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  • 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

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description/Abstract: Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930...
    Date: circa 1938-1942

  • Bacteriology laboratory of Mary Poston

    Description/Abstract: Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Poston, a member of the original faculty, was an instructor in bacteriology from 1930 to 1960. Whildin (M.D., Duke, 1937) was a member...
    Date: circa 1938-1941

  • Eugene Brown in the Duke Hospital pharmacy

    Description/Abstract: Eugene Brown working in the hospital pharmacy. He was a pharmacy intern at Duke from 1939 to 1940.
    Date: circa 1939-1940

  • Dept. of Pathology staff on front steps of building

    Description/Abstract: Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date: circa 1939-1940

  • Rice Dieters

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

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

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description/Abstract: Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date: circa 1940-1941

  • Dr. F. Bayard Carter and Stan Lordeaux playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Faculty and students play ball during the hospital picnic. At bat is Stan Lordeaux (M.D., Duke, 1940). Playing catcher is Dr. Bayard Carter (chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964).
    Date: 1940

  • Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background. Thornhill (A.B., Duke, 1936 and M.D., 1940) served on the house staff from 1940 to 1942.
    Date: 1940

  • Duke University Hospital entrance

    Description/Abstract: Early image of the entrance of Duke University Hospital.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Ambulance backing up to the emergency room entrance of Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: An African-American worker opens the rear end of the ambulance. A guard stands in the emergency room doorway. The original emergency room unloading platform could only accommodate one ambulance.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Duke Hospital pharmacists

    Description/Abstract: (From left to right) Eugene Brown, pharmacy intern from 1939 to 1940; Thomas Reamer, associate in pharmacy from 1931 to circa 1970; Archie Millis, Lieutenant with 65th General Hospital; and Hunter Kelly, pharmacy intern at Duke from 1940 to 1941.
    Date: 1940

  • Archie Millis in the Duke University Pharmacy

    Description/Abstract: Archie Millis working in the hospital pharmacy. He served as a Lieutenant with the 65th General Hospital.
    Date: 1940 ca.

  • Duke University Medical Center campus and Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Aerial view of Duke Hospital with the first addition of the Private Diagnostic Clinics completed. Also shows much of undeveloped surrounding area of the city of Durham.
    Date: 1940

  • 1940 School of Medicine student-faculty show

    Description/Abstract: School of Medicine students performing the 1940 student-faculty show, from OPC to CPC. The annual show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke. From L-R: Bill Sellers, Kenneth Brown,...
    Date: 1940

  • Duke Hospital main entrance

    Description/Abstract: Duke Hospital main entrance and driveway with parked cars. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dietetics nursing staff checking patient food trays

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing, Dietetics program staff checking individual trays in ward kitchen of Duke Hospital.
    Date: 1940

  • Nursing students in a teaching laboratory

    Description/Abstract: Nursing students, some uniformed, in a laboratory.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dept. of Pediatrics house staff

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics.
    Date: circa 1940-1941