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Contains personal, professional, and administrative papers collected and created by Baker in the course of his work as Chief of Orthopaedics at Duke, along with his work at the Cerebral Palsy museum, various clinics, and professional societies. Materials include correspondence, meeting records, writings, publications, and schedules. Materials date from 1930 to 1979.

Contains correspondence from friends expressing their grief over the passing of Thelma Ingles and correspondence written to Susan Haradon and Virginia Haradon about tracking down Thelma Ingles' papers. Also contains copies of some of Thelma Ingles' papers along with bound copies of her diary entries from 1962 to 1974. Materials date from 1936 to 1989.

Materials largely pertain to the development of curriculum, regulation, continuing education of surgeons, the administration of Duke University Medical Center, and Woodhall's involvement in professional groups and societies. Major subjects in this series include Association of American Medical Colleges, Veterans Administration Committee, the Cushing Society, Fallout Preparedness Committee, Health Planning Council for North Carolina, Journal of Neurosurgery, the Medical Center Library, long range planning, North Carolina Atomic Energy Advisory Committee, Research Triangle Institute, and the Veteran's Administration hospitals. Major correspondents include R. Taylor Cole (provost), Everett Hopkins of the Office of Institutional Advancement, and Douglas M. Knight (president). Materials range in date from 1949-1976 with the bulk dating from 1960 to 1968.

Contains information about applicants for the Radiologic Technical Program, including master indices, correspondence, inquiries, photographs, evaluations, and reports. Materials range in date from 1976 to 1981 and the bulk of material is undated.

Includes records pertaining to the transfer of ownership to Duke University, as well as the day-to-day operation and expansion of the hospital. Records include agreements, annual reports, architectural plans, appraisals, audits, brochures, budgets, clippings, correspondence, data on lawsuits resulting from fire and accidents, deeds, fiscal reports, historical essays, insurance papers, maps, minutes, monthly statements, newsletters, photographs, programs, publications, reports, as well as sale and lease papers. The files, among other things, include a glimpse of the perception of mental disorders and approaches to psychiatric treatment in mid-twentieth century America and the trials of running a small, ever expanding hospital. The records do not contain information on particular patients unless they died at the hospital and that information does not include patient records or notes. Topics include the 1948 fire, staffing issues, local real estate, mid-century modern furniture, and institutional kitchens. The record dates range from 1906-1978. The majority of the records are from 1939-1957.

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, clippings, programs, reports, a CV, and a portrait pertaining to the retirement of F. Bayard Carter and the activities of the Nick Carter Travel Club. Materials date from 1952 to 2003, with bulk of materials from the 1952-1979.

This series contains the AOA constitution and bylaws, administrative procedures, membership lists, meeting minutes, banquet attendance lists, flyers for AOA events, itineraries for visiting professors, banquet programs, correspondence, and banquet attendance lists.
The correspondence discusses the election of new members, election procedures, arranging for visiting professors sponsored by AOA, as well as general correspondence. Materials range in date from 1960 to 1989.