View a selection of photos from the Mass Eye and Ear archives, highlighting 200 years of research, innovation and patient care.
The Boston Eye Infirmary (BEI) was founded in Boston on October 1, 1824, by John Jeffries, MD (left), and Edward Reynolds, MD (right), who established a one-room charitable eye clinic in Scollay Square.
ENT surgical staff, 1909.
A student studies head and neck anatomy as part of the Mosher Course, 1935.
Demonstration of a position for taking X-rays of the sinus to illustrate a lecture, 1937–1938. Pictured may be J.C. Drooker, MD.
Mass Eye and Ear view from Charles Circle, circa 1940s.
A nurse tests a child’s vision in the eye clinic, circa 1950s.
A social worker speaks with a patient, circa 1950s.
Mass Eye and Ear employees in the cafeteria, 1952.
Doctors and nurses read in the Howe Library, 1956. Standing at right is Librarian Charles P. Snyder.
Ethel Hargrove reaches for a tray as she prepares dessert in the cafeteria, 1979.
Ophthalmology Resident Delia N. Sang, MD, examines a patient, 1970s.
Anesthesiologists use a training mannequin, 1970s. At right is Anesthesiologist Jin Woo Kim, MD.
Eliot L. Berson, MD, and Susan Y. Schmidt, PhD, in the newly-formed Berman-Gund Laboratory, 1974.
Anesthesiologist John V. Donlon, MD, and Nurse Sally Bellina, RN, review a patient’s record in the recovery room, 1978.
Radiologist Gloria Chang, MD, examines a CT scan, 1982.
M. Charles Liberman, PhD, performs neurophysiological experiments in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, 1982.
Members of the press surround Joseph B. Nadol, Jr., MD, during a press conference held at Mass Eye and Ear after he performed the first cochlear implant in New England on December 18, 1984.
