Capital city of Virginia, United States of America

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A group of men hold another up with their arms representing an advertisement for an HIV Peer support group by the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph, 1992.

A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.

Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.

Medicine in Richmond, 1900-1975 / by Charles M. Caravati.

Medical College of Virginia before 1925, and University College of Medicine 1893-1913 / by William T. Sanger.

Chimborazo Hospital : a description and evaluation of the Confederacy's largest hospital / by Carol Cranmer Green.

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Medicine in Richmond, 1900-1975 / by Charles M. Caravati.

A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.

Medical College of Virginia before 1925, and University College of Medicine 1893-1913 / by William T. Sanger.

Chimborazo Hospital : a description and evaluation of the Confederacy's largest hospital / by Carol Cranmer Green.

A group of men hold another up with their arms representing an advertisement for an HIV Peer support group by the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph, 1992.