

Approximate site of former thyroid clinic

Portrait of Loretta Joy Cummins, MD (1883-1958)

Printing plates

Former site of the Warren Library

Bradlee Ward, ca. 1906
