Collections : [Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library]

Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library

James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
Primary Collecting Areas:
book art, comic arts, university archives, and 20th and 21st century Richmond and Central Virginia history, including African-American, gay and lesbian, and women's activist communities; the visual, literary, and performing arts; and architecture and urban planning
Description:
Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library collects rare and unique research materials documenting 20th and 21st century Richmond and Central Virginia. Our holdings include manuscripts, personal papers, photograph collections, oral histories, and various institutional records. Books and other published materials include nationally significant special collections of book art and comic arts; rare books and periodicals; late 19th and early 20th-century architecture and decorative arts; and Richmond history, imprints, literature and serial publications from the late 20th century to the present. The historical records of VCU and its Monroe Park Campus predecessor, the Richmond Professional Institute, are found here as well.
POC: SCA Staff
Phone: (804) 828-1108
Fax: (804) 828-0151
Start Over Repository Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library Collection Betsy Brinson collection

Betsy Brinson collection 0.83 Linear Feet 2 letter document boxes

Brinson, Betsy

The Betsy Brinson collection contains materials Brinson collected related to her activism and involvement in various organizations, namely the YWCA and Richmond Peace Education Center. The Richmond Peace Education Center materials include newsletters, as well as planning documents and ephemera for the Eyes Wide Open Project. The YWCA materials mostly include pamphlets, information on a YWCA children's reading program, and news clippings. The collection also contains miscellaneous newsletters and reports produced in Virginia or regionally about women's rights and social justice, pins and buttons that are largely political in nature, and photos from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. There are some syllabi and reading packets from Brinson's time teaching at VCU, but the collection largely reflects the organizations and work Brinson was involved with outside of VCU from 1974 to 2013.

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DVD-R: "Race, Class, Culture, Power" panel discussion, Richmond Times-Dispatch Box 1, Folder 3

DVD-R contains 5 .VOB video files of a panel discussion held by Richmond Times Dispatch. The panel was attended by Richmond Times Dispatch reporters and filmed. The panel is described as being about race, class, culture, and power, and as helping inform the direction of a series of stories (presumably with Richmond Times Dispatch) throughout the year.

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Miscellaneous pamphlets and ephemera Box 1, Folder 6

Includes: -So You Want to Date a Feminist... A Complete Guide - Feminist Intervention Group, 1974 -Consciousness Razors, Verne Moberg - National Education Association, undated -Loss of the Betsey and Destruction of the Prince - pages 32-72 of an unkonwn booklet, undated -African American Writers Claiming Our Own Voices, "Conversations with West Indian Writers" - National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Richmond Chapter, 1994

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