Street view of the Pavilion Building of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. A nursing student is relaxing on the front porch. The building was constructed in 1906 and later became the Wellesmere Nursing Residence for The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing.
Fully dressed patients are shown reading in bed at Hopewell Hospital, Minneapolis City Hospital's quarantine hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium. The hospital operated from 1907-1924 and was later renamed the Parkview Sanatorium.
An internal view of a two bed patient room in the Minneapolis City Hospital's Contagion Building; the bathroom is visible through the door on the right.
Large black and white portrait of the original Concordia Society board. The photograph features sixteen finely dressed women posed in three rows. None of the women are identified.
Surgery Room B at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The large window would have allowed an ample supply of natural light to illuminate the room during a surgery.
Surgery Room A at The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. In contrast to earlier surgical suites, this room does not have a viewing balcony for medical students and nursing staff.
An operation at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis during the early twentieth century. The nurse at the head of the patient, The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing class of 1902 graduate Elsie Nelson, is administering anesthesia.
A group of three Swedish Hospital School of Nursing students in Minneapolis are shown gathering the necessary supplies and medicines for an operation at the hospital.
A public operation at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. The men and women on the floor of the operating room are hospital physicians and nurses. The watchful crowd in the balcony is most likely composed of hospital benefactors and community dignitaries. It was not uncommon for hospitals to perform exposition surgeries when the surgeon was famed for successfully completing a new or difficult procedure or when the surgical case was unusual. A portion of this photograph around the patient has been purposely obscured by the photographer, but judging by the small size of the leg being held by one of the attending physicians it is likely this operation is being performed on a child.
Patients are shown taking an open-air treatment on the lawn of Minneapolis City Hospital's Hopewell Hospital. This quarantine hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium operated from 1907-192 and was later renamed Parkview Sanatorium.
Light hearted informal snapshot of a group of nursing students from The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing relaxing in a dorm room during a rare moment of free time.
Exterior photograph of a large Victorian home that served as a nurses' residence for The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis for much of the twentieth century.
Nurses Eleanor Fundberg (standing) and Signe Lindstrom (sitting), both members of The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing class of 1902, are delivering medicines to patients at The Swedish Hospital on floor 3A.
Exterior view of a nurses' dormitory for The Swedish Hospital located on the corner of Tenth Avenue South and Seventh Street in Minneapolis. This dormitory was formerly a hospital building. Notice the words "The Swedish Hospital" on top of the building.
Student nurses dining in the B Building of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. Each table sat approximately 18 nurses. Meals were served family style. Nursing and medical staff can be seen dining in the alcove area of the adjoining room.
Photograph of a student from St. Barnabas Hospital School of Nursing (left) receiving instructions from a supervising nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. The conversation pictured occurred on one of the hospital's large, sunny porches. Ample sunshine and fresh air was a staple of medical care during this time period.
Two nurses from The Swedish Hospital are shown pushing two adolescent males in a wheelchair through Elliot Park, which was located across the street from the hospital in downtown Minneapolis. Fresh air and sunshine were believed to be a beneficial healing component for many illnesses at this time, most notably tuberculosis.