Floods
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Scrapbook Regarding Potomac Highlands Flood of 1985
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3560
Overview
Album including 34 pages of color photographs of Parsons, Elkins, Onego, and Mouth of Seneca right after the flood of November 1985. Also includes 87 pages of November 1985 newspaper clippings (illustrated) regarding the flood.
Dates:
1985
William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2946
Scope and Contents
Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission. Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia University, ca. 1905.
Dates:
1900-1926
Withers and VanDevender Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2109
Overview
Correspondence, ledger books, account and cashbooks of the Parkersburg, West Virginia, firm of Withers and VanDevender (later Wiant and VanDevender), specializing in timber cutting, but also dealing in real estate, coal, oil, and orange growing. Subjects include timber cutting methods, costs, timber shipping, floods, freezes, droughts, log jams, timberland locations, timber purchases and sales, salaries of timber workers, and fruit groves in Florida. Counties mentioned include: Boone,...
Dates:
1899-1951