Antique & Vintage Postcards

A crisp chrome-era view of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York captures the institution's handsome bluestone façade bathed in summer light — tulips blazing red and yellow along the front walk, a white classical entry portico anchoring the multi-wing complex, and a small domed cupola peeking above the roofline. Founded in 1922 and affiliated with Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bassett became a celebrated rural teaching hospital that drew medical talent to the pastoral Leatherstocking region of upstate New York. The Ektachrome photograph by Peter L. Hollis captures the campus at what appears to be peak spring, lending the stone buildings an almost collegiate warmth that belies the serious medical mission within.