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MGH History


Bulfinch portico and pediment. Source

Finding Images of MGH from MGH Sources

Aerial Images [1963]

Inspection of New Outpatient Buildings (a 1903 pamphlet issued on Ether Day)

MGH Archives and Special Collections Office Contact mghhistory@partners.org for information about permissions, costs and usage.

MGH Nursing History

MGH School of Nursing Yearbooks, 1928-1981

Finding Images of MGH from Outside Sources

Boston Public Library’s Flickr images of MGH

Center for the History of Medicine Images Type a word or brief phrase into the Full Text Search box.

Digital Commonwealth Type a word or phrase into the search box. Quotation marks are not essential.

Google Images Type a word or phrase into the search box, including the phrase “massachusetts general hospital”. Quotation marks are, for the most part, essential. Clicking More Tools>Time>Custom Range can help narrow search results.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) from the National Library of Medicine Type a word or brief phrase into the search box. Quotation marks are not essential. In the left-hand column, click “Genre” and then “Portraits” to limit to images. Note that other genres often contain images, too.

Medical Heritage Library  Type a word or brief phrase into the search box. Hover over the image you've found.  If it is from a book, click the image to take you back to the page from which the image came.

Wellcome Images from the Wellcome Foundation, London, England Quotation marks are, for the most part, essential.