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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

  • 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 Relaxing in the Library

    Description/Abstract: Students relaxing in club chairs in the Duke University Hospital Library located in the basement of Duke South.
    Date: December 1937

  • School of Nursing students in classroom

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

  • School of Medicine Composite, New Students 1937

    Description/Abstract: New Students, Duke University School of Medicine 1937: Adams, E.W.; Ames, R.H.; Anderson, E.D.; Babcock, K.O.; Barnes, G.B.; Baum, R.E.; Bednarz, S.I.; Benbow, E.P., Jr.; Beyer, E.C.; Brown, E.W.; Brown, J.W., Jr.; Brown, K.B.; Burgess, W.W.;...
    Date: 1937

  • Samuel R. M. Reynolds

    Description/Abstract: Photograph of Samuel R. M. Reynolds with the inscription: "Cordially yours, Samuel R. M. Reynolds, Rochester, N.Y. 1937!"
    Date: 1937

  • Patrons in the reading room of the School of Medicine Library

    Description/Abstract: Originally serving Duke Hospital and School of Medicine, the library began to build its book collection in 1927, well before students began classes and the Duke Hospital opened for service in 1930.
    Date: 1937

  • 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

  • Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light

    Description/Abstract: J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet...
    Date: 1937

  • Nursing class of 1939

    Description/Abstract: School of Nursing students in uniform, class of 1939. Photograph may have been taken in 1937.
    Date: circa 1937

  • 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

  • Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter fraternity members

    Description/Abstract: Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter was a fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. It was founded in 1931. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma...
    Date: 1937

  • 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

  • Marie McAdams Parrish

    Description/Abstract: Parrish in her nursing uniform standing near a building on the Duke campus. Parrish graduated from the School of Nursing in 1937.
    Date: circa 1933-1937

  • 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. Lang

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

  • J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment

    Description/Abstract: Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Callaway (M.D., Duke, 1933) served as a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and professor of dermatology or syphilology from 1933 to 1975. He was chair of the Dept. of...
    Date: 1937

  • J. Deryl Hart and surgical team operating under ultraviolet lights

    Description/Abstract: Operation under ultraviolet light. Surgeons and others are dressed in protective clothing. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became...
    Date: circa 1937

  • 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

  • Interprétation du fonctionnement du système nerveux par la notion de subordination : subordination et posture

    Description/Abstract: viii, 440 p. ill.; 25 cm.
    Date: 1937

  • 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

  • George H. Whipple

    Description/Abstract: Photograph of George H. Whipple. Signature and inscription: "George H. Whipple Rochester N. Y 1937." Publisher: New York: Asch
    Date: 1937

  • 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