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...
A hospital staff member checks a patient’s eyes. The Division of Ophthalmology (located under the Department of Surgery) began with only one clinic per week. It grew to daily sessions, held for a time in the old reading room of the Library. W. Banks...
Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Poston, a member of the original faculty, was an instructor in bacteriology from 1930 to 1960. Whildin (M.D., Duke, 1937) was a member of the...
A receptionist answers the phone while seated at the two-sided desk in the Hospital lobby, Spring 1938. The receptionist may be Lillian D. Trevathan, the original phone operator at Duke Hospital who later became chief of information desk personnel. ...