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Partridge and Critcherson, Photography Studio, Portraits of West Virginia Politicians
Twenty portrait photographs of prominent nineteenth-century West Virginia politicians, many of whom played a part in the movement for statehood. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information, including a list of names.
Pat Romero, Interviewer, Interview With Callie Barnett, Cousin of Carter G. Woodson
Two cassette sound recordings of interviews with Callie Barnett, cousin of Carter G. Woodson. Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson has been cited as the father of black history.
Patrick J. Crogan (1856-1949) Papers
Correspondence and legal papers of a Preston County attorney who was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There is much material on cases tried by Crogan for banks, utilities, lumber, and coal companies.
Patrick McGlynn, Civil War Bounty
Document signed by Patrick McGlynn, who substituted his service in the Union Army for that of Enoch Tinsman for a bounty of four hundred dollars. The document was created in Grafton, West Virginia on 23 February 1865. Collection includes one full color reproduction (two pages) and one photocopy reproduction. See "Historical Note" for further information regarding bounties and commutation of service.
Patrick Plummer Diary
Plummer relates family births, marriages, deaths, farm operations and other business interests. In 1859 he mentions John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.
Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers and Folk Music Recordings
Patrons of Husbandry, West Virginia University Grange, Records
Minute books, 1898-1908, 1916-1923, membership and dues records, 1914-1921; a procedural handbook, songbooks, and official paraphernalia.
Patteson-Carone Collection
Patty Willis, Artist, Biographical Information
Paper print-out from a website regarding Patty Willis (1879-1953), a West Virginia pictorial artist from Jefferson County; includes biography and examples of her work.
Paul A. Atkins, Soldier, World War II Letters
Letters from Atkins while serving with the First Cavalry, U.S. Army. Atkins was stationed in Australia in 1943, his unit moving to New Guinea in January 1944, the Admiralty Islands in March 1944, and the Philippines in October 1944. He was wounded in the fight for Rizal Stadium in Manila. Letters deal with routine camp life and more rarely with battles in which the unit was engaged. After the war Atkins became a professor of journalism at West Virginia University.