West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
American Legion, Mountaineer Post No. 127, Morgantown Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0139
Overview
Official records of the American Legion post established at West Virginia University in 1945.
Dates:
1945-1949
Brand Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1576
Scope and Contents
Business and official papers of Monongalia sheriff, John M. Brand and his deputy, William N. Brand, 1861-1872; letter from E. I. Moore of Woodburn Seminary; class prophecy, June 1898 by Friend E. Clark of West Virginia University; and diaries kept by Miss Willa Brand during a European trip, 1913, and a journey through the British Isles in 1924.
Dates:
1861-1872, 1898-1924
Education in West Virginia, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1668
Overview
These scrapbooks which were collected or compiled by B.B. Chapman concern Webster Springs High School, Fairmont State College, Glenville State College, and West Virginia University. Included are correspondence, faculty contracts, diplomas, teaching certificates, report cards, class lists, and other similar materials.
Dates:
1910-1960
Erbie Claire Albright (d. 1964) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1991
Overview
Correspondence, business papers, educational records of a home economics teacher and supervisor who graduated from West Virginia University, attended Chicago and Columbia universities, taught home economics at Morgantown High School, and was supervisor of home economics for the Monongalia County School System. The papers cover: family affairs; schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York; West Virginia Home Economics Association; National Education Association department of...
Dates:
1915-1943
General Education Board Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview
Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates:
1901-1967
Guy B. Young Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0661
Overview
Personal papers of a Glenville attorney, dealing with his law practice, service in the Spanish-American War, and his education at Glenville State Normal School and West Virginia University College of Law.
Dates:
1880-1940
Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates:
1896-1965
Lewis H. Chrisman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2114
Overview
Correspondence between Dr. Chrisman, professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Dr. Edgar Wesley, professor of education at the University of Minnesota. Subjects include education, religion, politics, Dr. C.H. Ambler, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and West Virginia University.
Dates:
1949-1964
Mildred Arnett-Reed Morgantown Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3333
Overview
Photocopy facsimile of scrapbook assembled by Mildred Arnett-Reed (11' x 16'; 95 pages). Includes photographs, letters from her sister and friends, newspaper clippings, programs, and ephemera documenting Reed's activities in the Morgantown, West Virginia area during her high school years (1924-27). There are also clippings and letters regarding her wedding in 1931, and greeting cards for her 25th wedding anniversary. Photographs include candid and portrait shots of Mildred's family (William...
Dates:
1924-1956
Monongalia Academy Minute Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2971
Overview
Minutes of the meetings of the Trustees dealing with raising and disbursing of funds, the establishment of rules and regulations and the hiring of personnel to supervise and to instruct at the Academy. Special mention is made of site location and awarding and payment of contracts for the erection of a new building. The new building was completed in 1831, located at the northeast corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets. Also mentioned are the trustee boards' decisions on acquiring property and...
Dates:
1827-58
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- Subject: Schools X
Additional filters:
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- Universities and colleges 8
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 7
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 5
- Academies (Private schools) 4
- Education 4
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 4
- Women's schools. 4
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Schools 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Account books 1
- Bath County (Va.) 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Camp Lee (Va.) 1
- Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - coal industry. 1
- Court records 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education - Home economics. 1
- Europe 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Glenville (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County - Court records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Metropolitan Theatre. 1
- Michigan - education. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Monongalia County - schools. 1
- New York -- Education 1
- Palatine. 1
- Pennsylvania -- Education 1
- Philippi. 1
- Pocahontas County - court records. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Schools - Morgantown. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Strand Theater. 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Theaters - Morgantown. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Webster Springs. 1
- West Virginia University - athletics. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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