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Manuscripts

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About This Collection

Special Collections and Archives collects primary source materials documenting the health sciences and the health care professions in Virginia. The manuscript collections of the Tompkins-McCaw Library include the personal papers of Virginia nurses, physicians, dentists and others as well as the records of various professional organizations including the Virginia Nurses Association, the Virginia Dental Association, the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, the Virginia League for Nursing and the Instructive Visiting Nurses Association. Finding aids for the collections are available in Special Collections and Archives. Selected finding aids are available online through the Virginia Heritage: Guide to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia.

Finding VCU Materials in Virginia Heritage

Virginia Heritage can be searched by keyword and users may restrict their results to the holdings of the Tompkins-McCaw Library by selecting "Virginia Commonwealth University, Tompkins-McCaw Library" from the menu of institutions listed in the "Constrain by institution" search box. The box is highlighted in yellow in the following screen capture:

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Manuscript Collections Include:

  • William T. Sanger Papers
  • Dr. Joseph J. Anderson Papers
  • Dr. Rufus Livius Raiford Papers
  • Dr. Louis Benjamin Sheppard Papers
  • Susan J. Mellette Papers
  • Richard Campbell Mason Papers
  • Association of Medical Officers of the Confederate Army and Navy Records
  • Sadie Heath Cabaniss Letters
  • Records of the Instructive Visiting Nurses Association
  • Dr. Peter N. Pastore Papers
  • Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees Records
  • James L. and Dorothy Knowles Thomson Papers
  • Dorsye E. Russell Collection
  • Stuart Circle Hospital Collection
  • Otho Clement Wright Collection
  • Stuart D. Scott Collection
  • George F. Keesee Collection
  • Seth B. Perry Collection
  • James B. Kenley Collection
  • Department of Health Professions Historic Collection
  • Harry Lyons Collection
  • Russell V. Bowers Collection
  • Robert B. Carper Collection
  • Samuel C. Mitchell Collection
  • Monumental Church Records of MCV Foundation
  • Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Records
  • James H. Conway Collection
  • Ebbe C. Hoff Collection
  • Alton D. Brashear Collection
  • St. Luke's Hospital Collection
  • Charles P. Cardwell, Jr. Collection
  • William Branch Porter Collection
  • Robert B. Ware Collection
  • Frances A. Hellebrandt Collection