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Edward P. Lawrence
Wedding attire of J. Mason Warren, MD (1811-1867)
Portrait of Sally Johnson, RN (1880-1957)
Anne Klibanski, MD: Women at the MGH
Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1856
Site of Ward 4 laboratories, 1924
Banjo Clock
Portrait of Henry P. Walcott, MD (1838-1932)
Joseph Garland
Nursing alumnae
Bronze head of Stanley Cobb, MD (1887-1968)
Pavilion Wards, ca. 1878
Origins of the photo lab
Potential site of Dodd’s X-ray
WWII Honor Roll
Site of Resident Physician’s offices, 1872
Cantilevered Steps
Peter L. Slavin, MD: 200 years of patient care
Portrait of Loretta Joy Cummins, MD (1883-1958)
Columbian Centinel
Ambulance service, 1908 and 1912
Site of House Pupils’ dining room, 1872
David Ting, MD: Broom closet turned nerve center
Ice room and cold storage, 1872
Portrait of Jerrold “Jerry” Rosenbaum, MD
Portrait of Francis Sargent Cheever, MD (1909-1997)
Isolation Room, 1924
Portrait of J. Robert Buchanan, MD (1928- )
Portrait of James Jackson, MD (1777-1867)
Approximate site of former thyroid clinic
Approximate site of hospital’s first laundry
Portrait of Roman DeSanctis, MD
Boston physicians, ca. 1860s
Debbie Burke, RN: Celebrating bravery, compassion and teamwork
The making of this tour
Former site of the Warren Library
Maurizio Fava, MD: Cobb’s cunning analysis
Original location of Treadwell Library
Portrait of Frances J. Bonner, MD (1919-2000)
Portrait of Jane Claflin
Surgical wards, ca. 1897
Bust of Jacob Bigelow, MD (1786-1879)
Training School for Nurses, 1898
Site of Apothecary
Portrait of James J. Mongan, MD (1942-2011)
Portrait of John Collins Warren (1778-1856)
Views of the MGH, ca. 1899
Research at MGH
Visit from Chinese doctors in 1972
Portrait of Sara E. Parsons, RN (1861-1949)
Portrait of Chester Middlebrook Pierce, MD (1927-2016)
Ether Day Commemoration, October 16, 1942
Portrait of John Collins Warren, MD (1778-1856)
Portrait of Frederic A. Washburn, MD (1869-1949)
Portrait of Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld (1939-2017)
The Ether Dome through history
What remains of the wharf
Publicity campaign, 1926
Group photo on the Bulfinch steps
Portrait of John Endicott Lawrence (1910-2007)
Former pediatric ward
Laundry chute
The old nurses’ dining room in a nurse’s words
Portrait of Yvonne Munn, RN (1928-2017)
Illustration of an MGH pediatric ward, 1920s
Portrait of Fuller Albright (1900-1969)
Sarcophagus and mummified remains of Padihershef
The Ether Dome
World War I effort, ca. 1917
Bradlee Ward, ca. 1906
The lost cornerstone
Portrait of W. Gerald Austen, MD (1930- )
MGH Community Health Centers
Ann Prestipino: On the shoulders of giants
The Legacy of William Augustus Hinton, MD
Approximate site of beginning of 1846 extension
Former location of women’s medical ward
“Ether Day 1846” character study
Early location of EEG laboratory
Original exterior wall
Ed Raeke: Recognizing veterans
Medical ward, 1963
Shreve, Crump & Low receipt for gas conversion
Extraordinary times, extraordinary people
David Nathan, MD: Four decades in Bulfinch
Building demolition, July 7, 1937
Border of the 1847 addition
Former Location of Isolation Room
Site of Laboratories and Culture and Media Rooms, 1924
Portrait of Abraham Touro (1774-1882)
Chelmsford granite
Portrait of Stanley Cobb, MD
Bulfinch Memorabilia
Illustration of medical ward, 1963
“The Back Bay Golden Goose” Cartoon
“Teeth in the bathroom!”
The building as artistic inspiration
Former site of House Pupils’ bedroom, 1872
Portrait of Eleanor Mayher Hackett (1937-2009)
“Ether Day, 1846”
Sarah Evans: The Fenway Park of medical history
Joseph Betancourt, MD: Equity at the ground floor
Tent Ward, 1898
Portrait of Ida M. Cannon (1877-1960)
Bigelow Operating Theatre, January 31, 1903
Ding
Former location of patient toilets, 1924
Portrait of David C. Crockett (1910-2005)
Plaster Apollo Belvedere
Surgical and medical tools from the mid-19th century
Samuel O. Thier, MD: Prison break!
Ward 23, 1888
Anne Klibanski, MD: A decade for every floor
Bigelow Operating Theatre, ca. 1867
Portrait of Samuel O. Thier, MD (1937- )
Portrait of the Hon. William Phillips (1750-1827)
Site of Balance Room, 1924
Former site of West Surgical Ward 29, 1888
Changing attitudes about syphilis patients
Former location of chemistry laboratories
Charles Bulfinch, Boston’s – and MGH’s – first architect
Aerial view of the MGH, January 27, 1937
Bulfinch yard, ca. 1919
Veranda for the pediatric wards, 1937
Portrait of Anna Lyman Gray (1853-1932)
A perspective from a COVID-19 ICU
Portrait of Samuel Eliot (1739-1820)
You Are Here
Jack W. Szostak, PhD
Portrait of Juan Manuel Taveras, MD (1919-2002)
John Herman, MD: The Phantom Seventh Floor
Latoya Brewster: An elevator ride up to history
Emery Brown, MD, PhD: Medicine transformed
Portrait of Nathaniel W. Faxon, MD
Gay Ward plaque
A Photographic Album
Printing plates
Portrait of Charles A. Sanders, MD (1932- )
Simon Willard Cabinet Clock, 1821
Portrait of W. Nicholas Thorndike (1933-2021)
Items from Thomas Hackett’s home study
The mystery of the Coat of Arms
Sundial dedicated to nursing at MGH
Nursing quarters, in a nurse’s words
The Intern’s Step
A sign of the times
Former lives of the Trustees Room
Skylight
Can of ether
Teaching skeleton, c. early 19th century