Box 1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Scrapbook of West Virginia Politics News Clippings, 1868-1883
Item — Box: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook is clippings, primarily from newspapers, regarding various political issues. Including: election returns (state and national), party platforms, conventions, candidates and tickets, Addresses, and reports and opinions positions for various issues, including railroads, funds, and an article on the "Negro Amendment" (1889). Also includes: a letter from the superintendent of the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville regarding the cost of feeding prisoners under "Radical" versus...
Dates:
1868-1883
Scrapbook of National News Clippings, 1872-1883
Item — Box: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
Articles on National news, topics include taxation, debt, Governor Tilden, trade, Reconstruction in the South, railroad monopolies, taxes, and the democratic platform. There is also a label reading "Abstract of Conveyances to and from Henry G. Davis," seeming belonging to another, unrelated record book.
Dates:
1872-1883