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West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1887
Overview
Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia...
Dates:
1961-1966
West Virginia Human Rights Commission, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2237
Scope and Contents
Papers of the West Virginia Human Rights Commission, mainly the papers of Commissioner Thomas Drake, who served from 1965 to 1971. Includes annual reports (1961-1970), reports concerning pending legislation, Bulletins (1966-1968), various reports from other states and agencies, complaints heard by the Commission (1967-1970), minutes of the Commission (1967-1971); and commission correspondence (1967-1971). Includes the galley proof of a book compiled by Professor Drake entitled, "Human...
Dates:
1961-1971
West Virginia Independence Hall, Blueprints
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2730
Overview
Blueprint floor plans and elevations for the restoration of the West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling.
Dates:
ca. 1976
West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation Records regarding Statehood
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0931
Overview
Copies of broadsides, certificates, photographs, and letters pertaining to the formation of the state of West Virginia, its predecessor the Restored Government of Virginia, and the Civil War, featuring the impact of the latter upon Wheeling. There are 41 letters written to civilian prisoner-of-war Dr. Alfred Hughes by his wife and other relatives when he was interned at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio in 1862. (A more detailed inventory of the collection is included in the control folder).
Dates:
1855-1910
West Virginia Industrial School for Boys, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2401
Overview
Minutes of the Board of Directors of the West Virginia Reform School, Pruntytown, West Virginia, 1890-1899 with index at beginning of ledger. Memoranda from the Superintendent, H.E. Flesher, 1919-1925, to staff members at the school.
Dates:
1890-1899; 1919-1925
West Virginia Internal Revenue Lists
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3056
Scope and Contents
The tax assessment lists for the two collection districts established in West Virginia during the Civil War. It consists of (A) annual, (M) monthly and (S) special taxes and duties levied on income, property, trade and manufactured items. The lists are of two types corresponding to the contemporary categories of corporate and personal income taxes. Also the lists are somewhat incomplete because of a lack of standardization in regulations and enforcement measures. Soon after the Civil War...
Dates:
1862-1866
West Virginia Jubilee Song Newspaper Clipping and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0596
Overview
The words and music of "West Virginia," the prize winning song selected by the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Committee printed in the Wheeling Sunday News, 11 May 1913; and a copy of the Ladies Home Journal, June 1893.
Dates:
1913
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, annual conference information and proceedings, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a...
Dates:
1905-1959
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the records of the West Virginia Labor Federation (WVLF), AFL-CIO as a singular organization, established in 1957, and the records of its predecessor organizations prior to their merger, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO). Series 1 comprises records related to the West Virginia State Labor Federation, AFL’s internal operation and initiatives, including presidents’ files, secretary-treasurers' files,...
Dates:
1933-1980; Majority of material found within 1957-1972
West Virginia Land Grants Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3369
Scope and Contents
Records of land grants made by the Secretary of the Colony of Virginia from 1748 to 1778, by the Virginia Land Office of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1779 until 1863, and by the State of West Virginia from its formation until 1912. These records were held by the Office of the West Virginia State Auditor at the time the Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia was published by State Auditor Edgar B. Sims in 1952. The land grants were microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and...
Dates:
1748-1912