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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Clinical care at Duke Hospital

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

  • Doctor, nurses and African American pediatrics patient at Lincoln Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Dr. William Alexander Cleland uses a stethoscope on a young African American pediatrics patient at Lincoln Hospital in Durham. He is assisted by two nurses.
    Date: undated

  • Dr. Richard B. Raney with a patient

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Richard B. Raney fits a neck brace onto an African-American patient in the Orthopaedic Clinic. A nurse assists. Raney served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1952. Dr. R.B. Raney authored "Primer on Prevention of Deformities in...
    Date: 1939

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic patient waiting area

    Description/Abstract: Patients and staff in a Duke Hospital Private Diagnostic Clinic waiting area. The PDC was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated problems arising in the examination of...
    Date: 1940