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Box 6

 Container

Contains 77 Results:

Letterheads from Businesses in Charleston and Kanawha County (includes mostly bills and receipts; firms include the Kanawha Republican, Charleston Gas Company, Bank of Virginia, various dry goods and clothing stores, etc.; 17 items), 1860-1901

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Dates: 1860-1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Letterheads Regarding Alexander T. Laidley (includes mostly letterheads from bills or receipts for Laidley; many of the firms were in the Charleston and Kanawha County area; 23 items), 1866-1884, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Dates: 1866-1884, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Letterheads Regarding Steamships and Steamship Lines (includes receipts as well as original and facsimile letterheads; firms include the Kanawha and Gallipolis Packet Company; 13 items), 1840, 1871-1878

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Dates: 1840, 1871-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Miscellaneous Items (includes typescript research notes, clippings, a sketch, facsimiles, etc.; includes a pocket guide from Keen, Baldwin and Company clothing firm in Richmond [undated]; various display cards for an exhibit of Cook's historical items [undated]; and a complimentary pass for Hon. H. Clay Shaw to use the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad [1893]; 23 items), 1868-1893, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Dates: 1868-1893, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Virginia Military Institute Records (contains facsimile certificate appointing John Brannon as "Visitor of the Virginia Military Institute" [1863]; a program or advertisement for the Joint-intermediate Celebration of the Dialectic and Cadet Societies of VMI [1873]; and an appointment for G.W. Hays as a "Pay Cadet" [1869]; 3 items), 1863-1873

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 16
Dates: 1863-1873
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

West Virginia Governors (includes a facsimile of a sketch of Horace Greely by J.H. Diss DeBar [Diss Debar; undated]; a facsimile letter from DeBar to the Hart Brothers, Clarksburg [July 26, 1903]; and clippings, including articles from the 'West Virginia Review' [January 1941] and the Inaugural and Progress Edition of the 'West Virginia State Magazine' [January 1957]; 6 items), 1903-1957

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 17
Dates: 1903-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Virgil A. Lewis Letter (contains facsimile letter from State Historian and Archivist Lewis to Dr. D.B. Purinton regarding Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of West Virginia [September 29, 1905]; includes manuscript notes and pictures of seals; 1 item, 10 pages), 1905

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 18
Dates: 1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Book Reviews (includes clippings of reviews of history books; one review was written by Roy Bird Cook; 9 items), 1939-1958, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 19
Dates: 1939-1958, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Book Excerpt ('West Virginia County Formations and Boundary Changes: Prepared by the Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration,' Charleston, WV: The Historical Records Survey; facsimile of pp. 83-93, which contains the sections on Kanawha County and Lewis County; 1 item), 1939

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 20
Dates: 1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Magazine Clippings (contains articles clipped from magazines; 20 items), ca. 1836-1949

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 21
Dates: ca. 1836-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History