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New Deal, 1933-1939

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Franklin Brand, Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3796
Overview Papers of Franklin Marion Brand, lawyer and politician of Monongalia County, West Virginia. Includes mostly correspondence related to legal and political matters (some personal) in Monongalia County and the state of West Virginia (inclusive dates: 1917-1944; bulk dates: 1935-1943). Diverse in content, this correspondence includes material regarding activities of city government (Morgantown), local schools and churches, bar associations, the Republican State Committee, state government, and...
Dates: ca. 1917-1967; Majority of material found within ca. 1930-1945

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958

Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates: 1883-1960

Howard B. Allen, Photographs, Films, and Papers on the Arthurdale Project

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1646
Scope and Contents

Photographs, glass plate negatives, motion picture films, and papers of Professor Howard B. Allen of the West Virginia Voc. Ed. Ser. covering the beginning and early development of the Arthurdale resettlement venture. Papers include lists of applicants and methods employed in screening families for the homestead project and essays and other material on local and out of state self-help and rehabilitation operations.

Dates: 1933-1934

Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates: 1887-1962

Kanawha County Relief Administration, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2077
Overview

Three volumes of typescript material containing correspondence, minutes of meetings, photographs, maps, charts, tables, blueprints, and reports concerning projects and their costs planned and completed by Civil Works Administration.

Dates: 1933-1934

Mary Behner Christopher, Missionary, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3131
Overview The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...
Dates: 1928-1937

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents

The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.

Dates: 1913-1932

Monongalia County, Works Progress Administration, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3123
Overview

Instructions, memoranda, personnel reports, employee termination records, equipment rental invoices, property inventory and movement reports, employee time reports and, property incorporation records for W. P. A. projects in western Monongalia County.

Dates: 1939-1940

Mrs. James R. Moreland, Director of Women's Work, Records regarding Monongalia County Relief Administration, Civil Works Administration, and Federal Emergency Relief Administration

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0890
Overview

Correspondence, reports, and other records of the Monongalia County Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, from the office of the Director of Women's Work, Mrs. James R. Moreland. There are also two volumes of daily reports of the Lynchburg Coal and Coke Company, January-November, 1938.

Dates: 1933-1937