Historical Images Documenting Duke Health

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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Elon H. Clark with Tom Jones

undated
Elon H. Clark (left) and Tom Jones during Jones' visit to Duke University. Elon Clark said that Tom Jones was "a world famous medical artist,...
 

School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

1948
Nursing faculty member holding infant on scale. Three other women and another faculty member are included in the photograph.
 

Elizabeth (Powell) Balas

circa 1937-1938
Balas graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1938. She was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff from 1938 to 1939.
 

Dennis Bernard Amos

circa 1965
Dr. Dennis Bernard Amos was professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University from 1962 to 1993.
 

Donald de Forest Bauer

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

Ruby L. Wilson

undated
Ruby L. Wilson, DEd, RN, was the sixth dean of the Duke University School of Nursing, serving from 1971 to 1984.
 

Duke North Hospital reception desk

undated
Reception desk at Duke North Hospital.
 

Duke Hospital Laundry workers

September 1978
Two Duke employees handle hospital laundry materials.
 

School of Nursing capping ceremony

1945
School of Nursing students and faculty pose for a group photograph after the capping ceremony. Students receive their nursing caps during a capping...
 

G.S.T. and Susan Carlton Smith Cavanagh in the Medical Center Library's Garden

circa 1978
Curator of the Trent Collection, G.S.T. Cavanagh, and Assistant Curator, Susan Carlton Smith Cavanagh, in the Library's Medical Garden with a book...