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Ella Orr Rightmire, Artist, Biography and Photographs of Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3944
Overview
Photocopy of biographical article (1974) about Ella Orr Rightmire (1881-1973), an artist from Preston and Tucker Counties, West Virginia. She also briefly served as mayor of Parsons. Also includes three photographs (2013) of a set of three tiles, a lamp, and a teapot that Mrs. Rightmire painted. There are eleven .jpg files of these three items taken prior to being returned.
Dates:
1974; 2013
Elliott Stewart, Author, Porch Beers and Other Zines
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4556
Scope and Contents
Published issues of the zine Porch Beers and other smaller zines created by queer author Elliott Stewart and Porch Beers Press. These zines cover a variety of topics relating to specific aspects of Appalachian culture through a queer and transmasculine perspective. Topics include fandom, food, radical, unapologetic queerness in Appalachia, anti-fascism, and many more. Nine zines of varying sizes are included within this collection, being published from the early...
Dates:
circa 2010s-2020s and undated
Ellison Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents
The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates:
1819-1977
Elma H. Martin Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2634
Overview
Correspondence, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and materials relating to the family of Elma Hicks Martin, originally of Webster Springs, West Virginia. The bulk of the material documents everyday life of Mrs. Martin's sisters, Mary Lee and Aretas Eudora Hicks. The former was a high school home economics teacher in Colorado, and the latter a home economics teacher at West Liberty State College, West Virginia. The correspondence of Mary Lee Hicks relates to her personal...
Dates:
1917-1979
Elmer Arthur Walton, Soldier, World War I Letter, Scrapbook, and Other Material
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Collection Number: A&M 3694
Overview
Papers of Elmer Arthur Walton (1896-1960), a Martin's Ferry, Ohio native, documenting his experiences in France and the United States during World War I as a member of Company H, 4th Regiment, 3rd Division. Includes a 32 page narrative letter, book of original cartoons, scrapbook, photo portraits, and obituaries. 1) Addressed to his father, the narrative letter by Elmer Walton written from a hospital in Limoges, France on 24 November 1918, describes in some detail his experiences as a...
Dates:
ca. 1916-1919, 1931, 1960
Elmer Jacobs, Architect, Drawings of Ephraim Walters Residence in Morgantown, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3350
Overview
Four blueprint drawings of the Ephraim Walters Residence in Morgantown, West Virginia, by architect Elmer F. Jacobs, dated March 20, 1900. Drawings of this Willey Street dwelling include: foundation and attic (size of drawing: 24'x18'), first and second floors (21"x18"), west and rear elevations (30"x17"), and front and east elevations (32"x17"). Elmer F. Jacobs, a Preston County native, came to Morgantown in 1894. He renovated High Street with Romanesque and Queen Anne Revival structures....
Dates:
1900
Elmer W. Prince, Papers of a Morgantown Resident and City Official
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3130
Overview
Items that belonged to Elmer W. Prince, Morgantown City Manager from 1933 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1966. The collection includes Prince's 1905-07 post card collection, a 1921 West Virginia University Bachelor of Science Degree in civil engineering, and two Morgantown budget statements, 1935 and 1937. There are also photographs, including images of Morgantown (1941) and several taken by Prince of post World War II France and Germany (1945-1946). Prince served as an army major during and after...
Dates:
1905-1967
Elmore Wilkinson Civil War Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3309
Overview
Photocopied transcription of the 1864-65 Civil War diary of Elmore Wilkinson of Company G, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. The diary includes accounts of several battles and encounters with the enemy, and a list of wounded men from Company G. One notable entry briefly mentions a general review of the troops at Richmond, Virginia by General U.S. Grant (March 17, 1865).
Dates:
1864-1865
Elsa Happer Swisher, Compiler, Genealogical Record
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1298
Overview
The Ancestors of Charles Wesley Swisher II and their Families, compiled by Mrs. Charles H. Swisher. 27 pp.
Dates:
1960
Elvin Lycurgus Judy Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0634
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elvin Lycurgus [E.L.] Judy (1870-1954), a Petersburg attorney and author of History of Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia (Charleston, 1951). These papers, mainly research files used in the writing of the county history, consist of copies and originals of correspondence, land records, census and military records, and genealogical information for the eastern Panhandle counties, Monongalia County, and the border counties of Virginia and Maryland....
Dates:
ca. 1949