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  • Nurses attend to the wounded at the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses of the 65th General Hospital examine patients' legs. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by Dr. E. L....
    Date: circa 1942-1944

  • Physical Therapy students, class of 1947, with instructor Mary Clyde Singleton, PT

    Description/Abstract: Physical Therapy students (class of 1947) in old gym. Left to right: Mary Clyde Singleton, PT, (instructor), Isabell Berry, Sally Bassett, unknown patient, Doris Miller (obscured by railing), Martha Parks, Rachel Nunley, Pat Barrett, Winnie...
    Date: 1947

  • Emy Villanueva, PT, instructing a student in patient care

    Description/Abstract: Emy Villaneuva, PT instructor, providing physical therapy to an unidentified patient with an unidentified staff member or student observing.
    Date: undated

  • Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell with a pediatric patient

    Description/Abstract: Harrell, a nursing student, prepares to administer a shot to an infant. Harrell graduated from the School of Nursing in 1948.
    Date: 1948

  • 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

  • Nurse assists pediatrics patient on scale

    Description/Abstract: A young girl is weighed by a nurse (most likely a student nurse). The School of Nursing opened its doors to nursing students on January 2, 1931. The first degrees offered to students were the Diploma in Nursing and the B.S. in Nursing.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Hospital lobby, early

    Description/Abstract: Mrs. Hazel, one of the earliest hospital receptionists, is seated at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. A number of patients are waiting in the lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a...
    Date: circa 1930

  • Student nurse and instructor take a patient's blood pressure

    Description/Abstract: Phyllis Mertz, a School of Nursing student, assists Ruth Hunter, a Nursing Arts instructor, in taking a patient's blood pressure.
    Date: 1948

  • New mother, infant, and nurse in the Duke Hospital pediatrics ward

    Description/Abstract: A nurse feeds a newborn infant while the new mother looks on from her hospital bed.
    Date: undated

  • Nurses care for patients of the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses or physicians tend to patients of the 65th General Hospital. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by...
    Date: undated