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Morgantown (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:

Watson Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0630
Scope and Contents Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont...
Dates: 1869-1953

Watson Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates: 1798-1902

West Virginia and Regional History Center, Video Recording of West Virginia Day Program

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Collection Number: A&M 5187
Scope and Contents Unedited video recording, on DVD and original digital footage, of the West Virginia Day Program presented by the West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries' West Virginia & Regional History Center on June 20, 2014. The program, titled "Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Education in Morgantown," included three speakers, all WVU faculty: Dr. Barbara J. Howe, Dr. Lillian J. Waugh, and Dr. Connie P. Rice. The speakers were introduced by Dr. John Cuthbert, Director and Curator of the...
Dates: 2014

West Virginia Historical Society Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0447
Overview

Correspondence and other materials, including notices of, and resolutions adopted at, the founders meeting at Morgantown, 30 September 1869.

Dates: 1869-1881

West Virginia University, News Service, Photographs

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Collection Number: A&M 5188
Overview

Photographs of the News Service of West Virginia University (WVU). Subjects of images include aerial views, architecture, athletics, campus scenes, construction, historic images, student life, and WVU faculty and staff, among others. Formats include prints, negatives, proof sheets, transparencies, and digital files. See Scope and Content note for more information.

Dates: ca. 1890-2007; Majority of material found within 1950-2007

West Virginia University, Phi Sigma Delta Fraternity, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 5214
Overview

Papers of Phi Sigma Delta Fraternity at West Virginia University contain photographs, records of reunions, newsletters, and other material. This collection documents the relationships maintained by the members after their graduations. A portion of this collection containing personally identifiable information has been removed and placed in closed collections.

Dates: 1946-2008; Majority of material found within 1998-2003

West Virginia University, Student Organizations, Event Programs and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 1870
Overview

Event programs for literary society activities at West Virginia University in 1867 and 1893. Also includes the annual catalog for the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute for 1867; an 1897 commencement program and list of seniors from the WVU law department; and an 1880 program for the Morgantown Musical and Literary Society.

Dates: 1867-1897

William A. Moreland, Political Papers, World War II Records, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2032
Overview Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and...
Dates: 1824-2008

William E. Arnett and Family Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 3371
Overview Photocopy facsimile of scrapbook documenting the William E. Arnett, Sr. and family (11' x16'). Includes family history manuscripts, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, church documents, ephemera of the Second National Bank of Morgantown, a land deed citing John and Louisa Huffman as grantors of Lot 83 to grantee Arnett, Sr. (1891), and obituaries for Arnett, Sr. and his wife, Iva. There is a manuscript narrative history of the Arnett family, and a family tree. Photographs are of...
Dates: ca. 1890-1950

William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview

History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.

Dates: 1893