Silent film clip of Trent Room dedication at Duke University Medical Library, 1956 April 20

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Summary

Abstract:
This black-and-white silent film clip is from the April 20, 1956 dedication of the Trent Room History of Medicine Collections at Duke University. The ceremony was held at Duke's Medical Library in the new Trent Room. Speakers include Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, Duke President A. Hollis Edens, Dean Wilburt C. Davison, John Fulton, and James T. Cleland. Attendees at the ceremony also included the Trent daughters. The recording is about two minutes long. The medical artifacts and books also briefly shown in the film are from the History of Medicine Collection assembled by Duke surgeon and faculty member Dr. Josiah Charles Trent (d.1948). Those collections are now in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
Extent:
.2 Linear Feet (2 videocassettes; 1 digital mp4 file)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11292

Background

Scope and content:

This silent black-and-white film clip copied from a videocassete copy tape is from the April 20, 1956 dedication of the Trent Room History of Medicine Collections at Duke University. The ceremony was held at Duke's Medical Library in the new Trent Room. Speakers include Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, Duke President A. Hollis Edens, Dean Wilburt C. Davison, John Fulton, and James T. Cleland. Attendees at the ceremony also included the Trent daughters. The recording is about two minutes long; the sound element has been lost.

The medical artifacts and books briefly shown in the film are from the History of Medicine Collection assembled by Duke surgeon and faculty member Dr. Josiah Charles Trent. The collection was donated by the Trent family to Duke and eventually displayed in the Trent Room and the Medical Library, and is now in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke.

Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.

Acquisition information:
The silent film clip of the Trent Room dedication at Duke University Medical Library, 1956 April 20 (on videocassette) was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a transfer from the Medical School History of Medicine Collections in 2011.
Processing information:

Processed by Paula Jeannet, September 2016.

No accession number is available.

Physical facet:
VHS (TRT: 00:02:00)
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Silent film clip of the Trent Room dedication at Duke University Medical Library, 1956 April 20, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.