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Photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers and Folk Music Recordings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3003
Scope and Contents Archives of an eminent folklorist and professor of English at West Virginia University. Manuscripts include field folklore collections, lecture notes, book manuscripts, correspondence, student papers, and folksong arrangements. There are also materials regarding Gainer's position as director of South Atlantic USO activities during World War II and a journal of a folksong collecting trip to Ireland in 1961. Also two hundred and ninety-three audio tapes containing vocal and instrumental folk...
Dates: 1890-1981
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3202
Overview Four scrapbooks of Phyllis Temple Williams nee Stealey of Clarksburg who was an administrative assistant and secretary to nine term U.S. Congressman Cleveland M. Bailey (Democrat, West Virginia) from 1955 to 1963. Includes photographs, postcards, programs, invitations, news clippings and newspapers about: political conventions; elections; inaugurations; World War II; the Stealey family; charitable and campaign fundraisers; and a trip to Italy, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. Three of...
Dates: 1925-1962
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rainelle COVID Community Documentation Project Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4740
Scope and Contents

30 digital photographs created by participants in a project to capture life in Rainelle, WV during the COVID-19 pandemic and display how the 2016 flood recovery efforts intesected with the COVID-19 pandemic. Project was organized by Jamie Shinn, an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Geology & Geography at West Virginia University. The .docx file includes captions/titles and photographer information for the 30 .jpg files.

Dates: circa 2020-2021
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Seneca Glass Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2964
Scope and Contents Catalogs, reports, contracts, correspondence, blueprints, drawings, certificates, deeds, and photographs of Seneca Glass Company, a Morgantown glass manufacturer noted for its production of handmade lead crystal glassware. The materials of this collection give insight into some of the daily activities of the company and its union such as determination of wages, settling of labor grievances, plans for expansion and modernization, productivity statistics, and stock inventories. Specifically...
Dates: 1840s-1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stiles Family Oil and Mining Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0199
Overview Papers, maps, and photos of William C. Stiles and Samuel B. Stiles, developers associated with J.C. Rathbone and J.N. Camden in the oil industry of Wood County, in particular of the oil boom town of Volcano. Most of the papers are business correspondence, receipts and oil drilling records dealing with family owned business in Parkersburg and Volcano, namely the Zero Oil Company, the Power Oil Company, and the Jackson Land and Mining Company. There are family photographs, and records and...
Dates: 1837-1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Zinn, Collector, Papers and Collectibles

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3190
Overview Pictures and genealogical information on the Zinn and allied families, namely the Shafers, from France and Germany who eventually settled in West Virginia, particularly the line of George Zinn, a Revolutionary War veteran of Preston County. There are also two postcards of Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia, and 108 photos of Morgantown, West Virginia, especially of the Farmers and Merchants Bank while C. Glenn Zinn was an executive, ca. 1742-1974. Addenda to the collection include: 1)...
Dates: ca. 1900-2005
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Victorian Photo Album Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3318
Overview Victorian photo album (with exterior of faded dark burgundy cloth and tarnished gold-toned bas-relief ornaments) with built-in music box containing cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, postcards, tintypes, and two negatives. Includes individual and family group portraits. Subjects of photographs are unidentified, except for postcard portrait of Pastor J.O. Patterson of Main Street Church of Christ in Elkins, West Virginia. Photographers are identified on some of the card mounts, including Loar...
Dates: circa 1890-1935, 2019
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

White Day Glades Tannery Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3030
Overview

A ledger of customers, prices, dates and worked completed by a Taylor County tannery, mill and store owned and operated by the Corrothers family. The mill turned out a variety of leather products ranging from boots to book bindings. Included are entries on repair work particularly shoe repairs. There are also receipts of this mill with an address at McConkey, WV, especially tax receipts. Also included are photos of William A. C. Corrothers and a genealogy of his family.

Dates: 1855-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Earle Rumsey, Entomologist and Photographer, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2935
Scope and Contents Papers of William Rumsey, WVU Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist and photographer. Initial acquisition includes correspondence from a friend at Cornell University, Rumsey's student essays and diaries (1880-1925) and family photographs. There are also glass plate negatives, and lantern slides of West Virginia University subjects, and other subjects as well.Addendum of 2017-07-19; boxes 13-14 and oversize folders 1 and 2; ca....
Dates: circa 1806-1961; Majority of material found within 1880-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

W.R. Loar and Son, Photographer, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2780
Overview

Studio registers and business records of W.R. Loar and Son, photographers of Grafton, West Virginia. The 25 volumes of studio registers cover the period 1918 to 1965. The 20 volumes of business records include cash books, 1940-1958; inventories, 1949-1955; invoices, 1939-1947; bank books, 1939-1940; and business expense accounts, 1943-1965.

Dates: 1918-1968
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center