Duke Hospital seamstress works at her station. The Duke Hospital Laundry department handled the cleaning of linens and uniforms as well as the mending and patching of damaged items until 2004 when Duke Health System negotiated a long-term service...
Charles Wall poses in front of the Duke Medical Center Library as well as nearby construction sites. These photographs were taken in anticipation of him receiving the 40-year service award in 1977. Known by his close associates and friends as “Tom”, he...
Roscoe Graham organizes potato chips. He began July 25, 1920, as a trainee butcher at Duke Medical Center. He went on to work as a stockroom attendant, food service worker I and food service aide senior before his promotion to food service supervisor...
Chief physical therapy aid Esther Johnson received the Golden Crutch Award from the physical therapy class of 1974. This award was given each year since 1966 to one member of the physical therapy department who has contributed the most to the physical...
Duke Hospital seamstress works at her station. The Duke Hospital Laundry department handled the cleaning of linens and uniforms as well as the mending and patching of damaged items until 2004 when Duke Health System negotiated a long-term service...
Vera Davis stands in the Central Supply workroom. Central Processing, also known as Central Supply, was a division of the Pharmacy Department. They distributed new and sterilized reusable equipment to laboratories, clinics, and wards throughout the...
Duke Hospital seamstress works at her station. The Duke Hospital Laundry department handled the cleaning of linens and uniforms as well as the mending and patching of damaged items until 2004 when Duke Health System negotiated a long-term service...
Mary Baldwin poses in front of a display about Murphy’s Laws. Baldwin received degrees from both Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing and N.C. Central University. She held numerous roles at Duke including staff nurse, head nurse, and instructor in...
Ann Gunn was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on the general surgical unit from 1965-1969. In 1969 she...
Ann Gunn poses in front of the door to Operation Room 10. She was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on...
Duke Health employees gather around a piano as part of Soul Day celebrations. From left Pam Rochelle, Emergency Room; Frenchee Wiggins, Tumor Registry; Lydia Wilson, Nursing Inservice Education; Ralph Green, Unit Services; Diane Bradsher, Emergency...
Valerie Walker, an employee with the environmental services department, poses in front of flowers for sale at the Duke Hospital’s Pink Smock Gift Shop.
Stanley (Pedro) Seagroves (seated), James Medlin (back left), and Thelle Murray pose with local children. Seagroves was a carpenter who built new large toyboxes for the play program at the urology and orthopaedics clinics. Medlin and Murray were...
New officers for the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) organization pose with candles. Pictured from left to right: Ethel Hopkins, Mary Davis, Geneva Sanders, Nannie Choates, Eleanor Van Hook, Janet Lynch.
Dr. Ewald W. Busse (standing), director of the Center for the Study of Aging, is shown with medical psychologist Dr. Walter D. Obrist as they study an elderly person’s brain wave patterns recorded by an electroencephalograph.
Elderly volunteers for research conducted by the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging receive thorough physical and mental examinations. Here, a medical scientist is shown as he makes microscopic observations of blood vessels of the eye.