Historical Images Documenting Duke Health // MEDSpace

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.

List of items in this collection
	Title
	J. Lamar Callaway and hospital physicians meeting undated J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas...
	Civilian Public Service worker Harold Kleiner making plaster rolls 1944 Plaster rolls of plaster-of-paris on crinoline are used to make plaster casts both in the operating room and in the orthopedic clinics. Duke's...
	Duke Hospital under construction 1928 Trains were used to bring supplies into campus including stones from Duke's own quarry in Hillsborough, N.C. Hospital construction began on...
	Dept. of Pathology staff circa 1949-1950 Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
	Jack Keene undated Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic...
	African-American pediatrics patients undated Pediatric patients and their families waiting for treatment in the pediatrics ward of Duke Hospital. The mural on the left side of the photograph...
	Lincoln health care provider with patient undated A health care provider at Lincoln Community Health Center examines a patient.
	Frank Libman Engel undated Frank Libman Engel was chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1960 to 1963, and a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1963. He was known for...
	Nursing class of 1938 1936 School of Nursing students in uniform, class of 1938.
	Civilian Public Service worker Eldon Morse drawing blood from a blood bank patient 1944 Morse draws and tests blood from donors in the blood bank. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke...