West Virginia and Regional History Center
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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James M. Guiher, Jr. Papers, A&M 3579, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
There are eleven series in this collection:
1) Biographical Information;
2) Family and Childhood;
3) Washington Irving High School, Clarksburg, WV;
4) Family Bibles and Genealogy;
5) Army and Education;
6) Writings and Correspondence;
7) Prentice-Hall Career;
8) Plays and Manuscripts;
9) West Virginia Publications and Prospectuses;
10) Publications; and
11) Oversized
Addendum of 2014/02/24, 1918-1955, undated, 0.5 in. (2 folders) is located in box 10, folder 7, and in an unnumbered oversize box; it consists of five black and white portrait photographs of James M. Guiher, Jr. (undated), James M. Guiher, Sr. (1918, 1955), John W. Davis (undated), and Lloyd Pickney Sounders (undated). The 1918 photograph of James M. Guiher, Sr. shows him in military uniform at Chatillon-Sur-Seine, France. The photograph of John W. Davis is inscribed "to James M. Guiher with sincere regards" and is signed by Davis. Lloyd Pickney Sounders (1873-1934) was the grandfather of James Guiher, Jr., and the co-founder, with Arthur Parsons, of Parsons-Sounders Department Store, Clarksburg, WV.
Addendum of 2014/08/29, ca. 1900-1990, 19 ft. 1.5 in. is located in boxes 11-30; it consists of papers relating to the Guiher, Davis, and Hart families, and related subjects, four land grants, and six paintings.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Guiher, James M., Jr.
- Guiher, James M., Sr.
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Clarksburg (W. Va.)
- Harrison County (W. Va.)
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1a 2007, 2014
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1a
Obituaries for Harriette Behringer Fussell (born in Clarksburg, WV; Washington Irving High School class of 1943) and her husband Paul Fussell; James F. Brown III of Charleston, WV; Ouida Caldwell Davis of Huntington, Charleston, and White Sulphur Springs, WV; and "Deedie" Sara Diane Sounders of Clarksburg2009, 2012-2013
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1b
Artifacts--Garrison caps (1. School Safety Parade, Washington DC, 1939; 2. Sons of the American Legion, n.d.)1939, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1c
Funeral program for Elizabeth "Liddy" Hart Guiher (1928/10/9 - 2011/08/17)2011
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 1917, 1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 1933-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 1933-1939
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Summer camp, church, and vacations (includes memorabilia, booklets and correspondence)1936-1940
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 1942
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 unfoldered
Booklets (1.'Souvenir Book of The Queens Dolls House', 1928; 2.'Souvenir Album - New York', 19361928, 1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
High school speeches, papers, grades, pay stubs, and memorabilia1941-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 1941-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 1941/10-1943/12
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 1944/01-1945/04
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 1942-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 1942-1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 1942
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
Drama and Thespian productions, commencement and diploma (includes programs, and memorabilia)1943-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 1944/06
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Correspondence--from 'The Institute of Mental Physics'1942-1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 3A
Books -- 1. Holt-Cresap Family Bible, ca. 1835, 2. 'The History of The Cresaps', 1987ca. 1835-1987
- Mixed Materials Box: 3B 1861-1907
- Mixed Materials Box: 3B
Bible owned by David Williams, containing family record of Guiher, Brownfield, Williams, and other families; published by McCarty and Davis1835
- Mixed Materials Box: 3C
"Pronouncing Parallel Bible" given to Bessie Poland by her mother; published by E. Gately and Company1897
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Army papers (includes induction notice, separation orders, and correspondence)1945-1947
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Princeton University papers (includes grades, financial statements, memorabilia)1947-1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Princeton University papers (includes manuscripts, essays, political and philosophical comparisons and arguments)1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
Princeton University Diploma1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Harvard Law School papers (includes grades, student directory, law briefs)1951-1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Boston Museum School of Fine Arts papers (includes grades, correspondence, photographs, catalogues, and clippings)1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 unfoldered 1945/08
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
Miscellaneous (includes journaling of thoughts and ideas, dialogues, short stories and drawings; photographic postcard of the Clarksburg Public Library announcing exhibit by West Virginia artist Justina Hart, 1952; 6 November 1924 letter from politician John W. Davis to R.M. Browne of Wheeling regarding election loss; and a 30 October 2013 email [with accompanying 31 October 2013 note] from Jim Guiher to Bettyruth Walter regarding a penthouse sold in New York, where John W. Davis lived in 1954)1924, 1951-1956, 2013
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 ca. 1952-1961
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 1953
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 1959-1964
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 ca. 1959-1964
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 1963
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
Letter from friend regarding conversations with sculptor Frank Gaylord; also includes photos from Gaylord with Gaylords captions; Gaylord designed and sculpted the Korean War Monument in Washington, D.C.2008
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
Book-layout, 1955 (includes stretches, photographs, captions, and several West Virginia photographs, ca. 1932-1946 of farms, landscape and structures)1955
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
Photographs excluded from book-layout (includes West Virginia photographs ca. 1932-1946, of landscapes, farms and structures)1955
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 1954-1976
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 1976
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5 1976-1977
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6 1965/07
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7 1965/07-ca. 1966/Fall
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1 1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2 ca. 1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 unfoldered ca. 1960-2004
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1
Booklets (includes 'The Jewel of the Hills', 1926 and 'True Story of the Hatfield and the McCoy Feud', 1944 (2 copies)1926, 1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2 ca. 1953-1999
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 3
West Virginia prospectuses (includes booklets and pamphlets regarding West Virginia tourism featuring places and things of interest, such as festivals, outdoor activities, etc.)ca. 1953-1989
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
West Virginia road and tour mapsca. 1960-1975
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 unfoldered 1971
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
Book (soft-bound), 'One World', author Wendell L. Willkie1943
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
British publication, 'The Illustrated London News'1956
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
National magazines (includes Life, 9 issues, 1953-1963, Time, 4 issues, 1956-1963, TV Guide, 1964/1, Town and Country, 1957/3 and The Saturday Evening Post, 1960/2, which contains a feature story, 'West Virginia: Poverty Amid Splendor')1953-1964
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
Miscellaneous (includes 'The Delta', Sigma Nu Fraternity magazine (1957/09) and 'Princeton Alumni Weekly' (1952/01)1957, 1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1
Miscellaneous1982, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1 1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2
Original 'Home Coming Edition' of Clarksburg's 'The Sunday Telegram', June 10, 19231923
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3 undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4 2007
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5
Original issue of 'The Literary Digest', 1915/07/31 (includes 'A History of the First Year of the War...') and a reprint of Time Magazine's first issue, 1923/03/03 as a supplement of the 1938/02/28 issue of Time1915, 1938
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6
'Book of Famous Signatures' (includes historical autographs of George Washington and Martha Custis Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Queen Victoria, and Mark Twain, among many others)ca. 1500-1900
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 7 1918-1955, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 unfoldered
Certification by the Daughters of the American Revolution that Mrs. Bessie Poland Sauders 'because of her descent from Michael and Thomas Cresap, Captain and Patriot ... to the cause of American Independence during the Revolutionary War...is a regularly approved member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.'1909
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 unfoldered 1942
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 unfoldered
Adam's Synchronological Chart or Map of History, by James Ussher, ca. 1880-1890. The foldout chart features detailed, full-color drawings of various stages of history, from Adam and Eve to the late 19th century; 20th century reproduction of late 19th century publication; part of the first page is missingca. 1950-1980
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 unfoldered
Bicentennial issue of "The West Virginia Hillbilly"1976
- Mixed Materials A&M Composite Box
One photographic portrait of Lloyd Pickney Sounders (1873-1934)undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 11
- Mixed Materials Box: 11
Metal box that was original container of items in boxes 30 and 31
- Mixed Materials Box: 12
- Mixed Materials Box: 13
John Davis Hart and Other Materials
- Mixed Materials Box: 14
Note Sheets, Newspaper Clippings, and Bicentennial Plates
- Mixed Materials Box: 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 16
- Mixed Materials Box: 17
- Mixed Materials Box: 18
Guiher family genealogies/papers and J.H. Davis estate
- Mixed Materials Box: 19
- Mixed Materials Box: 20
John Hart -- papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 21
John Davis Hart -- articles
- Mixed Materials Box: 22
"50/50 1979" -- manuscript
- Mixed Materials Box: 23
- Mixed Materials Box: 24
Cresap Society
- Mixed Materials Box: 24
John Davis Hart -- papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 25
John Hart -- papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 26
John Hart -- papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 27
- Mixed Materials Box: 28
- Mixed Materials Box: 28
Photograph of John Davis Hart
- Mixed Materials Box: 29
- Mixed Materials Box: 30
- Mixed Materials Box: 31
- Mixed Materials Box: 40
Three land grants and one indenture for land in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania1786-1787, 1793
- Mixed Materials unboxed
- Mixed Materials unboxed
- Mixed Materials unboxed
Oil painting of Ruth S. Sounders (in high fur collar) by Frank Gaylord
- Mixed Materials unboxed
Oil painting of Guiher gardens and fish pond at 316 Buckhannon Avenue by Virginia Wood1939
- Mixed Materials unboxed
- Mixed Materials unboxed
Japanese print
- Mixed Materials unboxed
Etching of Paris Street by Feliz Buhot