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  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

    Description/Abstract: Patients seated along a wall in the public dispensary. Hospital staff, physicians and nurses are also visible.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background. Thornhill (A.B., Duke, 1936 and M.D., 1940) served on the house staff from 1940 to 1942.
    Date: 1940

  • Pediatrics waiting area in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Pediatrics waiting area filled with seated women and infants. Note the train painted on the left wall (Carl Roger’s face is on the front of the train and W.C. Davison is the engineer).
    Date: circa 1940

  • Patient waiting room

    Description/Abstract: A group of African-American patrons sit in the waiting room at Duke Hospital. The sign on the pillar reads, "New Patients Colored Register Here."
    Date: circa 1940-1949

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic patient waiting area

    Description/Abstract: Patients and staff in a Duke Hospital Private Diagnostic Clinic waiting area. The 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: 1940