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Cameras, Film Projector, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 3736
Overview Two box cameras, including an Ansco Shur Shot dating from ca. 1948-1958, and a Spartus 120 dating from ca. 1940-1960. The most famous line of box cameras, known as "brownies", were manufactured by the Kodak company of Rochester, New York. There are also three camera lenses and three adapter rings (series five) by Kodak. Addendum of 2013/03/07 includes 16 mm film projector by Revere, Polaroid 220 camera, Argus 35 mm still camera, Argus flash attachment, and tripod (ca. 1940-1960). Addendum of...
Dates: ca. 1917-1926, 1940-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cameron Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2519
Overview

Genealogy of the Cameron family and allied lines, entitled, APPENDIX TO "STRICTLY PERSONAL: A TEACHER'S REMINISCENCES." Includes photographs, genealogical charts, and copies of newspaper stories. Allied lines are: Colgate, Kaminsky, Little, Parry, Presbury, and Stansbury. These are family lines that originated in Maryland. The Cameron Family came into West Virginia and lived in Ohio and Brooke Counties.

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

Campbell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1265
Scope and Contents

Financial and farm records of James Campbell who owned a plantation near Arden, Berkeley County on which he also operated a store. The collection also includes a ledger and some loose financial papers of James L. Campbell who ran the family homestead.

Dates: 1795-1873
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Campbell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1321
Scope and Contents Account book, 1856-1901, of James Wilson Campbell. Includes estate settlement of his father, James L. Campbell, Cattle pedigrees, and various accounts, including some kept in James L.'s hand. Correspondence, 1866-1899 concerns family affairs, business, and there is one letter from a cousin at Marietta College, 1866, telling of geological field trip through the Wood, Ritchie, Pleasants, oil district of W. Va. School notes on mathematics and surveying of James Wilson Campbell, ca. 1854-1859;...
Dates: 1847-1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Campbell's Creek Coal Company Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2248
Overview

Three letters dated, ca.1902, exchanged by S.F. Dana and A.M. Putney of the Campbell's Creek Coal Company; letters from the Secretaries of State in West Virginia, Ohio, and New York stating when the corporation was chartered; and a copy of the 1881 survey conducted at Dana on Campbell's Creek.

Dates: 1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Canaan Valley Alliance Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2781
Overview The correspondence, newsletters, photographs and brochures with related news clippings and government publications of a non-profit conservation organization, the Canaan Valley Alliance, formed to oppose the Allegheny Power Company's proposed Davis Power Project. The Project would have built a dam and created a lake in Canaan Valley displacing its original wetlands. The records document the mobilization of an effective campaign on an ecological issue. The Alliance, together with other...
Dates: 1979-1984
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Candle Snuffer Owned by Preston County Resident Inez Loundin

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Collection Number: A&M 4111
Overview

Small candle snuffer owned by Preston County resident Inez Maggie Loundin. This candle snuffer was a gift from Inez Maggie Loundin to Joy Braham, her great-great granddaughter, when Joy was 6 years old. Mrs. Loundin had a blue and white china collection, and this candle snuffer was part of it. Joy always loved this piece in particular.

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

Cane Gifted by John W. Davis to his Father John J. Davis

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Collection Number: A&M 4480
Scope and Contents One artifact, consisting of a wooden walking stick owned by John J. Davis (1835-1916) gifted to him by his son John W. Davis (1873-1955). The top of the stick is capped with metal with the inscription "John J. Davis from J.W.D." John James Davis was an attorney and politician who helped found West Virginia and later served as a United States Representative in Congress from that state. His son John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served under President...
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Capt. Edward J. Willis Civil War Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1990
Overview Captain Edward J. Willis served as chaplain and captain of Company A of the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment from December 1861 to his resignation in February 1864. Collection contains photocopies of Willis's Civil War records, including his Compiled Service Record from April 1862 to February 1864; official report of the battle of Antietam, 23 September 1862; a request for an extended leave to take care of his family in Orange County, Virginia, in January 1864; and letter of resignation dated...
Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 257
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
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West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 36
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United Mine Workers of America 51
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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 27
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
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
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
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Consolidation Coal Company 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
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 9
Lewis family 9
McGraw, John T. 9
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