ca. 1880-1970 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Mounted Photographs (3 items) of People of Monongalia and Marion Counties (includes group photographs of: 1) The Morgantown
Hunting Club, 1912; 2) Team Photograph of 1928 City Baseball Champions; 3) Photograph of two unidentified girls made by Riverside
Gallery in Palatine, Marion County, ca. 1880)
ca. 1880-1928
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Mounted Photographs (5 items) of People of Monongalia County ( includes: 1) newspaper boys of the Morgantown Post, ca.1917;
2) staff of Acme Department Store, ca. 1900; 3) Bishop's Restaurant on High and Pleasant Street in Morgantown with three men
[two identified) standing in front door, 1908; 4) unidentified lumberjacks in forest holding axes, n.d.; 5) five firefighters
in full uniform standing behind their "Chief", ca. 1900)
ca. 1900-1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Mounted Photographs (10 items) of Scenes and Structures in Monongalia County (includes: 1) downtown Morgantown as viewed
from Sunnyside, ca. 1910; 2) Morgantown suspension bridge from the west bank elevation, n.d. 3) west end of Morgantown suspension
bridge emphasizing deterioration (2 copies), ca.1900-1909; 4) Lock No. 9 on the Monongahela River, ca. 1905; 5) The home of
Colonel John Evans at Walnut Hill with group of several people in front (identified on the back of photograph), ca. 1900;
6) The home of Walter A. Mestrezat and three unidentified children, 1910-1912; 7) tent camp of 1st West Virginia, 160th Indiana,
3rd Kentucky, ca. 1890-1900 [source: Mestrezat]; 8) Morgantown suspension bridge and Walnut Street in Morgantown, n.d.;
9) Franklin Hotel [torn down 1894, site of Maderia Hotel] with unidentified people standing on porch)
ca. 1890-1912
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
Post Card Photographs of Monongalia County (20 items) and Greene County, Pennsylvania (2 items) -- Buildings and Structures
(includes: downtown Morgantown, the suspension bridge, and early 1900s homes; also includes one unidentified Monongalia County
church and photographs of Walter Mestrezat's homes in Greensboro and Mapletown, Pennsylvania, n.d.)
ca. 1907-1923 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Post Card Photographs (11 items) of Monongalia County -- General (includes: steam boat and ferry boat, glass factory, trolley
cars, Cheat River, and views of Morgantown area)
ca. 1900-1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Post Card Photographs (14 items) of Monongalia County -- People (includes: families, soldiers, a class from Sabraton High
School, and a 1908 class from The Chestnut Ridge School, most individuals are unidentified and the 1907 soda fountain of Acme
Dept. Store in Morgantown with staff [listed on the back])
ca. 1900-1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
Post Card Photographs (12 items) of Monongalia County -- Special Events (includes: soldiers marching at post WWI "Homecoming"
parade in 1919; cutting the cable of the Morgantown suspension bridge, opening of new bridge, 1918 Armistice Day parade, and
several other photos)
ca. 1900-1919
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Post Card Photographs (4 items) of Monongalia County -- Natural Events (includes: 1910 windstorm, 1918 Monongahela River
ice jam, and 1927 Morgantown fire)
ca. 1910-1927
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
Photographs (13 items) of Monongalia County -- People (includes: school groups; families; Dr. Wade's Scout Camp, "Hilarity";
and staff of Dille's Law Office in Morgantown)
1890-1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10
Photographs (4 items) of Monongalia County -- People (includes: The Mantini Band; "Community Cheat Local"; Elina Jane Brown
Hall; and 97 year-old Sarah Furman, the oldest member of First Christian Church in 1961)
ca. 1930-1965
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11
Photographs (10 items) of Monongalia County -- Buildings and Structures (includes: Morgantown buildings, homes and the South
Park Bridge, and the ca.1790 Stewart Log House on Buffalo Pond; also includes the Milton Horn Sculpture in the hospital chapel
at the Medical Center of West Virginia University)
ca. 1923-1976
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12
Photographs (14 items) of Monongalia County -- General (includes: panoramic views of Morgantown, Cheat Lake, and rural scenes)
undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 13
Photographs (10 items) of Monongalia County -- Special Events (includes: a Labor Day Parade in Morgantown, placing of the
Patrick Henry Statue inside the County Court House, circus setting-up in south Morgantown, and the first patient air-lifted
out of Morgantown at the new Municipal Airport)
1915-1953
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 14
Photographs of Monongalia County (2 items) -- Natural Events (includes the 1918 ice jam and 1930 drought on the Monongahela
River)
1918, 1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15
Illustrated Post Cards (2 items) of Downtown Morgantown
ca. 1910
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16
Illustrated Post Cards (2 items) of Downtown Morgantown
1938
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17
Photograph Negatives
ca. 1975
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
Mounted Photographs (5 items) of Monongalia County -- People (includes: individual and group portraits, unidentified; the
back of one photo identifies "W.A. Mestrezat" as a source)
ca. 1880-1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2
Mounted Photographs (5 items) of Monongalia County -- People (includes three group portraits of school classes from the
Sabraton schools: 1) class of teacher Lynn Hastings, students identified, n.d. [Lynn Hastings was at one time Superintendant
of Monongalia County Schools]; 2) 1915 freshmen and sophomore classes, Sabraton Junior High; 3) Sabraton school class of small
children, "Bess, teacher"; n.d.; 4-5) also includes two unidentified school group portraits.)
ca. 1901-1915
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3
Mounted Photographs (7 items) of Monongalia County -- Businesses and Municipal Services (includes: 1) Morgantown Fire Department's
horse drawn fire wagon; 2) Jim Blair in Police uniform with family; 3) Ramsey and Hess Market [general store] with employees
posing with horse drawn carriage; 4) employees of Miller's Laundry on Pleasant Street in Morgantown posing with horse drawn
wagon; 5) Morgantown Meat Market; 6) group portrait of employees of Dille's Law Office; 7) and a military [possibly Army]
work detail "paying their respects" to a dead mule during its burial)
ca. 1900-1910
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4
Mounted Photographs (5 items) of Morgantown -- Special Events (includes: 1) funeral with a horse drawn hearse; 2) cutting
the cable of the old suspension bridge; 3-4) the 30 May 1909 opening of the new Morgantown bridge; 5) return of WWI soldiers
to crowd waiting at the Morgantown train depot, ca. 1918-1919)
ca. 1909-1918
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5
Mounted Photographs (3 items) of Monongalia County -- Structures and Landscapes (includes: 1) home of first WVU Band Director,
Walter Mestrezat, 900 block of University Avenue; 2) onlookers on the banks of the Monongahela River with suspension bridge
in background; 3) overview of the beginning of the Tank Field, [connected to the Eureka Pipeline] south of Morgantown)
ca. 1880-1912
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6
Mounted Photographs (2 items) of Morgantown -- Ice Jam of 1918 (includes: 1) a close view of Monongahela River ice jam;
2) a view of the frozen river from the riverbanks of Morgantown during the winter of 1918)
1918
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
Monongalia County People (8 items) (includes: 1) portrait of Willa Brand; 2) portrait of Harvey Brindle; 3) portrait of first
WVU Band Director Walter Mestrezat; 4) two farmers with their engine powered equipment, ca.1910; 5) two boy scouts camping,
ca.1960; 6) unidentified man and woman sharing a motorcycle, ca. 1920; 7) unidentified little boy with a puppy on a beach;
8) portrait of unidentified young man, labeled "Source: Mestrezat", ca. 1920)
1912-1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
Monongalia and Preston County People (4 items) (includes: 1) group portrait of girl scouts; 2) Morgantown Elk's Club; 3)
the 201st Infantry Band at Camp Dawson, Summer 1930; 4) clipping of photograph of the Dorsey family riding to Sunday School
in a horse drawn wagon in 1907)
ca. 1930-1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9
Photographs (5 items) of Dellslow, Monongalia County (includes: 1) the Guseman-Hagadorn Mill; 2) the mill dam on Deckers
Creek; 3) the Hagadorn house on Pixler Hill; 4) swimmers in Deckers Creek above the mill; 5) and "Indian Rock")
ca. 1920-1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10
Photographs (10 items) of Monongalia County -- Events (includes: circus in south Morgantown; the 1937 dedication of air
service for Morgantown with Jane Greer christening the "Mountaineer", flagship of Tri-State Aviation Corp.; Labor Day Parades
and 1969 Bituminous Coal Show, among others)
ca. 1915-1969
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11
Photographs (2 items) of Monongalia County -- Drought of the Monongahela River
1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12
Monongalia County (11 items) Structures and Landscapes (includes: 1) "Squirrel Rock" in Cheat River; 2) cyanotype photograph
overview of West Virginia University, ca. 1925; 3) view of Monongahela River at Morgantown with West Virginia University's
"Ark" field house in the foreground, ca. 1920; 4) "Y" intersection at Beechurst Street and University Avenue, ca. 1909; 5)
Dr. Alexander Wade's home in wooded setting before Morgantown High School was built; 6-8) Lazier house on Spruce Street in
Morgantown [slide, black and white print, and color print]; 9) Triplet house at Cheat Neck); 10) unidentified home overlooking
the Cheat River, including unidentified families posed on the porch and three horse drawn carriages; 11) unidentified children
seated on rocks on the Cheat River at Cheat Haven, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1909-1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 13
Monongalia County Labor Day Boat Races (8 items) at Morgantown on the Monongahela River (includes: photographs of the races
taken from the bridge, group portrait of the winners, and spectators lining the riverbanks and the bridge)
ca. 1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 14
Post Cards -- (33 items) West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania (includes: historic sites, buildings, highways, rural and
urban scenes and landscapes)
ca. 1907-1958
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 15
Photograph Negatives -- Monongalia County and Morgantown (includes several negatives of photographs found in boxes 4, 5,
and 21 in this collection)
undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 16
Photograph Negatives -- Monongalia County and Morgantown (includes several negatives of photographs found in boxes 4, 5,
and 21 in this collection)
undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 17
Metal Plates (Morgantown High School Class of 1899 and Morgantown's High Street)
ca. 1899
- Mixed Materials Box: 16
Slides -- Monongalia County churches and West Virginia landscapes
ca. 1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 1
Photograph of a horse-drawn float for a 4th of July parade in Point Marion, Pennsylvania created by Point Marion businessman
Frank Sadler for the town's celebration, ca. 1910 [separated to Oversize Box 85]; the photograph was printed with Frank Heaster's
August 10, 1969 column titled "Mason-Dixonland Notebook"; also includes a clipping and photocopies of the column and photograph
1969
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 2
Photographs Collected by Columnist Frank Heaster (16 items) pertaining to his Morgantown newspaper column (includes: Cheat
Lake-Ice's Ferry Bridge, ca.1901, the new Morgan Hotel, overview of Morgantown, 1922 Vacation Bible School [students identified
on the back], soldier George W. Coungher (?) of the 201st West Virginia National Guard in 1916 at Camp Cornwell in Charleston,
WV , four men, two in baseball uniforms [identified on back of the photograph] at the "Cheat Neck Ball Diamond" , ca. 1920;
also includes several unidentified group portraits and a clipping of the arrival at Municipal Airport of Lt. Colonel W.M.B.
Wright of the Army Air Corp, in Morgantown to conduct cadet flying examination in1937 [photocopy of clipping included])
ca. 1901-1937
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 3
Photographs Collected by Columnist Frank Heaster (13 items) pertaining to his Morgantown newspaper column (includes: 1938
Blacksville High School Senior Class, Hunters with a dead bear, 4 Republican candidates [unidentified] for city council, grandstand
at the Monongalia Fair grounds, 1964 Labor Temple baseball team [players identified on the back of photograph], several newspaper
photographs prints and clippings of children and adults involved in a summer parade and fall celebrations, ca, 1969 [includes
photocopies])
ca. 1938-1969
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 4
Correspondence and Photographs (18 items) from the Pride Family to Columnist Frank Heaster (includes: the 1927 Morgantown
fire, "Dock" a bull dog and the Morgantown Fire Department mascot, baby photograph of Richard Henry Pride and a later photograph
with his Navy buddies, several small group photographs [identification of individuals on the back of the photographs]; also
includes lists identifying and explaining several of the photographs [copies of lists are included])
ca. 1920-1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 5
Correspondence and Photographs (28 items) sent to Columnist Frank Heaster from families in Monongalia and Preston Counties
regarding the 1950 Snowstorm (includes: letters accompanying the photographs identifying people, scenes, animals, and situations;
also includes stories of how people survived, delivered babies, and maneuvered in the snow to feed and care for farm animals)
ca. 1950-1967
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 6
Photographic Negatives -- 1965 Sabraton Reunion Picnic, collected by columnist Frank Heaster
ca. 1965
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 7
Mounted Photographs of Steamboats (4 items) (includes: 1) The "Isaac M. Mason" on the Monongahela River ["Source: Mestrezar
papers"], n.d.; 2) The "James G. Bl…(?)" on the Monongahela River at Morgantown ["Source: Mestrezat papers"], n.d.; 3) Steamboat
(possibly the "Valley Gem") wrecked on the wharf at Morgantown during the ice jam on the Monongahela River, 1918; 4) The "Valley
Gem" wreck on the Morgantown wharf, 1918)
ca. 1900-1918
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 8
Mounted Photographs of Marching Bands (2 items) (includes: 1) The "21st Infantry Band, Vancouver, W.T." created by Davidson,
Photo. Portland, Oregon,[ "Source: W.A. Mestrezat" ] n.d.; 2) The WVU [West Virginia University] Cadet Band, W. A. Mestrezat,
Director,1901)
ca. 1895-1901
- Graphic Materials Box: 21 Folder: 9
Photographs (9 items) (includes photographs, photo postcards, a negative, etc., pertaining to South Park Bridge (ca. 1902);
Armistice Day Parade (1918), Hunt's storefront (undated); South Park (early 1900s); Walter Mestrezat portrait, band group
photo, and birthplace (undated); and a photo of the visit of President Taft at the I.C. White residence (undated))
early 1900s
- Mixed Materials Box: 33
Slides -- West Virginia landscape and flora (boxed)
ca. 1960-1969
- Mixed Materials Box: 34
Slides -- West Virginia landscape and flora (boxed and unboxed)
ca. 1960-1969
- Mixed Materials Box: 80
Slides -- Monongalia County churches and West Virginia landscape
ca. 1970
- Mixed Materials Box: 85 Folder: 1
Mounted Photographs -- Group Portraits (10 items) of Monongalia County People
ca. 1890-1920
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1) The 1910 Morgantown High football team
2) The 1913 Morgantown High School football team
3) "Stranger's Bible Class", a large group of men and one woman standing outside the Spruce Street Methodist Church, ca. 1915
4) "Stranger's Bible Class", men sitting in front of Spruce Street Methodist Church, ca.1920
5) group portrait of school, including all students [students identified on the back of photograph] and Principal R.C. Smith,
ca. 1890
6) Central School students and teacher, located on Walnut Street in Morgantown, ca. 1900
7) 1898 Mu-Mu Fraternity [possibly at West Virginia University]
8) "Some 'Sigs", a small group of young men, possibly a fraternity, at West Virginia University, ca. 1900
9) unidentified group of one woman and six young men [back of photo labeled "Stewartstown Com. Bldg"], ca. 1910
10) unidentified group of five young men and women and one older woman, ca. 1900)
- Mixed Materials Box: 85 Folder: 2
Mounted Photographs -- Monongalia County People (9 items)
ca. 1900-1910
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1) Campers at their camp site, the "Dew Drop Inn", on the Cheat River, opposite Mont Chateau [campers identified on front
and back of the photograph], 1905/08
2) Photograph titled "Woods house" of two horse drawn wagons, each pulling a man, a boy, and furniture on Pleasant Street
and University Avenue in Morgantown, ca. 1910
3) home of Walter Mestrezat, first West Virginia University band director, located on University Avenue in Morgantown, ca.
1910
4) house and trolley on Dunkard Avenue in Riverside, Monongalia County, ca. 1900
5) Mr. and Mrs. George Wells in front of their home on Dunkard Avenue in Riverside, Monongalia County, ca.1905
6) Martin's Riverside Band [includes band member, George Wells], ca. 1905
7) several small photographs mounted on a board [includes: "Rockley" on the Cheat River, Squirrel Rock, and river scenes
surrounding Mont Chateau before the Lynn Lake Dam], ca. 1910
8) portrait of toddler sitting on a water pump platform in gown and bonnet, ca. 1910
9) group of workers sitting on ground with their lunch pails with long pipes laying in the foreground next to a ditch, ca.
1890
- Mixed Materials Box: 85 Folder: 3
Photograph of Point Marion, Pennsylvania store owner Frank Sadler and a horse-drawn float he created for the town's 4th of
July celebration; the photograph was published (1969/08/10) in Frank Heaster's Sunday column, "Mason - Dixonland Notebook"
in the Morgantown "Dominion Post" (separated from Box 21, folder 1)
ca. 1910
- Mixed Materials Box: 92
Dobb's Travel Slides (boxed and unboxed: includes landscape, vegetation, and historical sites from West Virginia, Maryland,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina)
ca. 1956-1957
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