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West Virginia University, College of Arts and Sciences, Centennial History, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3121
Overview

A collection assembled on behalf of the WVU College of Arts and Sciences by Dr. Barbara Howe, WVU Department of History, for the Centennial History Project. Most of the records relate to the Humanities program at West Virginia University. Includes mostly copies of materials from former students, as well as transcriptions of interviews with former faculty or their spouses.

Dates: 1924-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Custom House / West Virginia Independence Hall

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2014
Overview A documented interpretation of the architectural and physical history of the West Virginia Independence Hall touching upon those persons who have had an impact upon its design, construction, maintenance, and preservation. Most prominent of these are two architects: its original designer, Ammi B. Young, and the man primarily responsible for its restoration, Tracy R. Stephens. Included are floor plans, section views, photographs, and specifications of the building itself and of other similarly...
Dates: 1986
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Grape Sugar and Refining Company Ledger

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Collection Number: A&M 0212
Overview

An invoice book kept by County Commissioner, J.R. Paul of the Wheeling Grape Sugar and Refining Company. Transferred from Ohio County Court Record Books, the book contains business receipts and minutes to meetings. The minutes are mostly about appointment of company officers, issuing of stock and construction of the firm's physical plant.

Dates: 1881-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling High School, Commencement Book

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Collection Number: A&M 4392
Content Description A book of photographs and other material commemorating the Wheeling High School Class of 1911, similar to a modern yearbook. Members of the class are documented by photo portraits and short biographical sketches. There are also photographs of student groups and a class history. The book also includes photographs of the school building and classrooms with related descriptions. The photographs were taken by George J. Kossuth, who had a studio in Wheeling, and the book was printed by the...
Dates: 1911
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Potteries Histories

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Collection Number: A&M 3154
Overview

Copies of typescript history of Wheeling pottery industry and newspaper article "The Beauty Survives" by Monroe Worthington.

Dates: 1965-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Steel Corporation, Histories

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Collection Number: A&M 2948
Overview

Includes typescripts "The History of Principio and Iron Hill", clippings on J.J. Holloway, Earl Oglebay, Alexander Glass, Josiah Fox, and the iron and steel industry of the Wheeling area. Also includes sheet music for the theme song of the Wheeling Musical Steelmakers titled "Got a Feeling, I'll Be Stealing Back to Wheeling, West Virginia" by Bob Ellsworth. Also contains an issue of Time Magazine with an advertisement for Wheeling Steel's COP-R-LOY pipe on p. 41 (1928).

Dates: 1928-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling Steel Radio Program, Sound Recordings and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3470
Overview Records of the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio program. Includes photographs (1930s-1940s, 5 in.), program scripts (1937-1944, 5 in.), clippings and magazines (1930s-1940s, 3 in., including Life Magazine of March 21, 1938 with article featuring the radio program), and scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs (1930s-1940s, 3 in.). Also includes original audio transcription discs of the program (1930s-1940s, 7 ft., 6 in.), and reel-to-reel/cassette...
Dates: 1937-2010 and undated; Majority of material found in 1937-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wheeling, Washington Family Graves and Nurse Lydia W. Holiday, Articles

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Collection Number: A&M 1835
Overview

Articles about the graves at Wheeling of the Washington family, who were relatives of George Washington. Also articles on Lydia W. Holiday of Wheeling, who became a Civil War nurse at the age of 60.

Dates: 1927-1989
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William B. Curtis (1821-1891) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1591
Overview Papers of a brigadier general of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and his family from West Liberty include correspondence, business and legal papers, military and veterans' records, photographs, clippings, and account books. Includes papers of West Liberty Post 78, Department of West Virginia G.A.R.; records and photographs of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment; photographs, clippings and published and unpublished material pertaining to the town of West Liberty and the...
Dates: 1830-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William M. Goudy, Soldier, Civil War Diaries

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Collection Number: A&M 0922
Overview Three pocket diaries authored by William M. Goudy of Wheeling, (West) Virginia, a corporal in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company G, who was mustered into service on 31 October 1862. The entries run from January 1862 through November 1864, when Goudy's company was mustered out at Wheeling. Diary entries are brief and sporadic; subjects discussed include weather, marches, encampments, drilling and inspection, combat, eating, church attendance and sermons, and social visits and...
Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Names
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 6
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 4
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
West Virginia. Legislature 4
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Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 3
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 3
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 3
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 3
Watson, James O. 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 2
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Brown, John, 1800-1859 2
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 2
Cather, Fabricius A. 2
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 2
Confederate States of America 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 2
Ford, J. B. 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Grand Army of the Republic 2
Green, William. 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Hubbard family 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Julian, Charles A. 2
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 2
Kemp, Emory L. 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
Mason, John W. 2
Matlick, Jacob G. 2
McNeill, John Hanson, 1815-1864 2
Mutual Building Company 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Republican Party (W. Va.) 2
Reuther, Valentine. 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 2
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 2
Siviter, William Henry, 1858-1939. 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
Watson family 2
Watson, Benjamin H. 2
Watson, Henry. 2
Watson, Thomas. 2
Wheeling Steel Corporation 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
A. & R. Fisher Paper Company 1
A.G. Lichtenstein and Associates 1
Ade, George. 1
Alexandria Canal Company 1
Algeo, J.S. 1
Allcock, Betty Lou 1
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America 1
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Division 103 1
American Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Company 1
American Constitutional League 1
American Federation of Labor 1
American Legion 1
American Society of Civil Engineers 1
American Society of Civil Engineers. Committee on History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering 1
American Victory Union 1
Andrews, Volney. 1
Armstrong, Alexander, 1784 or 1785-1868 1
Armstrong, Ned. 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Associated Press 1
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 1
Aten, William. 1
Avon Falence Company 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Bandar Log Press 1
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 1
Barns, Fleming and Company 1
Barns, James F. 1
Barns, John S. 1
Barns, John S. and Company 1
Barns, Thomas. 1
Barrick, George Milton, Jr. 1
Barrick, Margaret Mathers. 1
Barrick, Milton Jr. 1
Barrick, William Mathers. 1
Barten, Jay. 1
Basil, Ben. 1
Battelle, Gordon. 1
Beaver, G. M. 1
Bell, Joseph. 1
Bickley, George. 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Blair, Jacob B., 1821-1901 1
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