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Women's history -- 1900-1929

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

West Virginia University, SPOKES (Senior Women's Service Honorary), Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1860
Overview SPOKES, Senior Women's Service Honorary, was a student organization at West Virginia University established in 1959 to develop and promote spirit and service to the university among women students and alumnae. Collection contains the official records of SPOKES, and documents the creation and operation of the group, which was supervised by the Dean of Women. Materials include inquiry to and responses from other universities about similar groups; petition for university recognition; letter of...
Dates: 1957-1965

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records and photographs of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment; photographs, clippings and published and unpublished material pertaining to the town of West Liberty and the...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 E. Cupp Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0656
Overview

Business records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of the Cupp family, including Will E. Cupp, Mary J. Cupp, and Marie Cupp Nestor, of St. George, Tucker County, West Virginia. Included are Tucker County court fee books, 1856-1898, and personal and general store account books, 1897-1933.

Dates: 1839-1948

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1436
Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...
Dates: 1801-1930

William Hereford McGinnis Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates: 1834-1954

Wilson-Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates: circa 1693-1942 and undated

Women's Christian Temperance Union, Blacksville, West Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2830
Overview

Records of the Blacksville Chapter of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union. Includes: Secretary's Minute Books (1904-1982); program booklets (1944-1982); a proposed Constitution and ByLaws of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union (1977); THE WHITE RIBBON, Official Organ of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union (1957-1982, scattered); and Annual Reports (1952/53-1981/82).

Dates: 1904-1982

World War I Posters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1957
Overview

Twelve French and twenty-four American posters promoting recruitment and financial support of their respective countries' efforts during World War I. American posters document recruitment, and the campaigns for the Liberty Bond, Victory Liberty Loan, and the United War Work Campaign, the latter supporting organizations such as the American Library Association, YMCA, and the YWCA, among others.

Dates: 1914-1918