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Historical Medical Care Settings

Images show vintage hospital wards and treatment rooms with medical staff attending to patients, reflecting historical healthcare practices.

Catholic service in Austrian Military Hospital, Ratisbonne Monastery, Jerusalem. 1916, Israel

Nurses group gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Nurse Lt. Ione E. Vogel from St. Peter, Minnesota, administers to patients in the surgical orthopedics ward of the 58th Evacuation Hospital on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands.

Hospital Ward for Employees. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Photo shows - Nurses footprinting baby in the Bergen Sanitarium, Jersey City to prevent a repetition of the Rich case. The mother is fingerprinted.

11/09/1948. Nurses of the Red Cross, in the Madrid hospital of San José and Santa Adela.

Nurses in the military hospital receive education about the human body.

Composition of 25 photos and medical instruments.

Airing yard in the female section of Gladesville Mental Hospital. Atmosphere, both here and inside the wards, is bleak and forbidding. Women patients sit around on these benches all day with no diversion and little, if any, treatment. August 17, 1948.

Patients at Walter Reed Hospital recovering from injuries sustained during World War I ca. 1917-1919.

Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. The operating theatre. Patient, eye case. 1934, Israel, Tiberias

06/30/1950. Group of Women who Completed their Studies as Ladies Nurses of the Red Cross, Accompanied by their Professors, Doctors Amnel, Alba, Mediero, and the provincial delegate of Health, doctor Chacón.

A nurse, Moyra () Cavanagh, in uniform, London. Photograph by Marble Arch Studios, ca. 1902.

10/15/1918. The Red Cross infirmary in San Sebastian. Ss.Mm. Queen Victoria (A) and Queen María Cristina (B), with the Ladies Nurses at the Inaugural Ceremony -.

Tenderly they lifted him - Orange River Hospital, S. Africa..

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Hospital in an emergency hospital. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Dogs in barrack hospital from times of World War I

Province Hospital black-and-white negatives

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. A doctor treats sick children in the Kampong. March 1946. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Description: The manager's wife, who is a trained nursing sister, supervises the efficient working of the dispensary and gives a great deal of material help and advice. (Picture issued 1945) Location: Kenya Date: 1945 coffee, kenya, plantation, thika, gethumbwini, africa, vintagekenya

The Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, a unique college founded by a private enterprise and directed by a committee of female doctors. Students travelled from all over the world, for a strictly women only medical education. Date: 1911

Anefo photo collection. Jan Cottaar from the hospital. Cottage between nurses of the academic hospital. June 14, 1961. Leiden

Stella Mae's Beauty Salon , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Group of nurses of the 6th A.G.H. (at Stiftung). 1940, Jerusalem, Israel

Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 - November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever, three of whom died, and the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the disease pathogen, Salmonella typhi. Because she persisted in working as a cook, by which she exposed others to the disease, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, eventually for the final two decades of her life. Mallon died after a total of nearly 30 years in isolation. Hospital ward of patients with typhoid fever

Ship's hospital

African American man is on a table covered with a sheet lying beneath an x-ray machine. Another man, sitting above the patient's head, has his hand on a handle. circa 1909.

Inauguration of the 1945-1946 course at the central hospital of the Red Cross, with the delivery of Diplomas and the imposition of Bracelets on the New Nurses.

Tent kitchen, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 1915, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Stella Mae's Beauty Salon , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

11/05/1961. Group of Ladies and Nurses of the Red Cross To Whom, for Having Finished the Course, the Bracelets and Corresponding Diplomas Were Given, in the event held at the Central dispensary, presided over by the Archbishop of Sion and Military Vicar General, Dr. Alonso Muñoyerro, with the general director of charity and president of the Institution, Mr. Antonio María de Oriol.

Kusumbehn Adani Mahatma Gandhi s niece, Jamunabehn Gandhi, Narandas Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Abha Gandhi and Arun Gandhi at Dr. Dinshah Mehta s nature cure clinic in Pune, 1944 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Nursing fair.

1918 flu epidemic: the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918.

Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.

Barbers' room; in the hospital in Pergine Trentino; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 11.

Public disinfectors from the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, London. Woodburytype after a photograph by J. Thomson, 1877.

Healthy beam station "PERSE" bathroom for light ill. .

Healthcare professionals adjacent to an Invalid train in Hapranda during the First World War. In the middle of the picture in a black coat stands the Russian Grand Prince Victoria Feodorovna.

Elsevier photo collection. Welvreden (Batavia) Weltevreden (Batavia), particularly busy health service connection collection injections N.A.V. cholera cases. November 18, 1927. Batavia, Gang Chalan, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Weltevreden

Susan E. Thompson,Nurse WWI , Nurses, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Patients in a womens ward of a Paris hospital circa 1905

Vaccination of Landsturmänner, Kisvarda. .

'At the 75th anniversary of' t 'Oogenhuis' in Utrecht/ the outpatient clinic in the gas house, the place where the Dutch from all regions come together. Do people want a few figures In 75 years, more than 340,000 patients were written in, the number of consultations to them far exceeds the two million.

Anefo photo collection. Visit Marine Hospital in Overveen. 12 May 1950. Overveen

Pipestone Nurses and Doctor. 1949 - 1971. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Minneapolis Area Office. (1949 - 9/1999). Photographs

Recruiting nurses for Vassar

Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; a group of post-operative plague patients on the hospital balcony. Photograph, 1904/1911.

In the Filipino ward, 1st Reserve Hospital, Manila, Philippines | Library of Congress

Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: outpatients department with drugs dispensary counter on the right. Photograph, c. 1905.

Removal with customary fuses in the pradl hospital.

Rural Woman, a Drought Victim, receiving well-balanced Food Order from American Red Cross at Wholesale Grocery Warehouse, Paintsville, Kentucky, USA, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Collection, 1930

EUGENE-LOUIS DOYEN French surgeon noted for his treatment of difficult cases such as Siamese twins : here he is being painted by Carrier-Belleuse in 1906. Date: 1859 - 1916

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Korido medical examination. undated. Korido, Guinea

I.H.A. Doctor Inoculating Laborers. State: Ethiopia. Place: Gondar-Eritrean Border.

Anefo photo collection. MOC HILVERSUM. Purification of doctors. Overview. December 22, 1948. Hilversum

Philippine Islands - graduating class of student nurses from Philippine General Hospital. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Nurses,1900-1930, Medical education,Philippines,1900-1930, Students,Philippines,1900-1930.

Medalization in the railway restaurant

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Group of Arabs from countryside mixing with doctors & nurses. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Entire staff, Ophthalmic Hospital 1898, Middle East, Israel

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE visiting St Thomas's Hospital, London, during the last year of her life 1820 - 1910

Anefo photo collection. WI West Indies / Anefo London series. St. Rose Hospital hospital Philipsburg, capital St. Maarten. {1940-1945}. Netherlands Antilles, Philipsburg, Sint-Maarten

Patients Attending Clinic at Turtle Mountain Hospital. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

University College Hospital, London: resident medical officers; the group includes Sir Victor Horsley. Photograph, ca. 1960, of an original photograph, ca. 1880.

Nurse in Gas Drill

House staff at St. Andrew's Hospice taken for Mrs. MacRae. 1940, Jerusalem, Israel

A group of officials from the World Relief Commission (VRC) and officers responsible for the welfare of Hoa Khanh Children's Hospital pose at the entrance of the hospital. They are marking the co-sponsorship of the hospital by the World Relief Commission and Force Logistica Command (FLC) during the Vietnam War.

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

A wigmaker's Boutique with a customer being measured for his toupee. Date: circa 1905

House staff at St. Andrew's Hospice taken for Mrs. MacRae. 1940, Jerusalem, Israel

Filter Beds, Massachusetts Tuberculosis Hospital, Rutland, Mass., Dec. 15, 1930 , waterworks, real estate, watershed sanitary conditions, filter beds

Veterans Administration Hospital, Dublin, Ga. , Hospitals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Veterans Administration Hospital, Dublin, Ga. , Hospitals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Kitchen, Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass. , Kitchens, Interiors, Military hospitals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Veteran's Administration Hospital, Roanoke, Va., near Salem , Military facilities, Hospitals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

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