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Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n","This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. 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In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. 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Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. 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The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. 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The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. 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People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n","This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["2004/May/06\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Donated by the Thomson family.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":[".8 linear feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords are listed in chronological order.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Records are listed in chronological order.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. 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Rita Virginia Roarke.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal orders, receipts and tags.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39th Excelsior club meeting\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. 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The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. 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At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n","This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["2004/May/06\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Donated by the Thomson family.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":[".8 linear feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords are listed in chronological order.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Records are listed in chronological order.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. 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Rita Virginia Roarke.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal orders, receipts and tags.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39th Excelsior club meeting\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. 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The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. 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People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. 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People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n","This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["2004/May/06\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Donated by the Thomson family.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":[".8 linear feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords are listed in chronological order.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Records are listed in chronological order.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. 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Rita Virginia Roarke.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal orders, receipts and tags.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39th Excelsior club meeting\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. 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At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. 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Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. 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Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. 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Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n","This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n","This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["2004/May/06\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson\n1943 - 1987"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Health Sciences Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Donated by the Thomson family.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":[".8 linear feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords are listed in chronological order.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Records are listed in chronological order.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. James L. Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. This fund was created to\nheighten awareness of the many forms of alternative and complementary therapies available. Uses of the fund include the purchase of printed and audiovisual materials, research, conferences and stipend for\nlecturers.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAutoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBoiling Instruments and Utensils\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n\u003c/title\u003e,\n\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePhenylmurcuric Compounds.\n\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper with English to Arabic translations.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Bill Mauldin\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Bill Mauldin\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped and handwritten article\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU of Cincinnati\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePicture caption\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten in Arabic\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePicture caption (Tel Aviv)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePicture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMCV 1942\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThis Is The Army\n\u003c/title\u003e by Irving Berlin\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsprint\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsprint\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAward of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeople listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal orders, receipts and tags.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39th Excelsior club meeting\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. Coleman.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the larger photographs of the above series.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the personal papers, war memorabilia, photographs, and general information concerning the 45th General Hospital Group dating from 1936-1985, the bulk of the collection dating from 1939-\n1963. The collection is divided with one half being Dr. Thomson's World War II memorabilia and photographs along with paperwork with the Excelsior Club, as group of surgeons brought together by the war. The other\nhalf of the collection is papers of his wife, Dorothy Knowles Thomson, who was an instructor of operating room nursing at the Medical College of Virginia, and includes notebooks, course manuals, certifications as\nwell as personal effects.\n","This is the first part of a series of three folders encompassing the handwritten, typed, guidebook used by Mrs. Thompson during her years as a surgical nurse.\n","Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.\n","This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.\n","This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.\n","Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments\n ,\n Boiling Instruments and Utensils\n ,\n Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol\n ,\n Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide\n ,\n Phenylmurcuric Compounds.\n","This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.\n","Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.\n","Paper with English to Arabic translations.\n","Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","by Bill Mauldin\n","This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.\n","Typed and handwritten article\n","(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8\n","U of Cincinnati\n","All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.\n","Picture caption\n","Written in Arabic\n","Picture caption (Tel Aviv)\n","Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944\n","MCV 1942\n","This Is The Army\n  by Irving Berlin\n","Newsprint\n","Newsprint\n","Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit\n","People listed include: People listed include: Maj. R. D. Butterworth, Maj. James L. Thompson, Maj. B. W. Rawles Jr, Cpt. B. B. Clay, Cpt. E. C. Toone, Cpt. A. G. Brown III, Cpt. J. R. Massie, Lt. Col. Morton M.\nPickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.\n","Original orders, receipts and tags.\n","This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.\n","39th Excelsior club meeting\n","Copy of 39th Meeting program, Copy of 25th Meeting program, 45th G.H. Newsletter May/1999, clipping of finishing of girder work on what is now West Hospital. Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. Also there are street photographs after a snowstorm including one of snow in an open topped car.\n","This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.\n","This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.\n","This series shows Dr. Thompson and others aboard a ship viewing Italian ruins from the water. The photographs are not labeled and no people are identified.\n","This series is of local images around the town where the 45th was stationed. Photographs include liberty ships, a sunken hospital ship, and images from Naples (Italy) harbor. People indicated include Sgt.\nTucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.\n","This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.\n","This series shows a trip to Mt. Vesuvius by the three indicated in the title. People indicated include Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth, Kels Boland (43rd G.H. Atlanta)\n","This series includes images of the family that Dr. Thompson boarded with while in Italy. Commentary discusses price of wine after the war, and images from a party. People indicated include the Mueller family,\nAngelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller\n","This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.\n","This series includes images of Venice, Italy including St. Marco's church and the Venice bell tower. There are images of gondolas and canals as well. People indicated include Tee Thompson and Jim Baker.\n","This series includes images of Rome Italy after WW2 including Vatican City, St. Peter's basilica, bridges over the Tiber River, the gravesite of the poet Keats, and the Castle of St. Angelo.\n","This series includes images from the ruins of three Italian cities. Anzio images depict tombstones from a cemetery. Cassina and Capua images are of damaged buildings, bridges, and warning signs.\n","This series includes images of the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the Wailing Wall, and the Acropolis in Athens. Also included are many photos taken within the transport plane. People indicated include 1st Lt.\nJean Jack, Capt. Dorothy Volker, 1st Lt. Mildred Littlejohn, 1st Lt. Jane Atyett, 1st Lt. Ann Shanaly, 1st Lt. Marjorie Hollingsworth, 1st Lt. Axtell, Capt. Tee Thompson, Capt. Robert Massey, Major Buckles, Capt.\nLarens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.\n","This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.\n","This series includes images of the Hospital complex, buildings, tents and staff who were assigned to this Hospital. People indicated include Mike Pinchney and Powell Williams.\n","This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.\n","This series includes images from the neurosurgery ward at the 45th G.H. Also included are photographs of a garden planted between two of the far buildings. People indicated include T/5 Emmitt Luchard, Doris\nShaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher\n","This series is a collection of loose photographs that may have come from the other series but are put together here. There are images of the 45th hospital complex, cityscapes, City of Pompei ruins, and local\nscenery. People indicated include Tee Thompson, Dr. Guy Horsley, Dr. Beu Rawls, Dr. W.T. Thompson, Doris Shaffer, Capt. Lawrence Hurt, and Dr. C. C. 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Thomson was a nationally known neurosurgeon. At the time of his death, he was Chief of Neurosurgery at Norfolk General and DePaul Hospitals, a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\nand a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.\n","Thomson graduated from the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati in 1934. After his residency, he taught neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1938-1941. He served in World War\nTwo as a member of the Medical Corps, assigned as a neurosurgeon to the 45th General Hospital. This hospital was active in Morocco and Italy. He was one of seven officers in the unit awarded the Bronze Star.\n","After the War, Thomson returned and set up a practice in Norfolk, where he was the first neurosurgeon in the Tidewater area. Due to this fact from 1945 to 1950, he was called upon to do all the neurosurgery for\nthe Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.\n","Building upon the relationships forged in war, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society, a group of 80 medical officers who met for the first time in 1945 at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome,\nItaly. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.\n","In 1959, Thomson was cited by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped for his efforts to employ those with physical handicaps while a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the State\nDepartment of Vocational Rehabilitation.\n","Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.\n","Dorothy Mae Knowles Thomson; B: 1913, D: -- Dorothy Mae Knowles grew up in Woodard, NC and was accepted into the Medical College of Virginia's nursing program in 1931. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in\nnursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.\n","She married Dr. James Levi Thomson on 15 May, 1940 and soon both were caught up in world events. Dr. Thomson was called into active service with the 45th General Hospital and sent to Italy.\n","After his return the couple moved to Norfolk, Virginia. With her husband, Thomson was a charter member of the Excelsior Surgical Society. She continued this association even after her husband's death in 1973.\n","Thomson is an active MCV alumni and member of the MCV Foundation. In 1995 she established the James L. Thomson, MD and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, RN Fund for the School of Nursing. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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Special letters and rolls.\n","Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.\n","Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.\n","This set involves the nursing school education of Dorothy Knowles. The photographs are of her and other students, generally on the rooftops of the main hospital buildings. People indicated include Dr. James\nBaker, Dr. James L. Thompson, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, Dr. Beverly Clary, Ruth Kipps, Meredith Gladding, Marian Cassiday, Ruth Warner, Jannie Buchanan, Evelyn Neal, Elizabeth Watkins, Queenie Victoria Jones, G.H.\nAddleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.\n","This folder contains the large photographs of the above set\n","This series includes several pictures taken from the rooftop of one of the hospitals. 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