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  • William McNeal Nicholson

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • William Alexander Perlzweig

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Will Camp Sealy

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Wilburt Cornell Davison

    Description/Abstract: Davison was pediatrician, chair of pediatrics (1930-1954), and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1926, Duke University president William Preston Few recruited Davison away from Johns Hopkins University. Davison's...
    Date: undated

  • Wilburt C. Davison dining with students and colleagues

    Description/Abstract: 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.
    Date: circa 1950

  • Wilburt C. Davison at his desk

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: circa 1940

  • Warner Lee Wells

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Walter Kempner

    Description/Abstract: Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the effect of diet on various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Observing that those diseases were...
    Date: undated

  • Walter E. Daniel

    Description/Abstract: Walter E. Daniel was on the Duke house staff and an instructor in urology from 1932 to 1934 and 1937 to 1938.
    Date: 1933

  • Violet Olive Horner Turner

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

  • Thelma Ingles

    Description/Abstract: Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing...
    Date: undated

  • Talmage Lee Peele

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Susan Dees

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Surgical house staff

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Students studying in the Duke University School of Medicine Library

    Description/Abstract: 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

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

    Description/Abstract: (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

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Speakers at dedication of the School of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 1931

  • Speaker at tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: Robert Lee Flowers addresses faculty and house staff during the tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine, held from November 29-30, 1940. Flowers was President of Duke University from 1941 to 1949.
    Date: 1940

  • School of Nursing students and Ruby L. Wilson

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing students Betty June Jeffcoat, Kathryn Antle, Janet Lemen Chessom, and dean of the School of Nursing Ruby L. Wilson.
    Date: 1973

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description/Abstract: Nursing faculty member using stethoscope on an African American child.
    Date: 1948

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description/Abstract: Nursing faculty member holding infant on scale. Three other women and another faculty member are included in the photograph.
    Date: 1948

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description/Abstract: Nursing faculty member with baby and two women at community agency.
    Date: 1948

  • School of Nursing capping ceremony

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • School of Medicine students with Dean Davison

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

  • Samuel E. Upchurch

    Description/Abstract: Samel E. Upchurch was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery from 1933 to 1945. He was also a member of the 65th General Hospital as assistant chief of surgical service and group consultant in plastic surgery.
    Date: undated

  • Russell Dicks

    Description/Abstract: Portrait of Russell Dicks, a professor of pastoral care, the director of clinical pastoral training, and chaplain at Duke University Hospital from 1948-1958.
    Date: undated

  • Roy T. Parker

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Roger Denio Baker in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Roger Denio Baker was a member of the original faculty as associate professor of pathology from 1930 to 1944.
    Date: 1940

  • Robert Randolph Jones

    Description/Abstract: Robert Randolph Jones was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. He served as house staff and associate professor of surgery from 1930 to 1941. In 1941, he was fatally shot by a psychiatric patient who was...
    Date: undated

  • Robert Nowell Creadick

    Description/Abstract: Robert Nowell Creadick was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics from 1939 to 1966.
    Date: undated

  • Robert James Reeves

    Description/Abstract: Robert James Reeves was a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of radiology from 1930 to 1968 and as first chair of the Dept. of Radiology from 1930 to 1965. He was in the reserve unit of the United States Public Health Service...
    Date: undated

  • Richard Sherman Lyman

    Description/Abstract: Lyman received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1921). He worked in Leningrad with Ivan P. Pavlov in the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (1930-1931). His appointments...
    Date: undated

  • Raymond S. Crispell

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Ralph A. Arnold

    Description/Abstract: Arnold began his career at Duke in 1936 as a member of the Duke Hospital house staff. He was a professor of otology and associate professor of otolaryngology and ophthalmology from 1936 to 1941 and 1946 to 1960.
    Date: undated

  • Radiology staff

    Description/Abstract: Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly conferences on x-ray technology for medical, surgical, and pediatric house...
    Date: 1942

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

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Philip Handler

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Pathology staff in army uniforms

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Oscar Hansen-Pruss

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Nursing faculty visit community agencies

    Description/Abstract: At the center, a line of men and women can be seen in front of a large piece of medical equipment. A nurse is using the piece of equipment on a male patient, while another nurse stands behind her.
    Date: 1948

  • Members of the Dept. of Anatomy

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Mary Alverta Poston

    Description/Abstract: Mary Alverta Poston graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in 1939. She was a member of the original faculty as an instructor in bacteriology and later an associate in microbiology within the Dept. of Microbiology (1930-1961). She...
    Date: undated

  • Margaret Isabel Pinkerton

    Description/Abstract: Pinkerton served as dean of the School of Nursing from 1939 to 1946.
    Date: undated

  • Margaret Isabel Pinkerton

    Description/Abstract: Margaret Isabel Pinkerton was dean of the School of Nursing from 1939 to 1946.
    Date: undated

  • Lyman, Meyer, and Davison

    Description/Abstract: (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

  • Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner, 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner (later chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke) was chief of Surgical Service of the 65th General Hospital. Near the end of the war, Dr. Gardner was promoted to full colonel and became a surgical consultant to the...
    Date: undated

  • Leslie B. Hohman

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Leslie B. Hohman
    Date: circa 1950

  • Lenox D. Baker

    Description/Abstract: Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopaedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
    Date: circa 1965

  • Lenox D. Baker

    Description/Abstract: 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