Search

Start Over Location Duke Medical Center Archives

  • "Time" for the Pill

    Description:
    Depiction of a doctor's office in pen and accented by watch pieces. Framed.
    Date:
    undated

  • L'âne

    Description:
    Lithograph of a pack mule.
    Date:
    undated

  • Zooks...Lucretia

    Description:
    Abstract print.
    Date:
    undated

  • Untitled

    Description:
    Abstract lithograph.
    Date:
    undated

  • Patients and hospital staff in a Duke Hospital pediatrics ward

    Description:
    Early pediatrics ward at Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Early operating room

    Description:
    One of the eleven operating and delivery rooms of Duke Hospital. A bed, surgical basin, and other equipment are shown.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke Hospital cashier helping patients in line

    Description:
    Customers wait in line at a Duke Hospital cashier's window. Customers in this line include African Americans.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nurse with an African-American pediatric patient

    Description:
    A uniformed Duke Hospital nurse gives a bottle to a young African-American girl.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nurses helping a pediatric patient tie on a mask

    Description:
    Two Duke Hospital nurses help a young female pediatric patient tie on a face mask.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nurses in a Duke Hospital ward

    Description:
    Two Duke Hospital ward nurses outside of a patient room.
    Date:
    undated

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description:
    Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an...
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Medicine students with Dean Davison

    Description:
    Students and Wilburt Cornell Davison, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, on rounds in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Nursing dietetics program students and instructors

    Description:
    Students in a Duke Hospital kitchen observe as an instructor transfers measured food from a scale to a serving bowl
    Date:
    undated

  • African American licensed practical nursing students

    Description:
    Four African American LPN (licensed practical nursing) students and a Duke University Hospital staff member or nursing instructor gathered around a table. The students are enrolled in a cooperative program between Durham city schools, State...
    Date:
    undated

  • Nursing students reading in the School of Nursing library reading room

    Description:
    Uniformed students and staff in the School of Nursing library reading room in either Hanes House or Baker House. The nursing library was part of the Duke Hospital library until it was moved to the second floor of the Baker House in April 1944....
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke Hospital Auxiliary women at a tea party

    Description:
    This picture may have been taken on Duke's east campus. The people included in this picture are: Mrs. Robert L. Ross, Mrs. William Lloyd, Mrs. J.F. Strickland, Mrs. R.J. Reeves, Mrs. E. P. Alyea, Mrs. Frank L. Fuller, Jr., Mrs. L.M. Edwards, Mrs....
    Date:
    undated

  • Nurses and servicemen of the 65th General Hospital

    Description:
    Uniformed nurses and servicemen of the 65th General Hospital awaiting embarkation for overseas duties. The idea for a Duke hospital army unit was born in October 1940, the brainchild of Wilburt C. Davison, then dean of the Duke University School...
    Date:
    undated

  • C.P.S. worker Lehman in chemistry laboratory

    Description:
    Rodney Lehman at work in the physiology department of Duke Hospital. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the program,...
    Date:
    undated

  • Aerial view of Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Hospital, and West Campus

    Description:
    Aerial view of Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Hospital, and West Campus.
    Date:
    undated

  • H. Max Schiebel

    Description:
    Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant chief of surgical services for the Office of Civilian Defense, Reserve Unit of the United States...
    Date:
    undated

  • Eugene Anson Stead, Jr.

    Description:
    Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with the 65th General Hospital between wars and helped start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training...
    Date:
    undated

  • Mildred M. Sherwood

    Description:
    Sherwood with two pediatric patients outside of Duke Hospital. In 1930, when Duke Hospital was opened, Mildred M. Sherwood was put in charge of the Children's Ward. She was an instructor in pediatrics, and a nurse with the Mobile Medical Emergency...
    Date:
    undated

  • Julian Meade Ruffin

    Description:
    Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime graduate medical meetings and served the Office of Civilian Defense of the United States Public Health...
    Date:
    undated

  • William Warner Shingleton

    Description:
    From 1944 to 1946 William Warner Shingleton was on the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery. He was also the first director of the Cancer Center at Duke.
    Date:
    undated

  • Francis Huntington Swett

    Description:
    Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
    Date:
    undated

  • Will Camp Sealy

    Description:
    Will Camp Sealy was chief of the general surgery section in the 65th General Hospital. In 1949 he worked with other Duke faculty to start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training Program.
    Date:
    undated

  • Haywood Maurice Taylor

    Description:
    Haywood Maurice Taylor, a member of the original faculty, was professor of toxicology from 1929 to 1960. He died September 21, 1960.
    Date:
    undated

  • Lyman, Meyer, and Davison

    Description:
    (Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School...
    Date:
    undated

  • Frederick Bernheim

    Description:
    Frederick Bernheim was a member of the original faculty as professor of pharmacology from 1930 to 1976. He was also chief of the biochemical pharmacology laboratory.
    Date:
    undated

  • Susan Dees

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Nursing students knitting and weaving

    Description:
    School of Nursing students knitting and weaving
    Date:
    undated

  • Social Services staff of Duke Hospital

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Nursing cadet students on front steps of Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Three uniformed cadet nurses on the front steps of Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell.

    Description:
    Pickrell was a professor of plastic surgery from 1944 to 1981 and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery from 1944 to 1975. During World War II, Pickrell was a consultant in chemical warfare at Edgewood Arsenal and assisted with the program of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Violet Olive Horner Turner

    Description:
    Violet Olive Horner Turner was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics (1941, 1943-1966).
    Date:
    undated

  • Researcher measuring a chart

    Description:
    Researcher at a teaching laboratory station measuring a rolled chart.
    Date:
    undated

  • 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

  • X-ray technology at Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly...
    Date:
    undated

  • Illustration of the main entrance to the original Duke Hospital clinics

    Description:
    Illustration of the original main entrance to Duke Hospital clinics. 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 1942...
    Date:
    undated

  • Ivan W. Brown, Jr.

    Description:
    Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the...
    Date:
    undated

  • Bessie Baker

    Description:
    In 1929, Baker was recruited by Wilburt C. Davison (first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine) to become the first dean of the Duke University School of Nursing. Baker officially joined Duke University in 1930 as professor and dean; the...
    Date:
    undated

  • J. Lamar Callaway and hospital physicians meeting

    Description:
    J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas Sprunt, William Schulze, and Elbert Persons are assembled in a Duke Hospital meeting room.
    Date:
    undated

  • Robert George Chambers

    Description:
    Chambers graduated from Duke University (B.S. 1944) and the School of Medicine (M.D. 1945). He was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and a fellow in the Department of Pathology from 1944 to 1945.
    Date:
    undated

  • Frederic Moir Hanes

    Description:
    Hanes came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of neurology and as the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine (1930-1946). He was chair of the Department of Medicine from 1933 to 1946. In 1937,...
    Date:
    undated

  • F. Gregory Hall

    Description:
    Frank Gregory Hall was a professor of pharmacology and physiology from 1945 to 1966 (emeritus 1966-1967) and chair of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1949 to 1961. Hall's research interests focused on oxygenation and...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edwin C. Hamblen

    Description:
    Hamblen came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He organized Duke's Division of Endocrinology in 1936 as a division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. During his career at Duke, Hamblen was an associate...
    Date:
    undated

  • Oscar Hansen-Pruss

    Description:
    Hansen-Pruss came to Duke University in 1930 as a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. Hansen-Pruss originated the Allergy Clinic in 1930 and became chief of the Allergy Service. He served as chief of the...
    Date:
    undated

  • Philip Handler

    Description:
    Philip Handler was a professor (1939-1984) and chair (1949-1969) of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. Handler was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1981. He served as president of the National Academy of Sciences...
    Date:
    undated

  • Duncan Charteris Hetherington

    Description:
    Hetherington was a member of the original faculty of Duke University School of Medicine. He served as a professor of anatomy from 1930 to 1963.
    Date:
    undated

  • Jerome S. Harris and pediatric patient

    Description:
    Jerome S. Harris was chair of the Department of Pediatrics from 1959 to 1969.
    Date:
    undated

  • William Alexander Perlzweig

    Description:
    Perlzweig was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine. He served as professor of biochemistry from 1929 to 1949. His research interests were primarily in the biochemistry of nutrition. Together with Frederic Moir Hanes, Wiley D....
    Date:
    undated

  • Roy T. Parker

    Description:
    Parker was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1946 to 1947. After completing his residency, Parker went into private practice. He returned to Duke University in 1953 as a professor and later became chair of the Department of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre-penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke's Cardiovascular Disease...
    Date:
    undated

  • William McNeal Nicholson

    Description:
    Nicholson, a graduate of Duke University (A.B., 1927) became chief of the metabolism clinic (1940-1955) and dean of continuing medical education (1949-1968). His research interests were in metabolic diseases, particularly the treatment of diabetes.
    Date:
    undated

  • Talmage Lee Peele

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Steam engine train brings building materials to Duke University

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Aerial view of Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Hospital and Medical Center

    Description:
    Aerial view of the newly completed Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. Nearby residential neighborhoods and west campus buildings are also visible.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke Hospital entrance

    Description:
    External view of one of the entrances to Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Morris Building and PRT

    Description:
    The Morris Building houses the Duke Oncology Treatment Center. The Morris Building is named for Edwin A. Morris, a donor who supported the creation of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Personnel Rapid Transit (PRT) system was used to...
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke University Eye Center

    Description:
    The Duke Eye Center is also known as the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Building. Dr. Wadsworth was the first chair of the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Duke, serving from 1965 until 1983.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nanaline H. Duke Building

    Description:
    The Nanaline H. Duke Building houses the Department of Biochemistry, Department of Cell Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Molecular Biophysics Program, Biological Chemistry Program and the University Program in Genetics. The building...
    Date:
    undated

  • Research Park Building

    Description:
    Research Park Buildings I-IV were constructed around 1966-1970.
    Date:
    undated

  • Baker House

    Description:
    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, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support...
    Date:
    undated

  • Entrance to Hanes House, School of Nursing Building

    Description:
    Two uniformed students, bicycles and a mailbox on the grounds of the School of Nursing Building around 1980.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nursing students playing a board game

    Description:
    Students playing a board game. The first class was admitted on January 2, 1931 and graduated on June 7, 1933.
    Date:
    undated

  • Pathology staff in army uniforms

    Description:
    Group photograph of pathology staff in military uniform on front steps of building. Individuals pictured may have been members of the 65th General Hospital. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    undated

  • H. Keith H. Brodie

    Description:
    Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie came to Duke in 1974 as chair of the Department of Psychiatry, where he was later named the James B. Duke Professor of Psychiatry and Law. He became the chancellor of Duke University in 1982, and then served as president of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Charles B. Hammond

    Description:
    Dr. Hammond joined the Duke University School of Medicine faculty in 1968. He served as chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1970 to 1980. In 1980 he became chair...
    Date:
    undated

  • W. Glenn Young, Jr.

    Description:
    Dr. Young was a house staff and faculty member in the Department of Surgery (1948-1950). Dr. Will Camp Sealy, Dr. Ivan Brown, and Dr. Glenn Young were among the first to determine the benefits of patient cooling by using hypothermic...
    Date:
    undated

  • Bernard J. Carroll

    Description:
    Dr. Carroll was a professor of psychiatry at Duke University from 1983 to 1998. He served as chair of the department from 1983 until 1990 and as chief of medical staff at Duke Hospital from 1988 to 1990. He was interim chief of the Division of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Robert L. Hill

    Description:
    Dr. Hill was the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry. He served as chair of the Dept. of Biochemistry from 1969 to 1993.
    Date:
    undated

  • Merel H. Harmel

    Description:
    Dr. Harmel was chair of the Dept. of Anesthesiology from 1970 to 1983.
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward A. Johnson

    Description:
    Dr. Johnson was chair of the Dept. of Physiology from 1977 to 1988.
    Date:
    undated

  • Jack Keene

    Description:
    Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic sciences for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was chair of the Department of Immunology from...
    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

  • Edward W. Holmes

    Description:
    Dr. Holmes was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Genetics (1983-1991); and the James B. Wyngaarden Professor of Medicine at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • William Banks Anderson, Jr.

    Description:
    Dr. Anderson is a professor of ophthalmology at Duke University. Dr. Anderson received training in surgery (1956-1957) and in ophthalmology (1959-1962) at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • Richard F. Kay

    Description:
    Dr. Kay has been the chair of the Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy since 1988.
    Date:
    undated

  • Blaine Nashold

    Description:
    Dr. Nashold is professor emeritus of the Dept. of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center.
    Date:
    undated

  • Daniel G. Blazer

    Description:
    Dr. Blazer was interim chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1990-1992).
    Date:
    undated

  • Irwin Fridovich

    Description:
    Dr. Fridovich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry.
    Date:
    undated

  • Edwin P. Alyea

    Description:
    Edwin P. Alyea was first chief of Duke Hospital's Division of Urology within the Department of Surgery. He was appointed Profesor of Urology in 1929. Alyea received an bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1919 and an M.D. degree from...
    Date:
    undated

  • David Tillerson Smith

    Description:
    Dr. Smith was James B. Duke Professor of Microbiology; chair of the Department of Microbiology (1930-1958); associate professor of Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine (1950-1966) at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • Joseph E. Markee

    Description:
    Dr. Markee was chair of the Dept. of Anatomy (later Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy) from 1943 to 1966.
    Date:
    undated

  • Saul M. Schanberg

    Description:
    Dr. Shchanberg was acting chair of the Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology from 1988 to 1991.
    Date:
    undated

  • Carl E. Ravin

    Description:
    Dr. Ravin served as chair of the Dept. of Radiology from 1985 to 2008.
    Date:
    undated

  • Michael P. Sheetz

    Description:
    Dr. Sheetz was chair of the Dept. of Cell Biology from 1990 to 2000.
    Date:
    undated

  • Florence K. Wilson

    Description:
    Florence K. Wilson, MA, RN was dean of the Duke University School of Nursing (1946-1954).
    Date:
    undated

  • Ralph Snyderman

    Description:
    Ralph Snyderman, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs and President and CEO of Duke University Health System.
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Edward S. Orgain reading EKG tape, pictured with nurse and patient. Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the...
    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

  • 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

  • Hans Lowenbach

    Description:
    Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
    Date:
    undated

  • Ewald W. Busse

    Description:
    Ewald W. Busse in the 1970s. Ewald W. Busse was a early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry and a founder of the Center for Aging and Human Development, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Dean Emeritus of Medical and...
    Date:
    undated

  • Original operating room, view from above

    Description:
    This photograph of the original operating room shows the layout of the room, including the operating table, various equipment, and supplies.
    Date:
    undated

  • John Essary Dees

    Description:
    John Essary Dees was appointed associate professor of urology in the Divison of Urology, Department of Surgery in 1939.
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Nursing students and dates at a party

    Description:
    Three School of Nursing students and their dates outside at a party.
    Date:
    undated

  • Margaret Isabel Pinkerton

    Description:
    Margaret Isabel Pinkerton was dean of the School of Nursing from 1939 to 1946.
    Date:
    undated