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Coal mines and mining

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Robert E. Maynard, Sr. Collection of Coal Mining and Industrial Stickers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4596
Scope and Contents Sticker and decal collection representing the West Virginia and regional coal mining industry and ancillary support industries, including trucking. Highlights include Valvoline Racing Oil, ARCH Coal Company of West Virginia, numerous safety reminder stickers, and many union representation stickers. Some well represented unions include the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), among others. Robert E. Maynard, Sr. (1944-2021) was part of the West Virginia coal mining industry up until his...
Dates: circa 1970s-1990s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ronald Lewis, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3882
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials of various formats used and created by historian Dr. Ronald Lewis throughout his career. There are records and course materials from classes taught by Dr. Lewis at the University of Delaware and, primarily, at West Virginia University (WVU). It includes other documents relating to his work as a faculty advisor to graduate students in WVU’s history department. There is extensive documentation of his research, most of which was done on Appalachian history and...
Dates: circa 1850-2021; Majority of material found within circa 1970-2021
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4167
Overview This collection of panoramic photographs primarily documents the coal miners of Fayette and Raleigh counties. The photographer, Rufus "Red" Ribble, was born May 14, 1878, near Blacksburg, Virginia, and died December 27, 1967 in West Virginia. He came to West Virginia sometime before 1920 and lived out his life in Mount Hope. The collection contains 119 panoramic photographs, which were made with a large rotating camera called a Cirkut camera. These photos are contact prints; all but one are...
Dates: ca. 1920-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sutton Critchfield Papers regarding the Mountain State Forest Festival, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4192
Scope and Contents

Papers regarding the Mountain State Forest Festival (Elkins) and the Upper Monongahela Valley Association. Includes clippings, news releases, letters, publications, and newspapers pertaining to the Forest Festival, and the involvement of the Upper Monongahela Valley Association in the Festival, during the years 1933 to 1941. Topics discussed include the coal and glass industry, rural electrification, and the representation of West Virginia industry at the Festival.

Dates: 1933-1941
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Beall Davis, Businessman and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3197
Overview Correspondence of businessman and politician Thomas Beall Davis (1828-1911), brother of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916). Most of the letters and telegrams concern the lobbying efforts of individuals and organizations to influence Davis when he filled an unexpired term in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress (June 6, 1905-March 3, 1907). There are many requests for appointments, discharges, and pensions. Also lobbying requests for interstate commerce requiring subsidies or...
Dates: 1896-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Women Miners Oral History Project Records and Recordings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4690
Overview

The Women Miners Oral History Project aims to collect and preserve the life histories of women in the Appalachian region who entered the mines as protected workers in the late 1970s after decades of exclusion. This collection contains materials created for the Women Miners Oral History Project, moslty oral history recordings and transcripts.

Dates: 2021-2025
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center