Diaries and journals.
Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:
Welton Family Papers
Receipts and land records of two generations of the Weltons in Hampshire and Hardy counties, West Virginia, including papers of Job, Aaron, Archibald, and A. Archibald Welton. There is a Fairfax deed for eighty-four acres in Hampshire County in 1770, and a pocket diary of A.A. Welton, for 1880-1881, which records daily farm chores, livestock sales, and the like.
West Virginia Civilian Conservation Corps Records
Journals and newsletters of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal agency involved in environmental reclamation projects such as reforestation. Includes diaries and newspapers of CCC involvement in West Virginia documented in district and local camp periodicals, programs, and pictoral reviews.
William B. Curtis (1821-1891) Papers
William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers
William Earle Rumsey, Entomologist and Photographer, Papers
William H. Newcomb, (b.1870), Papers
Papers of a Huntington dry goods merchant, W.H. Newcomb, include a domestic diary, 1865, kept by his mother, Emily Cox of Guyandotte, and a clipping scrapbook pertaining to the Newcomb family and the Anderson-Newcomb Department Store. The scrapbook contains obituary notices, society notes, local history items, and an autographed letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. Barkla, dated 20 October 1900.
William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers
Entomological notebooks of the famous naturalist and authority on North American butterflies, William Henry Edwards of Coalsburg, West Virginia.
William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers
William I. Protzman Diaries
Three diaries (1906, 1910, 1911) kept by William I. Protzman of Morgantown, West Virginia. He was a businessman who sold pianos, organs, and sewing machines.