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- Struggle, Sacrifice, and Scholarship – Black Education in Central Virginia, 1800-19222
- Introductory Text
- Advocacy
- Self Help
- Struggle and Sacrifice
- Vocational Education
- 1914 Campbell County school fair
- Exhibition at Henrico County Training School, 1922
- Permilia “Amelia” Elizabeth Perry Pride (1857-1932)
- Theresa Pierce Cooking School, c. 1910
- 1915 Book, Food, What It Is and Does
- Spoon c. 1910
- 1911 Mason Jar
- 1920 Book, Happy Healthy Womanhood
- Muffin tins c. 1900
- Apron c. 1910
- Beginnings of Lynchburg Public Schools
- Amherst County
- Appomattox County
- Bedford County
- Campbell County
- Virginia Theological Seminary and College – Part 1
- James Robert Lincoln Diggs (1908-1911)
- 1894 Ledger
- 1903 Seminary graduates
- 1916-1917 Virginia Seminary football team
- 1917 Composite
- Adolphus Humbles, Sr.
- Alease Dorothy Gilbert
- Catalogs
- Clarissa Wimbush
- Commencement program
- Diploma
- Fox Memorial Hall
- Girls’ Club at Virginia Seminary c. 1910
- Gregory W. Hayes (1891-1906)
- Hilda Hayes
- John Chilembwe
- Josephine Anderson
- Little Things
- Mary Rice Hayes (1906-1908)
- Men of the Seminary Theological Department, 1916-1917
- Nancy Goldsberry
- Nineteenth century solicitation form used by Virginia Seminary
- Phillip Morris (1888-1891)
- Physics laboratory
- Program from the 1907 Virginia Seminary Commencement
- Robert Clisson Woods (1911-1926)
- Seminary students on a picnic c. 1915
- Virginia Seminary Orchestra c. 1915
- Virginia Seminary’s first building
- Willie LeeAnderson
- Virginia Theological Seminary and College – Part 2
- Virginia Theological Seminary and College – Part 3
- Separate But Equal?
- Vocational Education
- The Legacy Museum and the Virginia SOLs
- Herbs to Lasers, Cholera to Aids
- Antebellum, Civil War, and Post War Health Care 1800-1900
- Herbal Medicine
- Midwifery 1800-1960
- Birth Certificate of Ruth Delacy Jones, 1914
- Mary Jett Austin Bedford and Campbell County Midwife
- Midwife’s Certificate of Retirement, 1955
- Scissors Used by Midwife Maude Watson Flood
- Mary Jane Thornhill (1875-1949) Lynchburg Midwife
- Julia Whiteley Branch (1850-1937) Lynchburg Midwife and Baby Nurse
- Bettie Frances Slayton Waller Campbell County Midwife
- Margaret Jones (1823 -1904) Lynchburg Midwife
- Kitty Shelton Patterson (1840-1914) Lynchburg Midwife
- Nurse for the Minor family, Amherst County, c. 1850
- Pieced Quilt, date and maker unknown
- Some Other Central Virginia Midwives
- Letters
- The Civil War
- After the Civil War 1865-1900
- The Negro Health Problem, Public Health, The Great Depression, and the World Wars 1900-1945
- Assorted
- By-laws, Old Dominion Lodge, 1924
- “State Aid” and Segregation, 1936-1956
- New City Hospital, 1912
- Birth and Mortality Rates in Lynchburg, 1931-1943
- Lynchburg Infant Mortality and Deaths Under One Year, 1931-1935
- Leading Causes of Death in Lynchburg, 1944
- Two of Lynchburg’s future doctors Lincoln University, 1923
- Central Virginia Doctors, Dentists, and Nurses
- Dentists
- Dr. Clarissa Wimbush (d. 1986) Lynchburg Dentist
- Dr. Henry Page Weeden (b. 1889) Lynchburg Dentist
- Objects from the Office of Dr. Hubert Diuguid, c. 1942
- Dr. John Andrew Jackson (1888 – 1957) Lynchburg and Charlottesville Dentist
- Cornelia Campbell (b. 1930) Dental Hygienist
- Louise Calloway Bondurant (1902-1993) Dental Technician
- Other Dentists
- Nurses
- Adelaide Stewart Scott (b. 1921) Lynchburg and Pittsburgh nurse
- Anna W. Byrd Eastman Wheaton (b. 1910) Nurse and Medical Record Librarian
- J.P. Gordon
- Thelma Davis Smith (1925-2000) Hampton and Maryland Nurse
- Frances Cornelia Betts Butler
- Minnie Brown Carter
- Anna L. Nellum Robinson (1900-1995) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
- Annie Hunt Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
- Edna Ross Burton (b. 1915) Lynchburg and Amherst County Nurse
- Lavlette Grant Smith
- Mary Adams (1914-1971) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
- Pharmacist
- Physicians
- Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr. (1898-1941) Lynchburg Physician
- Dr. G. L. Alfonso Pogue (1888-1956) Bedford Physician
- Dr. Kyle M. Pettis (1881-1967) Lynchburg Physician
- Dr. Leon M. Braswell (1904-1958) Lynchburg Physician
- Dr. Peyton Randolph Higginbotham (1902-1993) West Virginia Physician
- Dr. Roger William Lomax (b. 1881) Lynchburg Physician
- Dr. Thomas J. Fawcett (b. 1877) Lynchburg Physician
- Dr. William Henry Roberts (b. 1887) Lynchburg Physician
- Veterinarian
- LTSH Attendant
- Assorted
- Protest and Integration 1946-1966
- Protest and Integration
- Nurses
- Berda Mack (b. 1933) Brooklyn, NY, and Lynchburg Nurse
- Cora Mattocks Central Virginia Public Health Nurse
- Dorothy H. Mullen (b. 1944) Lynchburg Nurse
- Elizabeth Pinkard Wilkinson (1925-1998) Lynchburg Nurse
- Geraldine Mason Coleman (b.1930) Lynchburg Nurse
- Helen Marie Howell Felder (b. 1920) Houston Nurse
- I.W. Phillips
- Mary Gilbert Holmes (b. 1937) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
- Mildred Green Diggs (b. 1945) Lynchburg Nurse
- Sarah Booker Ford (b. 1926) Lynchburg Nurse
- Sarah Elizabeth Brown Davis Bedford nurse
- Scottie Brown Bevley Lynchburg nurse
- Vivian Pickens (1927 – 1994) Lynchburg Nurse
- Physicians
- Other Health Professionals
- Clarence W. Smith (1918-1994) Howard University Radiologist
- D. Gabriel
- Dr. Lincoln I. Diuguid (b. 1917) Missouri Chemist
- Elsie Strange Evans (b. 1900) LTSH “Grandmother”
- Frank L. Austin Pharmacist
- Gloria P. Franklin (b. 1923) Medical Technologist
- Hubert Nathaniel Chambers (1927-1995) Laboratory Technologist
- Other Central Virginia Health Care Workers
- Further Reading
- Antebellum, Civil War, and Post War Health Care 1800-1900
- For Our Own Good
- Acknowledgements
- Further Reading
- Good Questions
- For Our Own Good
- In This Place
- Naming Ourselves
- Belonging
- The Up and Coming
- Brownie troop, sponsored by Order of Eastern Star, Peaks View Chapter #226, Bedford County, c. 1960
- Dancers in the backyard of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Monroe Street, Lynchburg, 1949
- Hunton Branch, YMCA, Ninth & Jackson Streets, Lynchburg, 1951
- Party at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Monroe Street, Lynchburg, 1953
- Virginia Cabell Randolph (1872-1962), founder of Eighth Street Community House, Lynchburg
- Africa and Us
- The Ladies
- The Men Folk
- Crossing the Desert Sands
- In Sickness and in Death
- Archer Creek Burial Society officers, Campbell County, 2008
- Insurance policy, Odd Fellows, 1915
- Receipt book, Henry S. Fowler Post #347, American Legion, Campbell County, 1968
- Zeta Phi Beta flower bearers at home-going celebration of Fannie Turner Langhorne, Eighth Street Baptist Church, Lynchburg, 2004
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