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130th Air Commando Group, History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2924
Overview
HISTORY OF THE 130th AIR COMMANDO GROUP, KANAWHA AIRPORT, CHARLESTON, WV. Prepared for the Historical Office, 130th Combat Support Squadron by the Information Section. August 1, 1966. 9 p. HISTORY OF THE 130th AIR COMMANDO GROUP. No date. 5 p. 129th AIR COMMANDO GROUP UNIT HISTORY. No date. 2p. HEADQUARTERS 130th AIR COMMANDO GROUP, Final Report, March 28, 1966. 7p.
Dates:
ca. 1966
201st National Guard, Regiment Histories
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1297
Overview
Histories of the 201st National Guard Regiment. This regiment dates back to colonial times, beginning as Captain Morgan Morgan's company of militia, and has served with merit in nearly every war in which the United States has engaged. Specific details of this unit's deployment are included in an index.
Dates:
1949-1991
4-H Project, West Virginia Flowers and Trees and Other Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1153
Overview
Projects and posters regarding West Virginia flowers and trees, as well as African wildlife. Projects include fifteen collections of leaves and flowers, labeled and mounted on cardboard. These project boards also include the wild flower conservation pledge and a poem about roadside flowers. The posters, distributed by the East African Wild Life Society include the zebra, water buck, lion, buffalo, and black rhinoceros. The collection also includes the following miscellaneous items: a quadrangle...
Dates:
1933-1979
A. & R. Fisher Paper Company Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3077
Overview
The ledger of a Wheeling paper manufacturing business of the 1830s and 1840s under the partnership of Archibald and Robert Fisher. This ledger is principally a cash book of receipts and payments of the firm from 1840 until 1844 for labor, supplies, sales, repairs and improvements. Noted for production of coarser types of papers often used for stationery, their Point paper mill employed 17 hands whose products were sold by the company throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys with a total...
Dates:
1840-1851
A. Carl Hughes, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1804
Overview
A. Carl Hughes was a lawyer in Weston, West Virginia. Chiefly contains several pieces of undated printed materials for businesses in Weston, West Virginia, such as letter head, envelopes, and business cards, including Hughes's own letter head and blank witness attendance tickets. Also includes one 1914 letter from Hughes regarding his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the office of prosecuting attorney.
Dates:
1914
A. Gordon Dayton, Student, Latin Copy Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0741
Overview
A copy book belonging to A. Gordon Dayton, containing his Latin lessons from Sept. 15, 1874 to Mar. 7, 1876, done while he was a WVU student.
Dates:
1874-1876
A. J. Legg, Author, Typescript Regarding History of Panther Mountain Community
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.4231
Scope and Contents
Bound typescript entitled "A History of Panther Mountain Community (Nicholas County, West Virginia)" written by A.J. Legg of Albion, West Virginia in 1930 and published by the Agricultural Extension Division, Morgantown, West Virginia. The typescript covers the history of the community from the earliest settlement by American pioneers until the post-Civil War period. Includes coverage of topics such as the origin of the community's name, early land titles, leading families, and local schools,...
Dates:
1930
A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights and Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1530
Overview
Papers of Asa Philip Randolph, a prominent civil rights and labor leader, who founded and edited The Messenger, an influential black radical labor newspaper of the 1920s and who organized and presided over the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the only independent, viable black trade union in the American labor movement. Much of the correspondence deals with raising subscriptions for The Messenger, gaining an International...
Dates:
1919-1937
Aaron Chipps, Coal Miner, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3129
Overview
The collection of the papers of a Morgantown coal miner and electrician focuses upon the development of coal mining technology. It includes operations and maintenance manuals, diagrams, and catalogs for a variety of mining equipment and parts. It also includes notes and material for Chipp's study of mining technology and electricity.
Dates:
1912-1955
Aaron Ruble Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3034
Overview
Two letters from Chestnut Run, near Burning Springs, Wirt Co. to Robert Caldweel and Edward Wright of Thompsonville, Washington Co., PA. Ruble inquires whether Caldwell and Wright desire continue drilling for oil on his land. He mentions it would be safe for them to visit, despite the Civil War, since there are many Pennsylvanians working there who move about freely.
Dates:
1861-1862
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- Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
- United States. Congress. Senate 29
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- West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 27
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- West Virginia. Legislature 24
- Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
- Byrd, Robert C. 23
- Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
- Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
- Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
- Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 22
- Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
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- Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
- Smith family 20
- West Virginia University. Department of History 19
- Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
- Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
- Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
- Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 17
- 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 University. College of Agriculture 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
- Dayton, Alston Gordon 14
- Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
- Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
- Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
- Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
- Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
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- Meadows, Clarence W. 13
- Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
- Morgan family 13
- Patteson, Okey L. 13
- Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
- White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
- Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 12
- Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
- Dawson, William M.O. 12
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- Moore family 12
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 12
- Weston State Hospital 12
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- Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
- Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
- Gore, Howard M. 11
- Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
- West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
- American Federation of Labor 10
- Brown family 10
- Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 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
- Jackson family 10
- MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
- Robinson family 10
- Ruffner family 10
- United States. Works Progress Administration 10
- West Virginia University. Department of Biology 10
- Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
- Consolidation Coal Company 9
- Dayton, Spencer. 9
- 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
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