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Dawson Coal Company Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2659
Scope and Contents Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding...
Dates: 1917-1948

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview

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Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates: 1825-1934

Ulysses Grant Carter, Collector, Papers, Photographs, and Movie Films

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2463
Overview

The collection consists of correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets and other material gathered by Carter concerning black miners in the coalfields of West Virginia, with particular reference to availability of extension courses in safety, foremanship, and engineering.

Dates: ca. 1928-1970

West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates: 1909-1949

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Coal mining. 3
Coal mining -- Strikes 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Kanawha Valley. 2
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Abolition of slavery 1
Alabama 1
Atwater. 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Berkeley Springs Park. 1
Broadsides. 1
Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
Coal - coal operators. 1
Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
Coal miners -- African Americans 1
Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
Coal mining - Mining extension service. 1
Coal mining - Scrip. 1
Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal mining - company stores. 1
Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
Coal trade 1
Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
Education 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Floods 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Lumber trade 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
Philippines 1
Politics and government. 1
Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
Railroads 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Scrip. 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
Strikes and lockouts 1
Travel accounts. 1
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Unions -- Coal 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
Venezuela 1
Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
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Names
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
American Colonization Society 1
American Constitutional Association (Charleston, West Virginia) 1
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Armstrong, R.A. 1
Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969 1
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 1
Baker, Charles. 1
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 1
Barnes, J.W. 1
Beaver Coal Company 1
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium 1
Berwind, E.J. 1
Beury, Joe. 1
Beury, Joseph L. 1
Bluefield State College 1
Carter, Ulysses Grant. 1
Caster, Curran and Bullitt 1
Chambers, J.A. 1
Cincinnati Pump Manufacturing Company 1
Collins, George. 1
Collins, Jarius. 1
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 1
Colored Insane Asylum 1
Colored Old Folks Home 1
Colored Orphans Home 1
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.) 1
Cornell University 1
Cottle, Brooks. 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dawson Coal Company 1
Dawson Colleries (Madisonville, Ky.) 1
Dawson Daylight Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.) 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Denmar Sanitarium 1
Dixon, Samuel. 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Fairmont Emergency Hospital 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School. 1
Flat Creek Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.) 1
Gainer, Denzil L. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Glenville State College 1
Gore Hospital 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Hadsell, Richard. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hardesty, C. Howard. 1
Harvard University 1
Hatfield, Elias. 1
Hatfield, Troy. 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Hopemont Sanitarium 1
Huntington State Hospital 1
Industrial Home for Colored Girls. 1
Industrial Home for Girls. 1
Industrial School for Boys. 1
Industrial School for Colored Boys. 1
Irona Coal Company 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Jones, Mary. 1
Ku Klux Klan (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, B.M. 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lakin State Hospital 1
Lakin, John S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 1
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 1
Marsh, J. Frank. 1
Marshall Coal Company 1
Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.) 1
Marshall College and University 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McCullough, F.W. 1
McKendree Hospital 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Mitchell, John. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Mooney, Fred, 1888-1952 1
Morgan, E.F. 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
New River State School 1
Patterson, Bob. 1
Patterson, S.T. 1
Pinecrest Sanitarium. 1
Purinton, D.B. 1
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