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Elkins (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Victorian Photo Album Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3318
Overview Victorian photo album (with exterior of faded dark burgundy cloth and tarnished gold-toned bas-relief ornaments) with built-in music box containing cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, postcards, tintypes, and two negatives. Includes individual and family group portraits. Subjects of photographs are unidentified, except for postcard portrait of Pastor J.O. Patterson of Main Street Church of Christ in Elkins, West Virginia. Photographers are identified on some of the card mounts, including Loar...
Dates: ca. 1890-1935

Whetsell Collection, Historical Records regarding West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4064
Overview Historical records collected by Elkins, West Virginia resident Robert C. Whetsell. Includes mostly records of the Baldwin-Chandlee supply company (supplying equipment to regional timber companies, etc.), including predominantly invoices, and also correspondence and ledgers (boxes 1-21, 1907-1925). There are also: papers of M.M. Smith, an Elkins businessman, regarding the estate of A.W. Smith (box 22, ca. 1863-1892); Randolph County Court dockets documenting the court of Justice J.L. Ligget...
Dates: ca. 1905-1954

William Rice Research Papers regarding West Virginia Genealogy and Other Topics

 Collection
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

Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Publications

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4093
Overview West Virginia related publications of the Work Progress Administration, mainly consisting of Inventories of the County Archives of West Virginia prepared by The Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, as well as inventories of federal archives in West Virginia, church archives, public vital statistics, and calendars of letters and papers. Also includes two folk studies of counties by the West Virginia Writers' Program. The Historical Records Survey was a...
Dates: 1937-1941