Blood draw at Buffalo City Hospital. Buffalo City Hospital Social Services Department, an innovation for that era. Photo from A Surgical Program Comes of Age, 1941-1962. Convalescents at work on the City Hospital farm as part of occupational therapy, 1931. Reproduced by permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York. Tubercular children’s work room, Buffalo City Hospital. Photo courtesy of The Buffalo Courier-Express Microfilm Collection, Archives & Special Collections, E.H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State. Nurses on the roof at Buffalo City Hospital. Photo courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum, used by permission. Buffalo City Hospital, gastric ulcer procedure. Photo from A Surgical Program Comes of Age, 1941-1962. Buffalo City Hospital operating room. Photo from A Surgical Program Comes of Age, 1941-1962. 21 By 1931, over half of all City Hospital inpatients were involved in occupational therapy. There were programs in music, art, and even gardening, where patients tended vegetable gardens and eventually ate the food they grew. At the hospital gift shop, visitors bought articles created by the patients such as painted dishes, hammered copperware, tea towels, aprons, wooden toys and ornaments, wrought-iron house and garden accessories. Patients were paid a modest sum for the work and also earned a percentage of the things that were sold. Outpatients, meanwhile, were given two streetcar tokens and lunch when they came back to the hospital to work in the shops. The occupational therapy program at City Hospital was a model for the nation. Buffalo City Hospital 1918-1939