These 15 oral history interviews deal with the history and culture of Carver, a primarily working class African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, just north of VCU's Monroe Park campus. Originally recorded in 2000 as part of a grant funded project described as a "Living Newspaper," the interviews are presented as MP3 files with complete PDF transcriptions.

The Commonwealth Times (1969-present) is the student newspaper of VCU.

This digitization of the 1964 work by Robert W. Waitt, Jr. is an illustrated directory of Civil War-era hospitals in Richmond, Virginia.

From 1959 to 1964, Prince Edward County, Virginia, chose to close its public schools rather than integrate them. Through photographs, documents, and maps, this collection explores the history of Prince Edward County segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Edward H. Peeples, Emeritus professor at VCU, photographed over 100 images of schools in the county and environs in 1962 and 1963, documenting the disparity between African American and white facilities. Also included are contemporary images of the schools and events surrounding the anniversary of the 1951 student strike and other occasions, as well as additional published and unpublished materials on the topic. The Edward Peeples Collection was celebrated as the 1,999,999th addition to the VCU Libraries during VCU's 2,000,000th volume ceremonies on October 2, 2009.

The Fan Free Funnies were an illustrative example of the growing influence of "underground comix" on young comic artists in the early 1970s, when a number of Fan District residents and VCU fine arts students began creating comic art inspired by the popular underground comix scene. In the spring of 1973, VCU's student newspaper The Commonwealth Times took advantage of this phenomenon and produced three issues of an all-comics black-and-white tabloid called Fan Free Funnies. All three issues are presented here in their entirety.

The Medical College of Virginia (MCV) celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1963, culminating in the publication of this volume. Copiously illustrated, the 96-page book was the college's first full-length history.

Before VCU became a university and merged with MCV, it was the Richmond Professional Institute. Explore the history of RPI in this 1973 book written by Dr. Henry Hibbs, long-time leader of the school.

The Jackson Ward Historic District documents the architecture and history of Richmond's historic Jackson Ward neighborhood through photographs taken in the 1970s of over 500 buildings, maps showing the locations of those buildings, and text from the book published in 1978 by the City of Richmond.

The Medical Artifacts Collection consists of instruments and equipment related to the history of health care in Virginia over the last 150 years. The collection contains representative instruments from nineteenth-century medical practice including lancets, amputation sets, medicine chests, stethoscopes, obstetrical forceps, microscopes and dental forceps.

An early example of hardcover comic books, The Newlyweds and Their Baby (1907) features comics from George McManus's The Newlyweds, the first American family newspaper strip.

From the VCU School of Dentistry's Dept. of Oral Pathology, these 57 images illustrate the most common abnormalities of the oral cavity.

A Proud Heritage, a digitization of the book originally published in 1992, is an abundantly illustrated school history chronicling the development and growth of the eight diverse schools and programs that formed the foundation of the VCU School of Nursing.

VCU Libraries is honored to present these rare examples of the incomparable art work of the late Will Eisner. In an effort to encourage soldiers to keep better care of their equipment, the US Army hired Eisner's American Visuals Corporation to do a digest-sized publication focusing on preventive maintenance. Each issue consisted of a color comic book style cover; eight pages of four color comic continuity story in the middle; and a wealth of technical, safety, and policy information printed in two color. Eisner drew and was artistic editor for PS Magazine from its inception in 1951 until 1972. Presented here are complete scans for the entire run of Eisner issues, issues 1 to 229.

More than 600 postcard images of Richmond, most dating from 1900-1930, can be accessed here. The intent of this online exhibit is to help document early twentieth century Richmond by displaying a unique collection of images of the city. Many of these images include buildings and structures that either no longer exist or have since been altered. The subject matter of these postcards also lends insight into the social and cultural attitudes of those times.

This collection contains data sheets and photographs that identify and evaluate over 600 structures located in Richmond, Virginia's Jackson Ward and Oregon Hill neighborhoods. The surveys were compiled by the City of Richmond's Department of Planning and Community Development in the mid-1970s.

This slide collection consists of over 7,000 color photographs of Richmond, Virginia, taken from 1965-2000. These images document many of the changes within the city. In some cases the images serve as a record for properties which have since been either renovated or demolished.

This slide collection contains over 8,000 photographs primarily depicting the city of Richmond, Virginia. Taken and compiled by City of Richmond staff, the collection functioned as an archive of planning imagery used for city planning presentations.

1,329 patient entries were recorded in the register of Robertson Hospital, a small, private hospital located in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War. The Confederate hospital was in operation from July 1861 through June 1865. This collection is a searchable database of the entries, including patient name and rank, regiment and company information, admission and dismissal dates, and medical reason for admission.

The materials presented in this digital collection, excerpts from the Sanger Historical Files, tell the story of the Medical College of Virginia's struggle and ultimate survival during the Civil War. The files were compiled by Dr. William T. Sanger, president of MCV from 1925-1956.

Charles Henry 'Bill' Sykes (1882-1942) was a well respected editorial cartoonist whose work appeared in a number of periodicals including newspapers in Philadelphia. The Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection consists of 297 original editorial cartoons, four unfinished sketches, a U.S. War Bond poster, and a U.S. Victory poster by Sykes. The cartoons appeared in the Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia) and illustrate the events of the late 1930s and early 1940s with a focus on American reaction to the aggressions of the Axis powers before the U.S. entry into World War II.

This collection features over 250 nineteenth and early twentieth century images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs. These digitally scanned images are of prints taken by George S. Cook (1819-1902) and Huestes P. Cook (1868-1951) primarily in the Richmond and Central Virginia area. The online collection is the result of a joint effort between VCU Libraries and the Valentine Richmond History Center.

The Scarab is the alumni magazine for VCU's MCV Campus, published by the MCV Alumni Association. All issues, from the very first one of February 1952 to the summer 2010 issue, are available for viewing and downloading. This project was made possible through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country. Through the Collaborative's partnership with the Internet Archive, all items were scanned from cover-to-cover and in full color.

Here are the official minutes for the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee, complete from 1968 to summer 2007.

These oral histories were collected by VCU Libraries to capture information otherwise unavailable to researchers, supplement our rich documentary research collections, and learn more about how to create, store, and give access to these unique resources. Currently there are 10 interviews with 3 individuals, presented in MP3 format with PDF transcriptions. It is an on-going project and we hope you will check back for more oral history audio files and transcripts.

The X-Ray was the yearbook of VCU's MCV Campus. Every issue of the yearbook is included, from 1913 to 2010, including two yearbooks from 1943 to acknowledge the large number of graduates to support the war effort. The X-Ray ceased publication with its 2010 issue. This project was made possible through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country. Through the Collaborative's partnership with the Internet Archive, all items were scanned from cover- to-cover and in full color.

This collection of eleven videotaped interviews of leaders and activists in Virginia's Civil Rights movement was produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2002. The transcripts of the unedited interviews are available online. These interviews focus on statewide activities from the 1950s through the early 1970s and includes stories about the "Jim Crow" segregation laws that prevailed up until the mid-1960s; stories about the struggles to change the laws and to change public attitudes; and advice from these civil rights veterans to future generations of Virginians/Americans.

This is the full text of the 1967 report of the Wayne Commission recommending the creation of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Its full title is "Report of the Commission to plan for the establishment of a proposed state-supported university in the Richmond Metropolitan Area."