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  • Construction of the Duke University School of Medicine

    Description:
    Railroad tracks were placed for steam engine trains to bring building materials to the School of Medicine, now known as the Davison building. Construction of the School of Medicine was completed in 1930. Some workers or trustees are visible to the...
    Date:
    1928

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic outpatient registration

    Description:
    Two patients registering at a Duke Hospital outpatient clinic of the Private Diagnostic Clinic. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the...
    Date:
    circa 1945

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Outpatient clinic waiting area in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    African-American patients and others shown in the Duke Hospital Outpatient Clinic waiting area. The sign on column reads "New patients, colored, register here."
    Date:
    circa 1935

  • Patient clinic waiting room in Duke South.

    Description:
    Patients shown in waiting room sitting and standing down. The sign on the desk in the center of the photograph reads "Old patients register here."
    Date:
    circa 1935

  • Patients and hospital staff in a Duke Hospital pediatrics ward

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

  • Duke Hospital pharmacists

    Description:
    (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

  • Early operating room

    Description:
    Hospital staff, patient, and equipment in an early operating room of Duke Hospital. Two female members of the Duke Hospital staff are wearing surgical masks.
    Date:
    circa 1930-1934