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Scott Family Genealogy and Clothing
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0745
Overview
A family tree of the Major David Scott family and allied families, including the Hess, Chipps, and Pindall families. The family tree contains mention of war veterans as well as births, marriages, and deaths. There is an accompanying letter by Helen Wesp sent to her cousins requesting more detailed information about these family lines. Also mentioned in the letter is a Revolutionary War veteran of Monongalia County, Lt. James Scott. This collection also includes dresses, pants, and other...
Dates:
1941
Scott Gibson, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4023
Scope and Contents
This collection includes glass plate negatives and film negatives of photographs taken by Scott Gibson of Valley Point, Preston County, West Virginia. These photographs feature a variety of outdoor and indoor scenes, as well as family and individual portraits, mainly in Monongalia and Preston Counties. Original accession (collection circa 1900-1920, undated) includes over 1,500 glass plate negatives. Subjects of the photographs include portraits of individuals (including infants...
Dates:
circa 1880-1960 and undated
Scott Gibson, Photographer, Prints and Nitrate Negatives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4000
Scope and Contents
Prints and nitrate negatives of photographs taken by Scott Gibson. The first nine boxes contain nitrate negatives, which are numbered and have been organized by subject. Nitrate negative subjects include West Virginia University Athletics, Buildings, Military, etc.; highway markers; historical houses; Monongalia County views; local organizations and businesses; Morgantown buildings and other features; and portraits. Boxes 10-20 include prints, which are not in numerical order or organized...
Dates:
1897-circa 1950
Scott Lumber Company Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1096
Overview
Ledger containing financial statements and reports of the company's operations in Morgantown and Follansbee, and records of a subsidiary, the Cecil Lumber and Hardware Company of Elm Grove, in Ohio County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1911-1929
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1423
Overview
Papers of Jewett Palmer, a Union Army officer, Mayor of Marietta (Ohio), and Republican official of Washington County (Ohio). Includes correspondence, daily journals, clipping scrapbooks, military records, genealogical and autobiographical notes, and printed materials. The papers regard the activities of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) and Company G of the 36th OVI. There are also papers of Palmer's wife, Saida Scott, who taught music. Addendum of 1996/09/23 contains a...
Dates:
1856-1917
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates:
1829-1916
Scotts Run Community Center Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0652
Overview
Scotts Run Community Center scrapbook containing photographs, clippings, attendance statistics, and a survey of families. The survey documents families inhabiting the area, indicating their nationalities, religious affiliations, and number of children. The Scotts Run Community Center, known as 'The Shack,' was started in 1928 under the auspices of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Particularly active during the height of the Depression, its organized...
Dates:
1927-1938
Scott's Run Newspaper Index
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3410
Overview
Chronological index created by donor to articles appearing in Morgantown, West Virginia (WV) newspapers for period 1917-52 regarding Scott's Run and neighboring areas (including Bertha, Osage, Chaplin, Pursglove, Liberty, Davis, Jere, Shriver, Bunker, and Cassville). Although there is no subject index, this 1130 page chronological index provides short abstractions of newspaper articles, including newspaper titles and their page numbers. Subjects of articles include: coal mining news of every...
Dates:
1917-1956
Scotts Run Settlement House Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3084
Overview
Records of the Scott's Run Settlement House located in Osage, WV and founded by the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Wesley Methodist Church of Morgantown. The settlement house provided a wide range of social services for the inhabitants of the coal mining communities along Scott's Run in Monongalia County. Included in the records are board minutes, staff and statistical reports, director's correspondence, subject files, financial records, scrapbooks and clippings which document...
Dates:
1926-1989
Scrapbook of World War I Newspaper Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0962
Overview
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning World War I. There are a few scattered items on other subjects including a list of postmasters in Morgantown post office from 1795 to 1912 and list of post office employees currently employed at date of printing; also, an article on a proposed special levy in Monongalia County to raise funds to be expanded for buildings at WVU. Book plates inside front cover states this scrapbook was donated to the library by the Douthat family in 1926.
Dates:
1912-1918