Papers of Evelyn Ryan, reporter at The Dominion Post and newspaper union activist; includes a full run of The Lairiat, a public relations newspaper focusing on the construction and opening of the West Virginia University's Mountainlair, records of the Mountaineer Newspaper Guild circa 1970s-1980s, and papers about unionizing newspaper workers and various newspapers.
Papers of Everett F. Moore, a lawyer who practiced in Marshall County and the surrounding area. Everett Moore was the uncle of Governor Arch Moore; they practiced law together. This collection mainly includes papers regarding legal cases and Moore’s law practice as well maps of coal fields and other mineral resources. This collection is minimally processed.
Genealogical information on the following families: Baldwin, Burris, Everly, Garretson, Griffith, Haldeman, Jenkins, Miller, Morgan, Morris, Prickett, Small, Springer, and Thomas. Included among the typescripts are copies of historical documents, Xeroxed photographs, and copies of articles and other printed material.
Ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers concerning the business of the bank. Correspondents include George A. Jackson, cashier and local pension commissioner following the Civil War, and Jonathan M. Bennett, first president of the bank.
Correspondence and speeches of F. Ray Power, Director of the West Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation from 1945 to 1966. Some of the speeches were made in 1925, when Power was principal of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Charleston, WV.
Records of F.A. Simpson, a justice of the peace in Barbour County. Also included, dating between 1914-1942, are a few papers and speeches of J.A. Viquesney, West Virginia Game and Fish Warden (1909-1916) and justice of the peace; 1930 election campaign material relating to Henry D. Hatfield, James Ellwood Jones, and Carl B. Harvey; and references to politics, game laws, cost of medical service, and prohibition.
The business papers, contact sheets, interviews, and slides of a student-run business that created and marketed calendars with accompanying glamour photography and "pin-up" and "beefcake" photography pictures and negatives of WVU students as models. There are male ("Men of West Virginia University") and female ("Faces of West Virginia") editions of the calendars.