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Wood County Survey Plats
Survey plats made by L.G. Merrill & Associates of Parkersburg and Wood County, WV prepared by magisterial districts with the corresponding dates when the survey was made. Magisterial districts with dates are as follows: Box 1 - Clay, 1948-49; Harris, 1955-56; Lubeck, 1939-40; Parkersburg, 1929-32; Slate, 1953-54; Steele, 1956-57. Box 2 - Tygart, 1927-28; Union, 1946-47; Walker, 1952-53; Williams, 1937-38.
Wood County, Walker, General Store Account Ledger
Ledger no. 1 of a general store in Walker, West Virginia, owned by Mr. B. Huffman. Contains customer accounts from July, 1867 through 1975.
Woodblock Engraving of Wheeling, West Virginia
A block for a wood engraving entitled "Wheeling, Virginia, showing the Suspension Bridge, and the Embarkment of the German Rifles, Captain Plankey". Sketched by J.A. Faris, 1861.
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett Papers
Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records
Woodburn Circle National Register of Historic Places Certificate
Certificate announcing that Woodburn Circle (the historic quadrangle on the campus of West Virginia University consisting of Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall, and Chitwood Hall) had been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The announcement was made by the West Virginia Antiquities Commission in cooperation with the State Historic Preservation Officer.
Woodburn Seminary Typescript
A sketch of Woodburn Seminary, by Susah Maxwell Moore, written in 1939; it traces the development of the property on which the school was located, through the Thomas P. Ray estate; the names of the founders are given; describes the origin of the name of the school and concludes with a sketch of student life.
Wooden Dumbbells
One pair of wooden dumbbells, each of which is 10 1/2 inches in length.
Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript
Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.
Workers Education Local No. 189
Miscellaneous materials related to the Workers' Education Local 189 and the labor movement in West Virginia in 1979. Collection contains the program and schedule from the national Workers' Education Local 189 spring meeting, which was held in Beckley, West Virginia, in May 1979. Also includes the summer 1979 newsletter from the Division of Social Sciences of the West Virginia Institute of Technology, which contains some information about labor education.