Women -- United States -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Summit Point Grange Minute Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3043
Overview
Minute book of the Summit Point Grange of Jefferson County, the first Grange chapter to be established in West Virginia. This record book documents the organization and early years of the chapter whose first initiated member and master was a Confederate Civil War veteran, Col. Robert W. Baylor. The records consist primarily of membership lists, meeting minutes, and resolutions. Most of the resolutions deal with cooperative efforts by its members to purchase agricultural necessities such as...
Dates:
1873-1879
West Virginia University, Women's Centenary, 1891-1991, Videotape and Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3107
Overview
A multi-media packet containing publications and a videotape about the first one hundred years of West Virginia University as a co-educational institution. All of the materials document the achievements of women at WVU and provide a glimpse into female student life and how it has changed over the years. Names mentioned include Harriet E. Lyon, Agnes J. Morrison, Mary C. Busweel, Eva Hubbard, Blanche Lazzell, Victorine Louistall, Annette Chandler-Broome, Margaret Workman, Lea Anderson,...
Dates:
1991
Wheeling, Washington Family Graves and Nurse Lydia W. Holiday, Articles
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1835
Overview
Articles about the graves at Wheeling of the Washington family, who were relatives of George Washington. Also articles on Lydia W. Holiday of Wheeling, who became a Civil War nurse at the age of 60.
Dates:
1927-1989
Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective, Typescripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2683
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifteen term papers written by WVU students enrolled in the English Department's course no. 283, "Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective." The term papers discuss such subjects as Appalachian family life, influences of grandmothers, mothers, and other female relatives on students' lives, careers of West Virginia women artists, and the role of women in various periods of West Virginia history. Some of the students' papers include transcripts of tape...
Dates:
1979