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Webster Springs (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Craig Smith, Compiler, Photographs of Braxton County and Surrounding Region

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3795
Overview

Two DVDs of photographs of Braxton County and surrounding region. Includes towns of Gassaway, Frenchton, and Webster Springs. Subjects include street scenes, public buildings, small businesses, bridges, and railroads. There are also photographs of Elk River scenes. For photographs related to this collection, go to wvhistoryonview.org and search for this collection's four digit call number (otherwise known as an a&m number).

Dates: ca. 1900-1925

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

Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates: 1880-1947