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Robert Tinnell Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4566
Scope and Contents Papers of Robert Tinnell, a West Virginia director, producer, and writer of horror films and related genres. Collection includes Tinnell's produced and unproduced screenplays, storyboards and related papers, short stories, newspaper articles, magazines and graphic novels, sketches, and miscellaneous notes and papers. The screenplays, which comprise much of the collection, were mainly written in the 1980s and 1990s. Tinnell's graphic novels include Sight...
Dates: 1977-2008, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Tootelian Recital Programs and School of Music Newsletters

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Collection Number: A&M 4305
Content Description

Material related to West Virginia music professor Robert Tootelian. The material includes two recital programs (30 April 1950; 3 June 1950), and two School of Music Newsletters (vol. 1 no. 1, April 1950; vol. 1, no. 2, May 1950). There are also copies of the Daily Athenaeum (9 March 1950; 20 April 1950). There is also a digital file of a photograph of Tootelian.

Dates: 1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert W. Craigo, Collector, Geological, Topographical, and Other Maps of West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 2622
Scope and Contents Geological, topographical, and other maps of West Virginia and other locations. These maps are often of specific counties or groups of counties, including Berkeley, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Greenbrier, Hancock, Jefferson, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Morgan, Ohio, Putnam, Roane, Wirt, and Wyoming Counties. Also includes maps of Virginia, #1 Mine Meadows Cannel Coal Co. of Kentucky, and Canada, as well as several of the entire state of West Virginia.This collection originally...
Dates: 1911-1936, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Young Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 3014
Overview

A notebook of genealogical forms compiled by the donor tracing the descent of the Robert Young & Lydia Gould family who settled at French Creek, Upshur County. Some mention is made of military service, occupation, and character of some of the individuals. Especially important is mention of individuals who served in the Civil War and World War I.

Dates: 1796-1927
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Young, Resident of Greenbrier County, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3576
Overview

Papers of Robert Young of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County. Includes original deeds, store billings, correspondence, receipts, notes of obligation, etc.

Dates: 1790-1828
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2389
Overview

Genealogy of the Descendants of John Robinson and Mary Cunningham compiled by John A. Grant, 1974. Material covers the years 1700-1974.

Dates: 1974
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts, Transcriptions

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Collection Number: A&M 4460
Scope and Contents Five bound volumes of transcriptions of the original letters in the Robinson family collection, A&M 2662, dating from ca. 1847-1883. Each transcription is assigned a unique number, and these numbers correspond to the numbers assigned to each letter in A&M 2662. This collection is likely a complete set of transcriptions. The volumes also include some biographical and genealogical information, and an index.Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor...
Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rod Thorn, Basketball Player, Collection

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Collection Number: A&M 4529
Scope and Contents

Papers of West Virginia native basketball player and coach Rod Thorn. Includes four scrapbooks, photographs, a draft newspaper illustration, and other material. Addendum of 2021-08-03 includes three photographs of Rod Thorn, one of which is autographed.

Dates: 1947-2018
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roderick W. Wilson Narrative Regarding the Beginning of the West Virginia National Youth Science Camp

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Collection Number: A&M 4505
Content Description

Historical narrative of 29 pages regarding the beginning of the West Virginia National Youth Science Camp authored by Roderick W. Wilson.

Dates: 2018
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
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West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 41
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West Virginia University. President 35
West Virginia University. Library 32
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
West Virginia. Legislature 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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