The interns' dining room at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. A serving girl is posed behind one of the chairs. There is a silver bell at the head of the table to allow the diners to ring for service during the meal. The profusion of candles on the sideboard indicates that the interns were not frequently allowed to use the gas chandelier hanging above the table.
The medical and nursing staff of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis are posed in front of their horse drawn ambulance. The nurses on each end wearing striped blouses are nursing students. It was common during this era for nursing students to supply the bulk of nursing care in hospitals.
A classroom at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis that features a "patient" resting in a hospital bed in the front corner of the room.
A nursing student at St. Barnabas Hospital is putting away her uniform in her room at the Wellesmere Nurses Residence in Minneapolis. Nurses were required to have freshly ironed and starched uniforms for every shift.
Large group of student nurses leaving The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis at the end of a shift. A portion of one of the nursing school's dormitories is visible at the right hand side of the photograph.
Exterior view of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The building was built in 1901. The unappealing exterior is in stark contrast to the hospital's modern and luxurious interior, which featured comfortable furniture and fine architectural detailing. The lace curtains hung in the patients' rooms are visible in this photograph if you look closely.
The nurses' dining room at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. Nursing students, identified by the checked blouse under their apron, were seated six to a table. Nursing faculty, wearing all white uniforms, were seated at tables for two to four.
An aerial view of the garden at Elliot Park in downtown Minneapolis as seen from the upper floors of The Swedish Hospital. A decade earlier this park was still pasture land at the Elliot Farm.
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.
Large sitting room in the nurses' home of The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. The nurses would have come to this large room to write letters, socialize and read.
Large group of students from The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis are pictured during their operating room rotation. The second nurse from the right is most likely holding iodine to use as a disinfectant.
A nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis is pictured laying a newborn infant down on a changing table in the hospital nursery. Notice the large pile of cloth diapers behind the baby. The nurse is even wearing a mask to change the diaper -- perhaps a wise decision!
Small diet kitchen located on the second floor of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. A patient's tray is resting on the table. Patients were served with an elegant assortment of china and silver.
This coal furnace at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis featured two Detroit multiple retort underfeed stokers with two 300 horsepower boilers manufactured by Brothers Weatherbee.