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  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description:
    Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930...
    Date:
    circa 1938-1942

  • School of Medicine students with Dean Davison

    Description:
    Students and Wilburt Cornell Davison, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, on rounds in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • R. Wayne Rundles, first from the right, studying in the original School of Medicine Library

    Description:
    R. Wayne Rundles graduated from Duke University (M.D., 1940). He was an associate professor of medicine at Duke University from 1945 until the mid-1980s and served as director of the hematology and chemotherapy service at the Duke University...
    Date:
    circa 1940-1949

  • H. Max Schiebel

    Description:
    Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant chief of surgical services for the Office of Civilian Defense, Reserve Unit of the United States...
    Date:
    undated

  • Eugene Anson Stead, Jr.

    Description:
    Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with the 65th General Hospital between wars and helped start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training...
    Date:
    undated

  • Julian Meade Ruffin

    Description:
    Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime graduate medical meetings and served the Office of Civilian Defense of the United States Public Health...
    Date:
    undated

  • Francis Huntington Swett

    Description:
    Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
    Date:
    undated

  • Will Camp Sealy

    Description:
    Will Camp Sealy was chief of the general surgery section in the 65th General Hospital. In 1949 he worked with other Duke faculty to start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training Program.
    Date:
    undated

  • Haywood Maurice Taylor

    Description:
    Haywood Maurice Taylor, a member of the original faculty, was professor of toxicology from 1929 to 1960. He died September 21, 1960.
    Date:
    undated

  • Surgical house staff

    Description:
    Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Surgery. Julian Deryl Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery during this time. The majority of the individuals in this photograph were on house staff between 1944 and 1950. (From left to right, Row...
    Date:
    circa 1944-1945

  • Lyman, Meyer, and Davison

    Description:
    (Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School...
    Date:
    undated

  • Members of the Dept. of Anatomy

    Description:
    Members of the Department of Anatomy at Duke University School of Medicine. (Left to right, row 1) Henry Hollingshead, instructor; Frank Swett, professor and chair; Rober D. Baker, instructor. (Row 2) Edna Elias, secretary; Talmadge Peele, student...
    Date:
    1931

  • Dept. of Medicine Staff

    Description:
    Department of Medicine Staff. (Left to right, row 1) James P. Hendrix, Julian Meade Ruffin, Elijah Eugene Menefee, Jr., Elbert L. Persons, Eugene A. Stead, J. Lamar Callaway, William McNeal Nicholson, Oscar Hansen-Pruss, Edward S. Orgain....
    Date:
    circa 1947-1950

  • Frederick Bernheim

    Description:
    Frederick Bernheim was a member of the original faculty as professor of pharmacology from 1930 to 1976. He was also chief of the biochemical pharmacology laboratory.
    Date:
    undated

  • Students in the first class of the School of Nursing, School of Nursing staff, and Duke Hospital nurses

    Description:
    (Three groups from left to right) Staff, including Bessie Baker (dean) at the front of the line, and administrators; first class of the School of Nursing students (in black tights); nurses of Duke Hospital. The first class entered on January 1931...
    Date:
    circa 1931-1933

  • Susan Dees

    Description:
    Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
    Date:
    undated

  • Warner Lee Wells

    Description:
    Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
    Date:
    1941

  • Violet Olive Horner Turner

    Description:
    Violet Olive Horner Turner was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics (1941, 1943-1966).
    Date:
    undated

  • School of Nursing capping ceremony

    Description:
    Uniformed School of Nursing students entering their junior year receive their nursing caps from upper-class students. School of Nursing dean, classmates, and faculty members are also present.
    Date:
    March 1948

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description:
    D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date:
    1950

  • Ivan W. Brown, Jr.

    Description:
    Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the...
    Date:
    undated

  • Bessie Baker

    Description:
    In 1929, Baker was recruited by Wilburt C. Davison (first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine) to become the first dean of the Duke University School of Nursing. Baker officially joined Duke University in 1930 as professor and dean; the...
    Date:
    undated

  • J. Lamar Callaway and hospital physicians meeting

    Description:
    J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas Sprunt, William Schulze, and Elbert Persons are assembled in a Duke Hospital meeting room.
    Date:
    undated

  • Lenox D. Baker

    Description:
    Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
    Date:
    1948

  • Frederic Moir Hanes

    Description:
    Hanes came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of neurology and as the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine (1930-1946). He was chair of the Department of Medicine from 1933 to 1946. In 1937,...
    Date:
    undated

  • J. Deryl Hart with wash basin

    Description:
    Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later as...
    Date:
    1966

  • F. Gregory Hall

    Description:
    Frank Gregory Hall was a professor of pharmacology and physiology from 1945 to 1966 (emeritus 1966-1967) and chair of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1949 to 1961. Hall's research interests focused on oxygenation and...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edwin C. Hamblen

    Description:
    Hamblen came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He organized Duke's Division of Endocrinology in 1936 as a division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. During his career at Duke, Hamblen was an associate...
    Date:
    undated

  • Oscar Hansen-Pruss

    Description:
    Hansen-Pruss came to Duke University in 1930 as a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. Hansen-Pruss originated the Allergy Clinic in 1930 and became chief of the Allergy Service. He served as chief of the...
    Date:
    undated

  • Philip Handler

    Description:
    Philip Handler was a professor (1939-1984) and chair (1949-1969) of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. Handler was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1981. He served as president of the National Academy of Sciences...
    Date:
    undated

  • Duncan Charteris Hetherington

    Description:
    Hetherington was a member of the original faculty of Duke University School of Medicine. He served as a professor of anatomy from 1930 to 1963.
    Date:
    undated

  • William Alexander Perlzweig

    Description:
    Perlzweig was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine. He served as professor of biochemistry from 1929 to 1949. His research interests were primarily in the biochemistry of nutrition. Together with Frederic Moir Hanes, Wiley D....
    Date:
    undated

  • Roy T. Parker

    Description:
    Parker was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1946 to 1947. After completing his residency, Parker went into private practice. He returned to Duke University in 1953 as a professor and later became chair of the Department of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Students studying in the Duke University School of Medicine Library

    Description:
    Students, faculty, or interns study in the reading room of the School of Medicine Library (later known as the Medical Center Library). One student is using the card catalog.
    Date:
    1946

  • William McNeal Nicholson

    Description:
    Nicholson, a graduate of Duke University (A.B., 1927) became chief of the metabolism clinic (1940-1955) and dean of continuing medical education (1949-1968). His research interests were in metabolic diseases, particularly the treatment of diabetes.
    Date:
    undated

  • Talmage Lee Peele

    Description:
    Peele graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1929 and M.D., 1934). He served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1936 and as professor of anatomy from 1939 to 1981.
    Date:
    undated

  • Raymond S. Crispell

    Description:
    Crispell was a professor of psychiatry with the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1933 to 1946. He served during World War II as a lieutenant commander with the United States Naval Reserve Office.
    Date:
    1940

  • Executive Committee of the School of Medicine

    Description:
    Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
    Date:
    1947

  • Pathology staff in army uniforms

    Description:
    Group photograph of pathology staff in military uniform on front steps of building. Individuals pictured may have been members of the 65th General Hospital. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    undated

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Male and female members of the Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1943-1944

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1947-1948

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1949-1950

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1940-1941

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1937-1938

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description:
    Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    circa 1946-1947

  • Dept. of Surgery staff

    Description:
    Group photograph of Dept. of Surgery staff. J. Deryl Hart was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date:
    1944

  • Edwin P. Alyea

    Description:
    Edwin P. Alyea was first chief of Duke Hospital's Division of Urology within the Department of Surgery. He was appointed Profesor of Urology in 1929. Alyea received an bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1919 and an M.D. degree from...
    Date:
    undated

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
    Date:
    1978

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
    Date:
    undated