Guide to the Foundations of Excellence: An Archival Image Collection, Events Series, 1939 - 1948
Collection Information
Abstract:
Contains materials created by Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital staff documenting events and activities within the Duke University Medical Center. Major subjects include anniversaries, Duke University faculty internship and residency, students, recreation, women in medicine, women physicians, Duke University Hospital, medical faculty, buildings, and classrooms. Types of materials include electronic versions of photographic prints and negatives.
- Contact Information:
- Duke University Medical Center
Archives and Memorabilia
DUMC 3702
Durham, North Carolina
27710 USA
Phone: (919) 383-2653
Fax: (919) 383-1649
Email: dumc.archives@mc.duke.edu
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Duke University Medical Center Archives
- Creator
- Duke University. Medical Center.
- Title
- Historical Photograph Collection, Events Series, 1939 - 1948
- Call Number
- Extent
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- 16 items
Administrative Information
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- Please acknowledge the source of materials by clearly stating the following information: title of the image, date or approximate dates, unique identifier, name of the collection, name of the repository, date of access, and the URL of the collection site.
- For example:
- Davison Building Construction, 1929 [bld00014]. Foundations of Excellence Collection, Duke University Medical Center Archives. June 28, 2005. URL: http://archives.mc.duke.edu/founations/index.html
- Acquisitions Information
- Source unknown. Materials were originally part of the Duke University Archives or Medical Center Archives collections. Some materials were originally created for Duke University publications.
Historical Note
Major events in the history of the Duke University Medical Center included building construction and completion, building and school dedication and openings, commencements, creation of centers, conferences and symposia, and first discoveries or applications in the field of medicine, science, and teaching.
| Selected Events, late 1920s-1950s | |
| 1927 | Construction begins on the Medical School and Duke Hospital. |
| 1929 | 3,000 applicants apply to the new medical school. 70 first- and third-year students are selected, including four women. |
| 1930 | Duke Hospital opens to patients on July 21, 1930, attracting 25,000 visitors. |
| 1930 | Classes began in Hospital Administration, dietetics, and medical technology on 15 August. |
| 1930 | The eighteen third year and thirty first year medical students began classes on 2 October. |
| 1931 | The Duke School of Nursing's first class of 24 undergraduate students begin classes January 2. Dedication ceremony for Duke Medical School and Hospital on 20 April. Private Diagnostic Clinics were organized 15 September. |
| 1932 | Baker House, named for Bessie Baker, first Dean of Nursing at Duke Hospital, opened. |
| 1934 | The first Duke Medical Postgraduate Symposium is offered to physicians in the southeast. |
| 1935 | The Association of American Medical Colleges ranks Duke among the top 25 percent of medical schools in the country-less than five years after it opened. |
| 1936 | Duke surgeons led by Dr. J. Deryl Hart pioneer the use of ultraviolet lamps in operating rooms to eliminate infectious organisms that cause post-operative Staph infections. This procedure dramatically reduces the number of infections and related deaths. |
| 1937 | Dr. Joseph Beard developed a vaccine against equine encephalomyelitis. |
| 1937 | Duke establishes the nation's first brain tumor program, launching what will become one of the world's foremost cancer programs. |
| 1940 | First wing added to Duke Hospital. |
| 1940 | The 65th General Hospital was authorized as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine on 17 October. |
| 1940 | Duke's Medical Alumni Association is organized. |
| 1940 | For his studies of the metabolism of the tubercle bacillus, which eventually led to effective medications, pharmacologist Frederick Bernheim is nominated for the Nobel Prize. |
| 1947 | Bell Research Building opened as the first building of the medical center that wasn't connected with the main buildings. |
| 1950 | North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital dedicated with 40 beds (Lenox Baker Hospital). Duke pediatrician Jay Arena leads the push for drug companies to develop the child-proof safety cap for medicine bottles. |
| 1950s | Dr. Walter Kempner's research, using a rice-based diet and daily laboratory testing, demonstrates that degenerative processes attacking the kidney, heart, brain and retina can be arrested by dietary changes. These dramatic findings draw patients to Duke from across the nation. |
Collection Overview
Materials are presented in date order using assigned control numbers for each item.
Online Catalog Headings
- Duke University -- Faculty.
- Duke University -- Students.
- Recreation.
- Women in medicine
- Women Physicians.
- Duke University. Hospital.
- Faculty, Medical
- Buildings.
- Classrooms.
- Anniversaries.
- Internship and Residency.
Collection Series
Container List
Historical Images, Events Series, 1939-1948
Title: Class of 1939 annual senior class picnic.
Decade: 1930
Image Description: School of Medicine students at the annual senior class picnic, held in June.
Title: Ivy planting outside of the Davison building during commencement activities.
Decade: 1930
Image Description: The first class of graduating students, dressed in traditional caps and gowns, plant ivy to commemorate commencement ceremonies.
Title: Southern Association of Practising Pathologists meeting.
Decade: 1930
Image Description: Attendees of the first organizational meeting of the Southern Association of Practising Pathologists. The meeting was organized by Wiley D. Forbus (chair of Dept. of Pathology 1930-1960) in 1935. The association met again in 1937 in Duke University's Page Auditorium (where junior and senior members of the staff of the Dept. of Pathology presented papers). This photograph was taken in the Autopsy ROom of Duke Hospital.
Title: Speaker at tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Robert Lee Flowers addresses faculty and house staff during the tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine, held from November 29-30, 1940. Flowers was President of Duke University from 1941 to 1949.
Title: Hospital picnic baseball game, Dr. Bayard Carter catching.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: F. Bayard Carter plays catcher during a ballgame at the Duke Hospital staff picnic.
Title: Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background.
Title: Dr. F. Bayard Carter and Stan Lordeaux playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Faculty and students play ball during the hospital picnic. At bat is Stan Lordeaux (M.D., Duke, 1940). Playing catcher is Dr. Bayard Carter (chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964).
Title: School of Nursing capping ceremony.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Students receive their nursing caps during a capping ceremony for the School of Nursing. This is the class of 1943 during their junior year.
Title: School of Nursing capping ceremony.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: School of Nursing students and faculty pose for a group photograph after the capping ceremony. Students receive their nursing caps during a capping ceremony in their junior year. A Red Cross flag is hanging behind students.
Title: School of Nursing capping ceremony.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Duke School of Nursing students are fitted with nursing caps during a capping ceremony. Family and community members, including other nurses, are in attendance.
Title: Tapping of new members of Santa Filomena.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Eva Virginia Dalton lights candles for incoming president of the Nursing Student Government Association, Rachel Ann McSwain.
Title: Tapping of new members of Santa Filomena.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Uniformed School of Nursing students and staff at a meeting for tapping new members of Santa Filomena, the School of Nursing honor society.
Title: School of Nursing capping ceremony.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Miss Goff, chair of the Honor Council, and Mrs. Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell, President of the Nursing Student Government Association, hand lighted candles to the freshmen students after they are capped.
Title: School of Nursing capping ceremony.
Decade: 1940
Image Description: Uniformed School of Nursing students entering their junior year receive their nursing caps from upper-class students. School of Nursing dean, classmates, and faculty members are also present.
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