History of Richmond Professional Institute

Visit this site to view student yearbooks for Richmond Professional Institute,

the Medical College of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Yearbooks included in the collection are:

• The Wigwam (RPI, 1931-1955)

• Cobblestone (RPI, 1956-1968; VCU, 1969-1973)

• Cobblestone yearbook, 1956-1973 (VCU, commemorative volume issued in 1974)

• Commonwealth (VCU, 1979-1980)

• The Rampages (VCU, 1989-1990)

• The X-Ray (MCV, 1913-2010)

There were no VCU yearbooks from 1974 to 1978 or from 1981-1988. After 1990, the VCU yearbook was no longer published. The MCV yearbook ceased publication in the spring of 2010.

Alumni magazines in the collection are:

• VCU Magazine (1971-1993): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
• Shafer Court Connections (1994-2010): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
• The Scarab (1952-2010): alumni magazine for the MCV Campus

To view the collections, go to the Internet Archive. From there, you can browse by subject or keyword to get to the exact publication you want. Additional locally digitized publications are available from VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.