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West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Farmers' Week Prospectus

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Collection Number: A&M 5222
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A prospectus advertising "Farmers' Week and the Farmers' Winter Courses to be held at the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University" starting on January 3, 1916 (11 1/2 in. x 27 in.). This item is Series 16, No. 3 of the West Virginia University Bulletin, and was separated from a bound volume for preservation.

Dates: 1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, Records of Gerald Heebink, Extension Dairyman

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Collection Number: A&M 1142
Scope and Contents Gerald Heebink (1895-1956) was an extension diaryman in the West Virginia University College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics from 1935 to 1956. Records consist of papers related to Heebink's work with artificial breeders' cooperatives; various national diary associations, including the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, the West Virginia Jersey Cattle Club, Guernsey cattle clubs, and the National Eight Point Dairy Program; and the...
Dates: 1927-1950s; Majority of material found within 1936-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, Records of Gerald Heebink, Extension Dairyman

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Collection Number: A&M 1470
Scope and Contents Gerald Heebink (1895-1956) was an extension dairyman in the West Virginia University College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics from 1935 to 1956. Records are chiefly Heebink's subject files from 1940 to 1956 and consist primarily of addresses given by Heebink, pamphlets, letters, articles, and reference files. Topics covered include barns, dairy cows, coops, extension methods, feeds, land use planning, program planning, and silos. Also included are reports to the State Extension...
Dates: 1940-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Glass Plate Negatives

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Collection Number: A&M 5207
Scope and Contents Twenty glass plate negatives (with one print) of West Virginia University College of Agriculture activities, created circa 1890-1910. Subjects include chicken houses, Kanawha orchard, butter making, students in class, tufted titmouse in basket on tree, drove of cattle, vineyard at French Creek, dairy machinery, female canners, Dr. John A. Myers and Hopkins at their desks, Professor F. W. Rane teaching, Prof. L. William Rane in the horticulturalist room, John Alva Myers, milk weighing, Hite...
Dates: circa 1890-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Cooperative Extension Service, J.O. Knapp, Director, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3081
Overview

Photographs, correspondence and documents of J. O. Knapp, a director of the West Virginia University Cooperative Extension Service. Knapp was a founder of the West Virginia 4-H Club, and he was recognized nationally and internationally for his work in rural education to both youth and adults. He was also instrumental in promoting programs for rural electrification in West Virginia.

Dates: 1938-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Extension Program, History

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Collection Number: A&M 2282
Overview 87 pages of typescript describing the history, organization, and structure of the Extension program in West Virginia during the years 1918 to 1933. Special attention and credit is given to projects developed and implemented by Director Nat T. Frame. Subjects include agriculture, 4-H program, camp at Jackson's Mill, community planning, farm organizations, land use planning, reforestation programs, National Forests, parks, conservation groups, conservation activities of civic groups including...
Dates: 1918-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Extension Service, Photographs and Printed Material

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Collection Number: A&M 5235
Scope and Contents

Collection of photographs and printed material from the West Virginia University Extension Service. The photographs include 4-H camps, Farm Women's Clubs and other various activities. Many are unidentified or undated. The printed material includes some annual reports, Extension Service publications regarding wildlife and tourism, and books on regional colleges and extension programs. Also included are photographs and reports from Oglebay Institute in Wheeling, WV.

Dates: 1900-2011
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Extension Service, Publications, Reports, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 5232
Scope and Contents Records of the WVU Extension Service. Collection includes instructional booklets on cooking, decorating, and sewing from the 1910s to the 1960s, materials on rural electrification in West Virginia in the 1930s, annual conference programs, and materials on incomes and family budgets. Also includes materials relating to the Farm Woman's Club in West Virginia, studies of school children during the 1940s, and studies of cost of living in rural areas during World War II. There are historical...
Dates: ca. 1910-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William D. Barns, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3279
Overview Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs....
Dates: ca. 1842-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Lantz and R.S. Lantz, Postmasters, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1038
Overview

Papers of two Blacksville postmasters containing mail reports, letters on post office affairs and politics, petitions for mail routes, and printed materials relating to politics and agriculture.

Dates: 1880-1892
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 8
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Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 3
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Conservation Commission of West Virginia 2
Dairy Herd Improvement Association 2
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 2
Frame, Nat T. (Nat Terry), 1877- 2
Heebink, G. (Gerald), 1894-1956 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
National Grange 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 2
Silver, Gray. 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
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Watson, Henry. 2
Watson, Thomas. 2
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Aegerter family 1
Agricultural Extension Service - 4-H Clubs. 1
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Allegheny Tablelands Association 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Country Life Association 1
American Farm Bureau Federation 1
American Party 1
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Anderegg family 1
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Atkeson, Thomas Clark, 1852-1935 1
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Baker, Barton S. 1
Barboursville College 1
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Barns Family 1
Barns, Doretha Mae, 1917-1997 1
Barns, James. 1
Baughman family (Baughman Settlement, Hardy County, West Virginia) 1
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Beery School of Horsemanship 1
Beery, Jesse. 1
Bennett, Fran W. 1
Bennett, J.M. 1
Berkey family 1
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Blizzard, William. 1
Blue, Fred. 1
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Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
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