West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:
Patrons of Husbandry, West Virginia University Grange, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1438
Overview
Minute books, 1898-1908, 1916-1923, membership and dues records, 1914-1921; a procedural handbook, songbooks, and official paraphernalia.
Dates:
1891-1923
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
Penholder Used by Gov. Henry D. Hatfield, Accompanied by an Explanatory Note
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0947
Overview
Penholder used by Gov. Henry D. Hatfield to approve an appropriations bill in 1915 providing $200,000 "to anchor the University in Morgantown." Accompanied by an explanatory note.
Dates:
1915
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
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
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3186
Overview
Record book, photo and certificate of the West Virginia University Alpha chapter of a national honorary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. A chapter charter was granted only to those institutions whose standards measured up to a high scholastic ideal. The fraternity's purpose being to undertake to conserve the influences that were restored and liberated by the Renaissance, specifically those influences that refine and humanize mankind. Membership was open to those undergraduate seniors in the top...
Dates:
1910-1936
Ridgway Family Papers, Ephemera, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4594
Scope and Contents
Assorted West Virginia University publications (including a Student Directory [1962-1963], West Virginia University Bulletin on "The WVU Woman" [1963-1964], etc.) and ephemera, a set of United States War Ration Books for various members of the Ridgway and Clarke families in a leather Ration Book Holder, and other material.Addendum of 2017 August 04 contains typed letters to W. Clarke Ridgway and Ray Ridgway from various entities at West Virginia University like the...
Dates:
1919-1929, 1940s, 1961-1966, and undated
R.L. Hays, Collector. Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0016
Overview
Miscellaneous papers collected by R. L. Hays include promissory notes from 1827, 1842, 1844, and 1865; a letter by H. N. Ogden to Peregrine Hays, 27 October 1890, regarding instruction in English being given by Ogden at West Virginia University and the number of students allowed in his courses; and a printed list of the courses offered by Ogden with a brief description of each course.
Dates:
1825-1890
Robert D. Baldwin (1891-1982) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1587
Overview
Correspondence, reports, and other papers of a professor of educational administration and coordinator of field services, West Virginia University. Subjects include the county unit system, the election of superintendents of schools, legislative committee of the West Virginia State Education Association, the Thomas-Hall Education Bill, school taxation, and the State High School Principals Association. Correspondents include Charles E. Hodges, Chapman Revercomb, and Melvin C. Snyder.
Dates:
1928-1961
Robert E. Lee Keadle, Monroe County, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3187
Overview
The diary, presented to Annie Brewer of Monroe County by James O. B. Kelly in 1887, includes entries by her from December 1886 to August 1888. It notes her social and family life. Brewer gave the diary to her boyfriend, Robert E. Lee Keadle in August 1888, and he wrote in it until 1891. Keadle's writings describe his active social and romantic life in Monroe Co. and as a law student at West Virginia University in 1889 and 1890. He also provided details of his academic, leisure, and religious...
Dates:
1886-1891
Additional filters:
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- Morgantown (W. Va.) 27
- Universities and colleges 26
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 13
- Politics and government. 11
- West Virginia University -- Students 11
- Genealogy 10
- World War, 1939-1945 9
- World War, 1914-1918 8
- Diaries and journals. 7
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 7
- Land. 7
- Marion County (W. Va.) 7
- Railroads 7
- Account books 6
- Elections 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Coal mining. 5
- Education 5
- Academies (Private schools) 4
- Botany 4
- Lumber trade 4
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 4
- Transportation 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- West Virginia -- History 4
- Women's schools. 4
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
- Agriculture 3
- Broadsides. 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
- USS West Virginia. 3
- Washington (D.C.) 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 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 - 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
- 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
- United States Navy - USS 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 -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia Feminist Activist 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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