historic photo

Nursing class in Mass General Ether Dome

Nursing alumnae

A group of doctors listening to a presentation, seated in the tiered seating of a former operating theatre

Visit from Chinese doctors in 1972

A room with a table, chairs, and beds, with adults and children.

Ward 23, 1888

Women lying in beds. One woman on the right is sitting in a rocking chair.

Former site of West Surgical Ward 29, 1888

black & white photo. The girl's dark hair is fashion into a short bowl cut.

Former pediatric ward

Building with columns, and railings are visible behind the columns.

Veranda for the pediatric wards, 1937

black & white photo of large, sunlit room with eighty beds in view with four nurses and five patients

Former location of women’s medical ward

A room with a bed, over-bed table, and a curtained window

Former Location of Isolation Room

A walled-off pit with wood and concrete inside.

What remains of the wharf

Microscopic image, mostly with small and large violet-colored spots and a few smaller ones are magenta in color.

Changing attitudes about syphilis patients