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Ty Cole

Ty Cole is an architecture and design photographer. He has previously created images of the Library of Congress for Smithsonian.

The “Ether Dome” at Massachusetts General Hospital is now a National Historic Landmark.

The Operating Room Where Anesthesia Was First Demonstrated Is Now a Landmark. But for the Men Who Claimed Credit, There Was Much Misery

Medical procedures used to be a scream-filled endurance test until doctors at this Boston institution learned to tame the pain of patients