Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Arthurdale Homestead Project Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2178
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, business records, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed material, regarding the resettlement of unemployed coal miners and their families to Arthurdale, West Virginia. Collection contains the papers of Bushrod Grimes (1888-1957), Project Manager of the Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, 1933-1935, and pertains to the planning and administration of the Project. Correspondents include M.L. Wilson, Guy W. Numbers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Woods,...
Dates:
1933-1942, 1977-1993
Arthurdale Homesteaders Club Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0182
Overview
Records of the Homestead group and their efforts at self government. Copy of recording secretary's diary (1935-1938) includes entries about organizing committees and managing projects at Arthurdale such as athletics, maintenance, social programs and medical care. Noteworthy is the mention of organizing efforts by the Homesteaders in their relations with the federal government, particularly lobbying for higher pay scales. Also included is a typescript copy of a diary of the founding days by...
Dates:
1933-1938
Arthurdale Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1347
Scope and Contents
The collection includes microfilm of six letters from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and her personal secretary concerning the school and Woman's Club at Arthurdale (1936-1937); a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Arthurdale graduating class of 1938; and a pamphlet illustrating the products of the Mountaineer Craftsmen's Co-operative Association. Also includes a mimeographed fact sheet (1937); a news story on the resettlement project (1936); and an article titled "Footnote on...
Dates:
1936-1940
Arthurdale, West Virginia Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2942
Overview
Arthurdale, West Virginia, was the first Federal homestead community established under President Franklin Roosevelt during the New Deal. Two scrapbooks, available on microfilm only, document the history of Arthurdale, West Virginia, from 1935 to 1975. Photographs, newspaper clippings, fact sheets about the community, and event programs offer insight into the development of the town, the involvement of Eleanor Roosevelt, students, and reflections on life in Arthurdale. Photographs and...
Dates:
1935-1975
Carl Feiss, Architect, Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2985
Overview
Letter written by Carl Feiss of Gainesville, Florida, describing his experiences as a young architect supervising the construction of the vacuum cleaner plant at Arthurdale, West Virginia. Mentions living conditions, Eleanor Roosevelt, and offers an assessment of the impact that the project had in community planning.
Dates:
ca. 1976
Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1108
Overview
Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. This collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, and printed material. The majority of the collection pertains to domestic affairs topics, including political campaigns, the Rosier-Martin contest for the Senate in 1941, bills introduced or sponsored by Kilgore, papers dealing with his activities as juvenile judge, and papers relating to various organizations and societies. Most of these papers relate to...
Dates:
1933-1956
Mary Behner Christopher, Missionary, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3131
Overview
The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...
Dates:
1928-1937
Moreland Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2983
Overview
Papers of the Moreland Family of Monongalia County. Materials include assorted land patents and grants for land in Monongahela County, Virginia and other locations, typescripts regarding West Virginia history, and assorted correspondence of members of the Moreland family. Also includes correspondence and other material regarding the opening of Richwood Avenue in Morgantown, which was constructed by the Works Progress Administration.
Dates:
1788-1944
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview
The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates:
1897-1972
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.
Dates:
1905-1959
Additional filters:
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- New Deal, 1933-1939 8
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 4
- Arthurdale Homestead Project. 4
- Elections 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
- Account books 2
- Depression. 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Taxation 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Architects and architecture 1
- Arthurdale Homestead Project (1933-1934) 1
- Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, 1933-1935 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Chilton collection 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Clergy 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal mining families. 1
- Crafts. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education - Arthurdale 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) -- History 1
- Federal Relief Projects. 1
- Folk music 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Land companies -- History 1
- Land grants - Monongalia County, (West Virginia). 1
- Land patents - Monongalia County. 1
- Land. 1
- Mason-Dixon Line 1
- Missionaries 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Mother's Day 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Pursglove (W.Va.) 1
- Pursglove, Monongalia County - 1
- Schools 1
- Scotts Run (W. Va.) 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 1
- Teachers 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Webster County (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Women's Club of Arthurdale -- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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