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Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Artwork and Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2002
Overview Correspondence, 1954-1968, typescripts, class notes, course outlines, clippings, pamphlets, paintings, and photographs of an artist and author. Subjects include Islamic, Arabic, and Near Eastern art and the work of Paul Hogarth. Paintings include [Coal Country Scene], oil on canvas, 25 x 30, ca. 1960; [Two Children on House Steps], oil on board, 24.5 x 28, ca. 1960; and Hazel Coal Mine, oil on board, 26 x 28, ca. 1960. This collection also includes an antique children's book slate (dating...
Dates: 1940-1968

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Manuscripts and Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0903
Overview

Papers of Alvena Seckar, including manuscript copies, an outline, and suggestions for revision of "Mischko", a young adult novel written and illustrated by Seckar. Also includes two items of correspondence.

Dates: 1940-1968

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Manuscripts and Drafts of Novels

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Collection Number: A&M 0556
Overview

Final manuscripts, drafts, and revisions of young adult novels written and illustrated by Alvena Seckar, including "Zuska of the Burning Hills" and "Trapped in the Old Mine".

Dates: 1950

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Writings, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 4204
Scope and Contents

Papers of artist and author Alvena Seckar, who spent much of her early life in West Virginia. Includes writings by Seckar, including both autobiographical and fictional writings; photographs, mainly of Seckar, her family, and her artwork; family documents; correspondence; scrapbooks; and other material. Please be aware that parts of the collection have been minimally processed and therefore remain in their original physical and intellectual arrangement.

Dates: 1927-2005

Cloyd Goodnight, Biography of Robert Richardson (1806-1876), Manuscript

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Collection Number: A&M 1247
Overview

Biography by Cloyd Goodnight of Robert Richardson, a Disciples of Christ minister, educator, writer, physician, agriculturalist, and member of the Bethany College faculty. The manuscript contains long extracts from Richardson's correspondence and daybook. Correspondence and daybook.

Dates: ca. 1930

Emma Wickes Graham Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 2468
Overview In 1931 Graham compiled this scrapbook as a class project at East Fairmont High School. Includes ten letters from West Virginia authors which narrate experiences in their lives. Correspondents are: Robert A. Armstrong, J.M. Callahan, John Harrington Cox, J. Frank Marsh, Elizabeth Davis Richards, Frank S. Townsend, Ella May Turner, Grace Yoke White, and Bettie Bush Winter. Also includes original copy of sheet music for the song "Farewell W.V.U. Farewell" with autographed photograph of...
Dates: 1931

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

Jesse Stuart, Author, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3347
Scope and Contents Letters, books, clippings, biographical and literary articles, and other papers regarding Appalachian poet and author, Jesse Stuart, gathered by family friend, Maryan Dahmer. There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as...
Dates: 1934-1982

Paul A. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3122
Overview Professional papers, correspondence, books, serials, and photographs documenting the professional career of Paul A. Miller, who served as president of West Virginia University, 1962-66. The material also deals with Miller's work as a graduate student, professor, and provost at Michigan State University, 1946-61; his tenure as assistant secretary for education in the Department of Health, Education & Welfare; and his term as president of Rochester Institute of Technology, 1969-79....
Dates: 1946-2010

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905

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Seckar, Alvena, 1916-2012 3
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 2
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 2
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 2
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 2
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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Armstrong, Robert A. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Barbe, Clara Gould. 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Buckalew, Marshall. 1
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 1
Churchill, Winston. 1
Cornell University 1
Cox, John Harrington, 1863-1945 1
Dahmer, Maryan 1
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gilder, R.W. 1
Goodnight, Cloyd 1
Graham, Emma Wickes 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hardman, George Dencil, 1906-1972 1
Harvard University 1
Hayne, William H. 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Hobart College 1
Hogarth, Paul, 1917-2001 1
Holmes, Oliver W. 1
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 1
Jacobs family 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1844-1908 1
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 1
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Marsh, J. Frank. 1
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
Maxwell, H. 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1
Miller, Francena L. 1
Miller, Paul A., 1917-2015 1
Millsop, Thomas E. 1
Monongahela College 1
Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897 1
Reed family 1
Reppert family 1
Rettig, John. 1
Richards, Elizabeth Davis. 1
Richardson, Robert. 1
Riggleman, Leonard. 1
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 1
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Skinner, B.M. 1
Staritt family 1
Stuart family 1
Stuart, Jane. 1
Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984 1
Stuart, Naomi Deane. 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
Townsend, Frank S. 1
Turner, Ella May 1
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1
University of Virginia. 1
W.K. Kellogg Foundation 1
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921 1
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