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  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

    Description/Abstract: Patients seated along a wall in the public dispensary. Hospital staff, physicians and nurses are also visible.
    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

  • Pediatrics waiting area in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Pediatrics waiting area filled with seated women and infants. Note the train painted on the left wall (Carl Roger’s face is on the front of the train and W.C. Davison is the engineer).
    Date: circa 1940

  • Duke University Hospital Patient Room

    Description/Abstract: Patient room at Duke University Hospital.
    Date: 1981

  • 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

  • Patient in respirator, with nurse

    Description/Abstract: A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
    Date: 1951

  • Reba N. Hobgood

    Description/Abstract: Reba N. Hobgood, social worker and original staff member of Duke Hospital, works with patients at the desk of the outpatient social services division. The Social Services Division was founded in 1937.
    Date: circa 1930

  • Patient waiting room

    Description/Abstract: A group of African-American patrons sit in the waiting room at Duke Hospital. The sign on the pillar reads, "New Patients Colored Register Here."
    Date: circa 1940-1949

  • Duke Hospital patient room

    Description/Abstract: An early single-patient hospital room in Duke Hospital.
    Date: undated

  • Clinical care at Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member confers with a patient family, including a small child.
    Date: circa 1930