Gayle Schulman research files

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Gayle Schulman research files 2003, 2011-2014, MSS 16138, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Summary

Extent:
.04 Cubic Feet research files on African American physicians in 1900, their families and a history of the slaves at the University of Virginia
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Gayle Schulman research files 2003, 2011-2014, MSS 16138, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Background

Scope and content:

This collection of Gayle Schulman research files is about one hundred items, one document box, .04 cubic feet, and relates to African-American physicians born in 1900 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Physicians included in the research are James Franklin Allen, George Geiger Anderson, Edward Albert Carter, Eugene Dickerson, William Peter Dickerson, Samuel Cornelius Donaldson, Thomas M. Ferguson, Henry Floyd Gamble, Thomas Southall Hawkins, Sarah Garland Boyd Jones, John Andrew Kenney, and Peter Willis Price. There is also a research file on slaves at the University of Virginia which was prepared for a presentation to the African-American Genealogy Group in 2003.

Biographical / historical:

In 1996, local historian and University of Virginia Alumnus, Gayle Schulman came across a series of letters written in 1866 by Isabella Gibbons, a newly freed slave who taught in the Charlottesville's Freedman's School. Ms. Schulman's project to research the life of Gibbons and her family (part of which was published in the Magazine of Albemarle County History, Vol. 55) led her to other studies of local African American history.

During her research into the Gibbons family she learned that both Isabella and her husband, William Gibbons, had been owned for part of their lives by University of Virginia Professors. In 2003, Ms. Schulman began a systematic review of archives, manuscripts, census data, church membership lists, and birth and death records searching for clues to their lives as individuals and as members of a community. A portion of this research is illustrated in her manuscript titled "Slaves at the University of Virginia." To download a copyrighted version of this 33-page article (pdf file), click here. Taken from http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2010/08/05/slavery-at-the-university-of-virginia/

Acquisition information:
This collection was a gift from Gayle Schulman to the Special Collections Library, University of Virginia on May 3, 2016.
Arrangement:

Research files on African American physicians in 1900 are arranged alphabetically by doctor's last name, and history of slaves at the University of Virginia at the end

Physical facet:
14 folders in one document box
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard