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Europe

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Brand Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1576
Scope and Contents

Business and official papers of Monongalia sheriff, John M. Brand and his deputy, William N. Brand, 1861-1872; letter from E. I. Moore of Woodburn Seminary; class prophecy, June 1898 by Friend E. Clark of West Virginia University; and diaries kept by Miss Willa Brand during a European trip, 1913, and a journey through the British Isles in 1924.

Dates: 1861-1872, 1898-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2267
Overview

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

Dates: ca. 1770-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clark Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0680
Overview The correspondence of Clark family members, mainly that of Frank Wells Clark and Friend E. Clark. Frank Wells Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Harvard Law School and later established a law practice at New Martinsville. Friend E. Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University and later taught chemistry at State College, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia University. Included are the letters of Friend Clark when he traveled to Europe where in 1908...
Dates: 1885-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

DeWitt Clinton Gallaher (1845-1926) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1790
Scope and Contents Manuscripts diary of Mr. D. C. Gallaher, a young Virginian who went to Berlin to study law and German in 1869-1870. From August 1 to August 14, 1869 he was in various parts of New York. From August 25 to September 12 he toured Ireland, England, and Scotland. From September 12 to April 5, 1870 he was in Germany, most of the time in Berlin, attended law lectures and studying German. The diary was finished from a note book in Munich on August 1, 1870. Most of the 110 pages are taken up with...
Dates: 1869-1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Elma H. Martin Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2634
Overview Correspondence, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and materials relating to the family of Elma Hicks Martin, originally of Webster Springs, West Virginia. The bulk of the material documents everyday life of Mrs. Martin's sisters, Mary Lee and Aretas Eudora Hicks. The former was a high school home economics teacher in Colorado, and the latter a home economics teacher at West Liberty State College, West Virginia. The correspondence of Mary Lee Hicks relates to her personal...
Dates: 1917-1979
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

S. Bank Kiles Book and Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0496
Overview

A bank book with the S. Kiles banking house of Jacob Bound, Connellsville, PA (1857-59) and a letter from a member of the U.S. legation to Denmark to his daughter giving fatherly advice and an account of his stay in Europe (1847).

Dates: 1847, 1857-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ward Engineering Company, Archives and Manuscripts Microfilm

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2266
Scope and Contents

Two diaries of Charles Edwin Ward (1841-1915), dealing mainly with trips to Europe and California, in 1883 and 1886, plus a scrapbook of the Charles Ward Engineering Company, a Charleston boat building company, for the year 1897.

Dates: 1883-1897
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Watson Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates: 1694; 1783-1878; 1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center