Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
The original hospital lobby, as seen through a wood-panelled doorway or hallway. Patients wait as a hospital staff member sits at the two-sided desk. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat...
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...
Practical nursing graduates- 20 women and two men graduated from the Practical Nursing Program at the Durham Technical Institute. Their program consisted of a 12-month training period of theory course at DTI and clinical work at Duke. The students...
Charlie Grinstead worked as a parking valet from 1973-1976. He was a fixture in front of Duke Hospital and would have been the first official face of the medical center that patients and visitors saw as they came up the walk. Charlie became ill at...
School of Medicine Dean Wilburt C. Davison (looking at camera) dining with students and colleagues. This dinner is likely at Turnage's Barbecue, a popular local destination during the 1950s.
A School of Nursing student holds an African-American infant patient in the pediatrics ward. Part of the pediatrics ward mural is visible in the background.