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  • Library Artwork Collection

    User Collection
    Description:
    The Library’s artwork collection has a wide selection of portraits, prints, paintings, maps, sculptures, and busts. It includes portraits of Duke faculty members, paintings of the US Army 65th General Hospital, and a bust and portrait of James B....
    Date:
    1633-2024
    0Collections
    176Works

  • Library Artifact Collection

    User Collection
    Description:
    The Medical Center Library maintains a small collection of medical instruments and other artifacts related to medicine and health care. The collection has items of historical significance to Duke as well. A neurosurgical stereotactic equipment...
    Date:
    1800-2009
    1Collections
    114Works

  • Charles Erskine Brayton Historical Publications Collection

    User Collection
    Description:
    Collection contains a few select copies of medical journals and publications from the collection of Dr. Charles E. Brayton (1851-1912), a physician of Stonington, Connecticut. Dr. Brayton's manuscript materials are available in the David M....
    Date:
    1828-1937
    0Collections
    22Works

  • The Rescue and Recovery of the USS Squalus

    User Collection
    Description:
    USS Squalus (SS-192), a diesel-electric submarine built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and commissioned there on 1 March 1939, suffered a catastrophic valve failure during a test dive off the Isle of Shoals at 0740 on 23...
    Date:
    1939
    2Collections
    124Works

  • Sir William Osler Scrapbook, 1913-1950

    User Collection
    Description:
    This digital project represents a scrapbook of letters and articles between Dean Wilburt C. Davison and Sir William and Lady Grace Osler. The first page of this scrapbook bears the inscription: "Wilburt Cornell Davison from William Osler, in...
    Date:
    1913-1950
    3Collections
    62Works

  • Stereotactic Neurosurgery

    User Collection
    Description:
    The Duke University Medical Center Library Stereotactic Museum was established to preserve the stereotactic instruments that significantly impacted the field of neurosurgery. The collection is largely due to the generosity of Drs. Robert...
    Date:
    1949-1993
    0Collections
    21Works