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  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description:
    Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930...
    Date:
    circa 1938-1942

  • Nursing students in a teaching laboratory

    Description:
    Nursing students, some uniformed, in a laboratory.
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • C.P.S. worker Kirkpatrick in the blood chemistry laboratory

    Description:
    Truman Kirkpatrick, a former industrial chemist, at work in the blood chemistry laboratory of Duke Hospital. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of...
    Date:
    1944

  • C.P.S. worker Lehman in chemistry laboratory

    Description:
    Rodney Lehman at work in the physiology department of Duke Hospital. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the program,...
    Date:
    undated

  • 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

  • Pathologist at a work station in a research laboratory

    Description:
    Pathologist working with a specimen. According to a news article, "in only 2-10 minutes pathologists can report to waiting surgeons whether or not a patient on the operating table has cancer. Here a pathologist uses a 'microtome' to freeze a...
    Date:
    circa 1948

  • Glen R. Gale in laboratory

    Description:
    Glen R. Gale using a microscope to study organisms in a laboratory. At age 19, Gale discovered an unnamed organism with remarkable killing powers against dangerous fungi. After graduation from Duke University in 1953 (Ph.D.), Gale went on to serve...
    Date:
    1948

  • Student at work in Zoology Dept. laboratory

    Description:
    Bob Curry (M.D., Duke, 1943) in the laboratory feeding white mice, which were used in a chigger study.
    Date:
    circa 1942-1943

  • Researcher measuring a chart

    Description:
    Researcher at a teaching laboratory station measuring a rolled chart.
    Date:
    undated

  • Dorothy Beard in Bell building virus research laboratory

    Description:
    Dorothy Beard in a laboratory. A research associate in the Department of Surgery, she worked alongside her husband, Joseph Beard, as part of the internationally prominent Beard cancer research team to help develop the first usable vaccine for...
    Date:
    1956