Historical Images Documenting Duke Health

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Last Updated: 2025-01-08

These images document the history of Duke Health's academic, clinical, and research activities beginning in 1927. All materials included in this collection are available at the Duke University Medical Center Archives. In honor of Duke Health's 75th Anniversary, The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc. supported "The Foundations of Excellence," a digitization project that identified over 600 representative historic photographs from our first 3 decades.

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Aerial view of Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Hospital, and West Campus
Aerial view of Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Hospital, and West Campus.

["undated"]
 

People gathered outside Duke Hospital
People gathered outside of the newly constructed Duke Hospital. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930

["circa 1930"]
 

R. Wayne Rundles, first from the right, studying in the original School of Medicine Library
R. Wayne Rundles graduated from Duke University (M.D., 1940). He was an associate professor of medicine at Duke University from 1945 until the...

["circa 1940-1949"]
 

H. Max Schiebel
Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant...

["undated"]
 

Eugene Anson Stead, Jr.
Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with...

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Mildred M. Sherwood
Sherwood with two pediatric patients outside of Duke Hospital. In 1930, when Duke Hospital was opened, Mildred M. Sherwood was put in charge of the...

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Julian Meade Ruffin
Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime...

["undated"]
 

William Warner Shingleton
From 1944 to 1946 William Warner Shingleton was on the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery. He was also the first director of the...

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Francis Huntington Swett
Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote ...

["undated"]
 

Will Camp Sealy
Will Camp Sealy was chief of the general surgery section in the 65th General Hospital. In 1949 he worked with other Duke faculty to start the...

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