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History of the Duke University Medical Center Library.

Osler Ivy Planting.

These records document planning activities and building projects undertaken during Louis E. Swanson's tenure as chairman of the Medical Center Building Committee beginning in 1952; as assistant administrative director of medical center (with overall charge of the building program) from 1964 to 1967, and as the first director of the Medical Center Planning Office from 1967 to 1976. The records consists of correspondence, memoranda, committee minutes and reports, and planning documents in the form of long range planning summaries, multi-volume development proposals commissioned from prominent architectural and management consulting firms, photographs, building and site plans, diagrams, and blueprints generated between 1952 and 1976. Materials date from 1952 to 1977.

Contains images of Duke University Medical Center and the School of Medicine professors, staff, visitors, and administrators. Materials are undated but some folders list the individual's birth and death dates to give a general time range.

Contains photographs and portraits of Duke faculty, administrators, students, residents, and staff. Materials range in date from 1968 to 1995, with the bulk of material undated.

Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, floorplans, charts, reports, articles, and surveys. Materials are undated.