Miscellaneous correspondence, papers, and photographs from the family of Clyde E. Hutchinson, a Fairmont coal mine operator. Included is a speech on "America's Uncrowned Queen" (American Women).
Papers of C.M. Cornwell, a surveyor and justice of the peace of Barbour County, West Virginia. Included are: surveys, plats, deeds, court case papers, surveyor's notebooks, minutes of commissioners' meetings, survey calls on the re-survey of the Barbour-Taylor County line (1894), and family correspondence.
Twenty letters from various coal interests responding to an inquiry pertaining to the history of early coal development in West Virginia. The survey was conducted by J.S. McWhorter, Attorney for Gauley Coal Land Company, for the Business Historical Society. Respondents include: C.H. Ambler, W.W. Chilton, Brooks Fleming, Jr. B. Laing, and George T. Watson.
The working files formerly belonging to John Williams, director of the Coal Life Project and a professor of history at West Virginia University. Includes brochures from the Project, sketches of the exhibit layout at Huntington Galleries, several project reports, project description, a bibliography of selected works of Coal-Related Art and Coal Project correspondence.
Two-Page telegram from the Williamson Kiwanis Club to the Prosecuting Attorney of Boone County concerning an armed group of UMWA miners preparing to march through Logan County to Mingo County.
Nineteen pay envelopes of Howard F. Raber, a coal miner at Beech Bottom, WV. They are from the period 1948-49 and bear the name of Kelly's Creek Colliery Co.
Xeroxed copies of coal miners' pay slips for the following dates: P.P. Kelly, 2/23/1889 and 2/28/1895; George Martin, no date; Sherman Martin, 1/15/1922; Elwood Ramsey, 3/31/1925; S. Ramsey, 10/15/1920; and Sam Ramsey, 6/18/1924. These pay slips are from various coal mines.