December 2010 Archives
VCU yearbooks and alumni publications from both campuses are now available online. The VCU Libraries has digitized yearbooks and alumni publications published by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) from both the Monroe Park Campus and the MCV Campus and from its predecessors Richmond Professional Institute (RPI) and the Medical College of Virginia (MCV).
Funded by the VCU Libraries, this exciting project was made possible in part through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country.
Through the Collaborative's partnership with the Internet Archive, all items were scanned from cover-to-cover and in full color. You can choose from a variety of formats, page through a book choosing the "read online" option, download the PDF, or search the full text version.
Yearbooks in the collection are:
- The Wigwam (RPI, 1931-1955)
- Cobblestone (RPI, 1956-1968; VCU, 1969-1973)
- Cobblestone yearbook, 1956-1973 (VCU, commemorative volume issued in 1974)
- Commonwealth (VCU, 1979-1980)
- The Rampages (VCU, 1989-1990)
- The X-Ray (MCV, 1913-2010)
There were no VCU yearbooks from 1974 to 1978 or from 1981-1988. After 1990, the VCU yearbook was no longer published. The MCV yearbook ceased publication in the spring of 2010.
Alumni magazines in the collection are:
- VCU magazine (1971-1993): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
- Shafer Court connections (1994-2010): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
- The Scarab (1952-2010): alumni magazine for the MCV Campus
To view the collections, go to http://www.archive.org/details/virginiacommonwealthuniversity. From there, you can browse by subject or keyword to get to the exact publication you want. Additional locally digitized publications are available fromVCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.
VCU's predecessors were the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia. Explore the story of RPI in A History of the Richmond Professional Institute, written by Dr. Henry Hibbs, longtime leader of the school. Published for the RPI Foundation in 1973, the heavily illustrated book traces the development of RPI from its beginnings as the Richmond School of Social Economy in 1917 to its affiliation with the College of William and Mary in 1939, ending with the school's consolidation with MCV in 1968 to become Virginia Commonwealth University.
A History of the Richmond Professional Institute is part of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.
