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Morgantown Committee Against Registration and the Draft, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2775
Overview Collection consists of mailings, press releases, and broadsides describing the organization and activities of Morgantown and National Committee Against Registration and the Draft. There are materials on Morgantown area activities during National Anti-Draft Week, October 13-18, 1980; the National May 3 Unity Rally, Washington, DC, 1981; the U.S. Supreme Court decision on women and the draft, June 1981; the 1981 reorganization of the structure of National C.A.R.D.; as well as more general...
Dates: 1980-1981
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Convention & Visitors Bureau, Slides

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Collection Number: A&M 3446
Overview Over 400 slides documenting Morgantown, as well as West Virginia generally; ca. 1970s-90s. Subject matter includes cultural and natural features. Local Slides include: roads, aerial view of Morgantown, Cheat River, nature, crafts, trains, coal on Monongahela River, fishing, sunsets, Blackwater Falls, glass making, capital, skiing in the Canaan Valley, Cheat Lake, white water rafting, arboretum, I-79 Welcome Center, musicians, Cass Railroad, Mecmechen House, Wheeling, and Oglebay. West...
Dates: 1970-2000
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Draft Board, World War I Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0196
Overview

World War I records consist of three typed lists of registrants in alphabetical order with serial and order numbers and addresses. Also includes a typed list of casualty figures for Monongalia County, West Virginia, and the United States.

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

Morgantown Family Photograph Album

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Collection Number: A&M 3506
Overview Photograph album (7 in. X 11 1/2 in., 122 pp., 92 pp. with content) from unidentified source including photographs documenting Morgantown subjects in the period ca. 1918-1924, as well as other subjects. Pages have been numbered to preserve original order of pages as found; it is possible that pages 94-122 originally preceded pages 1-64. Pages 1-64 contain photographs evidently of friends and family, including homes and cars; landscapes appear to be mostly of locations in the western United...
Dates: 1918-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Female Academy, Report to Trustees

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Collection Number: A&M 3611
Overview

Report to Trustees of the Morgantown Female Academy of Morgantown, West Virginia authored by A.C. Werninger regarding the condition of its physical facilities.

Dates: 1835
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute, Degree for Martha Brock

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Collection Number: A&M 2812
Overview

A.B. degree awarded to Martha Brock in 1861 by the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia. Degree is signed by the president and professors from the institute. This is an oversize item.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Female Seminary Broadside

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Collection Number: A&M 0411
Overview

An announcement of the reopening of the school on Monday, Sept.14; list of teachers, rates for board and tuition; and a list of 21 references in New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D. C., Virginia, and Maryland.

Dates: 1857
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Female Seminary, Commencement Program

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Collection Number: A&M 0177
Overview

Commencement program for the graduating class of 1883; and ANS of Mrs. J. R. Moore, principal of the seminary, dated 12 Feb. 1884, is inscribed on one page of the program.

Dates: 1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown Festival of West Virginia Books and Authors

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Collection Number: A&M 0619
Overview

Materials from the Festival of West Virginia Books and Authors held in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1954. Includes a copy of the festival program; a typescript copy of the presentation by Alice E. Franklin titled "West Virginia's Literary Heritage"; and Franklin's typed comments on "The Life and Times of Lewis Wetzel" by C.B. Allman.

Dates: 1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morgantown First Baptist Church Minute Books

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Collection Number: A&M 3105
Overview The minute books of Morgantown's First Baptist Church. The books chart the growth and change of this locally noted church of the regular Baptist denomination. The books contain church covenants, membership lists, statistics, treasurer reports, church committee, society and officer reports, correspondence, and Sunday school records. Mention is made of the establishment of a mission by the church in Sabraton and of a missionary effort to the local Italian-American community. Prominent members...
Dates: 1842-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 257
Politics and government. 226
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 187
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 176
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Genealogy 160
Diaries and journals. 149
Education 115
Universities and colleges 102
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Preston County (W. Va.) 90
Rivers and river valleys. 90
Lawyers - letters and papers. 84
Women's history -- 1850-1899 84
World War, 1939-1945 83
Farms and farming. 82
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 82
Railroads 78
Harrison County (W. Va.) 76
United States -- Politics and government 72
General stores 71
Taxation 71
Wheeling (W. Va.) 69
Politicians -- United States 68
Women's history -- 1900-1929 68
Surveyors and surveying. 67
Frontier and pioneer life 63
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 62
World War, 1914-1918 61
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Randolph County (W. Va.) 56
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 44
West Virginia -- Politics and government 44
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 43
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Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 43
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 41
Taylor County (W. Va.) 41
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 41
Baptists 40
Steamboats 39
Wood County (W. Va.) 39
Parkersburg. 38
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
Revolutionary War. 38
West Virginia - Governors. 38
Livestock 37
Tucker County (W. Va.) 36
Women's history -- 1800-1849 36
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 35
New Deal, 1933-1939 35
Pennsylvania 35
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African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 30
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Berkeley County (W. Va.) 29
Churches -- Methodist 29
Fairmont. 29
Monroe County (W. Va.) 29
Photography 29
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
Women's history -- 1951-present 29
Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
Civil War -- War diaries 28
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 28
Ohio 28
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 28
Civil War -- letters 27
Civil War battles. 27
Environmentalism. 27
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 27
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Kentucky 27
Physicians - letters and papers. 27
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Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 26
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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
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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