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  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Equipment in a Duke Hospital x-ray room. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    undated

  • Wilt Gower, Laundry

    Description:
    Hospital laundry employee Wilt Gower unloads instruments from a laundry cart.
    Date:
    undated

  • Veterans Administration Hospital staff

    Description:
    Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
    Date:
    undated

  • Valerie Walker, Environmental Services

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    January 1979

  • Tony Scroggs, Engineering & Operations

    Description:
    Tony Scroggs, a plumber for Duke University Medical Center, works on a pipe above his head.
    Date:
    October 1979

  • Surgical OPC: Work study student David Holden and Vernice Wright, ALPN

    Description:
    Duke Surgical Outpatient Clinic employees David Holden, work study student and Vernice Wright, ALPN enjoy a conversation over a meal.
    Date:
    undated

  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Sondra Wesley and Rhonda Moore in Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Sondra Wesley places washed linens on a shelf and Rhonda Moore folds linen in the background.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • Sib Ghosh, RN

    Description:
    Sib Ghosh, RN on Long ward poses outside.
    Date:
    October 1978

  • Shirley Osterhout in the Duke Poison Control Center

    Description:
    Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics,...
    Date:
    undated

  • Robin McNeil, junior hospital volunteer

    Description:
    Robin McNeil makes a hospital bed with assistance from her supervisor. McNeil was the junior volunteer awarded for the most hours worked in 1977.
    Date:
    1977

  • Robert Silver, Respiratory Therapy Supervisor

    Description:
    Respiratory therapy supervisor Robert Silver prepares equipment for use.
    Date:
    undated

  • Raleigh Price, Environmental Services

    Description:
    Raleigh Price, Environmental Services employee, maneuvers down the hospital hall with a bo-Vac machine.
    Date:
    November 1978

  • Radiology records clerk

    Description:
    Bernice Fleming, Medical Records Clerk Senior in Radiology, poses at her desk.
    Date:
    December 1979

  • Phlebotomy training program

    Description:
    Dan Moore and Dr. Robert L. Habig pose with a certificate of completion for the phlebotomy training program.
    Date:
    October 1978

  • Patricia Cruz, MPDC data processing

    Description:
    Patricia Cruz, a certified medical technologist poses at her desk.
    Date:
    October 1978

  • Pat Matthews, LPN

    Description:
    Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Pat Matthews stands in front of supplies shelves in a ward stock room.
    Date:
    undated

  • P. Wesley Aitken

    Description:
    Rev. P. Wesley Aitken was director of the Duke Hospital Pastoral Services from 1956-1987. Aitken started the chaplaincy program at Duke Hospital shortly after his graduation from Duke Divinity School in 1956.
    Date:
    undated

  • P. Wesley Aitken

    Description:
    Rev. P. Wesley Aitken was director of the Duke Hospital Pastoral Services from 1956-1987. Aitken started the chaplaincy program at Duke Hospital shortly after his graduation from Duke Divinity School in 1956.
    Date:
    undated

  • Out-Patient Department Entrance

    Description:
    Entrance of Duke University Hospital's Out-Patient Department.
    Date:
    circa 1950

  • Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light

    Description:
    J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet...
    Date:
    1937

  • Operation of Duke Hospital cafeteria’s fast food section

    Description:
    Employees utilize the Hospital cafeteria’s new fast food section where they are able to pick up their selections and go directly to the cashier. This photograph was taken by Lewis Parrish and appeared in the January 7, 1972 issue of Intercom.
    Date:
    January 7, 1972

  • Nurses check patient

    Description:
    Janet Piro, RN and Margaret Brooks, LPN check a patient on the Osler ward.
    Date:
    November 1978

  • Norma Wiley and Ruth Flowers in Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Norma Wiley and Ruth Flowers sort hospital linens in the Duke University Hospital laundry room.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • New LPN Organization Officers

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    September 12, 1978

  • Nancy Chalmers, Head nurse, Strudwick Ward

    Description:
    Nancy Chalmers, Head nurse on the Strudwick Ward.
    Date:
    July 1978

  • Minnie Kelly with computers in basement office

    Description:
    Minnie Kelly looks over two computer terminals in basement office.
    Date:
    undated

  • Mildred P. Gray, Osler Ward

    Description:
    Mildred P. Gray, ALPN stands in the hallway outside of a hospital room on Osler Ward.
    Date:
    May 1978

  • Medics basketball team

    Description:
    Members of the medics basketball team play basketball.
    Date:
    January 1979

  • Medical Center mail room workers sort mail

    Description:
    Duke employees (pictured left to right) Helen Russell, Virginia Whitman, Margie Wilkins sort first-class mail arriving at the mail room. This photograph appeared in the July 2, 1971 issue of Intercom.
    Date:
    1971

  • Mary Davis, Duke Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Mary Davis feeds laundry linens into a machine. Florence Lyons works in the background.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • Mary Davis and Florence Lyons in Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Mary Davis inserts hospital linens into a machine to be pressed. Florence Lyons is also pictured in the background.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • Margaret Bobbitt in the uniform room of Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Margaret Bobbitt works in the uniform room of the Duke Hospital Laundry department. In addition to the cleaning of linens and uniforms, laundry employees also mended and patched damaged items.
    Date:
    1976

  • Mamie Grady and Lillian Pusey in Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Mamie Grady folds linens in the laundry room. Lillian Pusey also folds in the background.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • Mail room employee Geneva Westbrook distributes mail to boxes

    Description:
    Duke mail room employee Geneva Westbrook distributes letters to the post office boxes from the back. Most people would only see these boxes from the outside. This photograph appeared in the July 2, 1971 issue of the Intercom.
    Date:
    1971

  • Louise Prince, LPN

    Description:
    Louise Prince, LPN poses for the camera on the occasion of her 25th work anniversary at Duke.
    Date:
    1984

  • Louise Prince, LPN

    Description:
    Louise Prince, LPN poses for the camera on the occasion of her 25th work anniversary at Duke.
    Date:
    1984

  • Lillian Bass, Diet Technician

    Description:
    Lillian Bass prepares food.
    Date:
    undated

  • Lessie J. Daye, Private Medical Lab

    Description:
    Lessie J. Daye poses at the microscope.
    Date:
    May 1978

  • Laura Dunston and Inez Perry in Duke University Hospital Laundry

    Description:
    Laura Dunston and Inez Perry fold linens in the Duke University Hospital laundry room.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • K.E. Nicholson, Postal worker

    Description:
    Postal worker K.E. Nicholson unloads the first U.S. mail delivery for the week. This photograph appeared in the July 2, 1971 issue of Intercom.
    Date:
    1971

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
    Date:
    1978

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
    Date:
    undated

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
    Date:
    undated

  • James B. Wyngaarden

    Description:
    James B. Wyngaarden was a professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina. He was chair of the Duke Univeristy Dept. of Medicine from 1967 to 1983.
    Date:
    undated

  • Jacqueline Bennett, Williams Ward

    Description:
    Jacqueline Bennett, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) on the Williams Ward, seated.
    Date:
    undated

  • J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment

    Description:
    Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Callaway (M.D., Duke, 1933) served as a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and professor of dermatology or syphilology from 1933 to 1975. He was chair of the Dept. of...
    Date:
    1937

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description:
    Machinery and layout 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 surgical and...
    Date:
    undated

  • Hospital linens being loaded into laundry machine

    Description:
    Hospital linens being loaded into laundry machine.
    Date:
    September 1978

  • Hospital laundry workers in assembly line

    Description:
    Duke hospital laundry workers handle linens in an assembly line.
    Date:
    undated