Xerox copy of land grant document signed by Virginia Governor Patrick Henry giving John Reed one thousand acres on the west bank of the Little Kanawha River.
Three cased ambrotype photographs of members of the Gardner family from Point Pleasant in Mason County, West Virginia. Collection includes portrait of G.P. Gardner (pre-Civil War); G.P. Gardner wearing what is probably a Confederate uniform, including sword and pistol; and a portrait of a small child, probably G.P. Gardner's son. These three items do not include their lids. Gardner was at one time a Kanawha River boat pilot.
Papers, news clippings, programs, photos, certificates, and artwork of West Virginia artist, Grace Martin Taylor, who taught in Charleston at Mason College, and later at Morris Harvey. Her art, in several media including oils and watercolor, is modernist in style, showing a preference for abstraction. Also included is some material regarding her daughter, Lucie Anne Mellert, and her promotion of Taylor's art.
1895 Minute book of the Philharmonic Society of Grafton. The society was originally named the Queen Ester Chorus. Meetings held at the M. E. Church in Grafton.
DEATH OF BUILDING 102: A VICTIM OF MAN'S INGRATITUDE, by R.H. Robinson, 1979. Describes the life and "death" of the Sentinel Building, Grafton, West Virginia (1894-1979).
The correspondence and legal papers of a Barbour County farmer and inventor. Hamrick discovered, patented and marketed an embalming fluid using conveniently available, non-poisonous chemicals which made the practice of undertaking safer and less costly. He also developed improved methods of food preservation, particularly "in the manufacture and preservation of butter."
Certificate of the Graham-Yeager Lumber Company, Morgantown, March 7, 1906.