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  • Early operating room

    Description:
    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

  • Nurses in operating room during a surgical procedure

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

  • Early operating room

    Description:
    One of the eleven operating and delivery rooms of Duke Hospital. A bed, surgical basin, and other equipment are shown.
    Date:
    undated

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description:
    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

  • Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1930

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description:
    D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date:
    1950

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

    Description:
    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

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    X-ray screen, table, and other equipment in Duke Hospital. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    1933

  • Original operating room, view from above

    Description:
    This photograph of the original operating room shows the layout of the room, including the operating table, various equipment, and supplies.
    Date:
    undated

  • Nursing faculty visit community agencies

    Description:
    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