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West Virginia University. College of Agriculture

 Organization

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Allegheny Highlands Project Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5279
Scope and Contents The Allegheny Highlands Project Records consist of the administrative files of the Allegheny Highlands Project (AHP), September 1970-July 1980, as well as records of farming activities of farm cooperators enrolled in the program. Administrative records for the operation of the AHP include planning documents, policies and correspondence, budgets and other financial documents, progress reports, vendor records, promotional materials including information sheets, and job applications and other...
Dates: 1970-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clayton Roberts Orton Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1662
Overview

Office files of a former dean of the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Files include papers of: the Resources Committee of the West Virginia State Planning Board, 1938-1945; Potomac River Basin, 1945; Soil Conservation Society, West Virginia Chapter, 1953-1955; West Virginia Forest Council; and of the Waters Development Conference of 1949.

Dates: 1938-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David E. Tuckwiller, Collector, Letters and Postcards regarding West Virginia University

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5109
Overview Four letters listing West Virginia University (WVU) Agriculture School students serving in the armed forces during World War II and their activities. These letters from 1944 were sent to the same soldiers listed. There are also four postcards of WVU sports, including three of football games and one of a baseball game. There is also a postcard of the Worthington Ranch of Fairmont, W. Va., and two postcards of the Cozart horse team, presumably also from Fairmont. The postcards date from...
Dates: 1905-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joanna Nesselroad Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3264
Overview Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and other papers (1965-95) of Dr. Joanna Strosnider Nesselroad documenting the organization and administration of the nation's first Head Start Program. Dr. Nesselroad began the first Head Start Program in McDowell County in 1965, and has served as West Virginia's regional training officer and as a national consultant for the Program. There are also letters, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, slides, and...
Dates: 1930-1995
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rachel Hartshorn Colwell Award

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3049
Overview The papers relating to Rachel H. Colwell's induction into the West Virginia Agricultural Hall of Fame. Colwell (1877-1954) is identified as the founder of Home Economics in West Virginia. Hired by West Virginia University in 1910, she was the first faculty member and administrator for the Department of Domestic Science in the College of Agriculture. She spent the next 27 years until retirement developing, teaching, and guiding the Home Economics curriculum and research of West Virginia...
Dates: 1989
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Agricultural Cooperative Extension Workers Association, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3036
Overview

An organization composed of full time employees of the WVU College of Agriculture, Extension Division. The purpose of the association is to promote ways to enhance the job performance of its members and to safeguard and advance their economic interests and general welfare. Much of the records are composed of decisions about appropriate group medical and life insurance plans. There are also resolutions, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws.

Dates: 1929-1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Education in East Africa, Papers and Photos

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0277
Overview An agricultural education program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development administered through the West Virginia University Office of International Programs in cooperation with the West Virginia University College of Agriculture and Forestry. Reports and publicity releases on projects undertaken by the WVU College of Agriculture in East Africa to help the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to develop agricultural educational programs on the secondary and...
Dates: 1960-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, F. D. Fromme, Dean, Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0632
Overview

Correspondence from the office of F. D. Fromme, former dean of WVU. College of Agriculture. Covers all phases of the work connected with the college, including correspondence with heads of departments, county agents, extension division, University experiment Farm: experiment stations and land grant colleges, regarding Farm and Home Week, summer school, Jackson's Mill, research, employment, meetings, radio talks, labor, animal and poultry husbandry and other related subjects.

Dates: 1922-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Farmers' Week Prospectus

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5222
Scope and Contents

A prospectus advertising "Farmers' Week and the Farmers' Winter Courses to be held at the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University" starting on January 3, 1916 (11 1/2 in. x 27 in.). This item is Series 16, No. 3 of the West Virginia University Bulletin, and was separated from a bound volume for preservation.

Dates: 1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Subject
Agriculture 4
Agriculture -- West Virginia 3
Livestock 3
Agriculture -- Study and teaching 2
4-H clubs -- West Virginia 1
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Africa 1
Allegheny Highlands Project 1
Appalachian Region 1
Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
Broadsides. 1
Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
Civil War - West Virginia. 1
Coal companies - West Virginia. 1
Coal mine accidents 1
Coal miners--West Virginia 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Collodion process 1
Community planning - West Virginia. 1
Computer systems -- West Virginia 1
Conservation groups - West Virginia. 1
Education 1
Education -- Africa, East 1
Environmentalism - Watershed Development Conference, 1949. 1
Farm organizations - West Virginia. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Feminism 1
Football -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
Guernsey Cattle Club 1
Holstein-Friesian Association 1
Jackson's Mill (W. Va.) 1
Kenya 1
Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
Land Use Planning - West Virginia. 1
McDowell County (W. Va.) 1
National Forests - West Virginia. 1
Photography of livestock 1
Potomac River Basin. 1
Purebred Dairy Cattle Association 1
Reforestation Programs - WV. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Socialism 1
State Parks -- West Virginia 1
Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
Tanzania 1
Temperance and prohibition. 1
Tourism -- United States -- West Virginia 1
Uganda 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Universities and colleges 1
West Virginia - Community Planning. 1
West Virginia - Conservation Groups. 1
West Virginia - Farm Organizations. 1
West Virginia - Four-H Program. 1
West Virginia - Land Use Planning. 1
West Virginia - National Forests. 1
West Virginia - Reforestation Programs. 1
West Virginia - tourism. 1
West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
West Virginia University -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
Women 1
Women -- Suffrage 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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