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Dr. J.C. Easton, History Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2324
Overview
Lecture notes, clippings, notes, and drafts for A History of European Civilization, Volume 1, and other miscellaneous papers of Jason C. Easton, former professor of history at West Virginia University (WVU). The collection also contains Dr. Easton's correspondence with several former students serving in the military during World War II dating from ca. 1942-1946. Other WWII items include ration books for food, gasoline, and liquor; and two unpublished sound recordings on disc of a radio...
Dates:
1860-1890, 1935-1960; Majority of material found within 1935-1960
E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview
The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
ca. 1910-1980
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
Erbie Claire Albright (d. 1964) Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 1991
Overview
Correspondence, business papers, educational records of a home economics teacher and supervisor who graduated from West Virginia University, attended Chicago and Columbia universities, taught home economics at Morgantown High School, and was supervisor of home economics for the Monongalia County School System. The papers cover: family affairs; schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York; West Virginia Home Economics Association; National Education Association department of...
Dates:
1915-1943
Forbes, Anderson, and Hildebrand Families, Correspondence and Other Material
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Collection Number: A&M 2641
Overview
Records related to the Forbes, Anderson, and Hildebrand families of northern West Virginia. The Forbes and Anderson families were related by marriage, some of whom lived in Morgantown; the Hildebrands were neighbors of the Forbes family in Morgantown. The Forbes and Anderson papers include genealogical information, correspondence, greeting cards, photographs, and other material. The Hildebrand papers include correspondence, World War I and World War II records, photographs, medical and...
Dates:
1862-1863, 1900-1985, 2013
Frank Buckles Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 4307
Scope and Contents
Papers of Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles, February 1, 1901 - February 27, 2011), a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. During World War II, he was captured by Japanese forces in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner. After the war, Buckles married in San Francisco and moved to Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia, where he worked until age 105. Collection includes incoming correspondence, photographs, military...
Dates:
1900-2006; Majority of material found within ca. 1940s-1990s
General Education Board Records
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Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview
Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates:
1901-1967
George A. Shingleton, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2972
Overview
A collection of the donor's father, George A. Shingleton (1905-85) of Taylor Co., WV containing letters, deeds, tax receipts and sheet music from the Johnson and Moats families of Barbour Co., WV which were his maternal grandparents families. Also included are genealogical notes on the family of Eli Firth; a book on an informal history of the 143rd. (Anti-aircraft) Gun Battalion during World War II; and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rule books, seniority lists, letters, memos, note books and...
Dates:
1873-1951
Glen L. Vaughn (b.1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2306
Overview
Correspondence, articles, clippings, pamphlets, and other papers of retired Naval Lieutenant Glen L. Vaughn. Includes the manuscript for Vaughn's autobiography, telling of his boyhood days in Marlinton, West Virginia, and his naval career.
Dates:
ca. 1900-1970
Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0967
Scope and Contents
Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Includes typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, clippings, broadsides, and a photograph. Topics include congressional bills and legislation on diverse subjects; committees with which Kilgore was involved, including the Senate
Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization, the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman Committee), the Committee on Military Affairs, and the...
Dates:
1937-1956