Recordings of the Augusta Fiddle Contest, 1986. Featured performers include Jim Bryner, Wilson Douglas, Uncle Charlie Osborne, A. Cahan, A. Gelland, Ernie Carpenter and Alice Gerrard.
A 23 page original manuscript on early local history entitled “The Genesis of the Aurora Community,” by Martin Luther Peter.
Postcard accordion book from Private Austin Willard Martiney of the 32nd Technical School Squadron, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, to Jimmie Markley of Volga, Barbour County, West Virginia. Chanute Field was the location of a U.S. Army Air Corps technical school for instruction in aircraft mechanics and maintenance during World War II. The booklet contains images of the training facilities.
Three autographed basketballs associated with Jerry West, signed by 1) Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, 2) Elgin Baylor, and 3) Bob Huggins, WIllie Akers, and Jerry West.
Genealogical records compiled by the donor and arranged alphabetically. The records list name, spouse's name, children's names, dates of life spans, marriage dates, and places of birth, marriage, death and burial. Also copies and typescripts of two church books of Henry D. Auville, Preacher in Charge of the Methodist Episcopal South mission at Circleville, Pendleton County. The books record attendance, membership status, officer status and rites performed.
Records of a church near Morgantown, including minutes, 1843-1855; register of members, baptisms, deaths, and marriages, 1919-1929; organization of the Young People's Meeting, 1935-1943; the Sunday school, 1935; and organization of the Christian Endeavor Society, 1934; minutes of the Easton-Avery Community Building, 1939-1946; minutes of the Community Center Board of Directors; and Bible Class records, 1908-1926.
Small booklet entitled "John Yost of Bavaria" compiled by A.W. Yost and printed at Farmington, WV in 1952. The Yost family is traced from the arrival of Peter Yost at Philadelphia in 1737, but the main concentration is on John Yost who arrived from Bavaria in 1773.
Recordings of the radio program, Back Porch Music Time, produced by Community Cultural Services in Moatsville, WV.
Administrative records of Back Roads Adventures, a company promoting tourism of West Virginia; includes clippings, brochures, photos, etc. documenting the natural and cultural landscape of West Virginia.
Photographs of the Bailee family from West Virginia and Wisconsin. Collection includes two albums holding several cartes de visites, tintypes, and prints. There are also three cased images: One is an ambrotype with the subject identified as Nathaniel Alcock Bailee in uniform; two are daguerreotypes identified as Nathaniel Alcock Bailee (12 March 12 1849, age 23) and Mary Matilda Biglow Bailee (wife of Nathaniel).