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  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: undated

  • Early operating room

    Description/Abstract: 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.
    Date: circa 1930-1934

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: undated

  • Nurses in operating room during a surgical procedure

    Description/Abstract: Registered nurses administering anesthesia in a operating room of Duke Hospital.
    Date: 1940

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: undated

  • Hospital staff with an artificial kidney machine

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Victor Murdaugh, in the tie, is demonstrating Duke's new Kolff twin coil artificial kidney machine for a physician from eastern North Carolina back in 1957-58. Invented by Willem Kolff, MD, of the Netherlands, this kidney machine was one of...
    Date: undated

  • X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch

    Description/Abstract: Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
    Date: 1946