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  • Dept. of Pediatrics house staff

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics.
    Date: circa 1940-1941

  • Nurse assists pediatrics patient on scale

    Description/Abstract: A young girl is weighed by a nurse (most likely a student nurse). The School of Nursing opened its doors to nursing students on January 2, 1931. The first degrees offered to students were the Diploma in Nursing and the B.S. in Nursing.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background. Thornhill (A.B., Duke, 1936 and M.D., 1940) served on the house staff from 1940 to 1942.
    Date: 1940

  • Duke Hospital technicians

    Description/Abstract: Female Duke Hospital technicians in uniform.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dept. of Pediatrics house staff

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics.
    Date: 1940-1941

  • Bacteriology laboratory of Mary Poston

    Description/Abstract: Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Poston, a member of the original faculty, was an instructor in bacteriology from 1930 to 1960. Whildin (M.D., Duke, 1937) was a member...
    Date: circa 1938-1941

  • Plaster room in the Orthopaedic Clinic

    Description/Abstract: Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo...
    Date: circa 1940