Predominant formats are engravings, lithographs, print materials (such as posters, clippings, and postcards), and many modern photographic reproductions of older works there are also albumen photographs, negatives, slide reproductions, and other image formats found throughout the files. The subject categories cover many topics, with the largest groups including advertising, anatomy, caricatures, cartoons, pediatrics, physicians, and surgery.
Places featured include hospitals and other institutions of medicine, and scenes in specific locations related to events in medical history. The great majority portray notable physicians, scientists, naturalists, philosophers, and other individuals with important links to medicine.
Also contains electronic and audiovisual recordings that require reformatting before use.Īcquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.Īssembled by the staff of the Duke University Medical Library, the History of Medicine Picture File holds thousands of small and large images organized into series for individuals, places, and subjects related to the history of medicine and medical practice. Materials are sorted by school, with miscellaneous or unidentified materials in the last series. Also includes some student booklets and publications highlighting their projects as part of the program. The images document the social life and the built environment in Durham, N.C., in city neighborhoods where the students live they feature children, pets, houses and places of business, groups of adults, and other neighborhood scenes.
Acquired as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts.Ĭollection includes black-and-white photographs (a few are hand-colored), negatives, and slides from projects created by students at Durham's E.K. The images document the social life and the built environment in Durham, N.C., in city neighborhoods where the students live they feature children, pets, houses and places of business, groups of adults, and other neighborhood scenes where whites, African Americans, and Spanish-seeking citizens live. Collection includes black-and-white photographs, negatives, and slides from projects created by students at Durham's E.K. It provided a series of experiential learning activities that encouraged the use of photography, oral history, and narrative writing in an exploration of community and citizenship. The project provided a way to engage students in their own communities, focusing on their individual lives and stories through photographs, narrative writing, and storytelling.
According to the CDS website, it offered North Carolina elementary school teachers an innovative and effective way to meet social studies goals outlined in the state's standard course of study. The Neighborhoods Project was created as part of the Community Programs department within Duke's Center for Documentary Studies.