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A.B. Clark, Daybook for an Upshur County General Store
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0679
Overview
A day book, 1873-1875, for a general store in Upshur County, West Virginia, operated by A. B. Clark. Records goods purchased, purchase price, date of purchase, and name of customer. Goods include food, clothing, and household items. This material is available on microfilm only.
Dates:
1873-1875
A.B. Sharp, Compiler, Barr Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2041
Overview
Manuscript record of Barr family genealogy.
Dates:
ca. 1960s
A.B. Sharp, Student, Geometry Notebook and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0737
Overview
A student's notebook on geometry from West Virginia College, Flemington, Taylor County. 1876; an announcement from Glenville Normal School, Dec. 1875, and one item of correspondence dated June 23, 1876.
Dates:
1875-1876
A.B. Stickney, Compiler, Genealogical Materials
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2123
Overview
A collection of Genealogical material compiled by A. B. and Charlotte Stickney. Includes notes and letters regarding the Pierpont Family and the Stickney's research. Most of the papers deal with the lines of John, Francis, and Larkin Pierpont. For more detailed listings of the Pierpont and other families, see the processing notes.
Dates:
1838-1959
Abercrombie & Fitch, Artifacts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3465
Overview
T-Shirt designed and marketed by clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch. The shirt is bold orange in color and bears the phrase, 'It's all relative in West Virginia,' in blue in front of an outline of the state. The shirts made national news in March 2004 when West Virginia Governor Bob Wise wrote a letter to Abercrombie and Fitch demanding that they discontinue sales of the t-shirts. Wise criticized the company for depicting 'an unfounded, negative stereotype' of the state.
Dates:
2004
Abigail Farnsworth Travel Journal
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3215
Overview
1821 travel journal of Abigail Farnsworth, mother of West Virginia's second Governor, Daniel D.T. Farnsworth. Documents travel from Staten Island, New York to Buckhannon in Lewis County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1821
Abner Osburn, Physician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3313
Overview
Papers of Dr. Abner Osburn, a physician who practiced in Jefferson County, West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. The collection contains Civil War material, including a letter, currency, and a pass from Harpers Ferry. Other items include bonds for the purchase of slaves, programs from various collegiate events, certificates for the legal practice of medicine, correspondence, and other material. Please see "Scope and Content Note" for further information.
Dates:
1846-1901
Abraham Johnson Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0148
Overview
Abraham Johnson of Essex County, New Jersey, settled on Patterson Creek in Hampshire County, Virginia, in the mid-18th-century. Collection contains newspaper clippings, notes, and correspondence related to the genealogy of the Abraham Johnson family of Hampshire County, Virginia, as compiled by Edgar Johnson Davis and Annie Dent Davis of Greensboro, North Carolina. Also includes a copy of the Johnson family genealogy that Dent published in 1939 with handwritten notes.
Dates:
1930-1939 and undated
Abraham Lincoln Paper Mache Sculpture
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3930
Overview
Three-dimensional profile portrait sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, made from an estimated $5000 worth of redeemed U.S. banknotes, in a style similar to paper mache. This framed sculpture was reportedly hung for a number of years in the room where Lincoln died.
Dates:
undated
Abram Marsh, Soldier, Civil War Letter From Hospital
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1566
Overview
Photostat copy of a letter written by Abram Marsh, a Union soldier, to his sisters in West Virginia, dated 11 October 1864. Marsh had been wounded and was writing from the field hospital at Sandy Hook, Maryland. Marsh writes of his homesickness, his slowly improving health, and his desire for news from home.
Dates:
1864
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- West Virginia University. Library 31
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 29
- Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
- United States. Congress. Senate 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 27
- Camden, Gideon D. (1805-1891) 25
- 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
- Monongalia County (W.Va.) 21
- 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
- Hayman family 13
- 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
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
- Moore family 12
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 12
- Weston State Hospital 12
- Barron, W. W. 11
- 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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