Students gather in the evening at the School of Nursing at Michael Reese Hospital, circa 1900.
Michael Reese Hospital in 1907.
One of the first rooms for patients at Michael Reese Hospital. It may appear crude, but in the era that it served, the hospital’s facilities were first-class. Frills and big-iron beds were the fashion then, and it was not uncommon for lights to be hung from cords in contrast to the more modern indirect lighting.
A rendering shows Michael Reese Hospital after it was dedicated Oct. 23, 1881, in Chicago.
Nurse Elizabeth Weber tends to Patrick M. Durkins, born Feb. 15, 1931, at Michael Reese Hospital. Patrick was placed in a respirator, which had supported the lives of five babies in as many weeks at the hospital.
Women’s Board volunteers bring a gift to a young patient at Sarah Morris Children’s Hospital on the Michael Reese Hospital campus in an undated photo.
Ruth E. Hart, a bacteriologist and serologist, tests serum for sterility in the new dustproof room at Michael Reese Hospital’s Serum Center on Sept. 18, 1933.
The Meyer House addition to Michael Reese Hospital on March 2, 1928. Jack Gusick, chief lieutenant of mob boss Al Capone, was being guarded there while recovering from an operation.
Patient Seymour Rudman with nurse Ruth Green and Dr. Levinthal at Michael Reese Hospital, circa 1929.
Viola Bergstrom receives radium cancer treatment at Michael Reese Hospital administered by nurse Gladys Kogler on Sept. 18, 1933, in Chicago.
The nursery at Michael Reese Hospital was a busy place on this day in September 1954.
Dr. Erich Uhlmann, director of the tumor clinic at Michael Reese Hospital, demonstrates the linear accelerator machine for treating cancer patients, to Mrs. Morris Rifkin, president of the Florence Kaminsky Cancer Research group, and Mrs. Henry Staub on April 22, 1957. The cancer-fighting apparatus, in use for about a year, was the only one of its kind in operation at the time.
Julia Parker, a dietician in charge of the newly installed infant formula room, handles formula at Michael Reese Hospital, circa 1953. The hospital was a pioneer in “breaking down color bars” and developing a diverse staff, the Chicago Defender said.
The Michael Reese Hospital courtway facing east, circa July 23, 1925.
Attendants and doctors move Sam Scalise at Michael Reese Hospital during his relocation to another hospital on March 1, 1948. Scalise had been in an auto accident where he was thrown 47 feet, and survived with cuts and bruises. Scalise was a known criminal.
Adele Masulis is packed in shaved ice by doctors during a demonstration of the “freezing” preparation for a heart operation at Michael Reese Hospital on May 26, 1953.
The caption on this 1957 photograph reads, “More like a hotel than a hospital is this pioneering unit at the new Berman and Hannah Friend Memorial Pavilion at Michael Reese Hospital.”
Nurse Marie Overhead demonstrates a new respirator at Michael Reese Hospital, used to help save babies’ lives, circa 1932.
Student nurses at Michael Reese Hospital provide affection as well as medical care to a young patient in a photo that won first place in a poster contest sponsored by the Chicago Council on Community Nursing.
The main Michael Reese Hospital building, circa 1956, at the corner of 29th Street and Ellis Avenue. It was opened in 1907 and replaced the original hospital that opened in 1881 on the same site.
Dorothy Mae Stevens, 23, is still alive despite having a body temperature of 64 degrees at Michael Reese Hospital on Feb. 8, 1951, the day she was discovered in a gangway on Chicago’s South Side. Helping Stevens is Dr. Mary Ann Silverman, Dr. Norman Sherman and nurse Charlotte Harbrecht.
Dora Fronczak breaks down during a news conference with her husband, Chester, as they talk about their missing baby, at Michael Reese Hospital on April 30, 1964.
Chester and Dora Fronczak, whose son was abducted a few days after he was born, leave Michael Reese Hospital on May 5, 1964.
The view of a section of Michael Reese Hospital where a baby boy was kidnapped from his mother’s arms on April 27, 1964. A woman dressed in a nurse’s uniform entered the fourth-floor room of Dora Fronczak and said she was taking the baby for examination. The woman carried the infant out the doors shown here.
Nurse Barbara Rice holds a tray at Michael Reese Hospital on July 22, 1950, in Chicago.
Dorothy Mae Stevens, 23, who almost froze to death, is shown with both of her hands bandaged as nurses Jennie Molten and Eleanor Shay watch over her on Feb. 16, 1951.
The M.S. Kaplan Pavilion at Michael Reese Hospital in 1956.
The M.S. Kaplan Pavilion, under construction in 1955 on the Michael Reese Hospital campus.
Dr. Agnes D. Lattimer on April 14, 1968, when she was director of ambulatory clinical pediatrics at Michael Reese Hospital’s Mandel Clinic.
The new Baumgarten Pavilion addition to Michael Reese Hospital on Nov. 10, 1963.
