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West Virginia University Zine Workshop Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5278
Scope and Contents

Zine created collaboratively at zine workshop on 5 October 2018 at WVU Libraries, room 104. Emily Prentice led the workshop. Collection also includes source pages used to craft the zine. Some attendee names found on source pages include Stewart Plein and Jessica Eichlin. For reference, articles detailing the workshop and the Morgantown Zine Festival that came afterwards can be found in the control folder. The workshop was held as part of the Morgantown Zine Festival.

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

West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, 1st Regiment, Company F. Quartermaster Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4069
Overview

Quartermaster records of Company F, 1st Regiment, West Virginia Volunteers for period November 1863 to November 1864. Many documents are signed by Theodore L. Apple, 1st Lieutenant of the unit. Most documents are dated; many documents identify location, and list supplies in detail; and a few documents list names of soldiers in the unit. Locations mentioned are in West Virginia (New Creek, Petersburg, and Wheeling), Maryland (Cumberland), and Virginia (Winchester).

Dates: 1863-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, 1st Regiment, Company M, Roster Lists and Photograph

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0861
Overview

Two manuscript roster lists for West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, First Regiment, Company M, dated November 1898; one newspaper photograph of the officers and non-commissioned officers of Company M at their camp near Chattanooga, Tennessee during the Spanish-American War; and one typed roster of the First Regiment's officers and privates.

Dates: 1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War Bulletin

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0269
Overview

West Virginia War Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 5, (Charleston, 1918), issued by the U. S. Food Administration, describing various phases of the war effort in West Virginia.

Dates: 1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War History Commission, Papers of Festus P. Summers, Chairman, World War II Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1705
Scope and Contents Records of Festus P. Summers regarding his activities as chairman of the West Virginia War History Commission. Contains a speech, newsletter, war records collecting manuals, lists of Office of Civilian Defense directors, lists of potential and confirmed war records collectors, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a traveling expense account.Items within this collection include: drafts for a speech entitled "Let History Arm the Mind". The some pages are handwritten, others are...
Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Maps from Office of Civilian Defense

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Collection Number: A&M 0103
Scope and Contents Maps of West Virginia prepared or used by the Office of Civilian Defense during World War II and preserved by the West Virginia War History Commission.Contains the following maps:1. Base Map State of West Virginia (2 copies)2. City of Fairmont, West Virginia3. Road Map of Marion County West Virginia4. Map of West Virginia showing county boundaries (2 copies)5. Map of West Virginia showing primary state roads...
Dates: 1928-1946
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Posters and Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0812
Overview

Four scrapbooks and Ca. 100 other printed posters, playbills and bond drive broadsides, some of which relate to West Virginia University. The scrapbooks contain clippings on activities of servicemen from several W. Va. Towns, and items on bond drives and other war effort activities.

Dates: 1926-1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0109
Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia War History Commission and the state, local, and national branches of the Office of Civilian Defense. Material within this collection documents civilian activities on the homefront during World War II in the state of West Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, publications, pamphlets, maps, posters, newspapers and clippings, radio scripts, and other material. The collection also contains 19 reels of microfilm regarding the Monongalia Office of Civil...
Dates: 1928-1946; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Welfare Conference

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Collection Number: A&M 2228
Overview

Correspondence, programs, minutes, reports, rosters, publications, booklets, and tapes from the files of the West Virginia Welfare Conference, 1951 to 1969.

Dates: 1951-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Wild Water Association Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3219
Overview Consists primarily of most copies of the Association's newsletter, Wild Water Splashes (later titles: Whitewater Splashes and Splashes) which records the minutes of the organization's meetings and plans for whitewater canoe trips. Also includes the Association's schedule/membership rosters for most years, and miscellaneous whitewater and camping itineraries and newspaper articles about the Association. The West Virginia Wild Water Association was founded in 1965 to meet the need for a local...
Dates: 1965-2008
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 257
Politics and government. 226
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 187
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Land. 163
Genealogy 158
Diaries and journals. 149
Education 116
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Elections 95
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World War, 1939-1945 81
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Harrison County (W. Va.) 76
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United States -- Politics and government 71
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Wheeling (W. Va.) 69
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Women's history -- 1900-1929 68
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World War, 1914-1918 59
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 44
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West Virginia -- Politics and government 44
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Union names. 43
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 43
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 41
Taylor County (W. Va.) 41
Baptists 40
Steamboats 39
Wood County (W. Va.) 39
Parkersburg. 38
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
Revolutionary War. 38
West Virginia - Governors. 38
Livestock 37
Tucker County (W. Va.) 36
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 36
Women's history -- 1800-1849 36
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Pennsylvania 35
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 33
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Indians of North America 31
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 30
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Berkeley County (W. Va.) 29
Churches -- Methodist 29
Fairmont. 29
Monroe County (W. Va.) 29
Photography 29
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
West Virginia - Politics and government. 29
Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
Civil War -- War diaries 28
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 28
Ohio 28
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Civil War -- letters 27
Civil War battles. 27
Environmentalism. 27
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 27
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Physicians - letters and papers. 27
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United Mine Workers of America 51
Democratic Party (U.S.) 45
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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