Series 7. Photographs, ca. 1850s-1995, undated

This series includes print photographs, negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photos, tintypes, photo postcards, slides, clippings, printed material, correspondence, photo plates, and eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies). Subjects include furniture; first ladies of West Virginia; historic homes of West Virginia; identified and unidentified individual and group portraits; cities and towns of West Virginia; buildings; scenery; Museum of the Hills in Richwood, WV; glass and glassmaking; and the Greenbrier. Some of the material in this series was transferred from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence -- in cases where the photographic item was attached to correspondence, the correspondence was transferred as well. Please note that some negatives are nitrate; keep these away from heat and handle with care. Additional photographic material can be found in Series 6, Correspondence, boxes 35, 54, 55, and 72. For photos of Fenton Glass products, see Series 5, Printed Material, box 22. Some oversize photos have been separated to the Photographs Collection; most of these have been added to West Virginia History OnView. Additional oversize photos can be found in Series 17, Oversize.

Contents of the eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies):

Box 80; Canister label: "Huntington 1-6000 April 1947"
Box 80; Canister label: "Chas. [Charleston?] 1957, Nitro, 1957; St. Albans, 1957, Old Chas., 1948, Airport, Big Scale (?)"
Box 80; Canister labels: "Elk River Coal & Lumber Co., Aerial Map Flown April 1953." and "City of Huntington Scale 1-6000 Apr 28 1947"
Box 80; Canister label: "Harmony Near Ripley, [?] ft to 1" old; Colin Creek Coal Stripping, large scale, 1948; Lake Chaweva, 1948; Armour Park, 1948; C&O Ry [Railway?] Coal River 1948; Bellings Airport, 1947; Kanawha Airport, large and small scale, 12-9-1947; Strip to City Blvd 12-9-1947; City Strip & Kenna Home; C&CCC Research 1947; Cedar Grove to Montgomery."
Box 81; Unlabeled canister.
Box 81; Canister label: "1949"
Box 81; Canister label: "Coal City - Park Beckley, 1947 [?]" (not usable)
Box 81; Canister label: "4/20/53 Dick Stata Film, St. Albans - Charleston" (not usable)