This linen postcard comes from a 1945 folder set. The caption reads "D-8--Science Quadrangle, showing School of Medicine in Center, Duke University, Durham, N.C."
A professional artist prior to his arrival at Duke University as a conscientious worker during Word War II, Blake spent only three months in the operating room before his talent was utilized as a medical artist in the illustration department of Duke...
Dr. Walter Kempner, founder of the Rice Diet and Professor of Medicine from 1934 to 1972, is shown eating with two Rice Dieters. Dr. Kempner is seated in the center, with his back to the window. Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined...
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the president,...
Physical Therapy students (class of 1947) in old gym. Left to right: Mary Clyde Singleton, PT, (instructor), Isabell Berry, Sally Bassett, unknown patient, Doris Miller (obscured by railing), Martha Parks, Rachel Nunley, Pat Barrett, Winnie Lawson,...
School of Nursing students during capping exercises. Bessie Baker was the first dean of the School of Nursing (1930-1938). The first class was admitted on January 2, 1931 and graduated on June 7, 1933.
Donald Hayman shown typing case histories as recorded on a dictaphone cylinder. The Civilian Public Service Unit was established on October 27, 1942 at Duke Hospital under the direction of the Department of Neuropsychiatry. Conscientious objectors were...
Arena graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932 as a member of the first graduating class. He made his career at Duke University as a pediatrician from 1933 to 1979. Arena also helped to develop the Duke Poison Control Center, which was...