Showing Collections: 1841 - 1850 of 4808
Jessie Campbell Nave Diaries
J.H. Carroll Papers
Letters, legal papers, advertising circulars, photographs, and other materials of a Kingwood attorney and postmaster. There are scattered letters relating to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War; post office records of Preston County, WV dating from the 1840's; and political correspondence. Correspondents include Nathan Goff and Benjamin F. Shaffer of Company A, Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry.
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Jim Costa, Collector, Glass Plate Negatives of Hinton
Glass plate negatives (forty-three items) documenting subjects in the area of Hinton, Avis, and Bellepoint, West Virginia. Includes pictures of the Hinton family (patriarch and matriarch were Silas Hinton and Mary Jane Charlton) and their associates. Other subjects include the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, children in a carriage, a mill, and members of a baseball team, among others. Thirty-nine of these have been digitized; the rest were either poor quality or blank.
Jim Costa, Collector, Oral Histories and Other Material
J.J. Rutledge Technical Writings on Coal Mining
Papers of J.J. Rutledge of the Maryland Bureau of Mines; includes mostly technical writings on coal mining published by the Bureau, Geological Survey, etc.
J.M. Mason Letters
Two facsimiles of letters from J.M. Mason at the University of Virginia with reference to the management of the Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy, the nature of the Virginia claims, the history of the case, and recommendations for handling the matter for the best interest of West Virginia.
J.M. Vandeman Correspondence
J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers
J.N. Varnell, Reverend, Papers
An address delivered at the memorial services for Isham G. Harris, Memphis, Tennessee, 21 November 1897; Picture post cards of West Virginia cities; a scrapbook of clippings relating to the pastorate of Rev J. N. Varnell; Franklin D. Roosevelt ALS, 23 September 1935, to Rev. J. N. Vanell; and a pamphlet on the early history of Nicholas County, C. W. Bell.