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  • X-ray technician Joanna Law Martin examines a patient

    Description/Abstract: Martin guides the x-ray machine over the patient's torso. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: circa 1937-1938

  • Walter B. Cannon with Gordon C. Ring

    Description/Abstract: Photograph of Gordon C. Ring and Walter B. Cannon. Photograph by C. N. H. Long.
    Date: 1938

  • Uit de Boekerij van het A.V.G.V.

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A modern male figure clothed in a lab coat and gloves examines a test tube. A shadow figure behind him in medieval dress holds aloft a flask. A banner between them reads: Nova et Vetera.
    Date: 1938

  • U.S. Public Health Service Library

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of the U.S. Public Health Service: winged Caduceus crossed with anchor.
    Date: 1900s

  • Tufts College, Medical Dental School Library

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of Tufts College
    Date: 1900s

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • School of Nursing students in classroom

    Description/Abstract: Students in uniforms seated at desks.
    Date: circa 1935-1939

  • School of Nursing capping ceremony

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing students at a capping ceremony in the late 1930s.
    Date: circa 1938

  • School of Medicine Composite, New Students 1938

    Description/Abstract: New Students, Duke University School of Medicine 1938: Baldwin, W.E., Jr.; Black, B.; Bremer, A.H., Jr.; Brindley, C.O.; Brownell, I.O.; Bryant, W.E.; Buchwald, M.E.; Burch, G.W.; Butler, C.C.; Clark, J.R., Jr.; Cutchin, J.H., Jr.; Daniel, R.D.;...
    Date: 1938

  • School of Medicine class of 1938

    Description/Abstract: Duke University School of Medicine students, class of 1938.
    Date: circa 1938

  • Print Collection in the Reading Room of Duke Hospital Library

    Description/Abstract: This pamphlet lists the original pieces of the print collection donated by Thurmond Chatham to the Duke Hospital Library reading room in 1934. Also inside this pamphlet is information about each type of print.
    Date: 1938

  • Original entrance to the School of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: The original main entrance to the School of Medicine is now known as the Davison building.
    Date: circa 1934-1939

  • Ophthalmoscope

    Description/Abstract: Ophthalmoscope donated by David C. Sabiston, Jr., MD
    Date: 20th Century

  • Ophthalmology

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member checks a patient’s eyes. The Division of Ophthalmology (located under the Department of Surgery) began with only one clinic per week. It grew to daily sessions, held for a time in the old reading room of the Library. W....
    Date: circa 1930-1940

  • Nursing class of 1940

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing students in uniform, class of 1940.
    Date: 1938

  • Nursing class of 1937 or 1939

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing students in uniform, most likely the class of 1937 or 1939.
    Date: circa 1937-1939

  • MUDr Otakar Poupa

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Within an arched space, an eye looks up at magnified microorganisms.
    Date: 1900s

  • Milwaukee Academy of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Winged caduceus with two serpents inscribed in an oval.
    Date: 1900s

  • Medicine Bottle

    Description/Abstract: Medicine Bottle, Owens-Illinois Glass Company
    Date: 20th century

  • Mayo Clinic Library

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of Mayo Clinic displayed on decorative field.
    Date: 1900s

  • Maurice J. Strauss Memorial Book Fund, Yale Medical Library

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Cross-section of skin. Flash camera in upper right corner.
    Date: 1900s

  • Library of the Johns Hopkins University

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of Johns Hopkins University
    Date: 1900s

  • Library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Johns Hopkins Hospital Library bookplate.
    Date: 1900s

  • Library of the Academy of Medicine, Toronto

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Lamp over open book with motto beneath: Domina Rerum Sapientia
    Date: 1900s

  • Kantor Szel, Konyve

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A sword is stuck in a rock beneath a slender tree shedding leaves.
    Date: 1900s

  • J. Whitridge Williams

    Description/Abstract: Photograph of J. Whitridge Williams
    Date: 1900s

  • J. M.D. Olmsted

    Description/Abstract: Signed photograph of J. M. D. Olmsted taken in Paris.
    Date: Fall, 1938

  • J. Lang

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Large bearded figure in black robes offers bottles of medicine to tiny figures making gestures of supplication.
    Date: 1900s

  • Iowa State Medical Library

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Head of Hippocrates flanked by a winged Caduceus with two serpents and his name displayed vertically. Greek inscription beneath.
    Date: 1900s

  • Howard A. Kelly [facsimile signature]

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Bearded scholar reading in a grape arbor supported by doric columns. Foxglove growing at left. Greek inscription on cross beam [Proverbs 8:21].
    Date: 1900s

  • Hennepin County Medical Society Library Minneapolis, MN

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Two serpents twined around a staff within an oval frame. Below, a shelf of books, and an ink stand with quill pen.
    Date: 1900s

  • H. G. W.

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Monogram initials against background of stylized flowers.
    Date: 1900s

  • Given by Dr. Walter B. James

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of Columbia University in the City of New York.
    Date: 1900s

  • From the Pilcher gift of old works on medicine to the University of Michigan

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Profile of Lewis Stephen Pilcher in a medallion.
    Date: 1900s

  • Faculty and staff of Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed faculty and staff of Duke Hospital.
    Date: circa 1937-1938

  • Ex Librus Frank Kells Boland

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Coat of arms over a facsimile signature
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Wayne County Medical Society

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Seal of Wayne County Medical Society featuring staff of Aesculapius with serpent.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris W. Nieveen

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A physician examines a flask of urine while taking the pulse of a woman. Another woman looks on. Composition inspired by a Jan Steen painting.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Text inscribed within an oval, the rim of which is marked with ornaments, a serpent, and flowers.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Regii Clinici Ophthalm. Univers. Tubingen.

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Classically attired woman leads two male children by the hand.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Professor Dr. Fedor Haenisch

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Aesculapius with staff in a medallion surrounded by a border with a stag pursued by a hunter with gun, a chemical retort, and a raven. On verso is 04047.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Prof. Dr. R. de Josselin de Jong

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: The motto: "In parvis magnum relevatur."
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Paul Op de Coul

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A large bird with outstretched wings flies above clouds.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Paul Bonnet

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Falcon representing Horus
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Otto Pappel

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A surgeon operates in the background. The grim reaper is in the foreground. A book is open to an image of a snake curled around a chalice to form a caduceus.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr Rudolf Wagner

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: An open book with an eye on each page. Spires of a building with view of countryside above a single fish in water below.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr R. Kantorek

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: In a memento mori scene, a youthful long-haired woman with a crown of flowers is juxtaposed against a skeleton.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr Milos Sajfert

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Four-armed figure with turban holding up an Aladdin's lamp to illuminate the pages of an open book.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr Jan Fiala

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Male figure in 3/4 profile looks at a syringe he holds in his right hand. Surrounded by figures--all ages--in need of medical assistance.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr J. Janek

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Venus de Milo against backdrop of pelvic bone and a row of books.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr Blaz Mikulova

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Woman in surgical attire surrounded by books, Caduceus, and a spray of lily of the valley.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris MUDr A. Mossig

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Microscope, lab equipment, medicine bottles, and syringe below the diagonal; landscape painting, books, and flowers above.
    Date: 1930-1958

  • Ex Libris Medici Ocularii Gustav Schleich

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Classically attired woman covers the head of an adolescent boy with a draped frock.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Laimonis Lizins

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A man is seated at a table, a book in his right hand. He holds a magnifying glass up to his face, which greatly enlarges his left eye.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Kazimierza Wardzinskiego

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A microscope and books against a decorative background.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Harold B. Hermann

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Naked male infant standing atop a pillar urinating into a test tube attached by a clamp to a stand. Around the stand and test tube is wound a snake.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Haagen Bartram-Jensen

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Naked youth framed by two serpents.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris H. Homer Allen

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Winged Caduceus with two serpents inside an oval wreath, flanked by books. An oak branch with acorns is laid across a third book lying beneath the wreath.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris H. F. Wynman

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Sun, flower in pot, heart, flame, and piles of books.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris George A. Williams

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Galleon-style ship under full sail. The initials "LEX" on main sail.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris generously donated to Indiana University School of Medicine

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Open book with motto: Lux et veritas. Caducaeus beneath
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris G. Stropus

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A masked and gowned head view of a surgeon with rubber gloves and syringe.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Fritz Volkmar

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Large long-necked bird thrusting bill down dog's open mouth.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex libris Fielding Hudson Garrison

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Winged caduceus with two serpents.
    Date: late 19th or early 20th century

  • Ex Libris F. M. Groedel

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Nude female kneeling on an open book. She leans her right ear against an enormous heart and holds a serpent in a bowl in her left hand.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex libris Eugene Somer Flamm.

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Hieroglyphic in oval cartouche surrounded by Latin text: vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Eugene Somer Flamm

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Hieroglyphic in a cartouche surrounded by Latin text: vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Stefan Buraczewski

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: An open eye.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Stan Sternal

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Three gowned and masked figures surround an operating table.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Robert Libusehuz

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A goblet in which a man and woman stand embracing is balanced on an open book. A serpent winds around the goblet.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Norman Shaftel

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Framed by an elaborate cartouche, a serpent is wound around a heart to form a caduceus. Below the cartouche is a circle divided into equal quarters; in each section is either an animal or a barrel.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Nicolas Gamaleia [Cyrillic alphabet]

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A woman rests her left hand on the trunk of a conifer as she tilts her head back to look straight up into the branches. Her right hand is cupped at her right ear. Several birds are visible.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Med. Herman Smet

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Frontal view of a woman's head that has been divided down the center. The left half is normal; the right half is flayed. "Semper humanior."
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Med. Gerhard Kreyenberg

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A large long-beaked bird holds a bouquet of flowers, including foxglove and lily-of-the-valley, in its right claw. The left claw grasps a serpent. The image in inscribed inside a circle.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Med. Eduard Krauss

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A young man holds a jar aloft. To his lower right and left are heraldic shields of Hohenfeld and Mainbernheim, respectively. On upper left and right are anatomic cross-sections.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Med Eugen Korner

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A serpent curled around a cross forms a caduceus; a foxglove in full bloom; a heart
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Med [Livinio] Alb. Marino

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Cadaver/sculpture stretched out on table to left. Dissector/sculptor seated behind desk on right holding an instrument.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. M. C. Ennema

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: In a medieval interior, an elderly bearded man in long robes tries on spectacles. Another bearded man sits at a table offering other spectacles.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Lucien Bovet

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Two nude figures standing on an open book hold a very large brain between them.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Letoublon

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A woman is seated in a large armchair holding a child on her lap. The doctor in a white coat leans forward and looks in the child's mouth. A desk lamp with a caduceus base illuminates an open book in the foreground and a book case...
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Laurand

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Behind the crane and the wolf is a caduceus with a serpent.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Ladislaus Petrikovits

    Description/Abstract: Picture of a woman kneeling holding a pitchfork, with a bird sitting on her hand. By A. Fery for Dr. Ladislaus Petrikovits.
    Date: 1938

  • Ex Libris Dr. Jacques Rougier

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: An eye, a burning candle, the sun, mountains, a sailboat, and an open book.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. J. Collet

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Physician in medieval garb holds up in his right hand a urine flask for examination. His left hand rests on an open manuscript volume.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Hollaender

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Two small birds sit beneath a tree which has a heavy trunk, a canopy of large leaves, and some fruit.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Hans Stopfer

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A right hand reaches for a valentine-shaped heart among the thorns.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. H. Boom

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A right hand is held up in front of a figure whose chest is being X-rayed.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. German Eichelter

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Vignette of three surgeons operating in lower right. An alpine village in upper left.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. G. Vichard

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Surgeons operating, large sailing ships, nude female figure, coat of arms, pipe, books.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. G. Ancelet

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: An elderly man in a long coat examines the tongue of a mask. A table with instruments and books is to his right. Curieux es Arts. Artiste es Cures.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Felix Bauer

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Young girl with a flower in her right hand sits on a grassy hillside. Against a mountain backdrop two children carry an oversized crutch. An arch of roses frames the scene with a serpent and bowl on the right and an owl and books below.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Emile Forster

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Surgeon's gloved hands make an incision with a scalpel.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Dousdebes

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A woman is lying face down on an exam table while the physician flexes her leg from the knees.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Chocholka

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Physician in robes holds in his left hand a large urine flask for a crowd of four men to examine. One man is on crutches with a bandaged right leg.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Bruno S. Klarek

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A balding, rotund physician in a white coat forcefully grabs Cupid by the hair. In his pockets are a variety of medical instruments.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Antonio Castella Escabros

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: From top to bottom: left profile of warrior in helmet, serpent twined around goblet to form a caduceus, x-ray of a ribcage, esophageal procedure.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Anna Lerperger

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: A nude woman kneels holding onto the staff of Aesculapius with a serpent. She wraps her billowing cloak around a young boy with his arm in a sling.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. A. Larmande

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Bust of a nude young woman in profile. Behind her is a skeleton in profile. An open book on the left and a harp.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Dr. Kadar Laszlo

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Collage of winged thermometer, syringe, hourglass, psychiatric textbook, and airplane.
    Date: 1900s

  • Ex Libris Docteur Nicolas Gamaleia

    Description/Abstract: Bookplate: Inscribed in a circle is a male physician examining a female patient's eye. Below is a caduceus superimposed over the letters "R.L." against a backdrop of books and several onion-domed buildings.
    Date: 1900s