Box 59
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Oversize--Historical Manuscripts, 1785-1829
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.
Dates:
1785-1829
Oversize--Printed Material, 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the New Dominion, the Post-Chronicle, and the Dominion Post; Dominion Post articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical ...
Dates:
1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated
Survey of the Lewis Criss/Crist Land in Monongalia County, [West] Virginia (also references Yohogania and Ohio Counties), 1785
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 1
Indenture Owed by Richard Philan of Allegany County, Maryland to Lewis Criss/Crist of Monongalia County, [West] Virginia and Others, 1795-1798
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 1
Indenture between Lamar Moore of Harrison County and John Shisler of Monongalia County, [West] Virginia (pertains to a plot of land on Front Street, now University Avenue, in Morgantown, WV), 1829
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 1
Photocopies of John Leech Illustrations from Unknown Book (14 illustrations depicting horseback riding, fox hunting, and other subjects), undated
File — Box: 59, Folder: 2
Prosperity and Education Edition of the New Dominion (Compiled and edited by Justin M. Kunkle. Morgantown, W. Va.: New Dominion Publishing Company, February 1903), 1903
File — Box: 59, Folder: 3
Industrial Edition of the New Dominion (Compiled and edited by Charles J. Holmes. Morgantown, W. Va.: Julian E. Fleming, May 1906), 1906
File — Box: 59, Folder: 4