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Admiral Thomas J. Lopez Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.4439
Scope and Contents
Papers of Admiral Thomas J. Lopez of the United States Navy. Includes biographical and historical information, speeches, correspondence, media, artifacts, and awards and framed items. This collection is minimally processed.
Dates:
1973-2014
Adolphus Debussey, Soldier, Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3296
Overview
Civil War correspondence of the DeBussey brothers of Ravenswood, WV. There is a single letter each from John DeBussey and George DeBussey. John DeBussey served in the Confederate Army while George DeBussey served in the 2nd. WV Cavalry. Most of the letters are from Adolphus DeBussey who served in the 4th. WV Infantry as a musician. In his letters Adolphus documents the service of his regiment in the Kanawha Valley early in the war and in the Western Theater during the battles of Vicksburg,...
Dates:
1861-1998; Majority of material found in 1861-1866, 1870-1871
Adolphus P. Howard Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0511
Scope and Contents
Articles of co-partnership between Adolphus Howard and J. Wilson Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., and Adolphus P. Howard, Hancock County, West Virginia, for the establishment of a tannery.
Dates:
1866
Adolphus P. Howard Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0515
Scope and Contents
Includes the wills of A. P. Howard, Corry, Pennsylvania; 1897, and Sarah H. Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., correspondence, reports, leases, tax receipts, and mortgage. Information on J. W. Howard and Hugh H. McCullough estates. Copy of Bradstreet's report on the University Company of Olympia, Washington and J. R. Chaplin, manager of the Company. Also, report on various business enterprises and financial standing of A. P. Howard. Some correspondence of Edward Spencer and tax receipts for land in...
Dates:
1854-1904
Adolphus P. Howard Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0517
Scope and Contents
Includes business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, Penna.; farm, Congo, W. Va.; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D. C. Earlier letters are to A. G. DeSellem, an...
Dates:
1850-1938
A.E. Lewis Sash and Door Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3015
Overview
An account book, calling card, stock certificates and photograph of the A.E. Lewis Sash and Door Company. Arthur Earl Lewis (1880-1940) was a window glass cutter at the Marilla plant before opening the A.E. Lweis Sash and Dorr Company in Morgantown (1910-13) in a building adjacent to the Westover bridge. After the building burnt down, Lewis reopened the business but later quit in order to serve as a manager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co in West Virginia for the remainder of his life. His...
Dates:
1910-1911
Aegerter Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2696
Overview
Genealogy of the Aegerter family of Helvetia, West Virginia, written in German. Material covers the years 1760-1968.
Dates:
ca. 1968
African American Photographic Portraits
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3381
Overview
Twenty-four tintypes and six paper photographic prints featuring formal portraits of mostly African Americans. Includes two tintypes and three prints of Caucasian women. All subjects are unidentified except for Mrs. Null and her daughter Hilda on a print dated October 1953. On evidence of the clothing, the tintypes appear to date from the 1880s. This collection was found in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1880-1953
Agnes Smith (1906-1994), Author, Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.4177
Overview
Papers of author Agnes Smith of Harrison and Marion Counties, West Virginia. This collection is minimally processed. The collection includes manuscripts of writings such as essays and stories, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, diaries (1969-1973), her diploma from Fairmont State Teachers College (1932), speeches (1959-1963), and publications. Publications include published copies of essays and articles as well as Smith's books: the award-winning Edge of the Forest...
Dates:
ca. 1920s-1970s
Agnes Smith (1906-1994), Author, Literary Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.4080
Overview
Literary manuscripts authored by Agnes Clifford Smith, an award winning author of two published children's books and a published book of essays. The collection includes short stories, a novella, a play, and other material. There are also two short story manuscripts by West Virginia author Melville Davisson Post. This collection is unprocessed. See scope and content note for more detail.
Dates:
ca. 1930-1970
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- Account books 254
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- Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 38
- West Virginia University. President 34
- 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
- Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 9 ∧ less
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