Store ledger of Cedar Grove Mining Company, Cedar Grove, Kanawha County. Contains accounts of the store's commercial relations with local banks and businesses (mainly supply companies) as well as the individual accounts of miners for store purchases and other expenses, like medical and house improvements.
This collection consists of material from the Centerville Presbyterian Church including histories, correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, and papers about the women's auxiliary, missionary society work, finances, and social activities.
Four pages of volume 5, number 11 (February 1889) of the Central Freewill Baptist newspaper from Flemington, Taylor County, West Virginia. Includes articles on dancing, danger of electric distribution, General Harrison as an anti-saloon Republican, and prohibition. Also includes poetry and advertisement for West Virginia College.
Typescript of a book titled "Ceredo: Advantages, Resources, and Possibilities" which focuses on the mineral resources, building sites, and shipping facilities available to incoming manufacturers.
Letters from C. F. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History to J. L. Sheldon of West Virginia University primarily concerning Millspaugh's then forthcoming book "Living Flora of West Virginia" (1913).
A print of the Beall farm in Brooke County showing homestead, residence, and sheepfold; and a Williams Wheeling Directory for 1864. Also includes the business card of a Merino sheep breeder in Brooke County, West Virginia.
Correspondence, sheep breeding records, pictures of prize sheep, and other papers of the Beall family of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Wellsburg, West Virginia. Includes material on the International Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876; a Report of the West Virginia State Board of Central Managers, February 9, 1877; and samples of raw wool.
Items from the farm of C. H. Beall, sheep farmer in Brooke County. Includes samples of raw and processed wool; a broadside advertising the sale of Merino sheep, 13 October 1872 on the Beall farm; five prints of prize sheep; and a list of sheep bred in 1907.
Letter to Decatur Axtell recounting Bolton's experiences working on the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in Virginia and West Virginia.
Letters of Phineas Chapin (1792-1857), and other family members in Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are: intimate sketches of the social life of Clarksburg in the first half of the nineteenth century; descriptions of a plantation house in Mississippi in 1860; and a few papers bearing on family business affairs, including cattle raising in Harrison County.