New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
A collection of documented history, dated images and original record links. Photographs available only at their publishers are labeled separately from locally included images. Unknown dates and conflicting accounts remain visible.

id: ED080-S01
title: Yale New Haven Hospital: institutional history
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: 1826 founding, 1833 building, 1884 name, 1917 Yale affiliation, 1945 Grace affiliation and 1965 name.
url: https://www.ynhh.org/medical-professionals/gme/about-gme/history
credit: Yale New Haven Hospital: institutional history
notes: Linked source. The collection provides an original historical summary; the complete record remains with its repository.
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id: ED080-S02
title: NHFPL: Grace Hospital building
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Grace organization in 1887; historical image is undated.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/346
credit: NHFPL: Grace Hospital building
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id: ED080-S03
title: Yale: hospital photograph collection
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Individual ambulance, nursing, building and fundraising records are cataloged below.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/
credit: Yale: hospital photograph collection
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id: ED080-S04
title: 1899 General Hospital Society annual report
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Report presented January 25, 1900; ambulance, kitchen, maternity and ward-connection evidence.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_annual_reports/126/
credit: 1899 General Hospital Society annual report
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id: ED-H-HT01
title: Grace Hospital ambulance, 1890
kind: Photographs
date: 1890
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: The first Grace Hospital ambulance, dated 1890 in the catalog.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/731/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Catalog calls it an 'X-ray image'; inspect before describing photographic process. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT02
title: Grace Hospital postcard (Bishop Collection), 1908
kind: Postcards
date: 1908
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: A 1908 postcard records Grace Hospital's original Chapel Street building.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/734/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Historical postcard date, not digital upload date. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT03
title: Grace Hospital nurses, c. 1914
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1914
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: A group portrait makes nursing education visible within Grace Hospital's history.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/733/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Reverse note says 1914 graduate Violet Dobson was absent; do not identify a pictured person as her. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT04
title: Grace-New Haven Community Hospital's fund raising campaign, 1946
kind: Photographs
date: 1946
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Guilford's team in the hospital's $5 million fundraising campaign illustrates regional community support.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/735/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Individual names in catalog if needed. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT05
title: New Haven Hospital ambulance, c. 1914
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1914
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: The hospital's first motorized ambulance, driven by Billy McGee, stands before Old North around 1914.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1449/
credit: Thomas S. Bronson / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Identification and 'first' follow repository metadata. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT06
title: New Haven Hospital, c. 1886–1888 (Bishop Collection)
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1886–1888
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Old North and the superintendent's house illustrate how architecture can date a photograph.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1460/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. House at right built 1886 and relocated 1888; repository uses this date bracket. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT07
title: New Haven Hospital buildings from the southeast, 1899
kind: Photographs
date: 1899
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: A southeast view records the Farnam Amphitheatre, Farnam Building and East Ward along Cedar Street.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1454/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Building identities from catalog. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT08
title: New Haven Hospital, Main Entrance on Cedar Street (Bishop Collection), 1926
kind: Photographs
date: 1926
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: The Cedar Street entrance includes the Brady Laboratory, Boardman Administration Building and Private Pavilion.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1471/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Buildings identified by Courtney C. Bishop in a 1979 reverse annotation; photograph date is 1926. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT09
title: New Haven Hospital, Farnam Operating Amphitheatre (exterior), c. 1900
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1900
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: The Farnam Operating Amphitheatre stands between the hospital's West and East Wards, seen from Congress Avenue.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1467/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Useful for discussing surgical teaching and campus design. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT10
title: Farnam Operating Amphitheatre (Bishop Collection), c. 1900
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1900
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: An operating room in the Farnam Amphitheatre shows the physical setting of surgery and medical teaching around 1900.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/661/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: 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.
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id: ED-H-HT11
title: Grace Educational Building, 1953
kind: Photographs
date: 1953
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: The Grace Educational Building provided classrooms and a dormitory for the nursing school.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/703/
credit: Patry/Carr Studios / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. No open license on modern photograph. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT12
title: Aerial View, 1983
kind: Photographs
date: 1983
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: A 1983 aerial view shows the hospital within surrounding New Haven blocks.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/48/
credit: Virginia Welch / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Catalog keywords: Air Rights Garage, East Pavilion, South Pavilion. Do not use photograph date as individual building dates. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT13
title: Nursing uniforms, 1964
kind: Photographs
date: 1964
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Nurses model historical uniforms in a 1964 retrospective display.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/1586/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. This is a 1964 photograph, not an image captured in the historical periods represented by the costumes. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT16
title: Yale New Haven Hospital 1911
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1911; capture date unspecified
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Historic New Haven Hospital buildings in a printed photograph. A view published in 1911 shows the chapel, Gifford Ward, North Ward and Administration Building from Davenport Avenue.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yale_New_Haven_Hospital_1911.jpg
credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons; History of Class of 1911, Medical Department, Yale University
notes: Strong immediate candidate with source credit; say published 1911, not exact capture date. Use period hospital name where practical;1911 is publication date. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: U.S. public domain asserted by Commons, publication age; Commons public-domain age tag for 1911 source publication.
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id: ED-H-HT25
title: 1908 Annual Report of Grace Hospital
kind: Sources & research leads
date: December 31, 1908
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: Grace Hospital's 1908 report documents its separate institutional identity before the 1945 affiliation.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/grace_hospital_annual_reports/3/
credit: Grace Hospital / Yale University Library, EliScholar
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Grace Hospital Society publication. Reuse: old U.S. publication; public-domain age candidate, explicit license absent; Publication before 1931 supports U.S. public-domain-by-age inference for original published content. This is an inference, not an explicit repository license.
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id: ED-H-HT26
title: Seventy-Third Annual Report, General Hospital Society of Connecticut, 1899
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Covers 1899; presented January 25, 1900
institution: New Haven, Grace & Yale–New Haven Hospitals
summary: This report documents hospital expansion, ambulance work and new facilities at the end of the nineteenth century.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_annual_reports/126/
credit: New Haven Hospital / Yale University Library, EliScholar
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Catalog lists five photographs: northeast view, southeast view, new kitchen wing exterior, kitchen interior, nurses' dining room. Individual page positions not verified. Reuse: old U.S. publication; public-domain age candidate, explicit license absent; Publication before 1931 supports U.S. public-domain-by-age inference for original published content. This is an inference, not an explicit repository license.
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