Sarah Randolph Talcott papers

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Location of collection:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library
James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
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Preferred citation:

Sarah Randolph Talcott papers, Collection # 2024.11.017, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Summary

Extent:
1 Folders
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Sarah Randolph Talcott papers, Collection # 2024.11.017, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Background

Scope and content:

Materials include a 1913 Virginia Hospital Training School commencement announcement, two notes written by Marion Fisher and Sarah Randolph Talcott, a poem written on the back of a letter (letterhead, Superintendent of Schools, Alexandria, VA), and a letter written by Sarah's father, George Russell Talcott, 1898

Biographical / historical:

Sarah Randolph Talcott was born in South Carolina in 1891 to George Russell Talcott and Frances Mason Berry. She attended The Virginia Hospital Training School for Nursing and was part of the last class to graduate from the program. The school originally began under the University College of Medicine which merged with the Medical College of Virginia in 1913. Talcott later worked as a nurse in Alexandria Hospital. She married Marion Nimmo Fisher in 1917 and they had three children. Talcott died in 1966.

Acquisition information:
Gift of The Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, Port Washington, NY, 2023.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard