West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4767
Scope and Contents
This collection was created through the composition of materials removed from other A&M collections, staff collected materials, and the merging of smaller collections. As a result, this collection covers a wide range of activities and movements from West Virginia and the larger Appalachian region. The subject areas of the collection include: 1) state petitions, and government announcements, 1777-1979; 2) public announcements, public sales, and advertisements, 1853-1899; 3) elections,...
Dates:
1777-2012 and undated
Buffalo Soldiers Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2704
Overview
A scrapbook containing photographs and news clippings documenting activities of the Buffalo Soldiers, Inc., a community action organization of young black men in Monongalia County. Their activities include multi-cultural presentations at local schools, recreation programs for local black children, black heritage programs and festivals, presentations on African history and culture in cooperation with African students from West Virginia University, and cooperative activities with NAACP....
Dates:
1976-1977
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Clara Hough Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0158
Overview
Diary of Clara Hough of Morgantown, West Virginia, documenting Hough's social life and activities in 1877 when she was twenty years old. Topics include reading, sewing, skating, calling on friends, attending church, dances, playing croquet, events at West Virginia University (WVU), and news of friends and family. Also includes notes from 1876 on WVU letterhead bearing the name of Miss Mamie Hough.
Dates:
1876-1877
Clark Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0680
Overview
The correspondence of Clark family members, mainly that of Frank Wells Clark and Friend E. Clark. Frank Wells Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Harvard Law School and later established a law practice at New Martinsville. Friend E. Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University and later taught chemistry at State College, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia University. Included are the letters of Friend Clark when he traveled to Europe where in 1908...
Dates:
1885-1939
Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1173
Scope and Contents
Personal and genealogical papers of the Dean of the WVU College of Engineering from 1911 to 1932. The papers deal with academic pursuits including the controversy over the reorganization of the Engineering College in 1931-32, and his social and professional activities. Four boxes contain genealogical notes and history on some of the first Ohio Valley families including the Wickliffe, Harden, Monroe, Gambrill, and Jones families. For detailed listing of the collection see the inventory...
Dates:
1890-1932
Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspapers, and newspaper clippings concerning the service records of West Virginia University students, former students, and alumni collected by Dean C. R. Jones for the compilation of the University Honor Roll. Also several bulletins, pamphlets, and circulars on the war activities of various university and veteran’s hospitals, including: West Virginia Wesleyan, Shepherd College, University of Arizona, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic...
Dates:
1917-1934
Courtney Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview
Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates:
1804-1920
David Dial, Collector, Glass Plate Negatives of West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station Projects and Other Subjects
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5152
Scope and Contents
Glass plate negatives of West Virginia University Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station projects and other subjects. There are pictures of mostly crops, including potatoes and tobacco, and some of livestock. Other images include single plates of Morgantown, Woodburn Circle, a bridge, and of the "campus from the Station building". Related images can be found in Archives and Manuscripts (A&M) Collection No. 5027.
Dates:
1891-1912
Dr. Barbara Howe, Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3469
Overview
Dr. Barbara Howe worked at West Virginia University in a variety of different positions between 1980 and her retirement in 2009, including as associate professor of history, head of the public history program, and director of the Center for Women’s Studies. Prevalent subjects present in the collection include historical preservation, environmental activism, and politics in the Morgantown and broader West Virginia area.
Dates:
1856-2025 and undated; Majority of material found within 1964-2025
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 28
- Universities and colleges 26
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 13
- Politics and government. 11
- West Virginia University -- Students 11
- Genealogy 10
- World War, 1939-1945 10
- World War, 1914-1918 9
- Diaries and journals. 7
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 7
- Marion County (W. Va.) 7
- Railroads 7
- Account books 6
- Elections 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Coal mining. 5
- Education 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
- Academies (Private schools) 4
- Botany 4
- Broadsides. 4
- Lumber trade 4
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 4
- Transportation 4
- West Virginia -- History 4
- Women's schools. 4
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
- Agriculture 3
- Churches -- Methodist 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- Immigration. 3
- Indians of North America 3
- Pennsylvania 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- Preston County (W. Va.) 3
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
- Revolutionary War. 3
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 3
- Spanish-American War, 1898 3
- Steamboats 3
- Taxation 3
- Travel accounts. 3
- United States Navy - USS WEST VIRGINIA. 3
- Washington (D.C.) 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 3
- West Virginia University - athletics. 3
- West Virginia University -- History 3
- West Virginia University. Presidency 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Biology 2
- Botany -- West Virginia 2
- Botany and botanists. 2
- Builders and contractors. 2
- Canals 2
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Civil War - West Virginia. 2
- Civil War - veterans - Confederate. 2
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Democratic National Convention of 1928. 2
- Engineering 2
- Estate settlements. 2
- Europe 2
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Fayette County (Pa.) 2
- Frontier and pioneer life 2
- General stores 2
- Geology 2
- Grafton. 2
- Historic preservation 2
- Indiana 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Keeneys Creek, W.Va. 2
- Maps. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Schools 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Slavery 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Surveyors and surveying. 2
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- Union (W. Va.) 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 2
- West Virginia -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 2
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia Feminist Activist and Women's History Collection 2
- West Virginia University - Publications. 2
- West Virginia University - building plans. 2
- West Virginia University - buildings - Colson Hall. 2 + ∧ less
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