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Issue of the Daily Alta California
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Collection Number: A&M 4351
Scope and Contents
Issue of the San Francisco Daily Alta California newspaper from Tuesday morning, May 30, 1865. Of note are a short article announcing the death of Colonel John Kellogg in City Point, Virginia on April 25, 1865, which was of local importance since Kellogg had previously served as Commissary at San Francisco Depot; an advertisement for Shaw & Co's Fast Freight to Virginia; and a notice of a fund collecting $1 subscriptions to be presented to the late President's...
Dates:
May 30, 1865
Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst, Compilers, Records regarding West Virginia Country Music Performers
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Collection Number: A&M 4160
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst's research for their books on West Virginia country music performers. Materials include a book proof, Appalachian Studies Association Powerpoint presentation, Fairmont and Clarksburg Radio in Appalachian Country Music History Powerpoint presentation, and photos used in the book West Virginia's Traditional Country Music by Tribe and Bapst.Materials from the addendum of 2022 October...
Dates:
1925-2015; Majority of material found within 1930-1960
Ivan M. Tribe, Collector, West Virginia Country Western Music Memorabilia
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Collection Number: A&M 4139
Scope and Contents
Digital copies of photographs, song books, booklets, and other memorabilia documenting country western, bluegrass, gospel, and folk musicians and radio stations in West Virginia and neighboring states. The files represent four volumes of "West Virginia Country Western Photographs" collated by Ivan M. Tribe (author of several books on country and bluegrass music in West Virginia), as well as "Doc Williams' Border Riders Family Album" and "W-M-M-N Family Album 1941." Photographs include...
Dates:
ca. 1930s-2000s
Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs
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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
J. Clark Easton, Soldier, World War I Letters, Diaries, and Other Material
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Collection Number: A&M 3584
Overview
Papers of West Virginia University history professor, Jason Clark Easton, documenting his experiences as a student at Yale University (1914-1916) and as a soldier in the 77th Division of the United States Army during World War I, including his services as an interpreter on General Pershing's staff during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. There is correspondence from Easton to his mother in Lacrosse, Wisconsin regarding his years at Yale University, his army training, the time he spent on the...
Dates:
1917-1919, 1963; Majority of material found within 1917-1919
J. Davitt McAteer, Collector, Records Regarding Monongah Mine Disaster
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Collection Number: A&M 3574
Overview
Letter, two photographs, and six coal mine maps and post-disaster report related to the Monongah mine disaster. 1) The letter is dated December 6, 1907; it was authored by "Emmett" (Lester Emmitt Trader) of Monongah, West Virginia to Ernest M. Trader of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The letter discusses the use of "certificates" as money in Monongah, references the recent Naomi mine (Fayette County, Pennsylvania) disaster of December 1, compares the conditions of the Naomi Mine to those of the...
Dates:
1907-1909; Majority of material found within 1907
J. Davitt McAteer, Collector, Records regarding Wanamie Mine and Other Material
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Collection Number: A&M 4265
Overview
Records of the Wanamie Mine and Glen Alden Coal Company, including employee reports, dust control reports, and Interior Board of Mine Operation Appeals decisions. Also included are materials relating to an exhibition titled "Men at the Coalface," consisting of drawings by Tisa von der Schulenburg.
Dates:
1940-1979
J. Davitt McAteer Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 3088
Scope and Contents
Papers of J. Davitt McAteer, formerly a staff attorney for the United Mine Workers of America. The papers document McAteer's activities on behalf of Miners for Democracy in the UMWA's 1972 election, his involvement with West Virginians for a Fair and Equitable Assessment of Taxes (1976-1982), and his service on the executive steering committee of the Appalachian Alliance (1977-1981). Includes correspondence, legal materials, subject files, memos, and scattered meeting minutes....
Dates:
1967-1981
J. Davitt McAteer Papers regarding Mining Safety
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Collection Number: A&M 4219
Scope and Contents
Papers of J. Davitt McAteer documenting his advocacy for mining and other occupational safety. A lawyer and expert on mine safety and health issues, he served as an Assistant Labor Secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration from 1993 to 2000. McAteer was also appointed lead investigator into the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster by Governor Manchin in 2010. The collection includes accident investigation reports, conference files, correspondence, health and safety manuals, mine...
Dates:
circa 1860-2013; Majority of material found within circa 1970-2013
J. Edgar Boyers Commissions as Colonel and Brigadier General
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Collection Number: A&M 1477
Overview
Boyers' commissions as a colonel in the 123d regiment and a brigadier general in 23d Brigade, Virginia Militia; a covering letter from Henry J. Samuel noting Boyers' fitness for the position; and an obituary notice.
Dates:
1859, 1862, 1912