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Paul A. Miller Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3122
Overview
Professional papers, correspondence, books, serials, and photographs documenting the professional career of Paul A. Miller, who served as president of West Virginia University, 1962-66. The material also deals with Miller's work as a graduate student, professor, and provost at Michigan State University, 1946-61; his tenure as assistant secretary for education in the Department of Health, Education & Welfare; and his term as president of Rochester Institute of Technology, 1969-79....
Dates:
1946-2010
Paul Atkins, Journalism Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4235
Scope and Contents
Professional and family papers of Paul Atkins, a journalism professor at West Virginia University who retired after 33 years of service. Also includes papers of his wife Mildred, who was an artist.This collection is minimally processed.box 1; newspaper inserts regarding history of and tourism in West Virginia, including the Civil War in WV; ca. 1960-1970
box 1; framed photo of Paul Atkins
box 1; framed artwork by Mildred Atkins
box 1; poster with drawing...
Dates:
circa 1860-2019
Paul Daugherty, Collector, Family History and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4304
Scope and Contents
Records collected by Paul Daugherty regarding family history. Includes materials documenting the Taylor, Broadwater, Lantz, Collins, Carmichael, and Ingraham families in the region of the counties of Ritchie, Doddridge, and Wood. The Taylors arrived in Ritchie County in 1842. The Broadwater family resided in Toll Gate, W. Va. in Ritchie County. There are family histories and genealogies, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material.
Dates:
ca. 1850-1950
Paul H. Price, Surveyor, Photographic Survey of West Virginia Roads and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3690
Overview
Photographs compiled by Paul H. Price. The collection includes a photographic survey of West Virginia roads conducted by Price for the State Road Commission of West Virginia in the period ca. 1925-1935. Many of West Virginia's counties are included in this series of photographs. There are also photographs of the West Virginia landscape (most notably the eastern panhandle), unidentified landscapes, archaeological artifacts, the Paul H. Price family, and other material. Includes negatives and...
Dates:
1925-1935
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2628
Scope and Contents
Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, ...
Dates:
circa 1932, 1970-1975
Paul Roales, Collector, Photograph Album Sheets of the U.S.S. West Virginia and Other Ships
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4631
Scope and Contents
Four photograph album sheets featuring photographs of the first U.S.S. West Virginia, the armored cruiser ACR-5, and the U.S.S. Fortune
Dates:
circa 1915
Paul Salstrom, Interviewer, Oral Histories with Lincoln County Residents And Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3551
Overview
Transcribed oral histories taken by Paul Salstrom in 1988 from Ray and Mabel Elkins and Virgie Workman Farley. The oral histories are comprised of: childhood reminiscences; genealogy of the Workman, White, and Elkins families; and the industries and occupations of Lincoln, Logan, Wayne, and Mingo Counties, West Virginia, including farming, timbering, teaching, mining, police work, and the introduction of a railroad into the area. There are also two typed statements, one by Jim Chojnacki and...
Dates:
1988
Paul W. Stickle, Logging in the Mountains of West Virginia, Typed Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2328
Overview
A study, entitled "Logging in the Mountains of West Virginia", which was conducted by forestry student Paul W. Stickle at the New York State College of Forestry in 1923. The report deals with the operations of the Horton Saw Mill of the Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company.
Dates:
ca. 1923
Pauline Haga, Compiler, Summers County Wills
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3558
Overview
Facsimiles of wills recorded in Summers County, West Virginia, including: Robert A. Pearis, Anderson Vest, Rachael A. Cottle, J. B. Pack, John Lewis, Wellington Cox, Mordica Roles, Nancy Maddy, Preston Pack, Nancy Millburn, Lewis Copeland, Harrison Neely, William Crump, Lewis Whitten, Catherine Patterson, Sarah Brown, Elizabeth Brown, John Gill, Ann Eliza Mills, James Cales, William James, John Duncan, James Farley, James Patterson, Powell Butler, Jonathan L. Willis, Margaret (Martha)...
Dates:
1859-1886
Pauline M. Headley, Collector, Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3118
Scope and Contents
Civil War letters from David Riel and Newton Van Leer of Company G, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and Charles W. Elliot of Company A, 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Most letters are to Sarah Riel of Wood County. Subjects include defense of the B&O Railroad, the kidnapping of Union generals Crook and Kelley, military action near Richmond, and military hospitals. Two postwar letters concern West Virginia emigrants to the West. This collection includes both original letters...
Dates:
1862-1865, 1885-1890; Majority of material found within 1862-1865