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A title page reading Services at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Massachsuetts General Hospital

The lost cornerstone

yellowed receipt with ornate text on top with an eagle engraving in the top left corner

Shreve, Crump & Low receipt for gas conversion

An old copy of the Boston Herald lies on top of box, surrounded by other cardboard boxes with plaster dust. Headline reads: TAFT WINS DELEGATE TESTS, FIGHTS EISENHOWER SURGE; HOOVER BIDS FOR AIRPOWER"

Joseph Garland

black and white drawing with several figures in a medical setting. At the center is a young woman, dressed in a hat and coat, holding a baby with a young boy at her left side, holding onto her coat.

Illustration of an MGH pediatric ward, 1920s

Floorplan sketch

Former lives of the Trustees Room

hand-written letter

Isolation Room, 1924

yellowed receipt

Former location of patient toilets, 1924

side-by-side columns of text on yellowed paper

Laundry chute

An 1876 receipt for mosquito netting for beds

Former site of House Pupils’ bedroom, 1872

Diet kitchen, 1924