Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chestnut Ridge Camp Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2241
Overview
A scrapbook kept by Agnes Peebles, a counselor at a summer camp for underprivileged children, many from Scotts Run. Although run by the Presbyterian Church, the camp was secular in nature and open to youth of all faiths. Includes photographs, sheet music, letters, and reports; also includes reference to a lecture by a visiting German Jew on conditions in Germany.
Dates:
1940-41
DeWitt Clinton Gallaher (1845-1926) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1853
Scope and Contents
Notebook of D. C. Gallaher, used for German study in Berlin, 1869.
Dates:
1869
Elmer W. Prince, Papers of a Morgantown Resident and City Official
Collection
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
Lawrence Nuce, Collector, Papers and Printed Materials
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2541
Overview
Books, periodicals, films, photos, and other papers relating to World War II, United States Army Intelligence, Nazi propaganda, and the post-war denazification program in Germany. Some of the material is in German. Lawrence Nuce, a Kingwood, West Virginia, native was a combat sergeant during the war. During the occupation, he was a commissioned officer in charge of supervising schools in Bavaria. Includes war newspapers, army manuals, occupation and education reports, and other material. For...
Dates:
1900-1946
Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2592
Overview
Louis Reed (1899-ca. 1985) served in France and Germany during World War I. Collection contains letters he wrote to his future wife, Mildred Johnston. Reed and Johnston married many years later, after the death of Reed's first wife. Reed's letters, written between 1918 and 1920, discuss army life, the front in France, and the occupation of Germany. Collection also contains a 235-page photocopied typescript that Reed wrote about the history of Burning Springs, Wirt County, and its role in the...
Dates:
1918-1920 and undated
Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2194
Overview
A revised and indexed transcript copy of an interview with Dr. O.C. Stine, an expert in agricultural economics who was employed with the Department of Agriculture from the Progressive Era to that of the Fair Deal. Stine tells of his childhood on a farm in Jackson County, WV, his subsequent education in small town southeastern Ohio where his family moved, and his attendance and graduation from Ohio University with a bachelors in liberal arts and education. After teaching briefly on the...
Dates:
1884-1951
Ridenour Family History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2230
Overview
A history of the Ridenour/Reitenauer family from its early Germanic roots to their settlement in Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century down to the present generation.
Dates:
1972-83
Thomas Jack Carpenter, Soldier, World War II Narrative and Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3772
Overview
Reminiscence and transcripts of letters by T. Jack Carpenter regarding his World War II experiences. The reminiscence of six pages, written in 1998, chronicles in summary form the life of Jack Carpenter from 1940 to 1946, starting from his high school years in Middlebourne, West Virginia through 1946, the year he was discharged. The letters, dating from 1 May 1945 through 14 October 1946, document in detail his training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, and Camp Livingston, Louisiana; trip...
Dates:
1945-1946, 1998; Majority of material found within 1945-1946