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  • Eugene Brown in the Duke Hospital pharmacy

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

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description:
    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

  • School of Nursing students in classroom

    Description:
    Students in uniforms seated at desks.
    Date:
    circa 1935-1939

  • Courtlandt Berry

    Description:
    Berry graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1938. He was part of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1939 to 1942 (Department of Pathology 1940-1941).
    Date:
    circa 1939

  • Original entrance to the School of Medicine

    Description:
    The original main entrance to the School of Medicine is now known as the Davison building.
    Date:
    circa 1934-1939

  • Dept. of Pediatrics house staff

    Description:
    Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics. (Back row left to right) Wilburt Cornell Davison (dean of the School of Medicine, 1927-1960), Karl Shepard (house staff, 1939), Angus McBryde (associate...
    Date:
    1938-1939

  • Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter fraternity members

    Description:
    Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter was a fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. It was founded in 1931. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma...
    Date:
    1939

  • Class of 1939 annual senior class picnic

    Description:
    School of Medicine students at the annual senior class picnic, held in June. (Left to right) Robert Biddle (house staff 1940-1942), Archie Eagles (house staff and fellow, 1946-1947), Ernest B. Dunlap, Jr. (house staff, 1939).
    Date:
    1939

  • Bacteriology laboratory of Mary Poston

    Description:
    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

  • Dept. of Pathology staff on front steps of building

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

  • School of Nursing capping in Duke Chapel

    Description:
    Class of 1941 School of Nursing students and their guests at a capping ceremony inside of Duke Chapel.
    Date:
    1939

  • Duke Hospital staff

    Description:
    Uniformed male and female members of the Duke Hospital staff. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930.
    Date:
    1939

  • Dr. Richard B. Raney with a patient

    Description:
    Dr. Richard B. Raney fits a neck brace onto an African-American patient in the Orthopaedic Clinic. A nurse assists. Raney served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1952. Dr. R.B. Raney authored "Primer on Prevention of Deformities in...
    Date:
    1939

  • Dr. Withers with patient

    Description:
    William A. Withers takes the blood pressure of a female patient at the Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic. William A. Withers served as house staff and fellow from 1937 to 1939.
    Date:
    1939

  • Ophthalmology

    Description:
    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

  • Duke University Department of Medicine 1938-1939

    Description:
    Duke University Department of Medicine 1938-39 1. [unidentified]; 2. [unidentified]; 3. Thitford; 4. Lincicome; 5. [unidentified]; 6. Barefood; 7. [unidentified]; 8. Manning; 9. Schulze; 10. Hanes; 11. Poston; 12. [unidentified]; 13....
    Date:
    1938-1939

  • Nursing class of 1937 or 1939

    Description:
    School of Nursing students in uniform, most likely the class of 1937 or 1939.
    Date:
    circa 1937-1939

  • School of Nursing, class of 1939

    Description:
    Uniformed School of Nursing students, class of 1939.
    Date:
    1939