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        <titleproper>A Guide to the Papers of James L. and Dorothy Thomson <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian"> 1936-1987</date></titleproper>
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      <titleproper>A Guide to the Papers of James L. and Dorothy Knowles Thomson <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian"> 1936-1987</date></titleproper>
      <subtitle>A Collection in <lb/>Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library
<num type="Accession Number">2004/May/6
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  <archdesc level="collection">
    <runner placement="footer">Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library
</runner>
    <did>
      <head>Descriptive Summary
</head>
      <repository label="Repository">Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
</repository>
      <unittitle label="Title">Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson
<unitdate type="inclusive" label="Date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1943 - 1987
</unitdate></unittitle>
      <unitid label="Accession number">2004/May/06
</unitid>
      <physdesc label="Physical Characteristics">.8 linear feet
</physdesc>
      <langmaterial label="Language">
        <language langcode="eng">English
</language>
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    </did>
    <descgrp type="admininfo">
      <head>Administrative Information
</head>
      <accessrestrict>
        <head>Access Restrictions
</head>
        <p>Collection is open to research.
</p>
      </accessrestrict>
      <userestrict>
        <head>Use Restrictions
</head>
        <p>There are no restrictions.
</p>
      </userestrict>
      <prefercite>
        <head>Preferred Citation
</head>
        <p>Papers of James L and Dorothy Knowles Thomson, 2004/May/06, Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
</p>
      </prefercite>
      <acqinfo>
        <head>Acquisition Information
</head>
        <p>Donated by the Thomson family.
</p>
      </acqinfo>
    </descgrp>
    <bioghist>
      <head>Biographical/Historical Information
</head>
      <p>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
and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
</p>
      <p>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
Two 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.
</p>
      <p>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
the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, and the Marine Public Health Hospitals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk Virginia.
</p>
      <p>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,
Italy. Thomson also helped organize the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias and was its first president.
</p>
      <p>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
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation.
</p>
      <p>Thomson married the former Dorothy Mae Knowles on 15 May, 1940. He had two children, Martha and James Jr.
</p>
      <p>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
nursing and started right away to work at the Hospital. From 1937-1940, Knowles was an Instructor and Supervisor of Operating Room Technique at MCV.
</p>
      <p>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.
</p>
      <p>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.
</p>
      <p>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
heighten 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
lecturers.
</p>
    </bioghist>
    <scopecontent>
      <head>Scope and Content
</head>
      <p>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-
1963. 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
half 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
well as personal effects.
</p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement>
      <head>Arrangement
</head>
      <p>Records are listed in chronological order.
</p>
    </arrangement>
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      <head>Contents List
</head>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Dorothy Knowles Thompson - Nursing papers, MCV
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1931 - 1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Operating Room Guide
</unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.1- 1.3
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Urological Instruments
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1941
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.3
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">How to Obtain Maximum Service from Hypodermic Syringes, Needles, Clinical Thermometers and Ace Bandages.
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1940
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.3
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>New Dermatoma for Cutting Calibrated Skin Grafts
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1939
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.3
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Photograph
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Photograph of a proper surgical tool layout.
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Teaching Manual
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1940-1942
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.4
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This folder contains the teaching manual for Mrs. Thompson's course on Operating Room techniques. typed, mimeograph, and handwritten pages.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Course outline and exams
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1942
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.5
</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Related source material.
</unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.6
</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Problems of Curriculum Administration. Proposed Revision of the Curriculum for Nursing Schools.
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1936
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.6
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Factors Determining the Development of Nursing and Schools of Nursing.
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1932
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.6
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter of Acceptance
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">24 Jun, 1931
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.7
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This folder contains a copy of the Mrs. Thompson's acceptance into MCV's nursing school.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Supplemental source material
</unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">1.8
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Autoclaving Surgical Supplies and Instruments
</title>,
<title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Boiling Instruments and Utensils
</title>,
<title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Chemical Sterilization vs. Alcohol
</title>,
<title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Bard. Parker Formaldehyde Germicide
</title>,
<title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Phenylmurcuric Compounds.
</title></p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unittitle>James L. Thompson, Personal and military memorabilia
</unittitle>
          <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This folder contains mulitiple assorted memorabilia including stamps, currency, playbills and maps.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Memorabilia: Trip to Rabat, Oman.
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1943
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.2
</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Postcards
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Images of local people, the Fountain Arabe, and several pen and ink images of local places.
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Translation
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Paper with English to Arabic translations.
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Business cards of local folks.
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Docteur Canto (French), Ahmed Bennani (Moroccan), Tomail Mahdi Khattab (Egyptian).
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Perfume tags
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>WW2 GI Comic books.
</unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.3
</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Mud, Mules and Mountains
</title>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>by Bill Mauldin
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>This Damn Tree Leaks
</unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>by Bill Mauldin
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Memorabilia: Trip to Switzerland
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.4
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This file contains various items including offical military instructions, travel papers, hotel tags and broucures, postcards, and other documentation.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>
              <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Frac. dislocation of cervical spine in infancy. Px by skeletal traction
</title>
              <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1937
</unitdate>
            </unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">2.5
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Typed and handwritten article
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unittitle>45th General Hospital Group
</unittitle>
          <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">3
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>US Army Office of the Surgeon: Circular Letter
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944-1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">3.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>(1944) 30, 36, 48 (1945) 8
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Outline, US Army program for Plastic and Maxilliofacial surgery
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">3.1
</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Outline, US Army program for Plastic and Maxilliofacial surgery
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1935
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">3.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>U of Cincinnati
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="collection">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Newspaper clippings of Unit
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944-1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>All Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Allied Hospital Area Hit In Beachhead Area
</title>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Picture caption
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Unknown
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Written in Arabic
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Modern Street Scene
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">17 Nov, 1945
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Picture caption (Tel Aviv)
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Jewish City Is Cultural, Industrial
</title>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Picture caption. (Tel Aviv)
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Springtime in Italy Finds War Fought to Stalemate
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2 Apr, 1944
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>
                <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">Zionists Raid Arms Depot Near Tel Aviv
</title>
                <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">11 Oct, 1945
</unitdate>
              </unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Playbills, Christmas booklets, telegrams
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.3
</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Telegrams (2) Birthday, promotion
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.3
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Christmas programs
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1942, 1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">3.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Thanksgiving programs
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1942, 1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Camp Lee, 1942; Italy, 1944
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Armistice Day program
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>MCV 1942
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Playbill
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.3
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="doublequote" xlink:href="">This Is The Army
</title> by Irving Berlin
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <container label="Folder" type="folder">3.4
</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Newsprint
</p>
        </scopecontent>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Clippings about awards won
</unittitle>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Newsprint
</p>
          </scopecontent>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>General Orders #163
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.1
</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Award of Bronze Star and Legion of Merit
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="file">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Award of Meritorious Service Unit Plaque
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">25 Jun, 1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>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.
Pickney, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Roberts, 2nd Lt. Elaine Arletta Roe, 2nd Lt. Rita Virginia Roarke.
</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Original orders, receipts and tags
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1942-1943, 1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Original orders, receipts and tags.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Memo to Officers About to Embark for Overseas
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">30 Nov, 1942
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Extract of Special Order 34
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">9 Feb, 1943
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Extract of Special Order 29
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2 Feb, 1943
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>War Department address card
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">31 Mar, 1943
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Room assignment for transatlantic trip aboard HMS Andes
</unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Welcome Home
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">7 Sep, 1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container label="Folder" type="folder">4.2
</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Martha Thompson papers">Report on Italy
</unittitle>
          <container label="Folder" type="folder">5
</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>This report contains many photographs taken by her father, James Thompson while on assignment at the 45th General Hospital.
</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Excelsior Surgery Club
</unittitle>
          <container label="Folder" type="folder">6
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">12 Oct, 1985
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">6.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>39th Excelsior club meeting
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Yearbook, invitations to 29th meeting
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">6.2
</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Memorabilia
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">6.3
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Memorabilia
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">6.4
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters and recommendations, meeting memorabilia, Guideposts featuring Dr. Michael De Bakey, a member. Copy of the 28th Meeting program.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters and memorabilia
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">6.5
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Minutes of annual meetings 1963, 1966, 1971. Copy of the 2nd and 4th annual meetings.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <container label="Folder" type="folder">7
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Nursing School
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1932 - 1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">7.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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
Baker, 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.
Addleman, Virginia Lewter, Sarah Ingold, Polly Carlton, Alma Paucake, Muriel Price.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Nursing School: Large Photographs
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">7.2
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This folder contains the large photographs of the above set
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Richmond Skyline
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">7.3
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>MCV Hospital
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">7.4
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series has photographs of what is now the West Hospital and an ivy covered Egyptian Building.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Dr. David Tucker
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1939
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">7.5
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series has a photograph of the donation of the portrait of Dr. David Tucker by members of his family to MCV.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Photographic Collection - James Thompson
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944 - 1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container label="Folder" type="folder">8
</container>
        </did>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Ischice
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.1
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Biah
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.2
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
Tucker Carter, Duncan Caulder, Bill Daner, Capt. Tommy (Tee) Thompson.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Amalphia Drive - Italy
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.3
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series shows images taken from an estate atop a steep cliff. People indicated include Capt. Larry Massey and Russel.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Mt. Vesuvius, 1944. Tommy, Guy Horsley, Jud Butterworth and others.
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.4
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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)
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Mueller Living Quarters, Naples Italy
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944-1947
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.5
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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,
Angelo, Josephine, Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Sorrento
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">1944
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series includes photographs of Mt. Vesuvius and the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Hotel.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Venice
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.7
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Rome 1944
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.8
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Anzio, Cassina, and Capua
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.9
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Trip to Cairo - Athens, Greece - Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.10
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
Jean 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.
Larens, and Lt. Col. Sandzen.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Trip to Cairo - Athens, Greece - Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. Large Photographs.
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.11
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series includes the larger photographs of the above collection.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs - Dr. James L. Thompson
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944, 1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.12
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series includes photographs taken from the side of the road. People indicated include Tee Thompson.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Base Hospital #45
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944-45
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.13
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Base Hospital #45: Large Photographs
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944-45
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Box-folder" type="box-folder">8.14
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series includes the larger photographs of the above series.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs Neurosurgical Italy
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1944
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.15
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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
Shaffer, Florence Feik, John Marshall (ward boy), T/5 Chilter, T/5 Campbell, PFC Hatcher
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Untitled
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1941-1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.16
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>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
scenery. 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.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Untitled - Large Photographs
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1941-1945
</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.17
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Oran, Algeria
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.18
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series contains photographs of artwork, and architecture.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Oran, Algeria - Large Photographs
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.19
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series contains the larger photographs of the above series.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Medical Procedures
</unittitle>
            <container label="Folder" type="folder">8.20
</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>This series includes x-rays, diagrams, and examples of prosthetics used by the Army during WW2.
</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
    </dsc>
  </archdesc>
</ead>
