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Martinsburg.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Martinsburg High School Newspaper "Orange and Black Record"

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4440
Content Description

Fourteen issues of the "Orange and Black Record", the school newspaper of Martinsburg High School, Berkeley County, West Virginia. There is a complete set of volume 31, comprising 8 monthly issues from October 1959 to May 1960, and a partially complete set of Volume 32, comprising 6 issues from October 1960 to April 1961.

These newspaper were owned by Martinsburg High School student Dorcas May Peer (married name Reimer).

Dates: 1959-1961

Perfection Garment Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3132
Overview Payroll and production records of the Perfection Garment Co. and its subsidiary Pleatex, Inc. The records are fairly standard business accounts of balances with other companies and of employee earnings by piece rate, a common practice in the textile industry. The records reflect some of the success of the company in its long term (1905-91) venture in the highly competitive field of garment production. The company was also noted as a prominent West Virginia manufacturer of ladies apparel and...
Dates: 1954-1991

Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816-1850) Manuscript (typescript copy)

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1225
Overview

Copy of Philip Pendleton Kennedy's manuscript biography of Philip Pendleton Cooke, a Martinsburg writer and poet. There is an editorial note on the authorship of the document by Professor John D. Allen who made this copy from the original manuscript in the Bevan Papers, Millwood, Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1864

Statler Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2558
Overview

Most of the letters are to Alice C. Statler Partiquin of Davis, West Virginia, while others are to her brother Ira Statler and other members of the family. Several letters to Ira concern operation of a coal mine in the area of Cherry Run, Morgan County. Subjects include family marriages, births, and deaths as well as news of the neighborhood. Places mentioned include Davis, Hedgesville, Holton, Horton, and Martinsburg.

Dates: 1899-1918