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Scope and Contents

This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.

Scope and Contents This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries: Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23. Oversize--Artwork & Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25. Oversize--Architectural Drawings & Maps;...

Scope and Contents This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs. Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include: group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911); the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904); the Morgantown, WV...

Scope and Contents This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in...

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This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.

Scope and Contents This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence...