Box 2

Scope and Contents

This series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach’s membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.

Scope and Contents This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman & Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during “Extreme Night” at Harry Phillips’ Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.The mounted photographs (ca....

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This series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.

Scope and Contents This addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach’s second wife, Bettie, and Kubach’s oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects...

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This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).

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This folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.

Scope and Contents

This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach’s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).

Scope and Contents

This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.