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3,354 1940s Hospital Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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nurse talking to patient in opticians examination room, (b&w) - 1940s hospital stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Nurse talking to patient in opticians examination room, (B&W)

Prefabricated structure being used as a gynaecological ward at Guy's Hospital, London. The ward is named after Dame Sarah Swift, matron of Guy's from...

Nurses holding babies in a maternity ward at Guy's Hospital, London.

Two doctors doing the rounds visiting patients at a London hospital, UK, 1968.

London Hospital

second world war casualty card - 1940s hospital stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Second World War Casualty Card

Dental hygienist Anne Strutts examines a child's teeth in the Hinds County Community School at Jackson State College.

Dental hygienist Anne Strutts examines a child's teeth in the Hinds County Community School

Nurse assisting a patient as he walks down steps at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, September 1948.

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

An archery class at the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1949. Original Publication : Picture...

Stoke Mandeville Archers

june 3, 1943 - general view of a typical medical ward of the 2nd evac. hospital, diddington, england. - 1940s hospital stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

June 3, 1943 - General view of a typical medical ward of the 2nd Evac. Hospital, Diddington, England.

Army sergeant wounded in Africa in World War II is carried onto a hospital train upon his arrival back in the United States, June 8, 1943.

WWII Wounded Soldiers Return

Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, meeting a patient at Papworth Village Hospital. This centre for tubercular cases was taken over by the National...

Nurses in an operating theatre, December 1941. U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Nurses In Operating Room

Italy. Piemonte. Vercelli. Hospital XVIII. 1930-1940.

Italy. piemonte. vercelli. hospital XVIII. 1930-1940

Portrait of African American girl sitting on bed and looking away

Portrait of African American girl sitting on bed and looking away

An inmate breaks out in tears as he finds out he is not leaving with the first group to the hospital May 4, 1945 after the U.S. Liberation troops...

Victims of German & Austrian Nazi WW II Atrocities

An interior view of University College Hospital, showing nurses at work in one of the maternity wards.

University College

Surgical team of a US, field hospital in France examines the badly shattered arm of a soldier before their decision to amputate .

A surgical team of a US, field hospital in France examines the badly shattered arm of a soldier before their decision to amputate

Baby being X-Rayed, Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, March 1942.

Baby being X-Rayed, Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, March 1942

Medical staff tending to a male patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, September 1948.

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Belsen Concentration Camp. This wretched festering body and unhinged mind is all that is left of Margit Schwartz, thirty one years old, born of...

Emaciated Patient With Nurse

1930s 1940s HOSPITAL INFIRMARY NEWBORN INFANT BABIES LYING SLEEPING IN MEDICAL BASSINETS

1930s 1940s HOSPITAL...

Babies in Nursery at University College Hospital. In the nursery. October 1943 P009457

Babies in Nursery at University College Hospital. In the nursery. October 1943 P009457

Interior of an isolation block in a military hospital, where every patient in separate cubicles can see and converse with each other as they continue...

Military Hospital

An ambulance train, used by the British and American armies.

Ambulance Train

Unspecified American military personnel on crutches and sitting in wheelchairs gather to listen to the radio at Halloran General Hospital , a United...

Halloran General Hospital

Couveuses pour nourrisson dans une maternité à Peoria, en 1948.

Couveuses pour nourrisson

Candystripers fluff pillows and tuck blankets around the feet of injured wheelchair-bound World War II veterans as they sit outside on a hospital...

Candystripers Comforting Men in Wheelchairs

Dr. Walter Freeman, Professor of Neurology at George Washington University, demonstrates his new surgical technique in a refined operation called...

Psychiatrist Administering Shock Therapy

Hospital Ward, Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, Jamaica, New York, USA, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, December 1940.

Three-year-old Eileen Dunne, a victim of the London Blitz, in hospital, 1940 by Cecil Beaton 1904-1980.

Three-year-old victim of the London Blitz.

World War II. Newborn children of 1943 New Year's Eve in Paris.

World War II. Newborn children

The autopsy of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader...

Trotsky's Skull

Health, National Health Service, Great Britain, pic: July 1948, Disabled people and new mothers are given help at home, This service was provided...

PF Health. National Health Service. Great Britain. pic: July 1948. Disabled people and new mothers are given help at home. This service was provided free on the newly formed National Health Service.

In a field hospital near the front line, US Army doctors perform surgery on a soldier wounded in the Battle of Normandy, France, July 5, 1944.

Surgery In A Field Hospital

Former female prisoners of Bergen Belsen concentration camp crowded together in the so called hospital of the camp after it was liberated by the...

WW2 Nazi Concentration Camp

Mothers and their new born babies group meeting at the children's welfare clinic at University College Hospital October 1943 P009091

Mothers and their new born babies group meeting at the children's welfare clinic at University College Hospital October

Geriatric ward in a Birmingham hospital. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4930 - A New Deal For The Old : Birmingham Leads The Way - pub.1949

Elderly patients at a hospital for those suffering mental illness. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4254 - Inside A Mental Hospital - pub. 1946

Psychiatric Patients

Nurses bringing babies by trolley to their mothers for feeding at Shardloes stately home, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Over 3,000 babies of London...

Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, Parsons Blvd, Jamaica, New York, 1941. Creator: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc.

Triboro Hospital For Tuberculosis

Cleaner polishing the floor of a ward at Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, September 1947. Original publication: Picture Post - 4429 - Will The Nurse...

Hospital Ward Cleaning

Wounded person being treated in a field hospital by four hospital staff, among whom Sub-Lieutenant Luther Vargas, son of the Brazilian President...

A Wounded Person Treated In A Field Hospital

Red Cross nurse of the Women's Auxiliary Service arranging the pillows of a patient of the Borromeo Military Hospital. Pavia, October 1944

Red Cross Nurse At Work

Some auxiliaries visiting wounded soldiers in the Alessandria hospital. Alessandria, November 1944

Auxiliaries Visiting The Wounded At Alessandria

Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. Interior of dormitory, first floor. 1940, Israel, Tiberias.

Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. Interior of dormitory.

The Andreacehi triplets lay in a bassinette in the hospital nursery circa 1945 in Mt. Vernon, New York.

Andreachi Triplets

Nurses distributing rations to wounded German soldiers, Edelweiss DRK Section Lazarett, Normandy, France, 1944. World War II, 20th century....

Nurses distributing rations to German soldiers

Two girls admire the Disney cartoon characters on a new ambulance. The idea behind the decorations was to lessen children's fears about going to the...

Disney Decorated Ambulance for Children

optician examining woman's eye, (b&w) - 1940s hospital stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Optician examining woman's eye, (B&W)

mother lying in bed smiling to baby-child (0-6 months), nurse standing beside, (b&w) - 1940s hospital stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Mother lying in bed smiling to baby-child (0-6 months), nurse standing beside, (B&W)

Patients at Crownsville State Hospital psychiatric hospital , Crownsville, Maryland, 1947.

The buildings of Crownsville state hospital, a mental hospital, Crownsville, Maryland, 1940.

Crownsville Hospital Maryland

Building at Crownsville State Hospital psychiatric hospital , Crownsville, Maryland, 1949.

Buildings at Crownsville State Hospital psychiatric hospital , Crownsville, Maryland, 1949.

View of Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

Ely Hospital, Cardiff held an 'open day' yesterday and members of the public were invited to tour the hospital. One of the old wards at the hospital....

Interior view of the Memorial Hospital of Springfield, showing the maternity ward, 1946.

Memorial Hospital

Sister Kelly, nurses and patients looking at a new fish tank, which has been presented to the children's ward at the Prince of Wales General Hospital...

New Fish Tank In Children's Ward

Group of men and women at Crownsville Hospital, Crownsville, Maryland, 1940.

Crownsville Hospital

Germany Free State Prussia, Berlin: World War II, hospital 'Horst-Wessel-Krankenhaus', physicians with a surgery nurse during a surgery - undated,...

Germany Free State Prussia, Berlin: World War II, hospital 'Horst-Wessel-Krankenhaus', physicians with a surgery nurse during a surgery - undated, around 1940- Photographer: Hedda WaltherVintage property of ullstein bild

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