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  • Janet Sawyer at the Circulation Desk

    Description:
    Janet Sawyer, library assistant, helping a patron at the circulation desk of the Duke University Hospital Library.
    Date:
    circa 1969

  • Control Panel for Hyperbaric Unit

    Description:
    Photograph showing a control panel for a hyperbaric unit. A man is seated at the instrument panel in front of the unit. Photographs of five medical staff are included around the edges of the photograph. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke...
    Date:
    December 1968

  • Ex Libris J. Zilvytes

    Description:
    Bookplate: A hammer is driving a stake through a heart that has been placed inside a large cup set on a closed book. Flames leap behind the cup.
    Date:
    1966

  • Bookplate for Erik and Sylva Meema

    Description:
    Modern art drawing in blue showing bones. Drawn by A. Lee. Publisher: Canada
    Date:
    1966

  • Nurse and Physician in the Reading Room

    Description:
    Nurse and physician seated at reading room table in Duke University Hospital Library. View 3.
    Date:
    1966-1967

  • Nurse and Physician in the Reading Room

    Description:
    Nurse and physician seated at reading room table in Duke University Hospital Library. View 2.
    Date:
    1966-1967

  • Nurse and Physician in the Reading Room

    Description:
    Nurse and physician seated at a reading room table in Duke University Hospital Library. View 1.
    Date:
    1966-1967

  • W. C. Davison at the North Carolina Medical Society Meeting

    Description:
    Photograph of Dr. W. C. Davison with Dr. Watson Smith Rankin. Photograph by F. Ross Porter. Pubilshed: Charlotte, North Carolina.
    Date:
    May 10, 1965

  • Ex Libris Dr. A. Brauer

    Description:
    Bookplate: A naked man, woman, and child are held in the palm of a hand growing out of the earth. Another hand provides a sheltering roof.
    Date:
    1964

  • Trent Room in old Library

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library looking toward the fireplace from the doorway. View 1.
    Date:
    1964 ca.

  • Trent Room in old Library

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library looking toward the fireplace from the doorway. View 2.
    Date:
    1964 ca.

  • Old photograph of Library Trent Room

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. View 2.
    Date:
    1964

  • Old photograph of Library Trent Room

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. View 3.
    Date:
    1964

  • Old photograph of Library Trent Room

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. View 1.
    Date:
    1964

  • Old Trent card catalog and picture of Dr. Trent

    Description:
    Card catalog of the Trent Collection in Medical History outside the door of the Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. A photograph of Dr. Josiah Trent hangs above the catalog.
    Date:
    1964

  • View of the Trent Room

    Description:
    View of the Trent Room with the portrait of physician Valentine Mott by James Henry Shegogue over the fireplace. Photographed by Richard McKee.
    Date:
    1964

  • Reading Room in the Library

    Description:
    Duke University Hospital Library reading room with tables filled with studying students.
    Date:
    December 1964

  • Ardie L. Kelly at his Desk

    Description:
    Ardie L. Kelly, assistant curator of the Trent Collection, at his desk in the Trent Room, Duke University Hospital Library. Photographed by Richard McKee. View 1.
    Date:
    1964

  • Ardie L. Kelly at his Desk

    Description:
    Ardie L. Kelly, assistant curator of the Trent Collection, at his desk in the Trent Room, Duke University Hospital Library. Photographed by Richard McKee. View 2.
    Date:
    1964

  • Ex Libris Janinos P.

    Description:
    Bookplate: Image of a large eye.
    Date:
    1963

  • Ex Libris Dr. J. Jusenaites

    Description:
    Bookplate: Female nude--full frontal view to just above the waist. A stethoscope bisects the image. A funnel is on the left; a thermometer is on the right.
    Date:
    1963

  • Ex Libris Dr. Monique Martin

    Description:
    Bookplate: Elleboro nigro in bloom. Serpent twined around stem is reminiscent of staff of Aesculapius.
    Date:
    1963

  • Bookplate for Dr. N. G. Lippoczy

    Description:
    Picture of a man and a woman with flasks of wine. Grapevines are shown in the background. Drawn by F. A. Text in Latin.
    Date:
    1963

  • Reading Room in the Library

    Description:
    View of reading room in Duke University Hospital Library. Trent Room is visible in the background.
    Date:
    1963 ca.

  • Reading Room in the Library

    Description:
    Reading room of the Duke University Hospital Library filled with studying students.
    Date:
    1963 ca.

  • Ex Libris Dr. G. Farnarier

    Description:
    Bookplate: Two males examine the eye of a third.
    Date:
    1962

  • Eks libris Dr. Gerhard Kreyenberg

    Description:
    Bookplate: Abstract of physician's head with stethoscope and patient rib cage.
    Date:
    1962

  • Librarian Terry Cavanagh and a Patron

    Description:
    Librarian Terry Cavanagh, handing Ella Jones a volume from the shelves of the Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. View 1.
    Date:
    December 1962

  • Librarian Terry Cavanagh and a Patron

    Description:
    Librarian Terry Cavanagh handing Ella Jones a volume from the shelves of the Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. View 2.
    Date:
    December 1962

  • Polly Miller and Dorothy Mueller with a medical student

    Description:
    Librarians, left to right, Polly Miller and Dorothy Mueller, talking with a medical student in the office of the Duke University Hospital Library. View 2.
    Date:
    Fall 1962

  • Members of the Library Staff in the Workroom

    Description:
    Emil Frey and Marie Wicker, members of the Duke University Hospital Library staff in the workroom. View 1.
    Date:
    November 1962

  • Members of the Library Staff in the Workroom

    Description:
    Emil Frey and Marie Wicker, members of the Duke University Hospital Library staff in the workroom. View 2.
    Date:
    November 1962

  • Polly Miller and Dorothy Mueller with a medical student

    Description:
    Librarians, left to right, Polly Miller and Dorothy Mueller, talking with a medical student in the office of the Duke University Hospital Library. View 1.
    Date:
    Fall 1962

  • Terry Cavanagh at the Circulation Desk

    Description:
    Librarian, Terry Cavanagh, standing at the circulation desk of the Duke University Hospital Library with Martha Kelly.
    Date:
    Fall 1962

  • Martha Kelly Helping a Student

    Description:
    Martha Kelly, Circulation Assistant, helping a student at the front desk of the Duke University Medical Center Library. View 1.
    Date:
    Fall 1962

  • Martha Kelly Helping a Student

    Description:
    Martha Kelly, Circulation Librarian, helping a student at the front desk of the Duke University Medical Center Library. View 2.
    Date:
    Fall 1962

  • Ex Libris Dr. Leb Jozsef

    Description:
    Bookplate: Two warriors in classical Greek armor. One bandages the arm of the other.
    Date:
    1961

  • Bookplate for J. Rodriguez Chaves

    Description:
    A robed man is sitting in front of a spider web holding an open book. Dr. Chaves ipse fecit.
    Date:
    1961

  • Bookplate for Dr Kertesz D.

    Description:
    Picture of a man pushing a wheelbarrow full of books in front of a house. The house is shown to be full of books. Drawn by Gacsi Mihaly.
    Date:
    1961

  • Ex Libris Dr. Zahnarzt Leicht

    Description:
    Bookplate: A serpent twined around a pair of dental pliers forms a caduceus
    Date:
    1960

  • Bookplate for Norman Shaftel

    Description:
    Portrait of a nude woman holding a curtain. Some cactus plants also appear. Drawn by S. Bottella.
    Date:
    1960

  • Bookplate for Dr. Kertesz Denes

    Description:
    Picture of a man on horseback reading a book with what appears to be a large feather in his hand. A windmill is shown in the background. The horse is grazing on some grass. Drawn by Z. Vecsei.
    Date:
    1960

  • Bookplate for Gino Sabattini

    Description:
    Picture of a stagecoach filled with passengers being drawn by four horses. A horseshoe is shown in the lower right hand corner. Drawn by D. B. M. Text at top of sheet: "La Belle Epoque." Drawn by D. Bueno de Mesquita.
    Date:
    1960

  • Ex Libris F. A. Bendoraitis

    Description:
    Bookplate: A bearded and seated male rests his head in his right hand; the elbow is propped on his right leg. A crown or wreath is on his head.
    Date:
    1960

  • Bookplate for Dr. N. G. Lippoczy

    Description:
    Portrait of a knight on horseback carrying a banner. Hills are shown in the background. A coat of arms appears next to the knight. Drawn by Robieuscheff.
    Date:
    1960

  • Bookplate for Dr. Fejer Imre

    Description:
    Picture of a heart shown along with a castle, a boat, a microscope, and various other objects. Drawn by N. Nemeth. Publisher: New York
    Date:
    1960

  • Librarians examining a volume at the University of Kansas

    Description:
    Examining a Vesalius volume in the collection of the Clendening Medical Library at the University of Kansas during the annual Medical Library Association meeting are left to right: Patricia Kinnison, Opal Woodruff, Mildred Jordan and Leslie Morton.
    Date:
    May 16, 1960

  • Nursing students in the School of Nursing Library

    Description:
    Nursing students in the School of Nursing Library in Hanes House. View 5.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Periodical Wall in Reading Room

    Description:
    Periodical wall in Duke University Hospital Library reading room. View 1.
    Date:
    1960-1961

  • Periodical Wall in Reading Room

    Description:
    Periodical wall in Duke University Hospital Library reading room. View 2.
    Date:
    1960-1961

  • Reading Room in the Library

    Description:
    Duke University Hospital Library reading room.
    Date:
    1960-1965

  • Nursing Students in the School of Nursing Library

    Description:
    Nursing students in the School of Nursing Library in Hanes House. View 4.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Nursing Students in the School of Nursing Library

    Description:
    Nursing students in the School of Nursing Library in Hanes House. View 1.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Nursing Students in the School of Nursing Library

    Description:
    Nursing Students in the School of Nursing Library in Hanes House. View 3.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Nursing Students in the School of Nursing Library

    Description:
    Nursing students in the School of Nursing Library in Hanes House. View 2.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Nursing Student Reading a Book

    Description:
    Nursing student in her student uniform reading a book in the Library in Hanes House.
    Date:
    1960-1969

  • Ex Libris M. Vacilevskogo [translated from Cyrillic]

    Description:
    Bookplate: Three surgeons operate in front of a large open book bearing the text "Segvi il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." A serpent twines around a goblet to form a caduceus.
    Date:
    1959

  • Ex Libris N. Hellemans

    Description:
    Bookplate: Two hands peel back the layers of the chest to reveal the stomach and intestines. A serpent frames the image.
    Date:
    April 12, 1958

  • Bookplate for Dr. Enrique Saez

    Description:
    Bookplate is in the shape of a book with a mountainous landscape on the cover. A medical tent is in the middleground. A caduceus emblem is in the left foreground. Drawn by H. Huffert.
    Date:
    1958

  • Bookplate for Dr. Georg Burchard

    Description:
    Picture of a man standing among grasses, with a crossbow on his belt, and examining something. For Dr. Georg Burchard. By George Poppe.
    Date:
    November, 1958

  • Bookplate for Dr. Jos. Bartos

    Description:
    Picture of an angel, with a man holding his arms towards it. For Dr. Jos. Bartos by P. Kosik.
    Date:
    November, 1958

  • Bookplate for Gino Sabattini

    Description:
    Picture of a man in a coat holding a large syringe, and wearing glasses. At top "Ex libris de Re Medica" Name at bottom Gino Sabattini. By S. Burzi.
    Date:
    November, 1958

  • Bookplate for Dr. Petrikovits Laszlo

    Description:
    Picture of a woman with a snake wrapped around her, sitting on a skull. By Aage Mollerup for Dr. Petrikovits Laszlo.
    Date:
    November, 1958

  • Mary Semans with Dr. Wilburt Davison

    Description:
    Mrs. Mary D. B. T. Semans standing with Dr. Wilburt Davison in front of the fireplace in the Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library.
    Date:
    November 1958

  • Bookplate for Jaak and Lore Mattelaer

    Description:
    Picture of a mortar and pestle from which light is emerging. Text in Dutch. Drawn by G. Schelge.
    Date:
    1957

  • Bookplate for Rato Moreira

    Description:
    Portrait of a man holding a staff being approached by a woman. Various objects are shown in the corner. Drawn by Botella. Text in Latin.
    Date:
    1957

  • Dr. Wilburt Davison with two Medical Students

    Description:
    Dr. Wilburt Davison with two medical students in the Duke University Hospital Library. They are examining a portrait of William Harvey and looking at items from the Trent Collection.
    Date:
    October 1957

  • Bookplate for Jaak Mattelaer

    Description:
    Portrait of a table filled with books and other objects. A snake is coiled around objects on the table.
    Date:
    1956

  • Trent Reception Buffet Table

    Description:
    The Buffet table at the reception Mrs. Semans gave in her home following the Trent Room dedication.
    Date:
    1956

  • Mrs. Semans' garden party

    Description:
    Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison at the reception at Mrs. Semans' house following the Trent Room dedication.
    Date:
    1956

  • Mrs. Semans at Trent Room reception

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans in conversation with an unidentified man following the Trent Room dedication.
    Date:
    1956

  • Mrs. Semans' garden party

    Description:
    The garden at Mrs. Semans' home which was the site of a reception following the Trent Room dedication.
    Date:
    1956

  • Buffet at Trent Room reception

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans at the reception at her home following the dedication of Trent Room.
    Date:
    1956

  • People standing outside the Trent Room

    Description:
    Dignitaries standing outside the door of the just dedicated Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library. Dr. Davison is second from left and Mrs. Semans is third from right.
    Date:
    1956

  • Old Trent Room View 2

    Description:
    The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 2.
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Old Trent Room view 1

    Description:
    The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 1.
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Old Trent Room View 3

    Description:
    The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 3.
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Old Trent Room View 5

    Description:
    The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 5.
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Old Trent Room View 4

    Description:
    The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 4.
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thomas M. Simkins

    Description:
    Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Douglas Grant Lochhead in MacDonald Memorial Library

    Description:
    Douglas Grant Lochhead, librarian, in the Kipling Room of the MacDonald Memorial Library of Dalhousie University. Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia: Wetmore Photo
    Date:
    July 1956

  • Prints on the Walls of Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Walls of the Duke University Hospital Library showing a collection of prints and evidence of renovation for the Trent Room. View 4.
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Prints on the Walls of Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Walls of the Duke University Hospital Library showing a collection of prints and evidence of renovation for the Trent Room. View 3.
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Prints on the Walls of Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Walls of the Duke University Hospital Library showing collection of prints and evidence of renovation for the Trent Room. View 2.
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Prints on Walls of the Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Walls of the Duke University Hospital Library showing collection of prints and evidence of renovation for the Trent Room. View 1.
    Date:
    April 1956

  • Picture Collection at Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Picture collection displayed on walls of Duke University Hospital Library. View 4.
    Date:
    1955-1965

  • Picture Collection at Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Picture Collection displayed on walls of Duke University Hospital Library. View 1.
    Date:
    1955-1965

  • Picture Collection at Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Picture Collection displayed on walls of Duke University Hospital Library. View 2.
    Date:
    1955-1965

  • Picture Collection at Duke Hospital Library

    Description:
    Picture Collection displayed on walls of Duke University Hospital Library. View 3.
    Date:
    1955-1965

  • Bookplate for Dr. Nicolae Igna

    Description:
    Picture of a skull on top of a book. Drawn by Carol Roman.
    Date:
    1954

  • Bookplate for Dr. R. Preclik

    Description:
    Picture showing a group of books standing upright. In front is a pallet of paint and brushes in front of an open book. Drawn by M. Florian.
    Date:
    1954

  • Ex Libris Doz. Dr. Med. Julian Bartsch

    Description:
    Bookplate: An unclothed female on a square pedestal which has the image of a skull on the front. Behind her a very large eye emanates rays which illuminate the bones and internal organs of her torso. An elaborately coiled serpent drinks from a...
    Date:
    1954

  • Bookplate for Jaak Mattelaer

    Description:
    Picture by R. Blanche of a snake crawling over a basin with a mortar and pestle behind it. For Jaak Mattelaer.
    Date:
    1954

  • Michihiko Hachiya, M.D.

    Description:
    Portrait of Michihiko Hachiya and W. C. Davison drinking sake.
    Date:
    1954

  • Bookplate of Dr. Mario Jose de Oliveira

    Description:
    Portrait of a book placed between columns of a building. Various other objects appear on a wall. Drawn by A. Encarnacao Santos of Lisbon. Text in Latin and Portuguese.
    Date:
    April 14, 1953

  • Bookplate for Dr. Karl Schmidt

    Description:
    Picture by Maria Sturm of a woman sitting, reading a book with a cross on the wall behind her. Name at bottom Dris. Karl Schmidt.
    Date:
    1953

  • Bookplate for Enrique Saez

    Description:
    A cat sitting on two books against a landscape background. A caduceus is shown at the top of the sheet. Drawn by R. Barande. Text in Latin.
    Date:
    1953