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West Virginia University -- Students

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

West Virginia University, Oversize Glass Plate Negatives of Group Portraits and Other Subjects

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5203
Scope and Contents

Includes 47 glass plate negatives of West Virginia University student groups created circa 1900-1930. Subjects include football, baseball, and basketball teams; musical groups; and fraternity, sorority, and club groups. Three boxes contain glass plate negatives while the final box contains the original sleeves in which the negative were housed (with identifying information where present). Digital scans are available.

Dates: circa 1900-1930

West Virginia University, Student Administration, News Clippings Regarding James Skidmore

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5117
Overview

Copies of clippings regarding participation of West Virginia University student James Skidmore in both student government and debating competitions. There is also a program for a speech contest at the Mineral Industries Auditorium (5-16-1947), and a copy of the front page of a program for a "Sing" at the Field House (5-11-1947).

Dates: 1947

William D. Barns, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3279
Overview Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs....
Dates: ca. 1842-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1985

William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2946
Scope and Contents

Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission. Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia University, ca. 1905.

Dates: 1900-1926