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- Basement
- Ether Dome
- First floor
- Second floor
- Third floor


Portrait of J. Robert Buchanan, MD (1928- )

David Nathan, MD: Four decades in Bulfinch

Portrait of Anna Lyman Gray (1853-1932)

“Teeth in the bathroom!”

Former lives of the Trustees Room

“Ether Day 1846” character study

Medical ward, 1963

Ice room and cold storage, 1872

Bust of Jacob Bigelow, MD (1786-1879)

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

Former site of West Surgical Ward 29, 1888

Ward 23, 1888

Skylight

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

Potential site of Dodd’s X-ray

Extraordinary times, extraordinary people

Simon Willard Cabinet Clock, 1821

Jack W. Szostak, PhD

Columbian Centinel

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

Portrait of W. Nicholas Thorndike (1933-2021)

The making of this tour

The Ether Dome

Plaster Apollo Belvedere

MGH Community Health Centers

Sundial dedicated to nursing at MGH

Former site of House Pupils’ bedroom, 1872

John Herman, MD: The Phantom Seventh Floor

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

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

The Ether Dome through history

Tent Ward, 1898

Ambulance service, 1908 and 1912

The building as artistic inspiration

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

Portrait of Yvonne Munn, RN (1928-2017)

Approximate site of hospital’s first laundry

Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1856

Samuel O. Thier, MD: Prison break!

Bigelow Operating Theatre, ca. 1867

Site of Laboratories and Culture and Media Rooms, 1924

Chelmsford granite

Site of Ward 4 laboratories, 1924

Can of ether

Portrait of Samuel Eliot (1739-1820)

Views of the MGH, ca. 1899

Building demolition, July 7, 1937

Portrait of Nathaniel W. Faxon, MD

Edward P. Lawrence

Training School for Nurses, 1898

Joseph Betancourt, MD: Equity at the ground floor

Aerial view of the MGH, January 27, 1937

Site of Balance Room, 1924

Portrait of Jane Claflin

Portrait of Eleanor Mayher Hackett (1937-2009)

Joseph Garland

Anne Klibanski, MD: A decade for every floor

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

Portrait of Jerrold “Jerry” Rosenbaum, MD

Sarah Evans: The Fenway Park of medical history

Portrait of Roman DeSanctis, MD

Teaching skeleton, c. early 19th century

Laundry chute

Veranda for the pediatric wards, 1937

Printing plates

Former location of patient toilets, 1924

Diet kitchen, 1924

The mystery of the Coat of Arms

Surgical wards, ca. 1897

Early location of EEG laboratory

Debbie Burke, RN: Celebrating bravery, compassion and teamwork

Mannequin for simulation training

Latoya Brewster: An elevator ride up to history

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

Site of Apothecary

A Photographic Album

Nursing quarters, in a nurse’s words

Maurizio Fava, MD: Cobb’s cunning analysis

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

What remains of the wharf

“Ether Day, 1846”

Shreve, Crump & Low receipt for gas conversion

Ether Day Commemoration, October 16, 1942

Former Location of Isolation Room

Portrait of Frances J. Bonner, MD (1919-2000)

World War I effort, ca. 1917

Origins of the photo lab

Research at MGH

Boston physicians, ca. 1860s

Former site of the Warren Library

Emery Brown, MD, PhD: Medicine transformed

Border of the 1847 addition

A perspective from a COVID-19 ICU

Former location of chemistry laboratories

You Are Here

Illustration of an MGH pediatric ward, 1920s

Original location of Treadwell Library

Approximate site of former thyroid clinic

Items from Thomas Hackett’s home study

“The Back Bay Golden Goose” Cartoon

Former pediatric ward

Portrait of David C. Crockett (1910-2005)

Ed Raeke: Recognizing veterans

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

The lost cornerstone

Anne Klibanski, MD: Women at the MGH

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

Ann Prestipino: On the shoulders of giants

Portrait of Fuller Albright (1900-1969)

Bigelow Operating Theatre, January 31, 1903

Original exterior wall

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

Gay Ward plaque

Former location of women’s medical ward

Publicity campaign, 1926

Group photo on the Bulfinch steps

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

Site of House Pupils’ dining room, 1872

David Ting, MD: Broom closet turned nerve center

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

Sarcophagus and mummified remains of Padihershef

Ding

Banjo Clock

Portrait of Abraham Touro (1774-1882)

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

Bulfinch yard, ca. 1919

The Intern’s Step

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

Site of Resident Physician’s offices, 1872

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

Portrait of Sally Johnson, RN (1880-1957)

WWII Honor Roll

Site of Photo Studio and Darkroom, 1924

A sign of the times

Portrait of Stanley Cobb, MD

Bradlee Ward, ca. 1906

The Legacy of William Augustus Hinton, MD

Isolation Room, 1924

Cantilevered Steps

Changing attitudes about syphilis patients

Portrait of John Collins Warren (1778-1856)

Surgical and medical tools from the mid-19th century

Bulfinch Memorabilia

Illustration of medical ward, 1963

Portrait of James Jackson, MD (1777-1867)

Portrait of Ida M. Cannon (1877-1960)

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

Portrait of Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld (1939-2017)
