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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 Date range 1983

Samuel Wilbert Tucker Collection, 1939/1994 .36 Linear Feet

Tucker, Samuel Wilbert

The collection contains consists primarily of photocopies of various Virginia newspaper articles on school desegregation efforts in Virginia, from 1960-1964, in which Tucker played a role. The collection also contains newspaper articles on other civil rights issues as well as photocopies of correspondence and other materials.

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Saul Kay papers, 1939/2000 27 Items Print box, one folder

The collection is composed mostly of Kay's diplomas and certificates related to his medical education and career along with a prescription and treament notebook, photographs, official documents (medical licence), a letter from the MCV Pathology Department, and a resolution from the Richmond Symphony. It also includes some diplomas and certificates for his wife, Grace Calef Kay, who attended New York Medical College and completed a residency at Harlem Hospital in New York at the same time as her husband. The photographs are all group images taken while Kay was a resident at Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center and at various annual Arthur Purdy Stout Club meetings. This is a very small collection, but it provides some information about the path of Kay's medical education, residencies, and career.

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