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Empire Laundry Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2938
Overview

Records for the Empire Laundry Company of Clarksburg. Includes dissolution papers (1957), stock information (1930s-1950s), building blueprints (1948), employee insurance records (1934-1953), federal tax returns (1950-1955), and photographs of employees at work (1914).

Dates: 1914-1957

Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2316
Overview Originals and copies of clippings and photographs concerning the life and career of Izetta Jewel Kenny Brown Miller. Her career included work in the theater, Women's Suffrage Movement, radio, agriculture, television, and politics. Her first husband was William Gay Brown, Sr., West Virginia Congressman from Kingwood, and her second marriage was to Dr. Hugh Miller of the faculties of George Washington University and Union College. In 1922 and 1924, Mrs. Brown ran for the nomination as the...
Dates: ca. 1908-1973

National Organization for Women, West Virginia and Morgantown Chapters, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3247
Overview

Administrative records of the National Organization for Women (NOW), West Virginia Chapter, including records of task forces on the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, and discrimination. There are also records of efforts to lobby the state legislature on behalf of women, as well as papers documenting relations with other civic groups on issues of economics, education, labor, and racism.

Dates: 1970-1990

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview

Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.

Dates: 1905-1959

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates: 1897-1972

West Virginia University, House Mothers Club, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3168
Overview

Minutes, clippings, treasurers statements, membership lists and correspondence of a social club of those who managed and maintained fraternity and sorority houses at West Virginia University.

Dates: 1952-1971

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Women 5
Politics and government. 4
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Taxation 3
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
Union names. 2
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 2
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
Civil War - troop movements. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Education 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
Grafton. 1
Granville (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and hospital records. 1
Insurance 1
Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
Laundries. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
McGuires Tunnel. 1
Medicine 1
Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
New Milton (W. Va.) 1
Nonprofit organizations 1
Ohio River Valley 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
Poetry. 1
Political activism. 1
Preachers. 1
Radio 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
Television 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
Universities and colleges 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
Women -- Equal Rights Amendment 1
Women -- Suffrage 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History 1
Women political activists 1
Women's clubs -- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
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Names
AFL-CIO 2
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
American Federation of Labor 2
Andrews, Volney. 2
Armstrong, Glenn. 2
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Barron, W. W. 2
Biaggi, Mario 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 2
Boyle, William M. 2
Boyle, William M. Jr. 2
Buckman, Cecil G. 2
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn, 1902-1991 2
Butler, Paul M. (Paul Mulholland), 1905-1961 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Cairnes, Tom. 2
Carey, James B. 2
Carter, E.A. 2
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Daniels, Jonathan. 2
Dawson, D. Boone. 2
Eccles, Mariner S. 2
Edmiston, Andrew. 2
Ellis, Hubert S. 2
Funkhouser, Raymond J. 2
Green, William. 2
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 2
Hedrick, Erland H. 2
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946 2
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hutchings, Paul R. 2
Johnson, George W. 2
Kee, John, 1874-1951 2
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Landis, James M. 2
MacDonald, David J. 2
Marland, William C. 2
Maybank, Burnet R. 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Meany, George, 1894-1980 2
Mollohan, Robert H. 2
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Parkersburg Central Trades & Labor Council 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Preston, Rev. David. 2
Ramsay, Robert L. 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 2
Rohrbaugh, E.G. 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. (Franklin Delano), 1914-1988 2
Schiffler, A.C. 2
Skeen, Ben. 2
West Virginia Industrial Union Council, CIO. 2
West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 2
Wheeling Typographical Union, No.79 2
Brown, William G. (William Gay), 1800-1884 1
Brown, William Gay, Jr. 1
Coston, Isaac. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Empire Laundry Company 1
George Washington University 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jewel, Izetta, 1883-1978 1
Miller, Dr. Hugh. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
National Organization for Women. Morgantown Chapter 1
National Organization for Women. West Virginia Chapter 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Union College. 1
United States. Congress 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University. House Mothers Club 1
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