West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

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Descriptions of the building on Clay Street prepared for the West Virginia Geological Survey. Includes floor plans, architectural drawings, and photographs.

Overview The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, or WVGES, was established in 1897 by the West Virginia state legislature, and has published numerous maps, bulletins, and guides related to the state's geological and physical resources. Collection contains nine boxes of printing plates used in various WVGES publications and primarily related to plant fossils. Some of the plates are from identified publications, including Plant Fossils of West Virginia, 1966 (box 1, box 2, box 4), and the...

Overview The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, or WVGES, was established in 1897 by the West Virginia state legislature, and has published numerous maps, bulletins, and guides related to the state's geological and physical resources. Records are grouped into three primary series: Letter Books, 1898-1930; Correspondence, 1923-1949; and WVU Department of Geology Materials, 1919-1927. Letter books date from 1898 to 1930 and are arranged in chronological order. Topics include foundries,...

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A computer disk (3.5 in. floppy) index of the map holdings of the West Virginia Geological Survey in 1994. This electronic map catalog of 306 pages was originally generated in Word Perfect 5.1 by Dr. Peter Lessing of the WV Geological and Economic Survey. The original diskette is in the collection, but its content has been converted to a 372 page Microsoft Word text file that is readable by contemporary devices.