University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics Photographic Collection, circa 1952-1995

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics Photographic Collection, circa 1952-1995

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics Photographic Collection, circa 1952-1995

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The Department of Pediatrics of the University of North Carolina was founded following the 1947 appropriation of funds by the North Carolina General Assembly for the construction of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The Hospital (renamed in 1989 as UNC Hospitals) opened in 1952, marking the expansion of the two-year medical curriculum into a full four-year school of medicine. In 2002, the Department of Pediatrics was relocated within the newly opened North Carolina Children's Hospital at the University of North Carolina medical campus in Chapel Hill. The collection consists of images documenting the staff and activities of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics from approximately 1952 through 1995. Many of the photographs appear in the 1996 book Included are annual staff photographs; portraits; and photographs of patients, the Floyd W. Denny Pediatric Society of the University of North Carolina (Denny Society); the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill; the Hospital School; and staff leisure activities. Also included are notes identifying individuals and events that correspondto many of the published images. From Infancy to Maturity: The History of the Department of Pediatrics, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1952-1995.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.