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Photographs · c. 1900

Farnam Operating Amphitheatre (Bishop Collection), c. 1900

New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals

An operating room in the Farnam Amphitheatre shows the physical setting of surgery and medical teaching around 1900.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Reverse note associates room with Dr. William H. Carmalt, before changes following Professor Flint's 1907 arrival; no procedure identified. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.

Source: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs

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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals, SGC-ED080, ED-H-HT10, “Farnam Operating Amphitheatre (Bishop Collection), c. 1900.” Source: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/661/. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.

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