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Clyde Cale, Collector, Photographs of Preston County Schools, Students, and Teachers

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Collection Number: A&M 4011
Overview Black and white photographs of Preston County, West Virginia schools, students, and teachers. Photographs show group portraits of public school students and teachers, school buildings, and other subjects. Schools identified include Albright High School, Bruceton School, Cherry Grove School, Chestnut Ridge School, Crane School, Deep Hollow School, Lick Run School, Mt. Nebo School, Preston County Institute, and Sugar Valley School; others are unidentified. Some of the photographs include...
Dates: 1907-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clyde E. Hutchinson Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3005
Overview

Miscellaneous correspondence, papers, and photographs from the family of Clyde E. Hutchinson, a Fairmont coal mine operator. Included is a speech on "America's Uncrowned Queen" (American Women).

Dates: 1898-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.M. Cornwell Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0803
Overview

Papers of C.M. Cornwell, a surveyor and justice of the peace of Barbour County, West Virginia. Included are: surveys, plats, deeds, court case papers, surveyor's notebooks, minutes of commissioners' meetings, survey calls on the re-survey of the Barbour-Taylor County line (1894), and family correspondence.

Dates: 1840-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Company Records Survey

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Collection Number: A&M 2554
Overview

Twenty letters from various coal interests responding to an inquiry pertaining to the history of early coal development in West Virginia. The survey was conducted by J.S. McWhorter, Attorney for Gauley Coal Land Company, for the Business Historical Society. Respondents include: C.H. Ambler, W.W. Chilton, Brooks Fleming, Jr. B. Laing, and George T. Watson.

Dates: 1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Life Project Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2892
Overview

The working files formerly belonging to John Williams, director of the Coal Life Project and a professor of history at West Virginia University. Includes brochures from the Project, sketches of the exhibit layout at Huntington Galleries, several project reports, project description, a bibliography of selected works of Coal-Related Art and Coal Project correspondence.

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

Coal Miners' March Telegram

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Collection Number: A&M 1716
Overview

Two-Page telegram from the Williamson Kiwanis Club to the Prosecuting Attorney of Boone County concerning an armed group of UMWA miners preparing to march through Logan County to Mingo County.

Dates: 1921
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Miners Pay Envelopes

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Collection Number: A&M 2702
Overview

Nineteen pay envelopes of Howard F. Raber, a coal miner at Beech Bottom, WV. They are from the period 1948-49 and bear the name of Kelly's Creek Colliery Co.

Dates: 1948-49
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Miners' Pay Slips

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Collection Number: A&M 2597
Overview

Xeroxed copies of coal miners' pay slips for the following dates: P.P. Kelly, 2/23/1889 and 2/28/1895; George Martin, no date; Sherman Martin, 1/15/1922; Elwood Ramsey, 3/31/1925; S. Ramsey, 10/15/1920; and Sam Ramsey, 6/18/1924. These pay slips are from various coal mines.

Dates: 1889-1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Miners Pay Slips

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Collection Number: A&M 2591
Overview

Copies of five pay slips, dated 1915-1916, to Henry Ellis from the Litz-Smith Coal Company.

Dates: 1915-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Miners Research Project Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1359
Overview Correspondence, organizational papers, meeting proceedings, and newspaper clippings of the Coal Miners Research Project. Originating in 1976 with plans for a UMWA oral history project encouraged by union president Arnold Miller, it formally evolved into the Coal Miners Research Consortium and Coal Miners Research Association with broader goals of documenting coal industry related archival and oral history collections throughout the United States. A survey of collections was conducted with...
Dates: 1976-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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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 26
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
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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
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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
West Virginia (Ship) 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
Consolidation Coal Company 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
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 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
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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