Welcome to VCU Libraries Online Exhibits

VCU Libraries' Online Exhibits highlight various collections housed in the Special Collections and Archives departments located on the James Branch Cabell and Tompkins-McCaw Libraries. Be sure to also check out the current exhibits on display in VCU Libraries HERE.

Other online resources from these departments can be found at the VCU Libraries' Digital Collections.

 

 

 

 

Historic VCU: Image of the Cabell Library, ca. 1971.
Historic VCU - Images of VCU's Past

Photo of several items from our medical artifacts collection. Medical Artifacts Collection

 

Hunter Stagg's dust jacket of Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues.
"Something Very Real" -
Langston Hughes visits
Richmond, Virginia, 1926

 

James Branch Cabell, April 30, 1935 -- image taken by noted photographer, writer, and friend, Carl Van Vechten.
The Life and Work of
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

 


 

 

 

Image of Lee Theatre, 1937.
"Seventy Years of Film and Dance"
VCU's Grace Street Theater,
Richmond, Virginia

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library, 1930s.
75 Years on 12th Street
A History of the Tompkins-McCaw Library

 

Image of Lee Theatre, 1937.
William E. Blake Collection of
True Comics, 1941-1945

Theresa Pollak, ca. 1940s.
Theresa Pollak (1899-2002)
Virgina Artist and Educator

 

Anne Clay Crenshaw, ca. 1890s.
Anne Clay Crenshaw
and the Women's Suffrage Movement
in Virginia

Fred O. Seibel, self portrait.
Fred O. Seibel,
Editorial Cartoonist,

Richmond Times-Dispatch 

Sykes Cartoon, ca. 1940.
Charles Henry "Bill" Sykes
Editorial Cartoon Collection

 

Frontspiece from De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis (1709), Flax Collection
The Herman J. Flax Collection

of Physiatry Books

 

sign outside closed school in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1962.
Separate But Not Equal
Race, Education, and
Prince Edward County, Virginia