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Pittsburgh (Pa.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Adolphus P. Howard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0515
Scope and Contents Includes the wills of A. P. Howard, Corry, Pennsylvania; 1897, and Sarah H. Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., correspondence, reports, leases, tax receipts, and mortgage. Information on J. W. Howard and Hugh H. McCullough estates. Copy of Bradstreet's report on the University Company of Olympia, Washington and J. R. Chaplin, manager of the Company. Also, report on various business enterprises and financial standing of A. P. Howard. Some correspondence of Edward Spencer and tax receipts for land in...
Dates: 1854-1904
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Adolphus P. Howard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0517
Scope and Contents Includes business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, PA; farm, Congo, WV; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D.C. Earlier letters are to A. G. DeSellem, an uncle,...
Dates: 1850-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Surveyors Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3388
Overview Scrapbook (10 3/4' x 14 1/2') of approximately 175 photographs (attached to 24 leaves) documenting the activities of surveyors of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad in the period 1900-1910. Includes portraits semi-formal and candid of individuals and groups of B&O employees and others, candid photos of outdoor survey work, indoor office work, and camp life; and pictures of railroad infrastructure such as tracks, bridges, etc. Many individuals and locations are identified....
Dates: ca. 1900-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fletcher Brock Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2869
Overview

Papers of Fletcher Brock, a Pennsylvania legislator from Blacksville, and of his family. Mainly correspondence between Fletcher and his son H.W. about medical schools, health problems, and family news. There are also letters to and from Fletcher Brock about local and national political issues such as temperance, slavery, roads, and elections.

Dates: 1851-1853
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George McCandless Porter (1835-1864) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1821
Overview Letters written by a lawyer and businessman near Shanghai in Berkeley County to his sister Mary, who was residing in their father's home at New Cumberland, Virginia. There are also letters written from: Wellsburg Academy, 1849-1850; Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; Cuba, 1857; New Orleans, 1857; and from Richmond, Virginia, 1858-1860. A diary includes entries from 1 January to 20 March 1864. Porter had business relations with firms in Pittsburgh concerning brick...
Dates: 1849-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1829-1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Maria Schwald, Diary Regarding Cruise Along the Ohio River

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Collection Number: A&M 4359
Content Description Typescript of a diary kept by Maria Schwald chronicling her cruise on the Ohio River aboard the steamboat Gordon C. Greene, including her visits to Huntington, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati along the way. Schwald went on her trip in late July and travelled with "Two Pfisters, an Arnold, and two Schwalds", her relatives and close companions who were collectively nicknamed the "quintuplets". Typescript is bound with ribbon; a postcard depicting the Gordon C. Greene is pasted onto the...
Dates: 1935-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ohio Valley Floods, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2408
Overview

Newspaper clippings, picture-books, postcard albums, and government reports relating to floods along the Ohio River Valley especially at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Parkersburg.

Dates: ca. 1913-1971
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

R.H. Hendershot Shipping Bills

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0071
Overview

These bills show names of steamboats, masters, cargoes, and destinations of boats departing from Powhatan Point [Ohio]. Destinations mentioned include Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Marietta, Ohio.

Dates: ca. 1850-1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Shelby Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1558
Overview

Papers of a Greene County, Pennsylvania family, include three letters from Waitman T. Willey pertaining to legal matters, and a letter from the Washington National Monument Office to Richard L. Bugh, acknowledging a donation from the citizens of Pittsburgh.

Dates: 1962
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center