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  • Heart in a book

    Description/Abstract: Illustration of a heart in a book. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1940 through the 1970s. (Robert L. Blake...
    Date: undated

  • Betty Leach, Duke Hospital Auxiliary volunteer

    Description/Abstract: The Duke Hospital Auxiliary was started in 1950, and Betty Leach started to do volunteer work them in 1956, shortly after moving to Durham. She was vital to the founding of the “Pink Smock” gift shops at Duke Hospital. These stores grew from a...
    Date: 1986

  • Operation of Duke Hospital cafeteria’s fast food section

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Duke Medical Safety Observers

    Description/Abstract: Safety Observers pictured from left to right: Row 1- Betty Cross, Betty Desrosiers, Clara Harris, Dorothy Grant, Essie Evans, Marilyn Blake, Sandra Williams, Annie Tedder, Rosa Herron; Row 2- Linda Starr, Theodore Lee, Ruth Ellis, Marie Scoggins,...
    Date: undated

  • Medical Center mail room workers sort mail

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Lillian Bass, Diet Technician

    Description/Abstract: Lillian Bass prepares food.
    Date: undated

  • Mail room employee Geneva Westbrook distributes mail to boxes

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Frances K. Widmann Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Frances K. Widmann discusses her background; her parents as physicians; marrying a physician; her mother as a female physician; her own interest in pathology; her work synthesizing the work of others in the "Technical Manual of the American...
    Date: 2007-11-28

  • H. Keith H. Brodie Oral History Interview, 2004

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Brodie discusses psychiatry; Duke University Department of Psychiatry chair, his relocation to the South; Dr. Ewald W. Busse; family; Highland Hospital; Durham County Regional Hospital; Veterans Affairs Hospital (Durham, N.C.); John Umstead...
    Date: 2004

  • Jane S. Richardson Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Jane S. Richardson discusses her background; her interest in astronomy; her interest in philosophy; working in the same lab where her husband, David Richardson, was getting his PhD; in 1969, the laboratory solving the structure of the...
    Date: 2007-11-09

  • Kathleen Clem Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Kathleen Clem discusses her desire to become an emergency physician; her background as a nurse; her family background; Loma Linda University; starting one of the first international emergency medical fellowships in the country (at Loma Linda);...
    Date: 2007-06-26

  • Sezer Aksel Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Sezer Aksel discusses her background in Turkey; her desire to become a physician even against her family's desires; coming to Duke Medical School; the difficulty understanding Southern accents; the friendly atmosphere at Duke; completing...
    Date: 2007-09-13

  • Lois Pounds Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Lois Pounds discusses her interest in nursing; the career possibilities for those interested in nursing in 1955; her graduate coursework in nursing; working; her extended visit to her sister in Syria; her Master's of Letters; the return to her...
    Date: 2007-07-03

  • Samuel L. Katz Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Samuel Katz discusses his preference of the term chair versus chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in order to be inclusive of female department chairs; the nature of the Department of Pediatrics when he first arrived as chair in 1968;...
    Date: 2007-05-10

  • Hilda P. Willett Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Hilda P. Willett discusses her background; her siblings; her parents' emphasis on education; the lack of funding for higher education; scholarship; Georgia State College for Women; Dr. James Stokes's encouragement for further education; other...
    Date: 2007-05-21

  • Catherine M. Wilfert Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Catherine Wilfert discusses family support; her decision to become a physician; her medical degree from Harvard; the atmosphere for women at Harvard; the differences between the Harvard and Duke campuses; scientific collaborations on Duke...
    Date: 2006-08-25

  • Rebecca H. Buckley Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley discusses receiving her bachelor's degree at Duke; the difference between the men's college and the women's college at Duke; her growing interest in becoming a doctor; others' resistance to her going into medicine because...
    Date: 2007-02-19

  • Doris Howell Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Doris Howell discusses her early background; medical school at McGill University; positive treatment in medical school; her initial desire to go into the field of psychiatry; her choice to go into pediatrics; the characterization of pediatric...
    Date: 2007-11-12

  • Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas discusses her background; her love of science and of learning; her interest in how things work; her Fulbright scholarship to Edinburgh; her professor suggesting she get a PhD instead of diploma at Edinburgh; studying...
    Date: 2007-06-21

  • Elizabeth R. DeLong Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Elizabeth DeLong discusses similarities and differences between working at a clinical research organization (Quintiles) and an academic research organization (Duke Medical Center); some collaborative projects between the Department of...
    Date: 2010-10-21