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Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Artwork and Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2002
Overview Correspondence, 1954-1968, typescripts, class notes, course outlines, clippings, pamphlets, paintings, and photographs of an artist and author. Subjects include Islamic, Arabic, and Near Eastern art and the work of Paul Hogarth. Paintings include [Coal Country Scene], oil on canvas, 25 x 30, ca. 1960; [Two Children on House Steps], oil on board, 24.5 x 28, ca. 1960; and Hazel Coal Mine, oil on board, 26 x 28, ca. 1960. This collection also includes an antique children's book slate (dating...
Dates: 1940-1968

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Manuscripts and Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0903
Overview

Papers of Alvena Seckar, including manuscript copies, an outline, and suggestions for revision of "Mischko", a young adult novel written and illustrated by Seckar. Also includes two items of correspondence.

Dates: 1940-1968

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Manuscripts and Drafts of Novels

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Collection Number: A&M 0556
Overview

Final manuscripts, drafts, and revisions of young adult novels written and illustrated by Alvena Seckar, including "Zuska of the Burning Hills" and "Trapped in the Old Mine".

Dates: 1950

Alvena V. Seckar, Author and Artist, Writings, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 4204
Scope and Contents

Papers of artist and author Alvena Seckar, who spent much of her early life in West Virginia. Includes writings by Seckar, including both autobiographical and fictional writings; photographs, mainly of Seckar, her family, and her artwork; family documents; correspondence; scrapbooks; and other material. Please be aware that parts of the collection have been minimally processed and therefore remain in their original physical and intellectual arrangement.

Dates: 1927-2005

American Legion, Mountaineer Post No. 127, Morgantown Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0139
Overview

Official records of the American Legion post established at West Virginia University in 1945.

Dates: 1945-1949

Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans

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Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates: 1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011

Appalachia Educational Laboratory Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1545
Overview

The by-laws, policies and administrative regulations of a non-profit corporation whose goal was to improve educational programs and add to the knowledge of the educative process for West Virginia and parts of the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. There is also a listing of some staff members as well as inclusion of officer's vitas.

Dates: 1966-1973

Arch Ellis, Photographer, Nitrate Negatives of 4-H Camps and Other Subjects

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Collection Number: A&M 3846
Overview Nitrate negatives of photographs taken by Arch Ellis of Weston, West Virginia, mainly regarding 4-H Camps held at Jackson's Mill. The main subject of the photographs is campers at the various 4-H Camps (Boys, Girls, Farm Women's, and Volunteer) participating in camp activities. These activities include musical performances by campers; metalworking, weaving, hat making, and other arts and crafts activities; swimming, archery and other sports; and dancing, among other activities. Other...
Dates: 1926-1941, undated

Arthurdale Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1347
Scope and Contents The collection includes microfilm of six letters from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and her personal secretary concerning the school and Woman's Club at Arthurdale (1936-1937); a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Arthurdale graduating class of 1938; and a pamphlet illustrating the products of the Mountaineer Craftsmen's Co-operative Association. Also includes a mimeographed fact sheet (1937); a news story on the resettlement project (1936); and an article titled "Footnote on...
Dates: 1936-1940

Barns Family, Diary of Bernie Hodges and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0970
Overview Diary of school teacher Bernie Hodges (later Mrs. John S. Barns; born June 23, 1873, died February 1, 1930), January 1 to June 18, 1893, regarding teaching, giving music lessons, visiting relatives, and riding horses, among other activities; there are also entries regarding a trip by boat from the [Burning] Springs to Parkersburg, and by train to Clarksburg and Buckhannon, and her decision to move to Ritchie County. There is also a shield-shaped metal insignia badge for Sergeant Thomas Rufus...
Dates: 1893-1920

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West Virginia University 13
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Storer College 7
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 6
West Virginia. Legislature 6
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Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 4
Glenville State College 4
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 4
Mollohan, Robert H. 4
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 4
Weston State Hospital 4
American Federation of Labor 3
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 3
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 3
Byrd, Robert C. 3
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.) 3
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Edmiston, Andrew. 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Green, William. 3
Halbritter, R. Doyne 3
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967 3
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 3
Meadows, Clarence W. 3
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 3
Preston, Rev. David. 3
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 3
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 3
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 3
Seckar, Alvena, 1916-2012 3
Trent, William Woodson. 3
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West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 3
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) 3
West Virginia University. Center for Women's Studies 3
West Virginia University. College of Education 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
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AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
American Colonization Society 2
Andrews, Volney. 2
Armstrong, Glenn. 2
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Baldwin, Robert D. (1891-1982) 2
Barnes family 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 2
Biaggi, Mario 2
Bluefield State College 2
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 2
Boyle, William M. 2
Boyle, William M. Jr. 2
Brewster, J.M. 2
Brown, Cliff. 2
Buckman, Cecil G. 2
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn, 1902-1991 2
Butler, Paul M. (Paul Mulholland), 1905-1961 2
Cairnes, Tom. 2
Carey, James B. 2
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 2
Carter, E.A. 2
Chapman, Berlin B., 1900-1995 2
Clark, Robert. 2
Cochran, Nathaniel. 2
Cox, John Harrington, 1863-1945 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 2
Daniels, Jonathan. 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Dawson, D. Boone. 2
Dawson, William M.O. 2
Day, George T. 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Eccles, Mariner S. 2
Ellis, Hubert S. 2
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, Thurston Worth. 2
Funkhouser, Raymond J. 2
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 2
Goodnight, Cloyd 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 2
Hedrick, Erland H. 2
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946 2
Holt, Helen Louise Froelich, 1913-2015 2
Hubbard family 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hutchings, Paul R. 2
Johnson, George W. 2
Kee, John, 1874-1951 2
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
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