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John Rogers Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview

The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.

Dates: 1788-1870

Monongah Mine Disaster Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0524
Overview The collection consists of: a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on the explosion at Monongah Mines No.6 and No.8 on 6 December 1907, rescue operations, the inquest, and mine law reforms; photographs of the disaster; maps of the interior of the mines; printed and typescript reports and pamphlets on mining operations; script of a 1952 television broadcast on the disaster; material on mine disasters in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Illinois; and newspaper accounts of the agitation for the...
Dates: 1907-1952

West Virginia Aerial Photography Maps

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Collection Number: A&M 2093
Overview

Low altitude aerial photographs, overlapping in stereoscopal pairs on a scale of 1/20,000, which are used to check features on topographic maps, like geographic formations and man-made developments. There are surveys of all West Virginia counties, including portions of the state photographed in surveys of Virginia and Pennsylvania border counties.

Dates: 1937-1959

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