Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter was a medical fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi,...
Uniformed School of Nursing students entering their junior year receive their nursing caps from upper-class students. School of Nursing dean, classmates, and faculty members are also present.
Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support...
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.
Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
Crispell was a professor of psychiatry with the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1933 to 1946. He served during World War II as a lieutenant commander with the United States Naval Reserve Office.
Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
Members of the second Physical Therapy class, 1944, with instructor on a clinical visit out of town. From left to right: Edgar Johnson, Bettie Runner, Lucy Straw, John Riebel (instructor, class of 1943).
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).
School of Nursing students and faculty pose for a group photograph after the capping ceremony. Students receive their nursing caps during a capping ceremony in their junior year. A Red Cross flag is hanging behind students.
Elon H. Clark (left) and Tom Jones during Jones' visit to Duke University. Elon Clark said that Tom Jones was "a world famous medical artist, second only to Max Brodel." In the background is a model of an infant's head and Clark's drawing of...
Curator of the Trent Collection, G.S.T. Cavanagh, and Assistant Curator, Susan Carlton Smith Cavanagh, in the Library's Medical Garden with a book from the Trent Collection. The idea for a garden was first suggested by Susan, who also worked as a...
Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
A young girl is weighed by a nurse (most likely a student nurse). The School of Nursing opened its doors to nursing students on January 2, 1931. The first degrees offered to students were the Diploma in Nursing and the B.S. in Nursing.
Dr. Dennis Bernard Amos was professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University from 1962 to 1993. Slide is one in a series of 20 slides from the same photo shoot.
Barnes Woodhall was the chief of Duke University Medical Center Division of Neurosurgery from 1937 to 1960. He became the second dean of the School of Medicine, serving from 1960 to 1964. Barnes Woodhall received his medical degree from the John...
Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
Dorothy Beard in a laboratory. A research associate in the Department of Surgery, she worked alongside her husband, Joseph Beard, as part of the internationally prominent Beard cancer research team to help develop the first usable vaccine for...
The first class of graduating students, dressed in traditional caps and gowns, plant ivy to commemorate commencement ceremonies. The entrance to the original School of Medicine (completed in 1930) is now referred to as the Davison Building.
Goldner began his career at Duke University as an associate in orthopedics. In 1949 he was the department's chief resident. He was chief of the Department of Surgery's Division of Orthopedic Surgery from 1967 to 1984.
The department was established as the Department of Neuropsychiatry in 1931 and changed to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in 1994. H. Keith H. Brodie was chair of the department from 1974 to 1982.