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Poetry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Lillian Arline Walbert, Poet. Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2913
Overview Papers of poet Lillian Walbert (1913-1995) of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Collection contains a poetry notebook and loose leaf poems. Notebook appears to be from a class that Walbert took in 1928 and 1929, when she was a student at Central Junior High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It contains notes on poetry, sketches, poems by well-know poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Carl Sandburg, and handwritten poems by Walbert. Loose-leaf pages contain poems written by Walbert between 1926...
Dates: 1928-1948

Maggie Anderson, Poet, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3956
Overview Papers of Maggie Anderson (born September 23, 1948, in New York City), an Appalachian poet and professor. She has been affiliated with organizations such as Kent State University (KSU) and its Wick Poetry Program, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA), and others. Collection includes mainly professional papers pertaining to her writing and teaching careers. Formats include manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and others. Subjects...
Dates: 1958-2017, undated; Majority of material found within 1980-2012

Martin Luther Brown, Warden, Moundsville Penitentiary Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3786
Overview

Records of Warden Martin Luther Brown of Moundsville Penitentiary. Includes series of historical information, incoming letters (mostly from inmates to Warden Brown), and photographs (related to Moundsville Penitentiary). The date range of the series of incoming letters (1911-1914) corresponds to Martin Brown's tenure as Warden.

Dates: ca. 1910-1920

Milspaw Folklore Collection, Typescripts, Tapes, and Films

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2335
Overview

A collection of student term papers, submitted to a class in American Folklore, taught by Yvonne Milspaw of West Virginia University. The papers relate to legends, ghost stories, ballads, folk medicine, recipes, crafts, social customs, and games. A card file indicating the subject matter of each paper is included with the collection.

Dates: 1972-1974

Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2194
Overview A revised and indexed transcript copy of an interview with Dr. O.C. Stine, an expert in agricultural economics who was employed with the Department of Agriculture from the Progressive Era to that of the Fair Deal. Stine tells of his childhood on a farm in Jackson County, WV, his subsequent education in small town southeastern Ohio where his family moved, and his attendance and graduation from Ohio University with a bachelors in liberal arts and education. After teaching briefly on the...
Dates: 1884-1951

Perley Reed, Author, Poetry and Artwork

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Collection Number: A&M 1776
Overview The Marriage Certificate of Perley Reed and Elizabeth Dee Frost, telegrams recieved by Elizabeth and Perley, as well as newspaper clippings celebrating their engagment. Elizabeth's certificate of intitiation into The Delta Kappa Gamma Society in 1965. There are also 6 artworks by Reed, who was a hobbyist painter.The artworks are:Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau Oil on canvasboard, 30 x 24, 1966 A Soldier’s Farewell, Oil on canvasboard, 20 x 16, 1963 Matterhorn, Oil on...
Dates: 1922-1965

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883

Sue Ann Di Bacco, Verse Regarding Kennedy Assassination and Song Regarding West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 1756
Overview

Typescript of a poem by Miss DiBacco, "He Had What It Took to be President Kennedy"; sheet music of a song," We're Proud of the State of West Virginia" written during the centennial year by Miss DiBacco.

Dates: 1963

Valerie Nieman Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4542
Scope and Contents Papers of novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, a graduate of West Virginia University’s journalism department. She has written books and poetry, mostly on Appalachia and themes set around Appalachian life, including To the Bones and In the Lonely Backwater. Nieman has won several awards, fellowships, and grants, including being a 2013-2014 North Carolina Arts Council poetry fellow, as well...
Dates: ca. 1975-2023

West Virginia Poetry

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2405
Overview

Poetry and verse unaccompanied with music notation about West Virginia, western Virginia and Appalachia or by area authors unknown, little known, unpublished or rarely published, such as Ida L. Reed. Reed is the author of the poem, "Come to the Cross Today".

Dates: 1882 May 30-1885 March 20