One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
Wilburt Davison (holding shovel) and John McGovern replanting the Osler ivy outside of the Davison Building. The first School of Medicine graduating class originally planted ivy in 1932 to commemorate commencement ceremonies.
(Left to right) Richard Sherman Lyman, Wilburt Cornell Davidson, Robert Lee Flowers, Adolph Meyer, Robert Sproul Carroll, and Frederic Moir Hanes. Lyman was chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Duke from 1940 to 1951. Davidson was Dean of the...
Duke University faculty and guests from other institutions gather at the Davison building, entrance to the School of Medicine on the occasion of the dedication of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital on April 31, 1931. Speakers are...
Staff of the Duke University School of Medicine, Nursing, and Dietetics and Duke Hospital two days before the opening. Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison, founding dean of the Medical School, is on the back row, second from the right
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
November 5, 1950 letter from Susan R. Chapin to Wilburt Davison thanking him for a copy of his "Thumbnail Sketch" and "Reminisces" of Sir William and Lady Grace Osler.
Transcript of a radio address given over WBTW on April 9, 1929, about the establishment of the Duke University School of Medicine and Hospital. The address is attributed to Wilburt C. Davison, and mentions the planning and asssistance done by Horace...
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....
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
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...
Wilburt Cornell Davison (“Dave”), first dean of the School of Medicine, smoking a pipe at his office desk. Davison was the chair of pediatrics (1930-1954) and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1933, he inaugurated a...
School of Medicine Dean Wilburt C. Davison (looking at camera) dining with students and colleagues. This dinner is likely at Turnage's Barbecue, a popular local destination during the 1950s.
Wilburt Cornell Davison, Joseph Beard, and Dorothy Beard standing together. Dr. Davison was the first dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University. Joseph and Dorothy Beard were researchers in the fields of virology and immunology.