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 papers.)
Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Beard seated at micrscope, examining slides. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. Dorothy Beard...
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, Ethel...
Therlan Thompson was a veteran of the Hospital’s Central Processing department where she worked as a medical supply assembler. Central Processing, also known as Central Supply, was a division of the Pharmacy Department. They distributed new and...
Delores Ford in her office. She was hired as a secretary first for the operating room at Duke Medical Center in 1969 and then transferred to the emergency room in 1971.
Portrait of William Osler from the lithograph by George Black. Osler is seated in a chair with his right elbow on a table. Signature: “Sincerely yours Wm Osler.”
Bronze bust of Dr. Josiah Charles Trent placed in the reading room of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University Medical Center Library on 10 April 1976. Sculpted by Antonio Salemme.
Photograph of William G. MacCallum. Signature: “W. G. MacCallum.” Manuscript note on verso: “Wm. G. McCallum under whom I learned to be a pathologist, 1923-1930, WDF.”
Sir William Osler with his son Revere (about 2 years of age) on his back, probably about 1898. Inscription: “And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a Kid”!.
Portrait of Harvey Williams Cushing in right profile, looking downward. Cushing is credited with developing neurosurgery, and was a pioneer in studying the pituitary and the hypothalamus.
Portrait of Forkner sitting at a desk, writing. Photograph by Kaiden Kazanjian. Presentation inscription to Oscar Carl Edward Hansen-Pruss “Oscar Hansen from Claude E. Forkner. Nov 1, 1940.”
Publisher: New York.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
Signed photograph of Aldo Castellani. Inscription reads “To Dr. Daniel T. Smith, with very kind regards and best wishes, Aldo Castellani, 20th Oct. 1956.”
Photograph of 1913-1914 Oxford University Water Polo and Swimming Team. Pictured are G. Alchin, A. P. Boor, H. A. R. Boustead, W. C. Davison, C. F. Krige, E. G. Loudoun-Shand, H. A. Mellows, L. P. B. Merriam, C. H. N. Symon, C. D. Thompson, and F. W....
William Osler accompanied by interns, stops en route to the old “post” House to talk with a patient on the grounds of Philadelphia General Hospital (Old Blockley). Portrait by Dean Cornwell is the second in the series “Pioneers of American Medicine.”
A young Dr. Trent. Manuscript note on verso: “Interviewed by Dr. Thorpe, Dec. 20th, 1933 at Dean’s office, Univ. Penna. Med. School, Phila. Hyman I. Goldstein, M.D. Camden 4, N. J.”
Photograph of the Oxford School of Physiology. Included are Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Gowland Hopkins, Prof. H. M. Vernon, E. A. Woods, Eustace H. Chiver, “George,” Wilder Penfield, Emile Hohman, Miss Collier, C. F. Krige, Prof. Scott, and W. C....
Photograph showing Sir William Osler as a child of seven. He stands at the extreme left. Next to him are his three brothers-the Hon. Mr. Justice Featherstone Osler, the late Mr. E. B. Osler, Sir Edmund Osler, and two sisters. The five figures at the...
Photograph of the drawings on the walls of a medical student dorm room. At center is the figure of a woman and various other objects, one of which is entitled “Mole Pheasant.”
Photograph of the drawings on the walls of a medical student dorm room. A large fan is shown at the center of the photograph. “Colostomy Cup Winner” is the title of one of the drawings.
Photograph of the drawings on the walls of a medical student dorm room. Clothes are shown draped over a chair. One of the drawings is entitled “Pea Vine de Lenard.”
Photograph showing two men sitting in front of a hyperbaric unit. One man is wearing a headset, and the other man appears to be a staff member. Some instruments are shown in front of the men.
Photograph of William G. MacCallum of the Pathology Staff at Hopkins. He is sitting down with his hands resting on a desk. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: New York: Doris Ulmann.
Photograph of William Osler standing with a walking stick in his right hand. Inscription: “A memory of Canadian Hospital, Cliveden. William Osler 1915-1916”.
First Medical Center Librarian, Judith Farrar, with Mary Duke Biddle Trent, and her mother Mildred Perkins Farrar (left to right) in the reading room of the Duke University Hospital Library when it was located in the basement of Duke South.
Photograph of a part of a hyperbaric chamber and its control panel. One staff member is seated at the panel, and another is working at the hyperbaric chamber. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Photograph of the inside of a hyperbaric unit. Two staff members (a female and a male) are standing inside the unit. The door of the unit is open. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Photograph of a staff member coming out of a hyperbaric unit. He is wearing surgical attire and a mask. Another man is standing behind him. Several cans lined with plastic are also shown.
Portrait of Hart sitting in a chair, writing something and holding a book or journal. Presentation inscription “To Mary Semans, with sincere appreciation and best wishes– Deryl Hart.”
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.
Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...
Ann Gunn was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on the general surgical unit from 1965-1969. In 1969 she...
Dr. Joseph Beard and Dorothy Beard worked together to isolate and identify cancer viruses that cause leukemia in chickens. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973.