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  • X-ray technician Joanna Law Martin examines a patient

    Description:
    Martin guides the x-ray machine over the patient's torso. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    circa 1937-1938

  • Technician using an early x-ray camera

    Description:
    An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    undated

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

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

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description:
    Nursing faculty member holding infant on scale. Three other women and another faculty member are included in the photograph.
    Date:
    1948

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description:
    Nursing faculty member using stethoscope on an African American child.
    Date:
    1948

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description:
    Nursing faculty member with baby and two women at community agency.
    Date:
    1948

  • Rice Dieters

    Description:
    Dr. Walter Kempner, founder of the Rice Diet and Professor of Medicine from 1934 to 1972, is shown eating with two Rice Dieters. Dr. Kempner is seated in the center, with his back to the window. Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He...
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • Reba N. Hobgood

    Description:
    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

  • Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell with a pediatric patient

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

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic patient waiting area

    Description:
    Patients and staff in a Duke Hospital Private Diagnostic Clinic waiting area. The PDC was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated problems arising in the examination of...
    Date:
    1940

  • Plaster room in the Orthopaedic Clinic

    Description:
    Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo...
    Date:
    circa 1940

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

    Description:
    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

  • Physical therapy students from the class of 1947

    Description:
    Physical Therapy students, class of 1947. Clockwise (from top left): Doris Miller, Pat Barrett, Rachel Nunley, Isabell Berry, Lois Nordwall, Sally Bassett, Mabel Parker (instructor), unknown patient, Winnie Lawson, Martha Park, Jane Dees.
    Date:
    1947

  • Pediatrics waiting area in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Pediatrics waiting area filled with seated women and infants. Note the train painted on the left wall (Carl Roger’s face is on the front of the train and W.C. Davison is the engineer).
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • Pediatrics patients

    Description:
    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

  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

    Description:
    Patients seated along a wall in the public dispensary. Hospital staff, physicians and nurses are also visible.
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • Patients and hospital staff in a Duke Hospital pediatrics ward

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

  • Patient waiting room

    Description:
    A group of African-American patrons sit in the waiting room at Duke Hospital. The sign on the pillar reads, "New Patients Colored Register Here."
    Date:
    circa 1940-1949

  • Patient undergoing an x-ray examination

    Description:
    Patient laying on x-ray examination table with machinery above her. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    circa 1946

  • Patient in respirator, with nurse

    Description:
    A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
    Date:
    1951