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Wheeling Corrugating Company, Advertising Campaign Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 2663
Overview A scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings and photographs representing an advertising campaign for Wheeling Corrugating Company. The scrapbook was prepared by the public relations department of the Cunningham and Walsh firm of New York City. At the front of the scrapbook is a cover letter from the Cunningham and Walsh firm in which the effort to promote sales of Wheeling Corrugating is assessed. The clippings and photographs come from newspapers and magazines in which advertisements...
Dates: 1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Custom House / West Virginia Independence Hall

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Collection Number: A&M 2014
Overview A documented interpretation of the architectural and physical history of the West Virginia Independence Hall touching upon those persons who have had an impact upon its design, construction, maintenance, and preservation. Most prominent of these are two architects: its original designer, Ammi B. Young, and the man primarily responsible for its restoration, Tracy R. Stephens. Included are floor plans, section views, photographs, and specifications of the building itself and of other similarly...
Dates: 1986
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Grape Sugar and Refining Company Ledger

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Collection Number: A&M 0212
Overview

An invoice book kept by County Commissioner, J.R. Paul of the Wheeling Grape Sugar and Refining Company. Transferred from Ohio County Court Record Books, the book contains business receipts and minutes to meetings. The minutes are mostly about appointment of company officers, issuing of stock and construction of the firm's physical plant.

Dates: 1881-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling High School, Commencement Book

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Collection Number: A&M 4392
Content Description A book of photographs and other material commemorating the Wheeling High School Class of 1911, similar to a modern yearbook. Members of the class are documented by photo portraits and short biographical sketches. There are also photographs of student groups and a class history. The book also includes photographs of the school building and classrooms with related descriptions. The photographs were taken by George J. Kossuth, who had a studio in Wheeling, and the book was printed by the...
Dates: 1911
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Potteries Histories

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Collection Number: A&M 3154
Overview

Copies of typescript history of Wheeling pottery industry and newspaper article "The Beauty Survives" by Monroe Worthington.

Dates: 1965-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Steel Corporation, Histories

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Collection Number: A&M 2948
Overview

Includes typescripts "The History of Principio and Iron Hill", clippings on J.J. Holloway, Earl Oglebay, Alexander Glass, Josiah Fox, and the iron and steel industry of the Wheeling area. Also includes sheet music for the theme song of the Wheeling Musical Steelmakers titled "Got a Feeling, I'll Be Stealing Back to Wheeling, West Virginia" by Bob Ellsworth. Also contains an issue of Time Magazine with an advertisement for Wheeling Steel's COP-R-LOY pipe on p. 41 (1928).

Dates: 1928-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Steel Radio Program, Sound Recordings and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3470
Overview Records of the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio program. Includes photographs (1930s-1940s, 5 in.), program scripts (1937-1944, 5 in.), clippings and magazines (1930s-1940s, 3 in., including Life Magazine of March 21, 1938 with article featuring the radio program), and scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs (1930s-1940s, 3 in.). Also includes original audio transcription discs of the program (1930s-1940s, 7 ft., 6 in.), and reel-to-reel/cassette...
Dates: 1937-2010 and undated; Majority of material found in 1937-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Steel Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0105
Overview Annual reports issued to stockholders summarizing the economic status of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. Official news bulletins for management personnel entitled "Its Wheeling Steel." It is and intra-company newsletter containing reports, policy statements, recommendations, and announcements. Also a volume of the term loan and revolving credit agreement with the supplemental indenture (fifth) to the first mortgage and deed of trust. This 1967 compilation by Hale D. Fox records the credit...
Dates: 1925-1967
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Symphony Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3362
Overview

Records of the Wheeling Symphony, including: 24 page 50th Anniversary History (1979), photo portraits of conductor Rachel Worby and the orchestra (ca.1990s), 4 typescript pages on the history of the orchestra (ca.1990s), and ephemera.

Dates: 1979-2000
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling University Medical School Petition

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Collection Number: A&M 0195
Overview

Petition of physician, surgeons, and others of Ohio County, Virginia, (now WV) to the General Assembly, appealing for the establishment of a medical school in northern Virginia; and a memorial of the president and Trustees of the Wheeling University regarding the establishment and financing of the school at Wheeling.

Dates: 1831
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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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
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Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
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Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
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Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
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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
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Hayman family 13
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Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
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White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
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Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
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Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
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American Federation of Labor 10
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Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
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Dayton, Spencer 10
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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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