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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.

First class of Physician Assistants.

History of nursing at Duke.

Frederick and Mary (Molly) Bernheim.

Conscientious objectors/Attending Civilian Public Service Unit 61 spouses.

Conscientious objectors (WWII)/Attending Civilian Public Service Unit 61.

Career history of both men as well as history of Division of Medical Illustration.

75th anniversary of Duke University Medical Center; health system.

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.

Includes correspondence, minutes, handwritten notes, and meeting agendas pertaining to Duke University Medical Center's Vice Provost's Advisory Committee. Materials date from 1963 to 1977.

Contains notebooks recording the proceedings of meetings of the Duke University Medical Center Board of Visitors. Materials date from 1964 to 1977.

Contains meeting minutes, planning files, reports, construction notes, blueprints, conceptual drawings, correspondence, reference materials, and accounting and revenue records related to the construction and maintenance of Duke Hospital North. Materials date from 1972 to 1986.

Contains correspondence, project proposals, notes, contracts, newspaper clippings, receipts, poems, reports, and programming lists. Materials range in date from 1977 to 1997.

Contains notebooks, conference papers, writings, agendas, participant lists, observer lists, publications, photographs, and published proceedings. The collection also contains thirty-eight 10-inch audio tape recordings of the third through eighth conferences (1978-1983), as well as CDs for 2004 and 2006. Materials range in date from 1977 to 2006.

Contains correspondence related to the operation of Duke University Medical Center's Transfusion Committee. Materials date from 1979 to 2002.

Contains the administrative files from the Office of Grants and Contracts pertaining to budgets, reports, grant funding, and research grants. Materials date from 1984 to 1993.

Contains annual review reports, grant applications, curriculum vitae, articles, correspondence, reports, handbooks, budgets, flyers, program brochures, meeting agendas, and floorplans. Materials range in date from 1988 to 2005.