Contains audio, video, and a small amount of digital photographs documenting the history of Duke University Medical Center. Coverage includes documentaries, alumni gatherings, interviews, speeches, lectures, conferences, awards, tributes, groundbreakings, building dedications, grand rounds, and student-faculty shows. People featured in the collection include: Jay M. Arena; William G. Anlyan; Lenox D. Baker; Ivan W. Brown; F. Bayard Carter; Elon Clark; Martin M. Cummings; Wilburt C. Davison; Victor J. Dzau; Wiley D. Forbus; Joseph C. Greenfield, Jr.; Charles B. Hammond; Philip Handler; Merel Harmel; Barton F. Haynes; Leslie Hohman; Charles Johnson; Samuel L. Katz; Joseph E. Markee; Robert J. Reeves; David T. Smith; Eugene A. Stead, Jr.; Andrew G. Wallace; and Barnes Woodhall. Groundbreakings and building dedications include: The Bryan Research Building; the Alyea Urology Clinic; Davison Circle at the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital; the Duke University Eye Center; the Nanaline H. Duke Medical Science Building; the Seeley G. Mudd Building; the Woodhall Building; the Duke Center for Living; Duke Hospital North; and the Founders' Wall. Other items of note include Wilburt C. Davison's Dave at Roaring Gap, MEDSAC and Quail Roost conference recordings, a 14-part orientation of Duke Hospital North, documentaries about the 65th General Hospital, documentaries about Duke's hyperbaric chamber, and the multi-part interview series "Before the Colors Fade." The "Documentaries" series includes news broadcasts and television shows, including the 13-episode series "HOSPITAL" that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2000. Materials in this collection have been acquired from multiple sources. Some of the materials have been separated from existing collections. Materials range in date from 1946 to 2023.
Organized into the following series: Awards, Tributes, Memorials, and Personal Dedications, 1960-2013; Campaigns and Fundraising, 2002-2009; Commentaries, undated; Grand Rounds, 1984-2003; Clinical Care, 1965-2015; Clinical Trials, circa 2001; Documentaries, 1953-2007; Education, Speeches, Talks, Presentations, Lectures, Symposia, Conferences, and Meetings, 1953-2008; Educational Media Services Motion Film, 1946-1954; Footage, 1996-2013; Gatherings and Alumni, 1955-2011; Groundbreakings and Building Dedications, 1956-2012; Infomercials, 1995; Interviews and Reminiscences, 1965-2006; Orientations, 1978-1979; Promotional and Informational Videos, 1969-2011; Student-Faculty Shows, 1964-2007, 2017-2023; Wire Recordings, 1952-1960; Other, 1960-2014; Untitled, undated; Digital Files, 2005-2006, circa 2005, 2021