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Special Collections and Archives

James Branch Cabell Library

Located on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives houses books, journals, manuscript collections, photographs, and other materials that support the academic programs of the Monroe Park Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

RPI students 1950s

Students at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU)

on Shafer Street in front of Ginter House, mid-1950s.

Special Collections and Archives contains over 50,000 volumes in special subject areas, including Virginia and Richmond history and literature, popular culture and graphic arts, comic arts, artist books, and much more. In addition, Special Collections and Archives has one of the largest university collections of comic books - numbering over 40,000. The department also houses the official records and archives of VCU and its predecessor institutions (Richmond Professional Institute). A recent initiative, building on past work by the department, is the Archives of the New Dominion - an effort to locate, secure and make accessible the history and archives of Central Virginia’s African American, gay and lesbian, Hispanic, and women’s activist communities.

Cool site of the semester - WJRB AM 820 - VCU's student run radio, l967-1970s. Great site created by RPI/VCU alum.

Special Collections and Archives is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 A.M. until 5 P.M. All other times are by appointment. For materials related to medical history and to the records of the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus of VCU, visit the Special Collections and Archives department at the Tompkins-McCaw Library.

New online resources using materials from Special Collections and Archives

are available from VCU Libraries' Digital Collections site.

Contact Information:

James Branch Cabell Library
Special Collections and Archives
901 Park Avenue
P.O. Box 842033
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2033

Monday - Friday 10 A.M.- 5 P.M. or by appointment.

Email: libjbcsca@vcu.edu

(804) 828-1108 phone
(804) 828-0151 (fax)

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