The photographs and prints series contains official portraits of students, graduating classes, and nursing and medical staff, as well as candid photographs of ceremonies, dances, and other aspects of student life. Scenes of the working life of nursing students, staff nurses, and physicians at the various Deaconess Hospitals and Homes, including photographs of surgical procedures, are well represented in this series. Many candid photographs were originally taken for use in the NEDH SON yearbook. A number of portraits in this collection were taken by the prominent Bachrach photography studios. Images of Deaconess buildings feature the New England Deaconess Hospital at Longwood, the original Deaconess Home in Boston’s South End, the Deaconess Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, and the Fresh Air Home in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

This series also includes original oversize photographic prints used in promotional pamphlets for the hospital, such as “The Sixth Decade,” “Tomorrow the Impossible,” and “Miracles by Gaslight,” copies of which are in the publications series. Pages from a disassembled photograph album that belonged to Claire Elliott, class of 1922, relate to a scrapbook she compiled which is in the scrapbooks series. Some modern negatives of historical photographs were produced for use in publications about NEDH SON and are stored with their original print. In addition, the series contains several art prints depicting Florence Nightingale, a poster book depicting famous nurses, and an engraving of an unidentified minister.

Photographs and prints are arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Dates often correspond to the graduating class year, rather than to the actual date of an event.