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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Students in the first class of the School of Nursing, School of Nursing staff, and Duke Hospital nurses
(Three groups from left to right) Staff, including Bessie Baker (dean) at the front of the line, and administrators; first class of the School of...

["circa 1931-1933"]
 

Susan Dees
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974....

["undated"]
 

School of Nursing students knitting and weaving
School of Nursing students knitting and weaving

["undated"]
 

Civilian Public Service Unit worker massaging a patient's back
After serving as an attendant at Duke Hospital and Highland Hospital, John Reibel took special training in physical therapy at Duke, and worked in...

["1944"]
 

Mycology students, School of Medicine class of 1947
Senior School of Medicine mycology students. Norman F. Conant, instructor of mycology, was chair of the Dept. of Microbiology from 1964 to 1968.

["1947"]
 

Social Services staff of Duke Hospital
Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris...

["undated"]
 

Donald de Forest Bauer
Donald de Forest Bauer was on the Duke house staff of the Dept. of Pathology from 1943 to 1944.

["1943"]
 

School of Nursing cadet students on front steps of Duke Hospital
Three uniformed cadet nurses on the front steps of Duke Hospital.

["undated"]
 

School of Nursing cadet students
Uniformed student cadet nurses from the School of Nursing.

["1945"]
 

School of Nursing capping service, September 1943
Students receive nursing caps during a ceremony.

["1943"]