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Pendleton County Court Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0038
Overview
Legal papers pertaining to Pendleton County, (West) Virginia from 1789 to 1880. Includes bonds, marriage bonds, capiases, affidavits, indentures, and military commissions signed by Virginia governors.
Dates:
1789-1880
Pendleton County Manuscripts and Account Books
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2332
Overview
A collection of account, record, and minute books, as well as ledgers relating to the history of Franklin and Pendleton County, West Virginia. Included are account books belonging to George Hammer (1859-1889); a minute book of the Franklin Water Works (1845-1877); a Pendleton County tax book (1826); and a book of bonds for the administrators and executors of estates from 1802 to 1820. Included are letters to Mary M. Colaw, from relatives in Pendleton County, mainly concerning family news,...
Dates:
1802-1902
Penholder Used by Gov. Henry D. Hatfield, Accompanied by an Explanatory Note
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0947
Overview
Penholder used by Gov. Henry D. Hatfield to approve an appropriations bill in 1915 providing $200,000 "to anchor the University in Morgantown." Accompanied by an explanatory note.
Dates:
1915
Pennsylvania and West Virginia Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1788
Overview
Genealogy, family line forms, index, and a family chart of the Bear-Baer and allied families. Compiled by Earle E. Baer, Pittsburgh, PA. Several pages on the Swisher-Bush, and Smith Townsend families were compiled by L. Bush Swisher, Morgantown, and Townsend J. Smith, Tucson, AZ. Also includes the family lines of Bear-Baer, Boreman, Bush, Cook, Edwards, Jackson, Keller, Kurtz-Kurz, Newman, Pursglove, Sellers, Smith, Spencer, Stalnaker-Stelnaker, Steinaker, Watson, and Young-Jung.
Dates:
1944-1947, 1963
Peoples Appalachian Research Collective, Papers regarding Strip Mining
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2618
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, notes, articles, newsletters, news clippings, reports, studies, Congressional testimony, and other materials collected by Keith Dix and other members of the Peoples Appalachian Research Collective for the purpose of preparing a 1971 issue of People's Appalachia concerning strip mining in Appalachia. The bulk of the material is newsletters from anti-strip mining organizations and reports, studies, and testimonies on...
Dates:
1968-1973
Perfection Garment Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3132
Overview
Payroll and production records of the Perfection Garment Co. and its subsidiary Pleatex, Inc. The records are fairly standard business accounts of balances with other companies and of employee earnings by piece rate, a common practice in the textile industry. The records reflect some of the success of the company in its long term (1905-91) venture in the highly competitive field of garment production. The company was also noted as a prominent West Virginia manufacturer of ladies apparel and...
Dates:
1954-1991
Perley Isaac Reed, 1887-1973. “The Modern Newspaper as a Social Instrument”
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2154
Overview
Dr. Perley Isaac Reed (1887-1973) was an English and journalism professor and the founder of the School of Journalism at West Virginia University in 1939. Collection consists of a typescript copy of "The Modern Newspaper as a Social Instrument," which was written by Reed in 1948 with the goal of defining a good modern newspaper in the middle of the 20th century. Typescript has handwritten annotations and corrections, but is a photocopy. The book is divided into three parts: "The Newspaper as...
Dates:
1948
Perley Reed, Author, Poetry and Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1776
Overview
The Marriage Certificate of Perley Reed and Elizabeth Dee Frost, telegrams recieved by Elizabeth and Perley, as well as newspaper clippings celebrating their engagment. Elizabeth's certificate of intitiation into The Delta Kappa Gamma Society in 1965. There are also 6 artworks by Reed, who was a hobbyist painter.The artworks are:Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau
Oil on canvasboard,
30 x 24,
1966
A Soldier’s Farewell,
Oil on canvasboard,
20 x 16,
1963
Matterhorn,
Oil on...
Dates:
1922-1965
Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1848
Scope and Contents
Papers of P. D. Strausbaugh, former head of the Department of Botany, author of a biology textbook, and professor of Botany at WVU.Papers consist mainly of correspondence concerning the writing, compiling, editing, and revising a college biology text in cooperation with B. R. Weimar and Earl L. Core. Also included are letters concerning the investigation of plants for identification, the making of "Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies" and other moving pictures, and the signing of...
Dates:
1913-1964
Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1997
Scope and Contents
Four boxes of correspondence from 1920-1948. The correspondence covers the period from the appointment of Strausbaugh in 1923, as Chairman of the Department of Botany at WVU (later the Department of Biology) to 1948. The correspondence from 1920-1923 is Dr. Strausbaugh's personal correspondence while on the staff of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Included are seven pages of typescript carbons containing comments on Elements of Biology by Strausbaugh and...
Dates:
1920-1948