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Leah Bodine Drake Poetry

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1069
Overview

Two page manuscript, original poem, "Precarious Ground", winner of the 1952 Borestone Mountain Poetry Award.

Dates: 1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Leases for Rights to Oil and Gas Properties

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Collection Number: A&M 3148
Overview

The leases in this collection grant oil and gas rights to companies operating in Tyler County.

Dates: 1889-1912
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lee Brewster Publications Collection

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Collection Number: A&M 4523
Scope and Contents Publications created by LGBT activist and owner of the famed "Lee's Mardi Gras Boutique" Lee Brewster, collected by Dr. Charlotte Hoelke. Brewster grew up in West Virginia. There are magazines, including Lee Brewster's Mardi Gras '72 Ball (1972), Drag Queen (ca. 1969-1974), and three issues of Lee Brewster's! TV's Getting Together (undated). There is also a copy of the book Miss...
Dates: ca. 1969-1974, 1999, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lee Scott Civil War Arms Collection

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Collection Number: A&M 4410
Content Description

Thirty-six Civil War era weapons and related equipment. Includes rifles, swords, etc. See contents list for detailed description.

Dates: 1848-1870, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Leevale Collieries Scrip

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Collection Number: A&M 3603
Overview

Twenty-seven (27) pieces of coin scrip from the Leevale Collieries of Leevale, West Virginia, undated.

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

Leland Byrd Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4609
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks, papers, newspaper clippings, and artifacts regarding Leland Byrd, his time as a high school and collegiate basketball player, and his career as athletic director at Glenville State University, Miami Dade College, West Virginia University, and Western Michigan University and as executive director of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Dates: circa 1940s-2020s and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lemuel and Samuel Bailey Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0546
Overview

Business and personal correspondence of Samuel and Lemuel Bailey, Lewis County, West Virginia, including rates of toll and tollgate keepers' receipts on the Weston-Clarksburg Turnpike; account books for a general store; and a pass issued by the Department of West Virginia, Hagerstown, Maryland, 27 July 1864.

Dates: 1863-1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lenna Lowe Yost, Suffragist, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1851
Overview Papers of Lenna Lowe Yost, prominent leader of West Virginia's suffrage movement and the first woman to chair a major political party national convention. She was born in Basnettville, Marion County in 1878, the daughter of Jonathan S. and Columbia Basnett Lowe; died in Washington, D.C. in 1972, at the age of 94. Papers include clippings of articles by Yost, correspondence, biographical material, speeches, and other material. Subjects include prohibition, West Virginia State College...
Dates: 1913-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Leon A. Pryzbylinski, Collector, Pamphlets and Other Material regarding Labor History and the Cooperative Movement

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Collection Number: A&M 2056
Overview Mr. Pryzbylinski, a resident of Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, was a coal miner and actively promoted trade unionism and socialism in his area from about 1915 to 1930. When many mines in the anthracite coal fields closed in the early 1930s, he stopped working as a miner and became engaged in radio repair work. He was also interested in the co-operative movement. He encouraged this movement in the Mt. Carmel area and was president of the local co-operative. The collection includes 363 pamphlets...
Dates: 1909-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Leonard H. Ballard, Capitol Police Inspector, Oral History Transcript

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Collection Number: A&M 4375
Scope and Contents Material regarding Leonard H. Ballard, a West Virginia native and World War II veteran who served in the United States Capitol Police Force from 1947 until 1984. Ballard was the first person in the history of the organization to rise from the rank of private to that of inspector during his service. Includes a bound transcript of oral history interviews conducted with Ballard regarding his career in the Capitol Police Force (1983-1984), copies of photographs of Ballard (undated), and a...
Dates: 1983-1984, 2018, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 251
Politics and government. 224
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 186
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 173
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Genealogy 161
Diaries and journals. 149
Education 114
Universities and colleges 101
Coal mining. 98
Elections 94
Rivers and river valleys. 91
Preston County (W. Va.) 89
Lawyers - letters and papers. 84
Women's history -- 1850-1899 84
World War, 1939-1945 83
Farms and farming. 82
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 81
Railroads 78
Harrison County (W. Va.) 75
Taxation 73
United States -- Politics and government 72
Politicians -- United States 68
Women's history -- 1900-1929 68
General stores 66
Surveyors and surveying. 65
Wheeling (W. Va.) 65
Frontier and pioneer life 63
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 62
World War, 1914-1918 60
Agriculture 59
Authors -- Letters and papers 58
Transportation 58
Birth, marriage, and death records. 57
Randolph County (W. Va.) 55
Slaves and slavery. 54
Church buildings 53
Women's history -- 1929-1950 52
Coal mining - coal companies. 51
Maps. 51
Marion County (W. Va.) 51
Lumber trade 49
Art and artists 45
Court records 45
Mills and mill-work 45
Travel accounts. 45
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 44
West Virginia -- Politics and government 44
Petroleum industry and trade 43
Union names. 43
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 43
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 42
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 42
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 41
Taylor County (W. Va.) 41
Baptists 40
Wood County (W. Va.) 39
Parkersburg. 38
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
Revolutionary War. 38
Steamboats 38
West Virginia - Governors. 38
Livestock 37
Women's history -- 1800-1849 36
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 35
New Deal, 1933-1939 35
Pennsylvania 35
Tucker County (W. Va.) 35
West Virginia University -- Students 35
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 33
Teachers 32
Virginia 32
Indians of North America 31
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 30
Coal mining - Labor organization. 30
Photography 30
West Virginia - Politics and government. 30
Banks and banking 29
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 29
Churches -- Methodist 29
Fairmont. 29
Monroe County (W. Va.) 29
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
Women's history -- 1951-present 29
Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
Civil War -- War diaries 28
Environmentalism 28
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 28
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 28
Ohio 28
Civil War -- letters 27
Civil War battles. 27
Hardy County (W. Va.) 27
Kentucky 27
Physicians - letters and papers. 27
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 27
Charleston. 26
Coal mines and mining 26
Ohio River 26
Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 26
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English 4807
French 2
German 2
Italian 2
Chinese 1
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Swedish 1
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Names
West Virginia University 197
United Mine Workers of America 52
Democratic Party (U.S.) 45
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 43
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
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
West Virginia. Legislature 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
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 22
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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