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Typed Manuscript of "The Far Interior; Chronicles of Pioneering in the Matabele and Mashonga Countries, 1847-1879" by Edward C. Tabler

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0819
Overview

Typed manuscript and 313 pages of page proofs of Edward C. Tabler's The Far Interior; Chronicles of Pioneering in the Matabele and Mashonga Countries, 1847-1879. Amsterdam, 1955.

Dates: 1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ulysses Grant Carter, Collector, Papers, Photographs, and Movie Films

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Collection Number: A&M 2463
Overview

The collection consists of correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets and other material gathered by Carter concerning black miners in the coalfields of West Virginia, with particular reference to availability of extension courses in safety, foremanship, and engineering.

Dates: ca. 1928-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

UMWA, Miners Right To Strike Committee Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3660
Overview Records of the Miners Right To Strike Committee, a group affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), documenting a strike against the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA) in 1977 that resulted in a 1978 contract. Collection includes bulletins, handbills, newsletters, and other material issued by the Committee. Also includes "Statement of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA), presented at the First Session of the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement...
Dates: 1976-1978; Majority of material found within 1977-1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Underwood Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 1807
Overview

Genealogical chart of the William Underwood (1780-1866) family of Tyler County, West Virginia, from 1780 to 1948. Chart includes his wife, M. Hannah Willis Underwood, their eleven children, and their grandchildren.

Dates: 1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Union Carbide Corporation, Hawk's Nest Project Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1916
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings...
Dates: 1873-1966
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Union Volunteers of West Virginia Regiments, Civil War Service Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3059
Scope and Contents The compiled service records of soldiers belonging to units from the State of West Virginia are arranged according to an organizational breakdown ending with the regiment or the independent company. Under each unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by soldiers' surnames. Preceding the jacket-envelopes for the individual soldiers in each organizational unit are envelopes containing record-of-events cards giving the stations of the unit and sometimes information relating to the...
Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Association of Journeyman Plumbers, Work Agreement

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Collection Number: A&M 1889
Overview

Agreement between the Master Plumbers of Wheeling and vicinity, and local Union No. 83, United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada, 1 April 1916.

Dates: 1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Jenkins Chapter, Scrapbooks of Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3144
Overview Record scrapbooks kept by Daisy Neptune, historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Jenkins chapter of Parkersburg. The five scrapbooks consists of material concerning the chapter's history and the lives of local Confederate veterans and their families. Included are the service records of individual soldiers, chapter applications containing much genealogical data, obituaries and death notices of veterans and family members, and news clippings of organization activities....
Dates: 1899-1972
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Glass and Ceramic Workers of America Local Union No. 2 (Clarksburg, WV) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2419
Scope and Contents Financial records, newsletters, minutes, correspondence and inter-factory memos of Clarksburg Union Local No.2. There are also records of grievances, arbitration, and union attendance.Series include:Series 1. Executive (1935–1974), boxes S1/Box 1-S1/Box 7 Series 2. Relations with Pittsburgh Plate Glass (1934–1974), boxes S2/Box 1-S2/Box 8 Series 3. Membership and Financial Records (1934–1974), boxes S3/Box 1-S3/Box 5 Series 4. International Union Materials...
Dates: 1934-1974
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Methodist Women, Fairmont District, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3085
Scope and Contents

Records of the Fairmont District of the United Methodist Women and its predecessor, the Women's Society for Christian Service, a social service arm of the Methodist Church. In its early years, much of the group's activities focused on the Scott's Run Settlement House in Osage, WV. Included are minutes and the subject files of officers, the latter dating mostly from the 1970's.

Dates: 1939-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
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Wheeling (W. Va.) 69
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West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 41
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 43
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
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United States. Congress. Senate 38
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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