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Photography of families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Metheny, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4147
Scope and Contents

Includes 103 glass plate negatives documenting subjects from West Virginia circa 1890-1910. Subjects include "European peasant costumes" copied from a book, cats, dogs, graphs, furniture, industry, people and families, and outdoor recreation. Four boxes contain the original glass plate negatives while one box contains the sleeves that the negatives originated from, including identifying information where present. Digital copies are available.

Dates: circa 1890-1910

Ralph Edwin “Ted” Spears, Jr., Compiler, Battelle-MacLane-Mendel-Spears Family Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4042
Scope and Contents Collection of the Battelle, MacLane, Mendel, and Spears families from southern Ohio and north-central West Virginia (including Wheeling and Morgantown), comprised of genealogy, records, clippings, photographs, artifacts, and more. Collection includes family genealogy and records (Box 1), individual carte de visites, cabinet cards, and assorted family photographs and newspaper article clippings (Box 1-2). Additional photographs include several cased family photographs such as daguerreotypes,...
Dates: 1848-2001, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1950