This collection contains the papers of Edward E. Thompson, a veterinarian in Salem, Virginia, and a World War II veteran of the U. S. Army Veterinarian Corps. Included is a daybook from Thompson's veterinary clinic, providing details on transactions (client names, patient conditions and treatments, and charges). The collection also contains notes tracking Thompson's income and expenditures over a 40-year period. The greater part of the collection, however, consists of scrapbooks and photograph albums compiled by Thompson. The scrapbooks focus on Thompson's veterinary career and his civic and personal activities and contain such materials as correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. A secondary focus is Thompson's interest in Republican Party politics. Included are photographs of individuals and letters bearing autopen signatures of such figures as Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Charles Robb, and Nancy Reagan. Also included is a Southwest Virginia Republican Party banquet menu, autographed by Nixon, Linwood Holton, Richard H. Poff, and John Dalton. The collection also contains two photograph albums: one (water-damaged) album focuses on Thompson's military service, beginning with an R.O.T.C. camp at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and continuing through his service in the U. S. Army Veterinarian Corps in China and the South Pacific during World War II; the other album documents Thompson's 1981 trip to China and contains postcards as well as snapshots.