Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Radiology. 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...
Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. 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...
J. Deryl Hart and surgical team in protective clothing operating under ultraviolet lights. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely...
Machinery and layout in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of surgical and medical...
Dept. of Surgery staff in an operating room dressed in protective gowns, gloves, goggles, and hoods. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that...
Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an instructor in...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Rodney Lehman at work in the physiology department of Duke Hospital. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the program,...
Altvater graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1930 and M.A., 1932). He earned a certificate in hospital administration in 1933. An original member of the faculty, held the position of the superintendent of Duke Hospital from 1930 to 1946.
Mrs. Hazel, one of the earliest hospital receptionists, is seated at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. A number of patients are waiting in the lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical...
Hospital staff, patient, and equipment in an early operating room of Duke Hospital. Two female members of the Duke Hospital staff are wearing surgical masks.
Two female members of the Duke University Hospital dietetics staff prepare food in the kitchen. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
Dietetics staff check over food in the main kitchen before it is sent out to the Hospital wards. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
Patients and hospital staff interact in the Duke Hospital outpatient clinic waiting room. Between 1930 to 1940, approximately half a million visits were made to the outpatient clinic (referred to early on as the OPC). By the early 1950s, an average of...
Reba N. Hobgood, social worker and original staff member of Duke Hospital, works with patients at the desk of the outpatient social services division. The Social Services Division was founded in 1937.
A nurse speaks on the phone at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at the desk during his evening work in the foyer of Duke Hospital...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics. Includes women in early nursing uniforms. Taken outside of hospital. (Back row left to right) Joseph Mignone, Jr. (house staff, 1933-1934), Jay M. Arena (M.D., Duke,...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics. (Back row left to right) Charles Houston Gay (A.B., Duke, 1929; M.D. Duke, 1933), Wilburt Cornell Davison (dean of the School of Medicine, 1927-1960), Angus McBryde...
Radiology staff standing in front of Duke Hospital. On October 1, 1930 Dr. Robert J. Reeves helped to establish an x-ray technician training program in Duke Hospital which led to the development of the Dept. of Radiology at Duke University. Courses in...
Attendees of the first organizational meeting of the Southern Association of Practising Pathologists. The meeting was organized by Wiley D. Forbus (chair of Dept. of Pathology 1930-1960) in 1935. The association met again in 1937 in Duke University's...
The original hospital lobby, as seen through a wood-panelled doorway or hallway. Patients wait as a hospital staff member sits at the two-sided desk. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics. (Back row left to right) Wilburt Cornell Davison (dean of the School of Medicine, 1927-1960), Karl Shepard (house staff, 1939), Angus McBryde (associate professor of...