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West Virginia -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates: 1880-1947
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

T.T. Perry, Collector, Publications

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2253
Overview

Microfilm copy of assorted books, speeches, and pamphlets related to early West Virginia history. Includes: On The Plains In '65 by George H. Holliday; Heyward Shepherd, Victim Of Violence, by Matthew Page Andrews; and The Harpers Ferry Insurrection by J. Ewing Glasgow. For a complete listing, see the control folder.

Dates: 1806-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Fall Term Souvenir Newspaper

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5134
Overview

Fall term souvenir newspaper published by the Morgantown Dominion Post documenting the history and current status of programs and facilities of West Virginia University.

Dates: 1903
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

WNPB Television Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3374
Overview

Records of WWVU, a Morgantown television station. Includes motion picture film and related sound footage (597 cans of 16mm footage in 66 boxes), video tapes (42 boxes), and slides for locally produced programming documenting the social, political, cultural, natural, and historic landscape of West Virginia for broadcast on WWVU, a Morgantown television station. WWVU later became WNPB, a station of West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Some programs in the collection were produced by WNPB.

Dates: 1965-2001
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center