Wheeling (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Wheeling Steel Radio Program Sound Recordings and Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3470
Overview
Records of the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio program. Includes photographs (1930s-1940s, 5 in.), program scripts (1937-1944, 5 in.), clippings and magazines (1930s-1940s, 3 in., including Life Magazine of March 21, 1938 with article featuring the radio program), and scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs (1930s-1940s, 3 in.). Also includes original audio transcription discs of the program (1930s-1940s, 7 ft., 6 in.), and reel-to-reel/cassette...
Dates:
1937-2010 and undated; Majority of material found in 1937-1944
Wheeling, Washington Family Graves and Nurse Lydia W. Holiday, Articles
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1835
Overview
Articles about the graves at Wheeling of the Washington family, who were relatives of George Washington. Also articles on Lydia W. Holiday of Wheeling, who became a Civil War nurse at the age of 60.
Dates:
1927-1989
William B. Curtis (1821-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1591
Overview
Papers of a brigadier general of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and his family from West Liberty include correspondence, business and legal papers, military and veterans' records, photographs, clippings, and account books. Includes papers of West Liberty Post 78, Department of West Virginia G.A.R.; records and photographs of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment; photographs, clippings and published and unpublished material pertaining to the town of West Liberty and the...
Dates:
1830-1954
William M. Goudy, Soldier, Civil War Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0922
Overview
Three pocket diaries authored by William M. Goudy of Wheeling, (West) Virginia, a corporal in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company G, who was mustered into service on 31 October 1862. The entries run from January 1862 through November 1864, when Goudy's company was mustered out at Wheeling. Diary entries are brief and sporadic; subjects discussed include weather, marches, encampments, drilling and inspection, combat, eating, church attendance and sermons, and social visits and...
Dates:
1862-1864
Woodblock Engraving of Wheeling, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2922
Overview
A block for a wood engraving entitled "Wheeling, Virginia, showing the Suspension Bridge, and the Embarkment of the German Rifles, Captain Plankey". Sketched by J.A. Faris, 1861.
Dates:
1861