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Civilian Public Service worker with a patient on Meyer Ward

Description/Abstract:	Charles Elliott, C.P.S. worker, assisting a patient with speech correction. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the...
Date:	1944

Duke Hospital ward secretary station

Description/Abstract: Ms. Bradshaw at ward secretary station.

Date: circa 1935

African-American pediatrics patients

Description/Abstract:	Pediatric patients and their families waiting for treatment in the pediatrics ward of Duke Hospital. The mural on the left side of the photograph contains the images of Wilburt Cornell Davison (conductor) and other faculty or staff.
Date:	undated

Civilian Public Service workers with a patient

Description/Abstract:	Harry Williams and Carl Ryerson (stooping) use a continuous bath to calm a psychiatric patient on Duke Hospital's Meyer Ward. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of...
Date:	1944

School of Nursing preclinical student Phyllis Jane Mertz in a Duke Hospital ward

Description/Abstract:	Preclinical Phyllis Jane Mertz carrying a tray in the ward. She was a part of the School of Nursing class of 1952.
Date:	1948

Early Duke Hospital ward

Description/Abstract: Empty hospital beds on a new ward.

Date: circa 1930-1931

Dietetics staff checking over food

Description/Abstract:	Dietetics staff check over food in the main kitchen before it is sent out to the Hospital wards. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
Date:	circa 1930

Civilian Public Service workers with a psychiatric patient on Duke Hospital's Meyer Ward

Description/Abstract:	Whitfield Cobb and James Shank use a "wet sheet pack" to quiet psychiatric patients. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under...
Date:	1944

Nurses in a Duke Hospital ward

Description/Abstract: Two Duke Hospital ward nurses outside of a patient room.

Date: undated

Civilian Public Service assistant director Brotsman and attendant Melvern Leisy working on Meyer Ward

Description/Abstract:	Paul Brotsman kept records, acted as liaison between the unit and the Selective Service, The Methodist Commission on World Peace (administering agency for the Duke C.P.S. unit) and Duke officials. He also worked part-time on Meyer Ward and in the...
Date:	1944