(BELLEVUE HOSPITAL) Group of 26 photographs of an informal tour of Bellevue Hospital, including 2 chilling photographs of a policeman standing guard at the iron gates of the criminally insane ward, otherviews include serving a meal on the women's

(BELLEVUE HOSPITAL) Group of 26 photographs of an informal tour of Bellevue Hospital, including 2 chilling photographs of a policeman standing guard at the iron gates of the criminally insane ward, otherviews include serving a meal on the women's ward, a primitive operating room, 2 views of the children's ward, the library, doctors and nurses relaxing and exterior views of the hospital complex and docks. Albumen prints, 1885. Each 4.5 x 7.5in affixed to period mounts, recto and verso. E1,200/1,800 Beginning as a six-bed infirmary 1736, the current Bellevue Hospital formally opened in 1827 Documented in the photographs is the rapidly expanding hospital, including the pavilion for the insane, which was built around the time the photographs were taken in order to accommodate the growing number of patients.