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World War II Veterans Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0120
Overview
The Veterans of World War II papers were compiled by West Virginia University Professors J.C. Easton of the Department of History, C.R. Bishop of the Department of English, and West Liberty State College Professor Regier during the immediate post-war years (1946-1948). Students who had served during World War II were requested to write papers regarding their experiences in the armed services. There are approximately 1,400 reports, and they are filed in alphabetical order by author. The...
Dates:
1939-1945
World War II, War Loan Drives, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0234
Overview
National and state correspondence and other records, including materials on the American Book Center for War Devastated Libraries, Inc.
Dates:
1942-1946; Majority of material found within 1942-1946
Worley Simmons Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3872
Overview
Correspondence, manuscript school assignments, printed material, and a receipt from Worley G. Simmons and his wife Isabel Simmons of Porterwood, West Virginia. Worley was a barber in Parsons, WV. Correspondence includes three letters and one postcard. Letters are to and from Worley's family members: Olive B. Kalar/Kalan, Annie B. Moore, and Celia M. Moore, all from Porterwood, WV (1909-1947). Correspondence topics include mathematics notes, a shoe purchase, and family life. Manuscript school...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1947
Worthington Baptist Church, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3278
Overview
Six ledgers of the Worthington Baptist Church of Marion County, WV. Includes financial records, meeting minutes, annual reports, church statistics, building plans, and membership lists. There is also a history of the church, which is a denominational affiliate of the American Baptist Convention, USA.
Dates:
1840-1997
Worthington Pharmacy Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4065
Overview
Scrapbook of pharmacy-related material, likely compiled by an employee of Worthington Pharmacy in Worthington, West Virginia. Includes clippings, ephemera, advertisements, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects of this printed material include the history of pharmacy, the importance of local drugstores, independent vs. chain drugstores, and Worthington Pharmacy. Clippings and ephemera include "Guide Posts on the Road to Success" (1926), Merck & Co. handbills about...
Dates:
ca. 1926-1935
Worthington, West Virginia Christian Church History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2912
Overview
Microfilmed copy of a typescript history of the the Worthington, West Virginia, Christian Church, written and compiled by Harvey Channing Fortney in 1958 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the church. History contains two major components: biographies and autobiographies of prominent ministers and excerpts from old church record books. Brief biographies begin with minister with Thomas Campbell (1753-1854) and include several preachers from western Pennsylvania and the Worthington area,...
Dates:
1958
W.P. Tams, Jr. Letter Regarding "Struggle in the Coal Fields" by Fred Mooney
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2512
Overview
This holograph letter from Tams to Dr. Munn discusses Fred Mooney's book, STRUGGLE IN THE COAL FIELDS. Tams gives his opinion of the book and its author.
Dates:
1968 Nov 1
W.R. Loar and Son, Photographer, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2780
Overview
Studio registers and business records of W.R. Loar and Son, photographers of Grafton, West Virginia. The 25 volumes of studio registers cover the period 1918 to 1965. The 20 volumes of business records include cash books, 1940-1958; inventories, 1949-1955; invoices, 1939-1947; bank books, 1939-1940; and business expense accounts, 1943-1965.
Dates:
1918-1968
Writers' Program in West Virginia Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0454
Scope and Contents
Papers created by the Writers' Program in West Virginia (ca. 1935-1942), a part of the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). For more information regarding this Program, please see the Biographical / Historical Note.The Writers' Program collection is arranged into series established on the basis of topics. This topical arrangement simply emerged from the documentation resulting from the subject-based research assignments delegated to the writers.There are six...
Dates:
ca. 1850-1942; Majority of material found within ca. 1935-1942
Writers' Program in West Virginia, Records regarding Mineral and Hampshire Counties and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0183
Overview
The Writers' Program was a federal New Deal program (1935-1942) that employed jobless individuals with literary and writing skills for the purpose of researching and recording a broad assemblage of information regarding their states and local counties. This collection contains some of the records of the West Virginia division of the Program (the bulk of which are in A&M 454), including material regarding Mineral and Hampshire Counties, as well as Berkeley, Grant, Hardy, and Pendleton...
Dates:
ca. 1820-1942; Majority of material found within ca. 1935-1942