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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
Perry Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4314
Scope and Contents
Materials pertaining to the Perry (Perri) family of Star City, West Virginia, an immigrant family originally from Italy. Also includes material about the Marra family, another Italian family that married into the Perry family. Includes material pertaining to Louis Warren Perry (1944-2011), his parents Joseph Ralph Perry (1905-1992) and Mary Constance (nee Marra) Perry (1915-1992), John Anthony Marra (1921-1999), and other relatives. Material regarding Lou documents his education at...
Dates:
1930s-2011
Perry Mann Newspaper Opinion Articles
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4294
Scope and Contents
Typescript copies and clippings of opinion pieces authored by Perry Mann (1921-2016), a lawyer in Hinton, West Virginia. These pieces appeared in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Box 1 includes an index listing his pieces chronologically with their titles for the period ca. 1992-2000; there is also biographical information. Box 1; folder 1; Biographical information on Perry Mann; 2018
Box 1; folder 2; Article index of Perry Mann’s newspaper columns; 1992-2000
Box 1;...
Dates:
ca. 1980-2018
"Personal Reminiscence of John Brown" by Edward White
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4582
Scope and Contents
Handwritten personal account of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, [West] Virginia in 1859, dictated by Edward White to his daughter Margaret White Longley. Edward White would later serve for the Confederate army and his viewpoints on enslavement and abolitionists are apparent in this account.
Dates:
circa 1887
Pete Summers, Folk Musician, Video Recording
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3423
Overview
One VHS tape of harmonica player Pete Summers performing.
Dates:
2000-2001
Peter D. Crynock, Compiler, Scrapbook of Photographs of Personal Rapid Transit Construction
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5112
Overview
Scrapbook of color photographs (4 in. x 4 in.) of the construction of the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system at West Virginia University.
Dates:
1972