William D. Barns, History Professor, Family History Files, Photographs, and Other Material, ca. 1885-1980 , A&M 3748

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William D. Barns, History Professor, Family History Files, Photographs, and Other Material, A&M 3748, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Includes family history files, photographs, and other material collected and compiled by William D. Barns. Family history files include extensive notes encompassing the Pennsylvania branch of the Barns family, including notes of interviews with his mother and father, and from secondary sources. There are also notes regarding the Williams family. The few photographs in this collection mostly regard the Barns family, and the history of education in Uniontown and Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Container List

Family History

undated

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Barns Family (includes extensive notes encompassing Pennsylvania branch of family; includes notes of interview with father and from secondary sources)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Barns Family (includes clippings regarding Baily family, Shin family of Marion County, and early Fairmont history)
1962-1973
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Barns Family (obituaries for Lida Barns, 1959; and for William Post Barns, 1968; they were the parents of William D. Barns)
1959, 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Williams Family (includes notes for interview with Lida Barns in 1955, among notes regarding other family members)
1955, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Miscellaneous
undated

Photographs

ca. 1900-1980

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Uniontown, Pennsylvania Subjects (8 items; includes: 4 photos of children from "Williams Addition School", on or near Derrick Avenue, Uniontown, PA; 2 photos of Old Hatfield School, South Union Township; 1 photo of barn and buggy at Chalk Hill on National Pike, U.S. 40, east of Uniontown; and 1 photo of house at 240 Derrick Ave., Uniontown, PA, childhood home of Lida Williams (Barns))
ca. 1900-1920
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
State Center, Feb. 15, 1936 (1 item; was in envelope with labeling for two photos; labeling for this photo reads "W.D.B. in Parthenon"; the other photo was a reunion photo which was filed with other reunion photos in this collection)
1936
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Group Portraits of Young College-Aged Men (2 items; perhaps this is a fraternity?)
ca. 1930-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
South Union High School, Uniontown, Pennsylvania (5 items: includes 4 group portraits of reunions of class of 1935 from 1960, 1970, 1975, and 1980; also includes candid shot of William D. Barns visiting a class room at same school on 26 October 1949)
1949, 1960-1980
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Group Portrait of students of Hatfield School in South Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (1 item; three students are identified, including William Post Barns, Jessie V. Barns, and Jessie Nixon) [unfoldered item]
ca. 1885-1895