Storer College
Organization
Found in 10 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
General Education Board Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview
Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates:
1901-1967
Jacob H. Gerbrick, Photographer, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2947
Overview
The photographs and negatives of the Gerbrick Studio of Martinsburg whose most prominent proprietor was Jacob H. Gerbrick. There are group and individual portraits as well as pictures of business and industry, modes of transportation, schools, churches, residences, clubs and organizations, and social events. These photographs reflect life in Martinsburg and the extreme Eastern panhandle, including unique events such as strikes or floods, annual events such as festivals and parades, and...
Dates:
1857-1974
James H. Green, Jr., Storer College Memorabilia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4116
Overview
Digital copies of memorabilia of James Henry Green, Jr., graduate of Storer College in 1943 (Associate of Arts) and 1946 (Bachelor of Arts). Includes four photographs and two diplomas. Subjects of photographs include: 1. graduation of Doris Athalia Lee, James Green's aunt (ca. 1937); 2. Cecelia Isabel Lee (Green), James Green's mother (undated); 3. James Green, Sr., James Green's father (ca. 1945); 4. graduation of James Green Sr. (1946). Diplomas were earned by James Green, Sr.
Dates:
1937-1946
Storer College Administrative and Operational Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1322
Scope and Contents
Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes...
Dates:
1865-1960; Majority of material found within 1930s-1950s
Storer College Alumni and Student Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1168
Scope and Contents
Records of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia on microfilm, including alumni listing (1872-1955); student records, volumes 1-8 (1900-1937); student records, summer school (1924-1942); student register, volumes 1-2 (1888-1944); and student record cards (circa 1929-1955).
Dates:
1872-1955
Storer College Architectural Drawings, Diplomas, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1471
Scope and Contents
Architectural drawings (blueprints, campus plans, topographic maps, etc.), diplomas, and other material regarding Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry.Box 1 contains 26 architectural drawings.Box 2 contains 19 architectural drawings.Box 3 contains 12 diplomas; one oversize folder of architectural drawings; one legal size folder of correspondence regarding an addition to the college...
Dates:
circa 1900-1953
Storer College Correspondence, Business Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2621
Overview
Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the...
Dates:
1854-1964
Storer College Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1131
Scope and Contents
Documents regarding Storer College at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The collection includes a prospectus regarding the nature, history, and future of the college (1908); an invitation to the unveiling and dedication of a memorial to Heyward Shepherd (1931); a program for the Twentieth Founders Day Exercises (1943); and a transcript of an address given by Storer College alumnus and professor William A. Saunders for the Twentieth Founders Day Exercises (1943). Please see "Historical Note" for...
Dates:
1908-1943
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. The letters in this collection deal with all state institutioris and their problems. There are...
Dates:
1909-1949
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Universities and colleges 7
- Education 6
- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 5
- African Americans - Schools for Freedmen. 5
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 5
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 5
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- World War, 1939-1945 4
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
- Missionaries 3
- Schools - Jefferson County. 3
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Account books 2
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 2
- Jefferson County - Schools. 2
- Newspapers. 2
- Photographs. 2
- Schools 2
- Teachers' letters and papers. 2
- West Virginia -- Race relations 2
- Women -- Education 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Letters 2
- World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region 1
- African Americans -- Education -- West Virginia 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 1
- Agriculture 1
- Appalachian Region 1
- Architects and architecture 1
- Baptists 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Blueprints 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Brown, John -- Fort-Museum 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Church buildings 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
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Ephemera. 1
- F. Baptists General Conference (Harpers Ferry) 1
- Feminism 1
- Football -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Freedmen's Schools. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
- Ledger books. 1
- Ledgers. 1
- Maps. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Photographers 1
- Photography 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Segregation in education 1
- Socialism 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Temperance and prohibition. 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1 + ∧ less
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