Poetry.
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Arah J. Evans Autograph Album
Autograph album of Miss Arah J. Evans of Monongalia County, West Virginia, containing poetry, devotions, and scriptural passages inscribed by her friends between 1849 and 1851. Some pages are blank while others have color illustrations of floral designs.
Atkeson-Morgan Family Papers
Bob Henry Baber, Author, Poem
A copy of the poem "A Bed Time Rhyme" by Bob Henry Baber printed on a poster with illustrations and Baber's autograph. The author was formerly the mayor of Richwood, West Virginia. The illustrations were by Boyd Carr of Bedford, Virginia.
Catherine Osborn Goff, Collector, Illustrated Autograph Book and Other Material
Collection includes an illustrated autograph book of May Ellen Smith of Pruntytown, (West) Virginia, with entries from 1849-1856; a manuscript newspaper, 1879; and an empty scrapbook.
Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers
Edward J. Cabbell, Historian, Papers
Herbert P. McGinnis Papers
Well leases and records, geologic reports, maps, printed material, photographs, and other papers of McGinnis, an oil and gas operator who owned the Tri-State Oil & Gas Co. of West Virginia, and who, after graduating from Marshall University in 1910, became a leading figure in the oil and gas business. Some of his poetry is included in the collection.
Ira E. Robinson Papers
John Lewis Cole Poem
John Lewis Cole was a librarian in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Collection consists of a sixteen-page narrative poem, "The Old Fayette School-House," written by J. L. Cole in December 1891. The text of the poem is typed, but it is accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations.
Karl D. Myers, Poet Laureate of West Virginia, Papers
Includes biographical sketch, pocket diary, manuscripts, published books, funeral book, photographs.