Norona, Delf, 1895-1974
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Delf Norona, Collector, Postal History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2256
Overview
Copies of two items relating to early post office history in West Virginia: 1) "Synopsis of Postal Laws and Regulations" compiled by John H. Zevely; 2) "Post Office Bulletin" for January 1875, Vol. IX, No. 1, published in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Dates:
1873, 1875
Delf Norona, Historian, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3076
Overview
Correspondence to and from Delf Norona, a local historian, archeologist, and philatelist of Moundsville. Most of the correspondence concerns the "Horn Papers", their publication and eventual discrediting as a historical hoax perpetrated by W. F. Horn. Supposedly based upon authentic eighteenth-century diaries, court records and maps, the Horn Papers was a collection of transcripts about the early settlement of the Ohio Valley. Norona, as an authority on the frontier era, was initially...
Dates:
1945-1957
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2600
Overview
Papers of James ("Jim") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of...
Dates:
1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1850-1995
West Virginia Centennial Commission, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2050
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, financial records, and minutes of the West Virginia Centennial Commission from 1958-1964. This material was obtained for the Library by Festus P. Summers, commission member. Much of Dr. Summers' personal correspondence as a commission member is included.
Correspondents include Don Crislip, Cecil H. Underwood, P.H. Price, Lyndon B. Johnson, Philip Conley, William D. Barns, Ross B. Johnson, Festus P. Summers, Robert L. Hogg, George More, Frances Krauskopf, Donovan...
Dates:
1958-1964
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- Account books 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- General stores 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Post offices - West Virginia. 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- West Virginia - post offices. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Whiskey decanters 1 + ∧ less
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