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...
Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...
Railroad tracks were placed for steam engine trains to bring building materials, including rocks from the nearby quarry, to the site of the future Duke University School of Medicine. The partially-constructed School of Medicine as well as some workers...
Three unidientified men at a microscope. The two men in ties have been identified as students, while the third man has been identified as their instructor.
Kinney graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He served as chair of the Department of Pathology from 1960 to 1975 and associate provost of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1974. His administrative activities included...
The Beta Kappa chapter was probably established at Duke in 1931. (Left to right, seated) Noumeer(?), Cree, Peter, Fitzgerald. (Kneeling) Jeffreys, Adams, Frazier, Goy(?) Ricks. (Standing) Calloway, Bridges, Jones, Mahl, Joyner, Boyce. At least five...
In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing at...
Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Peele graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1929 and M.D., 1934). He served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1936 and as professor of anatomy from 1939 to 1981.
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Surgery. Julian Deryl Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery during this time. The majority of the individuals in this photograph were on house staff between 1944 and 1950. (From left to right, Row 1)...
Students, faculty, or interns study in the reading room of the School of Medicine Library (later known as the Medical Center Library). One student is using the card catalog.
Students of Dr. Wiley D. Forbus. Forbus was a professor and chariman of the Department of Pathology and chief pathologist to Duke Hospital from 1930 until his retirment in 1960.
(Three groups from left to right) Staff, including Bessie Baker (dean) at the front of the line, and administrators; first class of the School of Nursing students (in black tights); nurses of Duke Hospital. The first class entered on January 1931 and...
The first class of the School of Nursing in uniform. The class entered on January 1931 and graduated in June 1933. They were the only class to wear black stockings.
Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930 to...
School of Medicine students (class of 1953) studying in Joseph W. Beard's experimental surgery lab. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard...
School of nursing student exiting Baker House. Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration,...
Students and faculty of Duke University School of Medicine at the annual student faculty show, where the students put on a musical play lampooning the school and the faculty. The location for that event each year at the time was the Stallion Club, a...
A steam engine train brings building materials to the site of Duke University, the School of Medicine, and Duke Hospital. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21,...
Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of...
Duke University faculty and guests from other institutions gather at the Davison building, entrance to the School of Medicine on the occasion of the dedication of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital on April 31, 1931. Speakers are...
Robert Lee Flowers addresses faculty and house staff during the tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine, held from November 29-30, 1940. Flowers was President of Duke University from 1941 to 1949.
Attendees of the first organizational meeting of the Southern Association of Practising Pathologists. The meeting was organized by Wiley D. Forbus (chair of Dept. of Pathology 1930-1960) in 1935. The association met again in 1937 in Duke University's...
Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...