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West Virginia University -- Students

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 35 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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...
Dates: 1885-2002 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center