Steve Wolfe, Collector, Historical Newspapers A&M 4239
West Virginia and Regional History Center
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Business Number: 304-293-3536
wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com
URL:
https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu
Jane LaBarbara
Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification A&M 4239
Title Steve Wolfe, Collector, Historical Newspapers 1666-1995
URL: https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/199206
Quantity 1 Linear Feet, 11 and 1/2 in. (3 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 2 1/2 in.)
Creator
Wolfe, Stephen, II
Location West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language English
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Steve Wolfe, Collector, Historical Newspapers, A&M 4239, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Original newspapers documenting historical events. Topics include deceased Presidents and political events of the United
States, space flight, and the American Civil War, among others. Some of the newspapers were published in West Virginia; some
are from the United Kingdom. Abbreviations used in the contents list includes F/P (front page), B/P (back page), and FSO (front
section only).
Presidents -- United States
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- Politics and government
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- Politics and government
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1-22 1826–1981
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Colombian Centinel (Boston) -- Death of President Adams
1826 July 8
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Colombian Centinel (Boston) -- Death of President Jefferson
1826 July 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
New York Herald -- Lincoln Assassination Edition
1865 April 16
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Harper's Weekly -- F/P Portrait of J.W. Booth - Lincoln Assassination Edition
1865 April 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Harper's Weekly -- B/P cartoon, Pres. Lincoln writing "All Is Well With Us" published and dated on the day he died
1865 April 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Harper's Weekly -- F/P portrait President Johnson / Booth captured!
1865 May 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Dubuque (IA) Herald -- Death of President Garfield / black bordered.
1881 September 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Watertown (NY) Reformer -- "President McKinley Battling Death" - f/p photo.
1901 September 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Watertown (NY) Reformer -- Death of President McKinley
1901 October 19
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Sandusky (OH) Register -- Death of President Harding / big f/p portrait & headlines
1923 August 3
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
San Francisco Examiner -- "FDR Dies" / Huge f/p headlines & photo
1945 April 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Ft. Worth (TX) Press -- "President Kennedy Slain"
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- Extra Edition: "Kennedy, Connolly Shot"
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- Extra Edition: "Texas Gunman Kills President Kennedy"
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- Extra Edition: "Assassin Kills President Kennedy"
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Extra Edition: "JKF Assassin Still Not Apprehended"
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- F/P headline: "Man Charged In Assassination"
1963 November 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16
Dallas Morning News -- Kennedy Killed
1963 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Oswald Murdered
1963 November 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- F/P headline in red: "Oswald Shot"
1963 November 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- President Kennedy Buried
1963 November 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20
New York Times -- "JFK Lies in White House"
1963 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- Death of President Hoover (FSO)
1964 October 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- Death of President Truman (FSO)
1972 December 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Ike Dies
1969 March 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- LBJ Dies
1973 January 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22
Pittsburgh Post Gazette -- "Reagan Shot" (FSO)
1981 March 31
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1-29 1788–1974
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Newport (RI) Herald -- P. 3 report of final ratification of the US Constitution
1788 July 26
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Colombian Centinel (Boston) -- Acts of President Washington (signed in print by G.W. & Secretary Jefferson) establishing Washington
DC as the "temporary" seat of government
1790 July 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
American Mercury (Hartford, CT) -- Louisiana Purchase Treaty
1803 November 3
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
New-England Palladium (Boston) -- Aaron Burr trial reports
1807 June 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
New-England Palladium (Boston) -- Aaron Burr trial results
1807 August 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Boston Independent Chronicle -- Political endorsement - Elbridge Gerry for Governor
1812 March 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Niles Register (Baltimore) -- US Declaration of War against Britain - signed in type by President Madison
1812 June 20
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Niles Register (Baltimore) -- Reports of the "Battle of New Orleans"
1815 January 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Niles Register (Baltimore) -- Monroe nominated for President
1816 March 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
Niles Register (Baltimore) -- Final results of the election of 1840
1841 January 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Harper's Weekly -- F/P Leak of the US Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision
1857 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
New York Tribune -- Lincoln Reelection Results on f/p
1864 November 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
New York Times -- F/P only - text of Lincoln's second oath
1865 March 6
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Harper's Weekly -- F/p illustration of Lincoln taking second oath of office
1865 March 18
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Harper's Weekly -- President Johnson Impeachment Trial coverage
1868 April 11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Harper's Weekly -- Inauguration of President Grant
1869 March 20
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Harper's Weekly -- Thomas Nast cartoons of "Boss" Tweed (inside)
1871 August 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
New York Times -- F/P Final Electoral Vote Count of the 1876 election
1876 November 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Philadelphia North American -- WV Mine War headlines and coverage
1921 September 4
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
New York Times -- FDR leads Balloting
1932 July 1
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19
Richmond Times-Dispatch -- "Japs Quit" / f/p huge headlines
1945 August 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- "Nazis Surrender" / f/p huge red headlines
1945 May 7
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21
Walla-Walla (WA) Union-Bulletin -- "Japan Quits" f/p bid red headlines
1945 August 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22
Chicago Tribune -- "Dewey Defeats Truman" - full edition
1948 November 3
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Truman assassination attempts/ G.B. Shaw dies
1950 November 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24
San Francisco Chronicle -- Extra: "Kennedy Wins"
1960 November 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- JFK Elected
1960 November 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- "Kennedy Orders Cuban Blockade"
1962 October 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Nixon Resigns
1974 August 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail -- "Ford Assumes Presidency"
1974 August 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28
St. Petersburg (FL) Times -- Nixon Resigns
1974 August 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29
Clearwater (FL) Sun -- "Ford Takes Oath" (FSO)
1974 August 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29
New York Daily News -- Nixon Resigns
1974 August 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29
St. Petersburg (FL) Times -- Agnew Resigns (FSO)
1973 October 11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29
St. Petersburg (FL) Times -- Ford Pardons Nixon
1974 September 9
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1-35 1860–1865
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
Harper's Weekly -- F/P - Lincoln raising flag at Independence Hall / Inside coverage of Jefferson Davis Inauguration
1861 March 9
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Harper's Weekly -- F/P - Lincoln introduced to Louis Napoleon
1861 August 24
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
Philadelphia Inquirer -- [?] Map of Eastern Virginia War Zone
1862 June 12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
Harper's Weekly -- Emancipation Proclamation announcement & text / Antietam coverage
1862 October 4
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
Harper's Weekly -- Sherman siege of Richmond
1864 May 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
Harper's Weekly -- F/P illustration - Lincoln with his Secretaries
1864 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
New York Semi-Weekly Times -- P. 4 secession coverage and election results
1860 November
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
New York Semi-Weekly Times -- P. 4 & P. 5 - Lee's surrender / Grant-Lee telegraphic messages
1865 April 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
New York Times -- F/P - Lincoln celebration & first secession dispatches
1860 November 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10
New York Times -- Various f/p secession coverage - Lincoln visits New York City
1861 February 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
New York Times -- F/P follow-up reports on the battle of Manassas
1861 July 24
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
New York Times -- Monitor v. Merrimac coverage
1862 March 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13
New York Times -- F/P reports of Union victories in the Kanawha Valley
1862 May 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14
New York Times -- F/P map of Richmond battle zone / reports from army
1862 June 5
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15
New York Times -- F/P - map of Richmond & Mac's positions / inside erroneous story of Stonewall Jackson's death
1862 July 4
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16
New York Times -- F/P - Lee marching north / B/P - siege of Vicksburg
1863 June 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 17
New York Times -- F/P - reports Sherman taking Atlanta
1864 July 25
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18
New York Times -- Final pursuit of Lee / Petersburg falls
1865 April 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
New York Times -- F/P - President Johnson resumes free trade / reconstruction policy and assassination trial coverage
1865 June 14
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
New York Tribune -- F/P map: "Seat of War in Eastern Virginia"
1862 May 16
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
New York Tribune -- F/P map of the new state of WV / b/p Battle of Fredericksburg
1862 December 13
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
New York Tribune -- F/P map of the new state of WV / b/p Battle of Fredericksburg
1862 December 13
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
New York Tribune -- Resignation of General Burnside
1863 January 27
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
New York Tribune -- F/P headline: "Fall of Vicksburg"
1863 July 15
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25
New York Tribune -- First Gettysburg reporting
1863 July 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
New York Tribune -- F/P - Wirtz trial / Suez Canal opens
1865 August 31
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 27
New York Herald -- F/P map - "War Zone in the Upper Potomac"/ US recognizes loyal government of Virginia
1861 July 4
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 28
New York Herald -- F/P - McClellan's farewell to the troops
1862 November 12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 29
New York Herald -- F/P - Lincoln's State of the Union
1862 December 2
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 30
New York Herald -- F/P map: "Rebel Invasion in MD - Silver Spring"
1864 July 12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 31
Philadelphia Inquirer -- F/P - Antietam Battle reports
1862 September 24
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 32
Philadelphia Inquirer -- F/P headline: "Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus" / Antietam wrap-up / F/P map "Eastern VA War Zone"
1862 September 25
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 33
Philadelphia Inquirer -- F/P Gettysburg Address / text and reports
1863 November 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 34
Philadelphia Inquirer -- Peace Proclamations / assassination trial reports
1865 May 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 35
Philadelphia Inquirer -- F/P headline: "Capture of Jefferson Davis" / assassination Trial
1865 May 15
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 1953 March 4–1953 March 7
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 1969 July 21
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3-7 1873–1929
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
The Press (Philadelphia) -- F/P - "Wall Street Panic" / Jay Cooke's bankruptcy
1873 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
New York Times -- Wall Street Panic reports
1873 September 20
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
The World (NY) -- "The Panic in Stocks"
1873 September 20
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
The Press (Philadelphia) -- Jay Cooke's bankruptcy
1873 November 27
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
New York Times -- F/P - "Stock Market Steadied"
1929 October 26
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8-19 1806–1995
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Daily Illinois State Journal -- F/P ad: "Lincoln & Herndon", attorneys at law
1856 February 28
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
The Weekly Register -- American Seamen; Free trade and Sailors' Rights (FP); Events of the War (Inside)
1813 March 27
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10
American Commercial Daily Advertiser -- Slave ads and runaway rewards
1806 December 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11
Color map of lower Manhattan
1853
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12
Ladies Garland (Harper's Ferry, VA) -- Various news
1825 November 12
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 13
Life Illustrated (NY) -- F/P scenes of Harper's Ferry & Baltimore Camden Station
1860 March 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 14
Boston Evening Transcript -- Various political reporting
1860 December 11
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15
Dallas Morning News -- Night Club Man Kills Oswald
1963 November 25
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16
NY Times Sunday Supplement -- "LBJ: The Office and the Man"
1964 June 14
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17
Charleston (WV) Gazette -- Churchill Dies (FSO)
1965 January 25
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 18
Memphis Press-Scimitar -- Elvis Dies
1977 August 17
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 19
Baltimore Sun -- F/P: "Cal-Lossal" - Cal Ripken streak record coverage
1995 September 7
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20-25 1666–1919
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20
Votes of the House of Commons -- Miscellaneous voting results
1696 February 1
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20
The Tatler (London) -- Miscellaneous local news
1709 December 27
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21
London Gazette -- Death of the Queen
1684 June 12
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21
London Gazette -- French War Appropriations
1694 February 11
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22
London Times -- German Peace Offers
1917 May 15
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23
London Times -- Typo in Masthead - Dated "1619" / Special Supplement. "Full text of the Peace Treaty"
1919 June 28
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24
London Gazette -- Bottom B/P reference to deaths from the "Great Plague"
1666 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24
London Gazette -- Miscellaneous local news
1694 July 9
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25
The Post Boy -- Miscellaneous local news
1726 October 20
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