Teachers' letters and papers.

Overview Papers of Harold Henry Miller (24 November 1911 - 8 November 2006) regarding his military service and his career as a high school teacher in West Virginia and Maryland. Miller was a resident of Preston County, West Virginia and served during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Contains biographical information, correspondence, photographs, financial records, newspaper clippings, programs, pamphlets, brochures, handbooks, and highway maps. Also contains a soldier's pocket bible with...

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Eleven years of diaries of James Howard Patterson, a Glen Roy, Ohio, teacher. Describes weather, daily school routines and lessons, and general affairs of his personal and social life. Diaries are for years 1904, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, and 1944.

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Papers of Molly Schilansky, who ran a dress shop in Thomas, West Virginia, and her sister Lillia ("Lili") Schilansky, who was a teacher in the Tucker County area for over sixty years. Includes teachers' catalog and textbook samples sent to Lillia; a business ledger and financial records of Molly's; correspondence, mainly addressed to Molly; and advertisements. This collection has been minimally processed.

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Papers and ephemera of Rosalie Stewart Detch, West Virginia University alumna and school teacher and administrator in Greenbrier County. Includes material regarding Detch's father John L. Stewart, her time as a student at WVU, and her career in education. Includes programs, news clippings, tickets, schedules, postcards, and photographs, among other material. See "Scope and Content Note" for further information.

Scope and Contents Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes...

Overview Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the...

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The correspondence file from the office of Dean Hayman, WVU. College of Pharmacy for the years 1950-1951. There are a few items for the years 1948 and 1949 including the Annual Report of the College of Pharmacy, 1949-50. Also, a 37 pp. mimeographed article "You Can Be Proud Of West Virginia University", giving size statistics of 1950, description of physical plant, scope of the University's program for each college, School, Extension Division, R.O.T.C., and Experimentation and Research.