1940s Medical Settings

Images showcasing a 1948 nursing home, x-ray innovations, a health facility visit, and a cafe scene in a hospital, reflecting mid-century healthcare environments.

Woman taking polygraph lie detector test while man wearing stethoscope checks her pulse through her am and another woman monitors the machine

Paul G. Hoffman ECA Administrator Visits the SIFA (Streptomycin Plant). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

John Roy Carlson, 37, Author of "Under Cover" and "The Plotters", Inspects his swollen face in New York City, January 4, after having been beaten January 3 near the Brooklyn , New York, Academy of Music where he had attended a meeting of the Women for the U.S. of America, Inc., at which he was pointed out and Booed. Carlson said that he was attacked by three Men. He was treated at a Hospital for Facial cuts and a Slight Brain concussion. March 01, 1947.

Anefo photo collection. Opening Dutch Reformed Diakonessen Hospital Meppel Flat film. November 12, 1956

Woman taking polygraph lie detector test while man wearing stethoscope checks her pulse through her am and another woman monitors the machine

The reception at the doctor's expedition at Hagalund.

Medalization 1 District

Feet of a disabled man using a drafting board (EV006105_H)

Anefo photo collection. Opening ultrasound space for throat nose and poorness Wilhelmina Gasthuis Amsterdam / affected. November 22, 1956. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

First Aid Training. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Optician with a customer at the Spritzer & Fuhrmann company in Willemstad. October 1, 1955. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad

Anefo photo collection. Liver wrapped in Arnhems Hospital v.L.n.R. The Surgeons Dr. Sluis, Dr. V.D. Heyde, Dr. Schalm Sr .. December 3, 1968

esame medico-psicotecnico circa la lontananza del soggetto dalle vetture, 1952

Bermondsey -- All - In Health Centre.In one of the two dental surgeries a mechanic prepares a set of dentures. Thousands of patients of all ages are treated every year.A dental mechanic at his work bench. N.S.W. legislation may permit them to deal direct with the pubic. July 16, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Anefo photo collection. Dr. P. J. Koets opens the school for adspiratory student nurses in Binnengasthuis. V.l.n. Dr. E. G. Godfried, Sister de Weert and Dr. P .. January 8, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Cheese carrier guild. September 23, 1946

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Military hospital to Semarang. Laboratory. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Lebanon. Miss F.C. Prager, Chief Nurse of the Unwra and her assistant in her office. 1950. Lebanon

$Anefo photo collection. Dr. Cabinet formation Drees receives fraction leaders. Prof. Zijlstra. July 12, 1956$

Anefo photo collection. Debate PvdA and PSP in Krasnapolsky, Drs. Nederhorst shows his leg in plaster to the discussion leader. January 24, 1966

Medical clinic. Sister Birgit at a microscope.

Vintage Photograph. A doctor giving female patient a shot in office.

Anefo photo collection. Press conference in connection with Zesling birth; Prof. Bennebroek Gravenhorst (R) Gynecologist, completely left Cor Coster. September 19, 1977

Tayfield ruefully examines broken thumb. January 13, 1953.

Emergency Hospital Exhibit 1955 , Exhibitions, Civil defense, Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Doctors examining baby whose parents have just brought him into the clinic at the Negro hospital. Chicago, Illinois 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Chicago, Illinois , Cook County

Narrabeen radio retailer Gill Alexander presents mantel radio to Virginia Carpenter and Tom Ford. Virginia, of Balgowlah, and Tom , of Northbridge, won a " best teeth " competition associated with State Health Week recently. Mr. Alexander has three children, none of whom have ever required dental treatment. " I have always been enthusiastic on teeth," he an annual said. He intends making the prizes an annual feature. November 8, 1954.

Mature man demonstrating the use of an X-Ray machine

London Nursing Exhibition at Seymour Hall - Sir William Gilliatt, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to H.M. the Queen and Mrs. Iain MacLeod, who opened the Exhibition, looking at one of the Exhibits.The 38th Annual Professional Nursing and Midwives Conference and the London Nursing Exhibition, opened today at Seymour Hall, London. October 12, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).

St. Lo's New Hospital, Inaugural Ceremonies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Miss Teal, Nurse, and Doctor W.R. Stanley giving treatment in Venereal Disease Clinic. Enterprise, Alabama, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, April 1939

Medalization 1 District

Anefo photo collection. Far. G. van Dam, Medicine Director of the Rheum Ac Centers in Amsterdam, Mr. Hijbroek pinch Dr. van Dam. December 15, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

At First Hand - Before starting his role of a physician in Paramount's "Disputed Passage", Akim Tamiroff, left, made an inspection tour of a hospital with Lloyd C. Douglas, author of the best-selling novel from which the picture was taken. April 29, 1940.

Vintage Photograph. A druggist mixing a prescription.

The Long Road Back -- Miss Rebecca Gross, editor of the Lock Haven (Pa.) Express, takes her first step, right, on artificial legs at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation here today, and at left sits at wheel of especially designed auto. Miss Gross, 49, lost both legs in a New Year's Eve auto accident and has refused to fell sorry for herself or give up her long fight to regain complete mobility and once more take over her editorial duties. July 01, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Foreign Red Crosses help Dutch hospitals. 27 February 1946

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and migrant child in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm families, Caldwell, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

Vintage Photograph. Druggist mixing prescription in drug store.

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

Ship's Doctor

Anefo photo collection. 42 years of door Bergweg Hospital in Rotterdam (Mr Klerk). Miss Naber handed him envelope. 29 June 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Dam with with phone..

Anefo photo collection. COMMAN course for Dr. Tilanus right toxopeus. July 19, 1962

used to stimulate circulation in legs and feet when certain diseases threaten to neccessitate amputations. The 'boot', invented by Dr. Louis A. Hermann of Cincinnati, induces circulation by alternately increasing and decreasing air pressure. It is considered a consequential physiological development by doctors who examined it here, 11/12/35.

Vintage Photograph. Doctor at desk with a stern look pointing finger.

Anefo photo collection. Mrs. Van Hall Nijhoff Nursing center for Ouden van Dagen in Slotermeer opened during tour in the kitchen. November 24, 1964

Poll photo collection. Dr. Portrait Shakkay, physician director of the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikwa. January 1, 1960. Israel, Petach Tikwah

As Minister for Health, Dame Florence watches a child being fitted with a walking-frame at the Princess Margaret childern's hospital. April 23, 1952.

Nobel Winners In Medicine -- Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori (left) and Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori (right),her husband, who today were announced in Stockholm as the Nobel prize winners in medicine for their work in crystallizing and isolating enzymes, the complex organic substance essential to body metabolism. Both are faculty members at Washington University. October 23, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Medalization to Lagbas K.O. Palm with Director General Gustaf Dahlbeck in the background.

Doctor taking a patients blood pressure (EV006735_H)

Anefo photo collection. Treatment in 2nd Chamber about child benefit law. Van Rooy (Minister of Social Affairs), Veldkamp (State Secretary) /. June 27, 1961. The Hague, South Holland

S61-03621 (1961) --- Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. having an electrocardiograph done by Dr. Jackson during medical testing at the Pensacola Naval Station.

The X-ray department of the military hospital in the Muzenstraat in The Hague. A Milva serves the device.

Vintage Photograph. Man wearing doctor's smock holding wooden presentation pointer looking at camera

Vintage Photograph. A doctor gives nervous patient a shot.

Anefo photo collection. Process against two doctors abortion clinic started in Amsterdam, witnesses v.L.n.R.: Dr. F. J. H. Wong (Dir.), A. S. van de Bergh (Bloemenhove), Prof. J .. June 22, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. A druggist mixing medication with beaker in pharmacy.

Alfredo Antunes Kanthack with staff and students in the pathological laboratory of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Photograph, ca. 1896.

Oral polio vaccination (childhood immunisation) on 28.01.1980 in Iserlohn, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Dr. Kuiperi, assignment Eva, head. October 7, 1970

Anefo photo collection. Prof. Dr. J. Veraart 40 years of doctor. April 28, 1950

Vintage Photograph. Dentist is cleaning his tools getting ready for his next patient.

Poll photo collection. Buddlercentrale of the Dutch Red Cross. Laboratory screws off bottles of breast milk. May 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Mr. Samuel Emanuel Nathan, 35, victim of the second shooting leaves hospital in a police car, his neck and jaw bandaged. With him is his wife, Joyce. May 19, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Anefo photo collection. Dr. Pimentel (dentist). April 26, 1957

1950S 1960S Portrait Male Doctor Sitting At Desk Serious Expression

Vintage Photograph. Doctor at desk writing.

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

Druggist and customer

Poll photo collection. Reportage Marine. Marine. Examination. Navy doctor measures blood pressure. Hospik notes data. 1945

Adel breast training 1975.

Death masks displayed at identification convention. Sept. 29. Mrs. Clark Schilder, wife of the Chief of the Division of Identification, Federal Bureau of Investigation, inspects a death mask of a trapped criminal at the Annual Convention of the International Association Identification which opened here today. Death masks of criminals are now being generally used by police bureaus throughout the country for identification purposes. Date 19370101

Druggist in front of patent medicine shelf. San Augustine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

Vintage Photograph. Portrait of man in doctors uniform with concerned expression and hand on chin

Discharged. Dr. Robert Basto, Macquarie St. specialist, being assisted by detectives from St. Vincen't Hospital today, after recovering from the effects of a drug. December 14, 1953.

Anefo photo collection. Staff meeting IJ hospital. February 4, 1988

Pharmacist demonstrating a product to a young woman

Anefo photo collection. Consultation CAO hospitalization. Negotiators table. March 21, 1989

Vintage Photograph. Man in white doctor uniform with stethoscope around neck writing prescription on notepad

Vintage Photograph. A doctor checking patient's breathing while they stand in office.

Ronald Glare - Patient of Glares built this machine under his direction. Patient had broken leg.... was sent home allegedly to die, now flexes right leg freely. Machine's main components are old bycycle, portion of sewing machine. June 8, 1953.

Misc-Beauty - Ear Piercing. August 4, 1952.

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