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Alice McMechen, Collector, Papers of Artist Alvena V. Seckar

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Collection Number: A&M 4428
Overview

Papers of artist and author Alvena V. Seckar, collected by her friend Alice McMechen. Collection includes newspaper and magazine articles; material regarding work-in-progress "Jewels of Memory"; invitations to Seckar's birthday parties, correspondence, photographs, artworks, and copies of two of Seckar's books.

Dates: 1945-1957, 1973-2008, undated

Clay V. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1498
Overview

Correspondence, clippings, and printed material collected by the historian of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, West Virginia. Subjects include Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement and Andrews Church and Methodism in Taylor County. There are photographs of Ann M. Reeves Jarvis and her daughter, Anna. Correspondents include Anna Jarvis and Okey L. Patteson.

Dates: 1867, 1928-1952

Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates: 1935-1965

Evelyn Cole, Student, Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 5018
Overview

A scrapbook kept by Evelyn Cole on student life at West Virginia University and other social activities in West Virginia; contains clippings, letters, invitations, cards, tickets, programs, curfew penalty slips, etc.

Dates: 1926-1938

Frances Hunter Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2860
Overview

Diary of a female teenager from Pocohontas County, Frances Hunter, documenting her social life and other activities, including athletics, movies, parties, and 4-H camp. She mentions seeing General Pershing, General Petain, and President Hoover at Williamsburg. This is a candid statement of everyday life of a young woman in east-central West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1930-1939

Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates: 1842-1961

Helen Holt Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1858
Overview Papers of Helen Louise (Froelich) Holt (1913-2015) relating to her personal, educational, and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into five series: Personal and Political Papers (1912-2015 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1937-2008 and undated), State Government Papers (1955-1960), Federal Government Papers (1960-1984 and undated), and Rush Dew Holt, Jr. Papers...
Dates: 1912-2015 and undated

Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates: 1883-1960

Jean Lee Latham (b.1902) Typescripts

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Collection Number: A&M 1232
Overview

Typescript copies of several works of Latham: THIS DEAR BOUGHT LAND, a story of the Jamestown settlement; TRAIL BLAZER OF THE SEAS, the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury; and a serialization CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH. Latham was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1925, and became a prolific and distinguished author and playwright.

Dates: ca. 1947-1955

Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates: 1907-1945

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Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
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Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
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Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
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Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 3
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
West Virginia Wesleyan College 3
Brewster, J.M. 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
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Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Day, George T. 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
Harmer family 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Jackson family 2
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
New England Free Will Baptist Association 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Smith, Edward Grandison 2
Storer College 2
United States. Veterans Administration 2
Washington, George, 1732-1799 2
West Virginia Historical Society 2
Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1
Allen family 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Andrews, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1899-1983 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Austin family 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Ball family 1
Ball, George H. 1
Barber family 1
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 1
Barron, W. W. 1
Bee family 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Bluefield State College 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brackett, Louise Wood. 1
Brackett, Rev. Nathan. 1
Brake family 1
Broadwater family 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, Joseph. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Burdett, Joe F. 1
Burns family 1
Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966 1
Byrd, Richard E. 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Caperton, Isabel. 1
Caperton, John. 1
Caperton, William Gaston (1815-1852) 1
Caperton, William Gaston. 1
Chenoweth family 1
Clayton family 1
Coburn family 1
Cole, Evelyn 1
Collins family 1
Collins family - Genealogy 1
Colson, Clyde L. (Clyde Lemuel) 1
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Conley, Philip Mallory, 1887- 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Corbett family 1
Cornell family 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cox family 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Cross family 1
Cunningham family 1
Cunningham family - Genealogy 1
Curtis, Maude. 1
Curtis, William B. 1
Curtis, William B. (1821-1891) 1
Davis family 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Day family 1
Deam family 1
Democratic Executive Committee 1
Democratic Party (W. Va.) 1
Dougherty family 1
Drake family 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Edgar, Thomas. 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
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