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Anna Santore DeLancy, Scrapbooks and Yearbooks

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Collection Number: A&M 3526
Overview Four scrapbooks (containing letters, photographs, clippings, greeting cards, ephemera, etc.) and two yearbooks created and collected by Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001). Anna DeLancy was a Sunday School teacher at The Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood house operating in Pursglove, West Virginia. She spent most of her life as a librarian in New York City. One scrapbook documents the missionary work of her friends Gerald and Sylvia Zimmer in Tungjen in Kweichow, China during the period...
Dates: 1921-1941; Majority of material found in 1930-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna Santore DeLancy, Student, Scrapbook Regarding West Virginia University

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Collection Number: A&M 5096
Overview Scrapbook of Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001), West Virginia University (WVU) student, class of 1934, and social worker at "The Shack" in Pursglove. Scrapbook includes: WVU Student Fee Card; WVU Freshman Handbook published by the Women's Student Government Association (1931-1932); advertisement for Non-Fraternity Student Body President; unidentified cyanotype; programs from the Nixon Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; WVU commencment program, 1934; WVU commencement invitation, 1932; autographs of...
Dates: 1930-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna Schein, Collector, Feedsack Textile Bag Collection

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Collection Number: A&M 4432
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 38 feedsacks, feedsack textiles, and items made from feedsack textiles. Feedsacks were manufactured with dress goods quality textiles in the period 1925-1960, so although they were used for the distribution of animal feed, flour, beans, etc., they were frequently repurposed for the creation of household and clothing items, especially during World War II and after. This collection represents a wide variety of feedsack types, purposes, and uses.Series...
Dates: Majority of material found within ca. 1925-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna Shue Atkins Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3984
Overview

Papers of Anna Shue Atkins (1918-2010), a poet, writer, and schoolteacher who was born and spent her early life in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Contains Atkins's poetry and autobiographical writings, as well as her genealogical research, legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.

Dates: 1918-2013
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna V. Hunter Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2664
Overview

Two letters to Mrs. Anna V. Hunter from Mr. P.E. Gallagher concerning Mrs. Hunter's interest in the Greenbrier Ore Company. These letters discuss the possibilities of expanding the Greenbrier Ore Company into a steelmaking firm. There is also a handwritten conveyance of property to Mrs. Anna V. Hunter from her sister, Dr. Susan A. Price, of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1932, 1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Annette Oxindine Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4673
Overview Annette Oxindine is a professor of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio (as of 2025 June). She attended West Virginia University (WVU) between 1982 and 1985, during which she became active with the Artemis Sisters Collective, a local feminist collective formed in 1982 September for the purpose of promoting women's empowerment through creative, political, and social engagement. This collection contains photographs from her time with the Artemis Sisters and written responses to...
Dates: 1983-1984; 2023 March 15
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Annual West Virginia State Competition of High School News Periodicals Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1107
Overview

These records include rating sheets, score cards, instructions to restraints and news releases of the first 34 annual state contests.

Dates: 1922-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Annual West Virginia State High School Basketball Tournament Programs

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Collection Number: A&M 4216
Scope and Contents Collection includes six Annual West Virginia State High School Basketball Tournament programs--the 9th, 13th, 15th, and 17th thru 19th annual tournaments played at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Also includes one football program from a high school game played at WV Wesleyan in 1928. These programs were collected by Rush Dew Holt, Sr., who was at one point the secretary of the Monongahela Valley Athletic Conference and Director of Publicity for the West Virginia Athletic Conference in...
Dates: 1922-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Annual West Virginia State Journalism Conference Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1106
Overview

These records include correspondence, programs, etc., of the first 32 annual state journalism conference.

Dates: 1922-1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anthony Feyer, Artist, Papers regarding the Snake Handling Community in Jolo, WV

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Collection Number: A&M 4591
Scope and Contents

Slides, papers, recordings, serigraph prints, and other research material regarding the Church of the Lord Jesus with Signs Following, a snake handling community in Jolo, WV. Also includes the vinyl record They Call Us Holy Rollers: Serpent Handling Southern Gospel from the Church of the Lord Jesus, Jolo, West Virginia and digital copies of the short film Homecoming '92.

Dates: circa 1995-1996 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 255
Politics and government. 226
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 186
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West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 42
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Ohio 28
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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
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United States. Congress. Senate 38
West Virginia University. President 35
West Virginia University. Library 32
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
West Virginia. Legislature 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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