Guide to the Foundations of Excellence: An Archival Image Collection, Technology Series, 1929 - 1950
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 early technological and scientific discoveries, application or creative of innovative instruments, and development of techniques. major subjects include Duke University faculty, history of technology, women in medicine, equipment and supplies, internship and residency, laboratories, electron microscopy, operating rooms, patients, sterilization, surgical instruments, radiologic technology, and ultraviolet rays. 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 NoteMajor technological progress at Duke University Medical Center included the development of many vaccines, the creation of new centers programs, the treatment of cancer and diseases, the promotion of safety caps for poisonous substances, and the use of ultraviolet light in operating rooms to reduce infections, application or creative of innovative instruments, and development of techniques. More information about Duke Firsts since the 1930s, see Duke Firsts: A Timeline of Discoveries Made at Duke [http://dukemed.duke.edu/AboutDuke/index.cfm?method=DukeFirsts]. Collection OverviewMaterials are presented in date order using assigned control numbers for each item. Online Catalog Headings
Collection SeriesContainer ListHistorical Images, Technology Series, 1929-1950
Title: Therapeutic bed with compressor, invention of J. Deryl Hart. Decade: 1920 Image Description: In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient's bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a stand for support. Title: Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital. Title: J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Title: Women working in a laboratory. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Two women at laboratory work table. Title: X-ray room in Duke Hospital. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Equipment in a Duke Hospital x-ray room. Title: Clothing worn to protect physicians from ultraviolet lights during operation. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Male modeling a protective mask, hat, and gown. Title: Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light. Decade: 1930 Image Description: J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. Title: Plans for an autopsy viewing area seating unit. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Autopsy seating and observation areas were used for conferences and teaching in Duke Hospital. Title: Technicians in the laboratory of Walter Kempner using the Warburg apparatus. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining quantities of potassium and sodium in the blood and other substances. Title: Bacteriology laboratory of Mary Poston. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Title: J. Deryl Hart and surgical team operating under ultraviolet lights. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Operation under ultraviolet light. Surgeons and others are dressed in protective clothing. Title: Dept. of Surgery staff wearing clothing to protect them during operations under ultraviolet lights. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Dept. of Surgery staff in an operating room dressed in protective gowns, gloves, goggles, and hoods. Title: Sketch of ultraviolet lights system for operating room. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Sketch showing transformers and special radiation tube installation for operating room ultraviolet lights system installation. Title: Ultraviolet lights system hanging from operating room ceiling. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. Title: Operating room with ultraviolet lights overhead. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Operating room with ultraviolet light, x-ray screen, instrument table, and patient bed prepared for surgery. Title: Operation under ultraviolet light with an x-ray screen in use. Decade: 1930 Image Description: J. Deryl Hart and surgical team in protective clothing operating under ultraviolet lights. Title: X-ray technician Joanna Law Martin examines a patient. Decade: 1930 Image Description: Martin guides the x-ray machine over the patient's torso. Title: X-ray room in Duke Hospital Decade: 1930 Image Description: X-ray screen, table, and other equipment in Duke Hospital. Title: Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. Title: Hospital staff with an artificial kidney machine. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Discussion or demonstration of artificial kidney machine. Title: Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Machinery and layout in the surgical instrument shop. Title: Technician using an early x-ray camera. Decade: 1940 Image Description: An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Title: Pathologist at a work station in a research laboratory. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Pathologist working with a specimen. Title: Glen R. Gale in laboratory. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Glen R. Gale using a microscope to study organisms in a laboratory. Title: Researcher measuring a chart. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Researcher at a teaching laboratory station measuring a rolled chart. Title: Student at work in Zoology Dept. laboratory. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Bob Curry (M.D., Duke, 1943) in the laboratory feeding white mice, which were used in a chigger study. Title: X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch Decade: 1940 Image Description: Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Title: X-ray technician Sudie "Ma" Whitfield using equipment. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Whitfield was an x-ray technician during the 1940s. Title: X-ray technology at Duke Hospital. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Title: Patient undergoing an x-ray examination. Decade: 1940 Image Description: Patient laying on x-ray examination table with machinery above her. Title: G. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope. Decade: 1950 Image Description: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. Title: G. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope. Decade: 1950 Image Description: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. [Return to the Series Listing] Related Material
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