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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 Hank Wolfe papers, 1927/1981
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library

Hank Wolfe papers, 1927/1981

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The collection contains materials relating to Wolfe's career as a newspaperman and work as an athletic organizer in Richmond, Virginia, from 1932 to 1978. In addition to biographical materials, there are records relating to his service on the Richmond Baseball Commission in the mid-1930s, his membership in the Richmond Newspaper Guild and his organization of the Richmond Jewish Athletic Hall of Fame for 1954-1957. There are lists of Virginia athletic championships maintained by Wolfe and some extraneous pieces relating to sports in Richmond. The collection has one folder of correspondence and contracts concerning Wolfe's employment as a part-time territorial scout for the Cleveland Indians Baseball Club from 1951 to 1961. The bulk of the papers relate to Wolfe's tenure as State Commissioner for the Virginia Amateur Softball Association from 1944 to 1968. There are ten scrapbooks (1927-1966) that Wolfe maintained of his sports column for the Richmond News Leader.

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