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Contains clippings and press releases documenting the activities of Duke Medicine. Clippings from outside of North Carolina are from locations such as Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. The bulk of the clippings are from North Carolina newspapers, particularly the Durham Sun, the Durham Morning Herald, and the Raleigh News & Observer. Materials date from 1927 to 1986.

Contains minutes for the annual faculty meetings for the Duke University School of Medicine. Materials date from 1965 to 1994.

Contains coverage of festivals, presentations, special events, reports, dedications, tributes to faculty members and scholars, institutional histories, and commemorations. Audiovisual formats in the series include VHS tapes, U-Matic tapes, 7-inch reel-to-reel audio, Betacam (small) tapes, 16mm 3.5-inch video, magnetic tapes [silverchrome videotape], 5-inch reel-to-reel audio, CDs, and DVDs. Materials range in date from 1960 to 2013.

Contains autopsy records, instruction sheets, and Social Services Department Manual. Materials date to 1940, with the bulk undated.

Contains death masks for Wilburt C. Davison (1892-1972) first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, Frederic M. Hanes (1883-1946) second chair of the Department of Medicine, William A. Perlzweig (1891-1949) first chair of the Department of Biochemistry, Francis H. Swett (1893-1943) first chair of the Department of Anatomy, and Robert R. Jones Jr. (1902-1941) original member of the Department of Surgery who was murdered by a patient. One of the Hanes masks might be a life mask instead of a death mask. Some of the masks have hair stuck in the plaster. Materials range in date from circa 1941 to 1972.

Contains audiocassette recordings from the Duke Committee for Clinical Investigations. Includes review of research proposals from Duke Medicine faculty involving human subjects. Materials range in date from 1972 to 1983.

Contains photographs that appeared in the "Intercom." Materials range in date from 1979 to 1986.

History of the Department of Anatomy.

Six retiring paraprofessionals talk about the history of the Duke University Medical Center Library.