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Ladwig Family Papers A&M 3325

Ladwig Family Papers A&M 3325


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1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Business Number: 304-293-3536
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Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 3325
Title
Ladwig Family Papers 1870-1959
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/195900
Quantity
14.6 Linear Feet, 14 ft. 7 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each); (10 records cartons, 15 in. each)
Creator
Ludwig family
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], Ladwig Family Papers, A&M 3325, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical and Historical Background

Scope and Contents

Papers of the Ladwig family. They document the professional and personal lives of medical and teaching professionals in West Virginia in the early twentieth century, includng Dr. Otto Ladwig (1875-1968), his wife Calora Hardway Ladwig (1882-1974), and Margaret and Gertrude Hardway, Calora's sisters. The Ladwigs lived in Harrison and Randolph counties and were active in itinerant logging communities such as Evenwood. There are correspondence, publications, deeds, certificates, and photos of the Ladwig and Hardway families.

There is also a large series of photographs documenting the service of Cornelia, the Ladwig's daughter, in the Red Cross during World War II, as well as letters to Cornelia during this period.

In addition to the Ladwigs and Hardways, the collection includes many photographs and postcards of students and schools including Broaddus College, Fairmont Normal School, secondary schools, and more. The papers also include materials on the community of Everwood, West Virginia and the lumber company there.

Many books of different genres and topics were separated to the book collection; a list of these books is available from a curator.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • American Red Cross
  • Hardway family
  • Harrison County (W. Va.)
  • Ladwig, Colora Hardway (Mrs. Otto)
  • Ladwig, Cornelia.
  • Ladwig, Dr. Otto.
  • Ludwig family
  • Lumber industry and timber.
  • Physicians - letters and papers.
  • Randolph County (W. Va.)
  • Schools
  • Teachers
  • World War, 1939-1945

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Harrison County (W. Va.)
  • Randolph County (W. Va.)
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Container List

Series 1. Papers of Dr. Otto Ladwig, Box 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 1892-1959, undated
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, such as letters from patients, advertising from drug companies, and employment related letters. Also includes photographic portraits of Otto Ladwig, Calora Hardway (later Mrs. Ladwig), and the Hardway sisters.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
    Memo Book -- Class Notes for Chemistry No. 2, Demonstrator Harris Kelly, MD. Memo Book -- A Record of Laboratory Work, Louisville Medical School
    1902-1903
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
    Correspondence (Includes advertising from drug companies, letters from patients and their families, employment related correspondence, etc.)
    1900-1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
    General (includes certificates of death for Calora Ladwig and Gertrude Hardway; Red Cross certificate for Mrs. Ladwig; correspondence with Coit Lyceum Bureau for Artists and Entertainers; etc.)
    1905-1921, 1939
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
    Portrait of Otto Ladwig at University of Louisville (2 copies)
    1905/02
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
    Portrait of Raymond B. Nutter at University of Louisville
    1905/02
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
    Portrait of Mr. Peck at University of Louisville
    1905/02
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
    "A Golden Wedding of Dr. & Mrs. Ladwig"
    1959/09/01
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
    Portraits of Otto Ladwig (5 items)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
    Family Portraits
    ca.1900-1910, 1959
    • Portraits of Hardway Sisters (3 Items: Margaret, Gertrude, and Calora; Otto Ladwig Married Calora).
      ca.1900-1910
    • Portrait of Dr. & Mrs. Ladwig on Occasion of Their 50th Wedding Anniversary
      1959
    • Candid Pictures of the Snyder Family in Richwood, WV (5 Items)
      1909
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Series 2. Ledgers, Box 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 1892-1895
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
    Davison and Hardway Store (2 ledgers, unfoldered)
    1892-1895
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Series 3. Physician's Daily Memo Books, Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 1905-1918
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 items with manuscript notes by Dr. Otto Ladwig. These items are apparently a record of appointments at his Evenwood practice; they are difficult to read.

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Series 4. Records of the Hardway Family, Box 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 1900-ca.1969
Scope and Contents

Includes incoming letters, deeds, receipts, etc. Incoming letters to Margaret Hardway are literate and descriptive, depicting the professional and personal lives of teachers in West Virginia in the early twentieth century.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
    Incoming Letters -- Hardway, Margaret (Cornelia Ladwig labeled some of the envelopes indicating subjects of letters; many are generally literate and descriptive, and afford a glimpse into the professional and personal lives of teachers in West Virginia)
    1910-1914
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
    Deeds
    ca.1920s-1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
    Ephemera (includes dues books for leather workers union, constitution for the Mozart Literary Society, program of the Excelsior Society, etc.)
    1900-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
    Receipts for Farm Supplies
    1930s
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Series 5. West Virginia Schools, Boxes 3-4
Mixed Materials Box: 3 1890-1935
Scope and Contents

These records primarily document Otto Ladwig and activities of the Hardway sisters as teachers in West Virginia. Includes WV teaching certificates; "pass" certificates for Fairmont State College, and employment related correspondence. Photographs in this series are mostly student group portraits documenting Broaddus College, Lost Creek School, Sheets Mill School, Fairmont State Normal School, and unidentified schools in the early twentieth century.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
    General (includes West Virginia Teaching Certificates, "Pass Certificates" for Fairmont State Normal School, employment related correspondence, and two teacher souvenir cards dating from 1898 and 1905)
    1896-1925
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
    Photograph Album (These candid group portraits appear to be of one or more of the Hardway sisters with their school friends; subjects in picture with Broaddus College pennant in evidence are identified in mounted print in box 4, folder 2.)
    ca.1890s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
    Student Group Portraits (7 mounted prints; subjects include Lost Creek School, Fairmont State Normal School, and Sheets Mill School students with teachers)
    ca.1890s-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
    Broaddus College (2 Postcards, Including Student Group Portrait with Gertrude Hardway, and Image of Building)
    c.1900-1909
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
    Student Group Portraits with Gertrude Hardway as Teacher (5 Items)
    c.1890-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
    Football Team, Unidentified
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
    Student Group Portraits, Unidentified
    ca.1900-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
    Student Group Portraits (6 Mounted Prints; Includes Sheets Mill School, Fairmont State Normal School, and Unidentified Students; Otto Ladwig and One of the Hardway Sisters Are Subjects)
    ca.1890-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
    Group Portraits (3 mounted prints; includes 2 student group portraits with Margaret Hardway, teacher; 1 teacher group portrait with Gertrude Hardway)
    ca.1900-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
    Student Group Portraits (Includes Cornelia Ladwig as Subject)
    ca.1920-1935
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Series 6. Evenwood, West Virginia, Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 1907-1921, 1938
Scope and Contents

Consists primarily of photographic documentation of Dr. Ladwig's family, and the lumber mill at Evenwood where Otto Ladwig was employed. Also includes Evenwood related ephemera.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
    General (8 Items; Includes Sunday School Souvenir, Class Souvenir, Calendar with Evenwood, WV Scene, etc.)
    ca.1916-1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
    Photographs (Includes: 5 Postcards of Otto Ladwig and Family at Home; 2 Mounted Print Group Portraits of Students and Teachers of Evenwood School)
    ca.1912-1914
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
    Photographic Postcards (Includes 19 Postcards and 3 Prints; Documents Primarily the Town Lumber Company; Some Pictures Include Dr. Otto Ladwig; Subjects Are Identified by Referencing Numbers on Photos to List in This Folder)
    ca.1907-1912, 1938
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Series 7. Postcards -- West Virginia, Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 1907-1911
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 items, one of which is double-sized; subjects include various aspects of Lost Creek, Clarksburg, Gassaway, New Martinsville, Rainelle, Richwood, and a birds-eye view of Elkins.

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Series 8. Ephemera -- West Virginia University, Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 1930-1934
Scope and Contents

Contains 5 items, including 2 student activity books, and 3 football schedules.

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Series 9. Cornelia Ladwig Papers (Daughter of Dr. Otto Ladwig and Mrs. Calora Ladwig), Box 5
Mixed Materials Box: 5 ca.1915-1945
Scope and Contents

These papers include mostly incoming letters and photographs documenting Cornelia's service in the Red Cross during World War II. Her outgoing letters are not in this collection. 1915-1945.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
    Photographic Portraits and Service in Red Cross Dining WWII (7 items)
    ca.1915-1945
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2
    General (includes receipts, certificates, ration cards, etc.)
    ca.1943-1945
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
    Correspondence -- Incoming Letters (Cornelia's outgoing letters are not in this collection.)
    ca.1943-1945
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
    Greeting Cards
    ca.1943-1945
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Series 10. Oversized Photographs, Box 6
Mixed Materials Box: 6 ca.1870-1935
  • Student Group Portrait -- "Victory High School" of Clarksburg, WV (2 prints. subjects identified)
    1930/05/30
  • Student Group Portrait, Unidentified
    ca.1920-1935
  • Group Portrait, Unidentified
    ca.1870-1885
  • "Territory Leadership Dinner" (Clarksburg, WV)
    1935/02/16
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Series 11. Certificates -- Cornelia Ladwig, Box 6
Mixed Materials Box: 6 ca. 1920-1945
Scope and Contents

Includes baptism, public attendance, penmanship, etc.

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