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Dr. J.C. Easton, History Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2324
Overview
Lecture notes, clippings, notes, and drafts for A History of European Civilization, Volume 1, and other miscellaneous papers of Jason C. Easton, former professor of history at West Virginia University (WVU). The collection also contains Dr. Easton's correspondence with several former students serving in the military during World War II dating from ca. 1942-1946. Other WWII items include ration books for food, gasoline, and liquor; and two unpublished sound recordings on disc of a radio...
Dates:
1860-1890, 1935-1960; Majority of material found within 1935-1960
Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3003
Overview
Archives of an eminent folklorist and professor of English at West Virginia University. Manuscripts include field folklore collections, lecture notes, book manuscripts, correspondence, student papers, and folksong arrangements. There are also materials regarding Gainer's position as director of South Atlantic USO activities during World War II and a journal of a folksong collecting trip to Ireland in 1961. Also one hundred and fifty-three audio tapes containing vocal and instrumental folk...
Dates:
1890-1981
Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3202
Overview
Four scrapbooks of Phyllis Temple Williams nee Stealey of Clarksburg who was an administrative assistant and secretary to nine term U.S. Congressman Cleveland M. Bailey (Democrat, West Virginia) from 1955 to 1963. Includes photographs, postcards, programs, invitations, news clippings and newspapers about: political conventions; elections; inaugurations; World War II; the Stealey family; charitable and campaign fundraisers; and a trip to Italy, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. Three of...
Dates:
1925-1962
Raymond Young, Photographer, Photographs regarding World War II and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3904
Scope and Contents
Papers of Raymond M. Young (1924-1986) of Oak Hill, West Virginia, a combat photographer who served in the United States armed forces in Europe during and after World War II, and in Vietnam. Includes commercially distributed stereographic cards showing subjects in Germany (ca. 1930-1945) and the Helsinki Olympics (1952), among other subjects, with stereoscope; many photographs of subjects in Germany and France at the end of World War II; and a few photographs from Vietnam (ca. 1965). There...
Dates:
circa 1930-1985 and undated