West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1000
Scope and Contents
Letters to Dr. Callahan, mainly from members of his family; typescripts on the history of West Virginia University; and miscellaneous research and clippings relating to his published and unpublished writings.
Dates:
1940-1956
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4407
Scope and Contents
One box of 16 mm negative microfilm containing a typescript draft with editing and proofreading notes of "History of West Virginia University: Problems and Policies" by Dr. J. M. Callahan; contains 817 exposures.
Dates:
ca. 1945
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0115
Scope and Contents
Another manuscript given by Dr. Callahan is his "History of the Christian Church in Western Europe." The title is self-explanatory. The work demonstrates the result of careful research.5 boxes contain notes, letters and documents gathered from the time Dr.Callahan was a student at the Johns Hopkins University until the year of his retirement from West Virginia University. This work pertains to the development of these in American History, chiefly in the field of diplomacy;...
Dates:
1900-1947
Johns Hopkins University, Alumni Association, West Virginia Branch, Minutes and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1876
Overview
Records of an association of Johns Hopkins alumni at West Virginia University, including two minute books, 1913-1924 and 1925-1958. Members include J.M. Callahan, O.P. Chitwood, Friend E. Clark, and A.M. Reese.
Dates:
1913-1958
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
Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview
Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates:
1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970
Monongalia Academy to West Virginia Agricultural College, Deed
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0403
Overview
A 7-page deed transferring the Monongalia Academy and Woodburn Seminary property, Morgantown, West Virginia, to the West Virginia Agricultural College in April 1867.
Dates:
1867
Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1997
Scope and Contents
Four boxes of correspondence from 1920-1948. The correspondence covers the period from the appointment of Strausbaugh in 1923, as Chairman of the Department of Botany at WVU (later the Department of Biology) to 1948. The correspondence from 1920-1923 is Dr. Strausbaugh's personal correspondence while on the staff of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Included are seven pages of typescript carbons containing comments on Elements of Biology by Strausbaugh and...
Dates:
1920-1948
Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1848
Scope and Contents
Papers of P. D. Strausbaugh, former head of the Department of Botany, author of a biology textbook, and professor of Botany at WVU.Papers consist mainly of correspondence concerning the writing, compiling, editing, and revising a college biology text in cooperation with B. R. Weimar and Earl L. Core. Also included are letters concerning the investigation of plants for identification, the making of "Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies" and other moving pictures, and the signing of...
Dates:
1913-1964
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- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 5
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 5
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- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
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- Biology 2
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- Politics and government. 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
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- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- West Virginia -- History 2
- West Virginia University -- History 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's schools. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- American Continental Security Policy 1
- American diplomacy 1
- American northern frontier 1
- Arnott (W.Va.) 1
- Authors, American -- Appalachian Region 1
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- Indians of North America 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Marriage records 1
- Michigan - education. 1
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- Monongalia County - schools. 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
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- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
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- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Railroads 1
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