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Louis and Sallie Bennett, Papers of a Lewis County Family
Papers of Louis Bennett, a wealthy lawyer, and of his wife, Sallie Bennett. This collection is minimally processed. Includes letters, a few photographs, and other material. There are records regarding the Glenville Normal School (including reports, correspondence, and advertising from publishers of school books) where Mr. Bennett was a principal (1870s); and letters authored by Sallie Bennett to her husband Louis (1880s). This collection is largely unprocessed.
Louis Bennett Papers
The business papers and legal correspondence of Louis Bennett (1849-1918) of Weston, a wealthy landowner and lawyer. Also included are papers of his father Jonathan M. Bennett and the latter's associate Gideon D. Camden.
Louis George Sarris, Resume and Personal Memoir of a U.S. Foreign Affairs Officer
Resume (2 pages) and personal memoir (18 pages) of Louis George Sarris, a West Virginian from Wheeling who worked for the U.S. State Department, serving as Chief of the Southeast Division during the Vietnam War era. The memoir discusses his family's immigrant roots in Greece and their life in America (ca. 1920 to 2000), including his father's work as a coal miner in West Virginia. It also touches on the career of Louis George Sarris.
Louis Horacek, Collector, Papers
United Mine Workers membership card and certificate; broadside and newsletters concerning protest of Marcus Garvey imprisonment by Universal Negro Improvement Association and UNIA membership certificates; NAACP organizing flier; 1886 printed poem TO THE PUPILS OF ROWLESBURG SCHOOL....; printed show ticket, undated.
Louis L. Thomas, Soldier, World War II Letters
Letters from Sgt. Louis L. Thomas to his mother, Mrs. Mary Thomas of Anmoore, WV. Most of the letters are from India where Sgt. Thomas was stationed in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. The letters are routine except to mention the insufferable heat and the grinding poverty of India.
Louis Martin, Collector, Records Regarding Weirton Steel
Records regarding Weirton Steel Company of Weirton, West Virginia. Includes annual reports, calendars with illustrations, clippings, diagrams of facilities, and newsletters.
Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers
Louis W. Smith, Collector, Miscellaneous Items
Railroad posters advertising routes to the Midwest from Baltimore, via Wheeling, Columbus and Xenia, 1859. A Civil War Letter, 20 Dec. 1861, from Beverly, (W.) Va., mentioning Col. [David] Goff, and a store in Buckhannon operated by the writer and Jacob W. Lorentz.
Louis Watson Chappell (1890-1981), Folklorist, Research Papers, Sound Recordings, and Other Material
Louise C.H. Hill, Artist, Four Paintings
Four oil on canvas board studies of wildflowers by Hill. A resident of Charleston, Hill exhibited with the Allied Artists of West Virginia during the 1930s and 1940s.