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Chestnut Ridge Camp Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2241
Overview

A scrapbook kept by Agnes Peebles, a counselor at a summer camp for underprivileged children, many from Scotts Run. Although run by the Presbyterian Church, the camp was secular in nature and open to youth of all faiths. Includes photographs, sheet music, letters, and reports; also includes reference to a lecture by a visiting German Jew on conditions in Germany.

Dates: 1940-41
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Ludington Hagans Chapter, Morgantown, West Virginia Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0483
Overview

Correspondence, 1903-1947; lists of names of Revolutionary War soldiers and officers, burials, location of graves, and pensions. There is a list of frontier forts in Monongalia County; data on servicemen in World Wars I and II; and genealogical information on about one hundred families.

Dates: 1903-1947
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Elmer W. Prince, Papers of a Morgantown Resident and City Official

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Collection Number: A&M 3130
Overview Items that belonged to Elmer W. Prince, Morgantown City Manager from 1933 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1966. The collection includes Prince's 1905-07 post card collection, a 1921 West Virginia University Bachelor of Science Degree in civil engineering, and two Morgantown budget statements, 1935 and 1937. There are also photographs, including images of Morgantown (1941) and several taken by Prince of post World War II France and Germany (1945-1946). Prince served as an army major during and after...
Dates: 1905-1967
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Massullo, Collector, World War II Ration Books and Newspaper Announcing Death of President Kennedy

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Collection Number: A&M 4220
Scope and Contents

Collection includes memorabilia collected by Matthew Massullo, including six World War II ration books and one ration coupon issued in Monongalia County; a Morgantown newspaper announcing the death of President Kennedy in 1963; and one Fairmont newspaper with a headline about the West Virginia Centennial in June 1963.

Dates: 1942-1945, 1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Max Mathers Collection Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates: 1821-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Veterans Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2979
Overview

Mostly consists of cemetery readings, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, pension records of servicemen from Monongalia county.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, College of Creative Arts, Clifford Brown, Music Professor, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2820
Overview

Newspaper clippings, photos, brochures, and programs concerning the career of Cliff Brown, WVU music professor and bandmaster, and the conducting of musical education and programs at WVU. Noteworthy is a program for the dedication of the "E" flag, a military designated award for excellence in war production, to the Morgantown Ordinance Works during World War II.

Dates: ca. 1940-60
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0109
Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia War History Commission and the state, local, and national branches of the Office of Civilian Defense. Material within this collection documents civilian activities on the homefront during World War II in the state of West Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, publications, pamphlets, maps, posters, newspapers and clippings, radio scripts, and other material. The collection also contains 19 reels of microfilm regarding the Monongalia Office of Civil...
Dates: 1928-1946; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Rice Research Papers regarding West Virginia Genealogy and Other Topics

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Collection Number: A&M 4317
Overview Historical research material collected by William Rice from ca. 1975-2015, mostly relating to the history of western Virginia and southeastern West Virginia, the Upper Potomac River basin, and particularly Elkins and Randolph County. There are three record series including subject files (boxes 1-4), miscellaneous research files (boxes 4-5), and family histories (boxes 5-16). Subject files are arranged alphabetically and cover many topics ranging from early settlement, the formation of cities...
Dates: ca. 1975-2015
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

World War II Scrapbook, Clippings Regarding West Virginians and Others

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Collection Number: A&M 4062
Overview

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding mostly West Virginia men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Clippings include photographs, the nature and location of service, news of homecomings, weddings, births, awards, missing persons, injuries, and deaths.

Dates: ca. 1942-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Daughters of the American Revolution. Colonel John Evans Chapter (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
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Mathers, E.L. 1
Mathers, Eugene L. 1
Mathers, Max 1
McGeorge, Henry D. 1
McGeorge, Nimrod H. 1
Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
Morgan family 1
Morgan family - Genealogy 1
Morgan, Elijah. 1
Morgan, Elizabeth. 1
Morgan, Henry M. 1
Morgan, John R. 1
Morgan, Zackquill. 1
Morgantown Youth Center 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Peebles, Agnes. 1
Prince, Elmer W. 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Republican Party (W. Va.) 1
Rice, William (Bill) 1
Sons of the American Revolution - West Virginia Society. 1
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 1
United States Selective Service System - WV. 1
United States. Bureau of Selective Service 1
United States. Office of Civilian Defense 1
West Virginia University. College of Creative Arts 1
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West Virginia War History Commission 1
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