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New Blog Entry - Chris Baker
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Dale Dulaney <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:02:47 -0400
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In 1893 a Richmond newspaper described him as a “jolly little ghoul.” Chris 
Baker was a respected “anatomical man” in the white community, procuring 
cadavers by extralegal means for the dissection room at the Medical College of 
Virginia. In the city’s African American community he was reviled and is still 
present in living memory. Local Records Senior Archivist Vince Brooks brings to 
light the story of Richmond’s “resurrectionist” Chris Baker in this week’s 
Halloween edition of the Out of the Box blog from the archivists at the Library 
of Virginia. 

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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