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West Virginia University -- Students

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Lewis Haymond, Photograph Album of Students and Friends at West Virginia University

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5149
Scope and Contents One photo album (2 3/4 in. x 5 in.) dated 1 April 1870, owned by Lewis Haymond (date and name inscribed), including twenty-one portrait photographs of friends and West Virginia University students. Seven of the photographs are tintypes, and the other fourteen are carte de visite or CDV sized images. Twelve CDVs were produced by Morgantown photographer J.P. Shafer. Some of the subjects in the photographs are identified.Names appear on 2 of the 7 tintypes, including:...
Dates: ca. 1870-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Linda Blake, Collector, Class Notebooks of West Virginia University Student Isaac L. Van Voorhis

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5168
Overview

Two school notebooks kept by Isaac L. Van Voorhis and a pamphlet regarding penmanship and book-keeping. The notebooks were kept while Van Voorhis was a sophomore at West Virginia University and living in the Sigma Chi House. One of the notebooks was used for the second semester of History 23 and the other for Zoology I.

Dates: 1898-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lucy Shuttleworth Dunlap, West Virginia University Student, Diary and Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4024
Overview Diary and scrapbook kept by Lucy Shuttleworth Dunlap (31 Mar 1898 - 7 Aug 1983), a student at Morgantown High School and at West Virginia University. Dunlap kept the diary between 1918 and 1921. Diary entries mainly regard Dunlap's social life (including dances, dates, movies, and travel) and personal feelings (including friendships, family, and romantic relationships). Entries of note regard an outbreak of Spanish Influenza in Morgantown (5 October 1918), the end of World War I (November...
Dates: 1913-1921
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marmaduke Herbert Dent (1849-1909) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0285
Scope and Contents

Diploma from West Virginia University, signed by T.H. Logan, George C. Sturgiss, Alexander Martin, S. G. Stevens, H. H. Pierce, J. Stevenson, and Fred W. Wood

Dates: 1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mary J. Tarowsky, Compiler, West Virginia University Photographs and Ephemera

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5248
Scope and Contents Collection includes mostly West Virginia University ephemera, publications, photographs, and negatives, collected by the Young family. Much of the WVU ephemera was likely collected by Guy Bell Young (1874-1962) during his time at the university. Also includes photographs and negatives produced by his son, Guy Bayard Young (1908-1999). Many of these images are from 1936-1937 and pertain to WVU; subjects include Esther Benford (the first woman to receive a civil engineering degree from WVU,...
Dates: 1898-1966, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Max Mathers Collection Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates: 1821-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mountainlair Action Coalition, Miscellaneous Items

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2552
Overview A group of West Virginia University students formed the Mountainlair Action Coalition in Jan. 1976 to persuade university administrators not to lease food services in the student union (Mountainlair) to a fast food franchise. This collection consists primarily of publicity material: leaflets, newspaper clippings, xeroxed magazine and newspaper articles, and similar items. There are also handwritten notes, a skit about the food franchise issue, transcribed interviews with nutritionists and...
Dates: 1976
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity, Group Portraits and Diploma

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3988
Overview

Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity material. Includes two group portraits with identifications, 1940-1941 and undated. Also includes 1947 diploma of Don Jarrett Nickell who was a member of the Fraternity. Nickell appears in both group portraits.

Dates: 1940, 1947, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rosalie Stewart Detch, Papers and Ephemera

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3968
Overview

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.

Dates: 1907-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

"The Texaco Star Theater Broadcast" of Student Competition

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4313
Content Description Broadcast of 14 June 1942 of student talent competition on "The Texaco Star Theater" starring comedian Fred Allen. A West Virginia University student won during this particular broadcast. It was part of a series of shows during the 1941-1942 season where students, selected by student bodies at colleges and universities, would compete in a talent show. They would travel to New York as Fred Allen's guest, perform, and be paid a salary for the week. [From information provided by the...
Dates: 1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center