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  • Acceptance of the Buildings

    Description:
    Speech in acceptance of the Duke Endowment's gift of buildings for Duke's new medical school and hospital. The speech was delivered by Colonel John Fletcher Bruton on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Bruton delivered this speech during dedication...
    Date:
    1931

  • Aerial view of Duke University Medical Center campus

    Description:
    Aerial view of the Duke University Medical Center's campus.
    Date:
    circa 1990

  • Aerial view of Medical Campus

    Description:
    Aerial view of the Duke University Medical Center campus.
    Date:
    circa 1976

  • Aerial view of medical campus

    Description:
    Aerial view of Duke's medical campus during the mid 1970's.
    Date:
    circa 1975

  • Aerial view of the Duke University Medical Center campus

    Description:
    Aerial view of the Duke University Medical Center's campus, with labels noting buildings and additions.
    Date:
    circa 1960

  • Baker House

    Description:
    Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support...
    Date:
    undated

  • Bell Building

    Description:
    Front view of the Bell Building. The Bell Building was originally constructed in 1947 and underwent renovations in 1958, 1960, 1964 and 1979. The building was home to offices of the Departments of Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiology, Obstetrics and...
    Date:
    undated

  • Construction of Duke Children's Hospital

    Description:
    Construction of Duke Children's Hospital, which opened in 2000.
    Date:
    2000

  • Construction of Duke Children's Hospital

    Description:
    Construction of Duke Children's Hospital, which opened in 2000.
    Date:
    1998

  • Davison building

    Description:
    Davison building with students on campus lawn.
    Date:
    undated

  • Dedication of Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Reprint of speeches given during the dedicatory exercises of the Duke University School of Medicine and Hospital orignally printed in the Southern Medical Journal (Vol XXIV, No. 12). Speeches include: " Presentation of Buildings," by George...
    Date:
    1931

  • Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Description:
    Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in front of the biology building.
    Date:
    circa 1945

  • Duke Hospital North

    Description:
    Duke Hospital North was built in 1980 to accommodate the need for more room and newer technologies.
    Date:
    1980

  • Duke Hospital North construction

    Description:
    Duke Hospital North was built in 1980 to accommodate the need for more room and newer technologies.
    Date:
    circa 1979

  • Duke Hospital patient room

    Description:
    An early single-patient hospital room in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke North Exterior, with Life Flight

    Description:
    Duke Life Flight helicopter with Duke North Hospital in background. In 1985, Duke Life Flight became the first hospital-based helicopter service in North Carolina.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke South Clinics

    Description:
    Exterior of Duke South Clinics with Duke Hospital sign in front.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke University Hospital

    Description:
    Hand tinted postcard from the 1930s depicting the exterior of Duke University Hospital.
    Date:
    circa 1930

  • Duke University Hospital entrance

    Description:
    Early image of the entrance of Duke University Hospital.
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • Duke University Hospital with snow

    Description:
    Duke University Hospital with snow.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit

    Description:
    The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke University School of Medicine

    Description:
    This linen postcard comes from a 1945 folder set. The caption reads "D-8--Science Quadrangle, showing School of Medicine in Center, Duke University, Durham, N.C."
    Date:
    1945

  • Entrance to the Private Diagnostic Clinics, 1960s

    Description:
    Entrance to the Private Diagnostic Clinics, 1960s. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated problems arising in the examination of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Entrance to the Private Diagnostic Clinics, 1960s

    Description:
    Entrance to the Private Diagnostic Clinics, 1960s. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated problems arising in the examination of...
    Date:
    undated

  • Exterior of Duke South Clinics

    Description:
    Exterior of Duke South Clinics during the mid 1970's.
    Date:
    circa 1975

  • Hospital lobby

    Description:
    An early photo of the Hospital lobby. Numerous patients are gathered in the lobby and a hospital staff member is seated at the two-sided. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at the desk...
    Date:
    circa 1930

  • Hospital Sketch

    Description:
    Original floor plan sketches of Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1927

  • Illustration of Duke Hospital clinic entrances

    Description:
    Illustration of the main entrance to the Duke Hospital clinics. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1942 through the...
    Date:
    1962

  • Illustration of the Davison Building

    Description:
    Illustration of the Davison Building by Robert Blake.
    Date:
    undated

  • Illustration of the Duke South Clinics

    Description:
    Illustration of the Duke South Clinics entrance by Robert Blake.
    Date:
    undated

  • Illustration of the Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit

    Description:
    The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
    Date:
    undated

  • Installation of new hyperbaric chambers

    Description:
    Installation of new hyperbaric chambers at Duke. Duke Chapel can be seen in background.
    Date:
    1978

  • Man in laboratory doing virus research

    Description:
    Man in lab doing virus research in the Bell Building.
    Date:
    circa 1961

  • Order of Exercises for the Dedication of the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Program for the Dedication of the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Hospital. Speakers for the day's events were: George Garland Allen, Colonel John Fletcher Bruton, Wilburt C. Davison, David Linn Edsall, William Preston Few, Thurman...
    Date:
    1931

  • Original columbarium in Davison Building

    Description:
    Original columbarium in Davison building, unveiled in 1955, and renovated in 1973. This image shows plaques for Dr. Francis Swett, Dr. Frederic Hanes, Dr. William Perlzweig, and Bessie Baker.
    Date:
    1955

  • Out-Patient Department Entrance

    Description:
    Entrance of Duke University Hospital's Out-Patient Department.
    Date:
    circa 1950

  • Patient examination room

    Description:
    A hospital examination room, with desk and bed. Through the open window behind the desk, the stone of the Duke Hospital building's exterior is visible.
    Date:
    circa 1930-1936

  • Pharmacy graduates in front of the Davison Building

    Description:
    Pharmacy graduates in front of the Davison Building. Two shake hands while exchanging a paper.
    Date:
    1973

  • Presentation of Buildings

    Description:
    Text of a speech given at the presentation of the buildings for the Duke Medical School and Hospital given by George Garland Allen, President of the Trustees of the Duke Endowment. Allen delievered the speech during the dedication exercises for...
    Date:
    1931

  • School of Nursing cadet students on front steps of Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Three uniformed cadet nurses on the front steps of Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Seeley G. Mudd Building

    Description:
    The exterior of the Seeley G. Mudd Building, which houses the Medical Center Library. The building was constructed in 1975.
    Date:
    circa 1975

  • Student nurse on steps of Baker House

    Description:
    School of nursing student exiting Baker House. Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration,...
    Date:
    undated

  • View of medical campus buildings

    Description:
    View of medical campus buildings during the mid 1970's.
    Date:
    circa 1975