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  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Northern Dispensary, New York City. Coloured wood engraving by N. Orr & Co.
  • New York Hospital, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Northeastern Dispensary, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.
  • German Dispensary, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Demilt Dispensary, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a lodge with oeil-de-boeuf windows seen from above next to wharf. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings with a tower; a pile of bricks in the foreground from a demolished building. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a courtyard with (right) back of entrance gateway, (left) a building with pilasters and steep entrance steps. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a street corner with hospital buildings and people. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: the street with nurses' entrance ("nurses" carved in stone) next to Manhattan Chapel. Photograph.
  • Bloomingdale Asylum, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a dormitory with bunk beds. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a corridor inside entrance to building, with seated women (patients?). Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a wharf on the East River with buildings. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a quay on the East River near the hospital, with a steamship. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings seen from above with the East River on left. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a lodge on a pier over the river, with two men. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: the entrance gateway. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: the Chapel interior. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a woman (nurse?) with bowls and cotton wool etc. on a sideboard. Photograph.
  • Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Lunatic Asylum, New York. Steel engraving by J.D. Smillie after R.W. Weir.
  • New York dispensary, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.