West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
G. Harry Bayles Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0820
Overview
Correspondence with the American Museum of Natural History, 1934-1952, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Circumnavigator's Club, 1943-1954, and Richard T. Wiley, the historian, at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, 1933-1937. Also includes a 34-page travel account of Greece, Crete, and Egypt (1936-1937), materials on Tecumseh (the Shawnee Chief), Monongalia County history, West Virginia University history, and Bayles and Vandervort genealogy. Also includes labeled wood samples from Casa...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1955
Peace Tree Exhibit Photographs and Brochures
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3208
Overview
An exhibit created by Anna M. Schein to commemorate the planting of a peace tree and its annual honoring ceremonies conducted by leaders of various Native American peoples including the Iroquois. Representative leaders were Peterson Zah, Navajo Nation President; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper and Leon Shenandoah Tadodaho, Presiding Moderator of the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tree planting ceremony dates back to the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy (ca. 1450)...
Dates:
1992-1995
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947
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- Subject: Indians of North America X
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- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Atotarho. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Crete (Greece) 1
- Deganawidah. 1
- Egypt 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Greece 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Iroquois Indians 1
- Jigonhsasee. 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mound-builders 1
- Peace Tree Exhibit 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Slavery 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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