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...
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...
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.
Dr. Joseph Beard and Dorothy Beard worked together to isolate and identify cancer viruses that cause leukemia in chickens. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973.
Joseph Beard with students during an experimental operation. Beard joined the Duke University faculty, serving from 1937 to 1973. He became the James B. Duke professor of surgery in 1946 and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. He received the...
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...
Photograph of a part of a hyperbaric chamber and its control panel. One staff member is seated at the panel, and another is working at the hyperbaric chamber. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
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.
Photograph of Morris Fishbein. This photograph was taken on occasion of the announcement that Dr. Fishbein had been added to the editorial staff of Postgraduate Medicine.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Portrait of William Osler from the lithograph by George Black. Osler is seated in a chair with his right elbow on a table. Signature: “Sincerely yours Wm Osler.”
Medallion by G. Prudhomme with left profile of Pasteur on one side and picture of a girl representing "Science" on the other. From the collection of John P. McGovern, M.D.
Portrait of Parrish facing left. From the original painting in the possession of the family. Drawn by Street, engraved by Albert Rosenthal. Facsimile signature.
Photograph of an unpainted house, prerestoration. Text at bottom: "Belroi Birthplace of Dr. Walter Reed, Gloucester Virginia. D. N. Davidson." Presented to the Duke Hospital by Clarence Porter Jones.
Surgical saw with elaborately tooled frame handle. It is displayed with a copy of Gersdorff's "Feldbuch der Wundtartzney" which has been opened to an illustration of a surgeon using a similar saw.