Cliveden was Nancy and Waldorf Astor’s estate in Buckinghamshire, England. The Astors had the hospital built on their tennis courts. It was run by the Canadian Red Cross, and was dismantled at the end of the First World War. Osler served as head...
Helen Kaiser in the Helen L. Kaiser Library. The plaque text reads: "This library has been designated the Helen L. Kaiser Library by the Board of Trustees of Duke University in honor of Helen Louise Kaiser, R.P.T. for her dedicated service to the...
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 papers.)
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 Beard...
52nd Graduating Class of the Practical Nursing Program; L to R, 1st row: Mary Blue, Ora Riley, Mary Watkins, Christine Williams, Laura Thomas; 2nd row: Sadie Boden, Ella Crawford, Geraldine Roghelia, Josephine Horne, Lynn Johnson, Ruby Griffis; 3rd...
The Duke Hospital Auxiliary was started in 1950, and Betty Leach started to do volunteer work them in 1956, shortly after moving to Durham. She was vital to the founding of the “Pink Smock” gift shops at Duke Hospital. These stores grew from a simple...
Employees utilize the Hospital cafeteria’s new fast food section where they are able to pick up their selections and go directly to the cashier. This photograph was taken by Lewis Parrish and appeared in the January 7, 1972 issue of Intercom.
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, Ethel...
Duke employees (pictured left to right) Helen Russell, Virginia Whitman, Margie Wilkins sort first-class mail arriving at the mail room. This photograph appeared in the July 2, 1971 issue of Intercom.
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...
Duke mail room employee Geneva Westbrook distributes letters to the post office boxes from the back. Most people would only see these boxes from the outside. This photograph appeared in the July 2, 1971 issue of the Intercom.
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.
Duke University School of Medicine First Year Students, 1971: R.C. Agner; J.R. Allison, III; L.B. Andrew; L.C. Area; L.K. Arnold; R.M. Austin; E.R. Baker; R.M. Ball; L. Barnes; G.P. Beardsley; M.J. Becker; F.F. Bolander, Jr.; A.A. Bonin; E.I. Bonner,...
Portrait of Georg Gottlob Richter. He is standing near a table with his left hand on top of an upright book. He is pointing with his right hand toward a coat of arms. Drawn and sculpted from life by Ge. Dan. Heumann. Engraved by la Cour de S. M. Brit....
Duke University School of Medicine New Students, October 1949: Adams, R.H., Jr.; Appen, R.C.; Ayerst, R.I.; Bacos, J.M.; Baer, B.L.; Bell, W.R.; Berlin, M.; Berry, J.N.; Blackard, E.H., Jr.; Bondurant, S., Jr.; Boren, R.B., III; Brice, G.W., Jr.;...
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 Bartisch’s...
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. C....
Man in uniform standing in an open tent entrance, bracing his arm on the tent wall. Horseshoe and sign above tent flap. On verso "Dr. Witterson- Chicago-".
A line of men standing shoulder to shoulder behind a line of four tripods. Tents, buildings, and a large tree visible in the background. On verso, "Our Platoon".
Man in uniform, wearing glasses, standing at attention in front of an open tent flap. Laundry drying on the tent line on the left. On verso "Dr. Suches".
Photograph of (left to right) Walter L. Bierring, Sir William Osler, and Col. L. A. LaGarde, M. C. USA at Dr. Osler’s home, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford, England.
Painting showing Florence Nightingale at Scutari in 1856. Reproduction after the picture by Jerry Barratt. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., Nos. 17 and 18.
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 Howard...
A group of tents in front of buildings, with men engaging in various tasks outside the tents. On verso, "1st Medico - Military Encampment; Plattsburg N. Y.; July 26-Aug 9, 1916".
Several uniformed men in a line shoulder to shoulder, facing three large tripods, with another man standing opposite to them. Tents and buildings visible in the background.
Sudhoff and Welch facing each other, with a pillar and a stone wall in the background, Sudhoff is holding a drinking glass. Text: "Prof. Karl Sudhoff and Dr. William H. Welch at a convention in Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1927. Courtesy of Dr. Arnold C....
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.
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.