Illustration of a heart in a book. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1940 through the 1970s. (Robert L. Blake...
Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Beard seated at micrscope, examining slides. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. Dorothy...
Safety Observers pictured from left to right: Row 1- Betty Cross, Betty Desrosiers, Clara Harris, Dorothy Grant, Essie Evans, Marilyn Blake, Sandra Williams, Annie Tedder, Rosa Herron; Row 2- Linda Starr, Theodore Lee, Ruth Ellis, Marie Scoggins,...
Therlan Thompson was a veteran of the Hospital’s Central Processing department where she worked as a medical supply assembler. Central Processing, also known as Central Supply, was a division of the Pharmacy Department. They distributed new and...
Delores Ford in her office. She was hired as a secretary first for the operating room at Duke Medical Center in 1969 and then transferred to the emergency room in 1971.
The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. Special collections in HIM include...
Manuscript note on verso indicates that this is a photograph of 52 Queen Street where chloroform was discovered and where Simpson lived until his death.
Thayer standing, with his hand on the shoulder of a man in a bed, and a clipboard attached to the headboard of the bed. On verso "Dr. William S. Thayer 'Sadie' 1906 Prof. of Medicine."
Portrait of Emil Adolf von Behring. Photographed by Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald.
Physick sitting at a desk, resting his left arm on the desk and holding a folded piece of paper in his right hand. Painted by Henry Inman, engraved by R. W. Dodson. Painted for the Medical class of the University of Pennsylvania. Facsimile signature.
Portrait of Berzelius sitting with his arm resting on a table, wearing a jacket with medallions on it. Text in English. Drawn by O. J. Soedermark, engraved by C. W. Sharpe.
Photograph of the Oxford School of Physiology. Included are Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Gowland Hopkins, Prof. H. M. Vernon, E. A. Woods, Eustace H. Chiver, “George,” Wilder Penfield, Emile Hohman, Miss Collier, C. F. Krige, Prof. Scott, and W....
Panel for the Florence Nightingale Memorial, Liverpool. Miss Nightingale is standing over two men and holding her lamp while she pours from a pitcher she is carrying into their bowl. The sculpture is by Charles J. Allen. From the collection of...
Stecher sitting at his desk, holding a pen, with a blank notepad and an open journal in front of him. Photographed by Rebman Photo Service, Inc. Manuscript note on verso: "Trent lecturer 1963."
Portrait of Dr. Howard Kelly seated in his library and holding an open book in his lap. This photograph was included at the beginning of his Florence Nightingale Collection.
Portrait of H. D. Rolleston. Facsimile signature. Photographed by Jhos. Zall. The number "12474" is shown in the bottom right hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg: Adolf Eckstein's Verlag.
Portrait of D. Francisco Vallesholding a book open with his left hand, and gesturing at it with his right hand. Text in Spanish. Drawn by J. Maea, engraved by M. Alegre, "Concluida pr. D. M. Sr. Carmona."
Portrait of Claude Bernard. Bernard studied many different aspects of medicine, and emphasized the interrelatedness of life functions and the importance of the body's preservation of internal stability.
Twenty-one 16th century Italian Majolic apothecary jars from the Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation on exhibit in the Duke University Medical Center Library in February/March 1991. Slide 5.
Picture showing Troy Hospital. This view shows two wings, one of which is partially obscured by trees. A stone wall, several large boulders, and four people are also shown.
Portrait of Joannes Valverdus. Portrait is bordered by skeletons on both sides. Small picture insets are shown at the bottom of the plate and angels are shown at the top. Manuscript note indicates N. Blatritet as the engraver.
Picture showing the Florence Nightingale Memorial Medal which consists of ribbon with a cross surrounded by a garland of leaves, below which hangs a medal with Florence Nightingale's likeness. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, No. 51.