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Richmond First Club records, Collection # M 238, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Organized in 1919, the Richmond First Club was founded by Dr. Dice R. Anderson and B. Roy Dudley, Jr. to continue the work begun by the Richmond Civic Association. Strictly non-partisan, closed to employees and officials of the city the RFC engages in objective studies of the city's government and offers suggestions for improvements. A more specific history can be found in "A Seventy-Five Year Participation in Local Government: Richmond-First Club 1919-1994" by John H. Whaley.
The Richmond First Club Papers consist of administrative files, correspondence, reports, memoranda, committee files, publications, audio tapes, photographs and clippings about the Club's activities or interests. The materials encompass the years 1919-1990, but are concentrated in the period from the mid 1970s through the present. Series VIII contains photocopied material from the Raymond Pinchbeck Papers at the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. The bulk of these materials are dated from the 1950s.
The majority of the files are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. Bulletins are arranged by date. Duplicates have been weeded from the collection and either returned to the Richmond First Club or discarded. Photographs, video tapes and audio cassette tapes have been transferred to RG 60, 70 and M 15 respectively. The oversized materials are maps of the Richmond area of the 1980s. Series I--Administrative Files (n.d., 1928- ); Series II--Committee Files (n.d., 1958- ); Series III--Committee Reports (1969 - ); Series IV--Bulletin (n.d., 1942- ); Series V--Clippings and Miscellaneous Files (n.d., 1963- ); Series VI--Oversize (Located in Map Drawer 26, 1980s); Series VII--RFC 1994 75th Anniversary History; Series VIII--Raymond Pinchbeck Collection of RFC materials (1948-1967)
Includes three editions of Hanover Living Guide and a Copy of the Richmond Business Journal December 1986. Also included are maps of Chesterfield County, Goochland County and Henrico County.