Guide to the Foundations of Excellence: An Archival Image Collection, Education Series, 1931 - 1948
Archives Department, Duke University Medical Center. |
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Abstract: Contains materials created by Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital staff documenting educational activities and events of Duke University Medical Center. Major subjects include Duke University Hospital, faculty, students, School of Nursing, Wilburt Cornell Davison, classrooms, medical and nursing students, and medical and nursing education. Types of materials include electronic versions of photographic prints and negatives. Duke University Medical Center Archives DUMC 3702 Durham, North Carolina 27710 USA Phone: (919) 383-2653 | Fax: (919) 383-1649 Email: dumc.archives@mc.duke.edu |
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Historical NoteDuke University Medical Center began educating students in the 1930s with the School of Medicine opening for classes on October 2, 1930. School of Nursing classes began January 2, 1931. The first dean of the School of Medicine was Wilburt Cornell Davison. He served from 1927 to 1960. The first dean of the School of Nursing was Bessie Baker (1930-1938). Margaret Pinkerton (1939-1940) and Florence K. Wilson (1946-1954) subsequently served as dean. Collection OverviewMaterials are presented in date order using assigned control numbers for each item. Online Catalog Headings
Collection SeriesContainer ListHistorical Images, Education Series, 1931-1948
Title: School of Nursing students in classroom. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Students in uniforms seated at desks. Title: School of Nursing dietetics program students and instructors. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Students in a Duke Hospital kitchen observe as an instructor transfers measured food from a scale to a serving bowl. Title: Exhibit Room B, postgraduate course on fractures. Decade: 1930 Image Description: (Left) Conwell-Herzmark Hypertension frame. (Right) Skeleton with Roger Anderson splint and Hoke traction for arm. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital. Title: Exhibit Room A, postgraduate course on fractures. Decade: 1930 Image Description: X-ray slides and exhibits on tables. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital. Title: Exhibit Room A, postgraduate course on fractures. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Instruments, x-ray slides and exhibits on tables. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital. Title: Exhibit Room A, postgraduate course on fractures. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Instruments, models, braces, x-ray slides and exhibits on tables. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital. Title: Exhibit Room B, postgraduate course on fractures. Decade: 1930 Image Description: (Signs from left to right) Skeletal fraction femur; Skeletal traction humerus; Fracture of surgical neck of the humerus with rubber muscle; Hall fracture bed; Russell method of balanced traction for fracture of femur. Title: School of Medicine students with Dean Davison. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Students and Wilburt Cornell Davison, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, on rounds in Duke Hospital. Title: Nursing students in a teaching laboratory. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Nursing students, some uniformed, in a laboratory. Title: School of Nursing nurses' aide students Decade: 1940 Image Description: Uniformed nurses' aide students in a classroom. Title: School of Nursing students in classroom. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Undergraduate School of Nursing students in a classroom with textbooks at their desk. Title: Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Title: Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Title: School of Nursing students in a classroom at desks. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Students seated with piles of nursing textbooks. Title: Preclinical nursing students in conference with dean Florence K. Wilson. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Three students seated with the dean. Title: Class for preclinical nursing students. Decade: 1940 Image Description: A School of Medicine staff member teaching preclinical nursing students. Title: Preclinical nursing student practices in nursing arts class. Decade: 1940 Image Description: A nursing student (far left) and an instructor use stethoscopes to take the pulse of a patient. Title: School of Nursing students meeting. Decade: 1940 Image Description: School of Nursing students gathered around a table. Title: Students in a laboratory. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Students use microscopes and slides in a Duke University School of Medicine teaching laboratory. [Return to the Series Listing] Related Material
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