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Photographs of Mob Moving Records to Courthouse in Parsons, Tucker County, WV
Two .tif files which are scans of black and white photos depicting the mob that moved county court records from the St. George courthouse to the Parsons courthouse on 1893 August 2, as part of a dispute about the location of the county seat. Also included are two .docx files describing the photos.
Photographs of the Cheat River, Strand Theater, and Other Subjects
Cheat River scenes: 7 photos, 8 post cards; Strand Theater fire (1927): 4 photos; unidentified river scenes: 5 photos; iron furnace: 1 photo; general WV scenes: 15 post cards; clippings regarding Morgantown, WV.
Photographs of the Construction of the West Virginia Metal Products Company Mill in Fairmont, WV
19 photographs depicting the construction of a brass mill operated by the West Virginia Metal Products Company in Fairmont, WV (running as the Novelis Aluminum Company plant until 2025).
Photographs of the Tennant Family of Core, West Virginia and Other Material
Photographs of the Tennant family of Core, West Virginia include 12 prints of candid portraits (ca. 1920-1940), and four color prints of the Tennant family log house (ca. 1980s). There are also 5 photos of other Core area residents (ca. 1940s), 2 photos of the Blacksville Public School (ca. 1914, ca. 1920s), and 4 copies of original photos of a wood plank house (ca. 1910) and one color photograph of the Burnfield log house (ca, 1979) in the Core-Blacksville area
Photographs of Trolley Cars and Locomotives
91 black and white photos of trolley cars and locomotives in WV; includes trolleys of Mon.-West Penn Public Service Co. of Parkersburg, various trolleys of Wheeling, misc. trolleys and locomotives of WV, and Cass Scenic Railroad; c.1880-1945, 1975.
Photographs of West Virginia University, Student Life, and Other Subjects
Scanned photographs of various West Virginia University campus buildings, including the Coliseum, Creative Arts Center, Evansdale Library, the old Mountaineer Field, Milan Puskar Stadium, Woodburn Hall, and more. Also includes scanned photographs of a "couch burning" party in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Morgantown, WV, and of two WVU football games (one at Milan Puskar Stadium and the 1989 Sunkist Fiesta Bowl at Arizona State University).
Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks
Pickens Presbyterian Church Records
The minute books of a Randolph County church recording minutes to session meetings, the church governing body composed of elected church officers such as elders and deacons. The minutes refer to disciplinary actions, admittance of new members, and the hiring of ministers. There are also church newsletters which contain information on weddings, funerals and social activities of the church.
Piedmont Herald Obituary Index
Electronic file of obituary index for the Piedmont Herald newspaper, published in Mineral County, West Virginia. Includes 31,000 entries with first and last names for period 1888-2006.
Pierpoint-Pierpont-Coburn Family Genealogy.
Chiefly the genealogy of the Enos and Sarah Pierpoint Coburn family of West Virginia. Sarah Pierpoint, granddaughter of John and Nancy Ann Morgan Pierpoint and the great-granddaughter of Zackquill Morgan, married Enos Coburn in 1836. Two typed pages chart the genealogy of Sarah Pierpoint Coburn's parents and of her children with Enos Coburn and their grandchildren. Provides birth, marriage, and death dates for most family members.