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  • Students in the first class of the School of Nursing, School of Nursing staff, and Duke Hospital nurses

    Description/Abstract: (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...
    Date: circa 1931-1933

  • Students in the first class of the School of Nursing

    Description/Abstract: 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.
    Date: circa 1931-1933

  • Speakers at dedication of the School of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 1931

  • School of Nursing, class of 1933

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed School of Nursing students on front steps of building. Bessie Baker was the first dean of the School of Nursing (1930-1938). The first class was admitted on January 2, 1931 and graduated on June 7, 1933.
    Date: circa 1931

  • Physician and staff performing surgery in a Duke Hospital operating room

    Description/Abstract: Operating room and hospital staff at Duke Hospital. Staff are wearing facial masks.
    Date: circa 1930-1934

  • Pediatrics patients

    Description/Abstract: Duke Hospital pediatrics patients shown outside the Duke Hospital building. One child is holding a stuffed toy. Stones on building in picture are multi-colored.
    Date: circa 1930-1934

  • Patient examination room

    Description/Abstract: A hospital examination room, with desk and bed. Through the open window behind the desk, the stone of the Duke Hospital building's exterior is visible.
    Date: circa 1930-1936

  • Ophthalmology

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member checks a patient’s eyes. The Division of Ophthalmology (located under the Department of Surgery) began with only one clinic per week. It grew to daily sessions, held for a time in the old reading room of the Library. W....
    Date: circa 1930-1940

  • Nurses' station in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Two nurses at nursing station desk near a patient room.
    Date: circa 1931

  • Members of the Dept. of Anatomy

    Description/Abstract: Members of the Department of Anatomy at Duke University School of Medicine. (Left to right, row 1) Henry Hollingshead, instructor; Frank Swett, professor and chair; Rober D. Baker, instructor. (Row 2) Edna Elias, secretary; Talmadge Peele, student...
    Date: 1931