19th Century

This doorway to the medical library at the new site on Cedar Avenue was the entrance to the original building of the MGH erected in 1821. MGH Bulletin, 1955

Copy of a Pencil Sketch of Florence Nightingale by Sir George Scharf belonging to the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing.

Cover of Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing (first published 1859), courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Composite of 16 Scholars, medical faculty members, 1882. Osler Library, William Osler Photo Collection, CUS_033-011_P

Specimen 36: Heart and Aorta, Saccular Aneurysm. Maude Abbott Medical Museum

Hypodermic tablets, 19th century. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2020-0062

Monaural stethoscope, 19th century. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2020-0034

Lancet set, 19th century. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2020-0042

Cupping Set and scarificators, 19th century. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2020-0046

Newspaper Clipping announcing the formation of the Female Benevolent Society of Montreal, Montreal Gazette, 26 February 1816. BAnQ

Chart showing growth of population of the city, by Linda Jackson.

Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, VIEW-2943.

Fabric swatches showing School of Nursing’s ‘MGH’ monogram print, with Margaret Suttie’s MGH School of Nursing graduate’s pin. Courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Diet kitchen, established by Nora’s sister Gracie Livingston, c. 1890-1900. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Photograph of bullet lying between tibia and fibula [of Mr. Talson Cunning]. [W.C. Macdonald Physics Building, McGill University, Montreal, Que., 7 February 1896.]. Library and Archives Canada, PA-122908.

Robert Harris portrait of Dr. Robert Palmer Howard at the bedside, 1889

Photographic copy of an artwork of the Montreal Medical Institution (20 Saint James Street), nd. McGill University Archives, PR014568.

The founding physicians of the Montreal General Hospital and faculty of the Montreal Medical Institution. Clockwise from top left: Drs. William Robertson (1784-1844), William Caldwell (1782-1833), Andrew Fernando Holmes (1797-1860), John Stevenson (1796-1842).

Resident Doctors group, Montreal, QC, copied 1895. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, II-110422.0

A View of the hospital from the south showing the galleries, from Newton Bosworth’s Hochelaga Depicta, 1839. Reprinted in The Montreal General Hospital 1821-1956: A Pictorial Review, Special Number of the Montreal General Hospital Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 8 (September 1956).

Photograph showing the hospital’s updated Royal Charter, now lost, c. 1825. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1574

Patient Ledger showing first page of admissions upon the opening of the hospital on Dorchester, 1822. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.01.2.

19th Century Canadian School, Honourable John Molson (The Elder), c. 19th century. Collection of the Montreal General Hospital

John Henry Walker, Family Life, 1850-1885. McCord Museum, Gift of David Ross McCord, M930.50.2.263

Photo of engraving of exterior view of Jubilee Nurses’ Home, Montreal General Hospital, June 1897. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.01.11

School of Nursing Class of 1891 (first graduating class), courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing.

Miss Nora Livingston, Founder of the School of Nursing, at her desk in the Montreal General Hospital, c. 1895. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

General Hospital Nurses, Montreal, QC, 1895. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, II-113321

Use of the Lister carbolic spray, Antiseptic surgery, 1882. Wellcome Collection

Carbolic acid diffuser belonging to Dr. Roddick. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2015-0065

Dr. Roddick, Montreal, QC, 1882. Notman & Sandham. McCord Museum, II-63859.1

Three Young Professors of the McGill Medical School: Osler, Shepherd, Ross, c. 1878. Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Cushing Collection, CUS_033-010_P

Miss Maude E. Abbott, Montreal, QC, 1893. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, II-103172

Stone erected in to commemorate Irish immigrants who died of ship’s fever in 1847 by the workmen of Victoria Bridge, St. Patrick street, c. 1870-1920. BAnQ, Massicotte Albums, MAS 7-73-c

William Notman, Construction buildings from top of bridge, Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC, 1858-59. William Notman. McCord Museum, gift of Mrs. Henry W. Hill, N-0000.392.2.2

« Montréal – Scènes en face de l’hôtel-de-ville, par les anti-vaccinateurs, dans la soirée du 28 septembre », Le Monde illustré, vol. 2, no 76, 17 octobre 1885, p. 185. BAnQ

The recent smallpox epidemic in Montreal – vaccinating American-bound passengers on a train of the Grand Trunk Railway, 1883. Osler Library Prints Collection, OPF000001

Montreal’s Night-Mayor on his Ghostly Rounds (Dedicated to the Board of Health), 1875. McCord Museum, M992X.5.82.

Irish Emigration Engraving showing sign for Quebec, 1851. Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN 2952956.

Town of Montreal with the rocks, shoals, soundings, &c. in the harbour, shewing also the improvements, projected canal, squares &c., by Joseph Bouchette, London W. Faden, 1815. BanQ, 0003836124.

Painting of a harbour for Henry Sandham, Montreal, QC, 1880. Notman & Sandham. McCord Museum, II-56905.1