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Equal Suffrage League of Richmond rally in Capitol Square, 1916.
  
 

Members of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL) at a rally in Capitol Square, 1916. Click for larger view.

This image is from the Papers of Adele Clark, one of the founding members of the ESL and later
President of the Virginia League of Women Voters. Adele is seen on the far left.

 

VCU will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ESL this November.
The first two meetings of the ESL took place at the home of Anne Clay Crenshaw at 919 W. Franklin Street - that building now houses VCU's Center for Public Policy
More details on the commemoration will be forthcoming.
 

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 Monroe Park Campus programs of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Special Collections and Archives contains nearly 40,000 volumes in special subject areas, including Virginia and Richmond history and literature, popular culture and graphic arts, comic arts, artist books, and much more. The department also houses the official records and archives of VCU and its predecessor institutions (Richmond Professional Institute). If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

Special Collections and Archives is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 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.

Learn more about VCU Libraries' Archives of the New Dominion - a project to locate, secure and make accessible the paper history and archives of Central Virginia's African American, gay and lesbian, Hispanic, and women's activist communities. The project builds on past Special Collections and Archives' initiatives.

 

New online resources using materials from Special Collections and Archives

are available from VCU Libraries' Digital Collections site.

 

The 2009-2010 VCU Summer Reading Program this year features Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman.

 

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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