Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, 1784-ca. 2010s A&M 3950

Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, 1784-ca. 2010s A&M 3950


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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center

Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 3950
Title
Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown 1784-ca. 2010s ca. 1880s-2010
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198665
Quantity
37.21 Linear Feet, 37 ft. 2 1/2 in. (31 document cases, 5 in. each); (19 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (4 records carton, 15 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 5 in.); (21 large flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (10 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (2 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (17 flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each); (4 large flat storage boxes, 1 in. each) (1 artifact box, 6 in.); (1 notecard box, 4 in.); (6 oversize folders, 1 in.); (unfoldered items, 24 in. total)
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
Abstract
Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, A&M 3950, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.


Biographical / Historical

Vaughn L. Kiger is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey & Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.

Kiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.

Kiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.

Vaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John.

Scope and Contents

Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.

Series include:
Series 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B.
Series 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9.
Series 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14.
Series 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15.
Series 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16.
Series 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20.
Series 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22.
Series 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24.
Series 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27.
Series 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders.
Series 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2.
Series 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items.
Series 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87.
Series 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100.
Series 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane).
Series 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104.
Series 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105.
Series 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.

Separated Material

Two volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A&M 1307.

Phi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A&M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.

A book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center.

The following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:

"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.", 1896

West Virginia University Football Schedule, 1934

Foot Ball Program, Morgantown High vs. Masontown High, 1934

Announcement for Town Meeting with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Morgantown, W. Va., undated

"Tales From the Tower: If Woodburn Hall Could Speak" by Barbara Howe, 1997.

"When Tidewater Invaded the Valley" by Lucy Johnston Ambler, 1934 (regarding John Brown)

"The Story of Kenmore" by Vivian Fleming, 1924 (regarding George Washington and a Fredericksburg plantation)

"Wakefield, Birthplace of George Washington" by Charles Moore, 1932

"The Washington Manor House" by Ethel Armes, 1922 (home of George Washington's ancestors)

The following were separated to the main book collection:

Byrd, Robert C. The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.

Byrd, Robert C. and Wendy Wolff. The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.

Butcher, Bernard L., and James M. Callahan. Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.

One copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915.


Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Cheat Lake (W. Va.)
  • Geiger family
  • Kiger, Vaughn L.
  • Lee family
  • Lemley family
  • Lemley, Samuel Newton
  • Monongalia County (W. Va.)
  • Morgantown (W. Va.)
  • Morgantown High School (Morgantown, W. Va.)
  • Real property
  • Robinson family
  • Robinson family
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
  • West Virginia Mountaineers (Football team)
  • West Virginia University

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Cheat Lake (W. Va.)
  • Monongalia County (W. Va.)
  • Morgantown (W. Va.)

Container List

Series 1. Correspondence
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Mixed Materials Box: 2 Mixed Materials Box: 3A Mixed Materials Box: 3B 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated).

Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document.

The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
    Manuscript Journal (most likely an individual diary or notebook; the name Jedidiah/Zedidiah W. Johnson is written multiple times on the first few pages; journal includes description of Santa Fe, New Mexico and frontier life written as a draft letter to newspaper editors; also includes quotations like proverbs or pieces of poetry)
    1850-1851
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
    Manuscript Regarding Regimental Court, Monongalia County
    1852
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
    Diary of Mattie Jane Meathull (?) of Morgantown or Clarksburg, (West) Virginia (includes French lessons, class notes, letters, diary entries, two locks of hair sewn into one page, and names and home cities of friends; Mattie was possibly away at school when she used this diary)
    ca. 1860s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
    Ledger Regarding West Virginia College Library Books and College Roll (could be the Baptist-affiliated West Virginia College of Flemington, West Virginia)
    1870s-1890s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
    WVU Admissions Letter Signed by W.P. Willey
    1886
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
    Letters and Manuscripts Regarding Apple Trees, County Histories, and Other Topics (folder 1 of 3; material was all found in one envelope)
    1950s-1990s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
    Printed Material Regarding Friendship Manor and Morgantown Bicentennial (folder 2 of 3)
    ca. 1971-1985
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
    Newspaper Material (folder 3 of 3)
    ca. 1925-1928, 1985-1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
    Miscellaneous (letter with envelope from "Earl" of the WVU Biology Department inviting Mr. and Mrs. Kinnan to the May 1974 Commencement [1974]; Monongalia County Lincoln Day Dinner program [1980])
    1974-1980
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
    J.W. Wiles Stationery
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
    Monongalia County Survey with Plat
    1784
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
    Huston and Demain Bill for William Price
    1895
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3-4
    Pennsylvania and West Virginia Societies of Sons of the Revolution
    1971-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
    Material Regarding J.R. Clifford
    1988-2005, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
    Autographed Photograph and Letter -- Governor Rockefeller and West Virginia Real Estate Commission (WVREC) Bill Signing
    1980
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
    National Bank of West Virginia -- Photos of Board of Directors and Clippings
    1990
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
    WVREC -- Commissioners' Photos
    1990
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
    WVREC -- Copy of 1937 WVREC-related Law
    1991
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
    WVREC -- Correspondence
    1990-1991
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
    Autographed Photograph and Letter -- Jay Rockefeller
    1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
    Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce Past Presidents and Other Material
    1995-1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
    Speech by Vaughn Kiger on Governor Caperton Day
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
    Willey Law Offices 178 Chancery Row National Register Historic Nomination
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
    West Virginia Election 1888 (mostly photocopies)
    ca. 2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
    Terry T. Jones Retirement Banquet
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
    Mountaineer Ambassadors
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
    Real Estate Seminar Material
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19
    Judge Frank Cox House, 206 Spruce Street, Morgantown, WV -- Floor Plans
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20
    Photos and Drawings of Buildings
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21
    "Misc. Court House" and Kiger Business Papers
    1960s-1990s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22
    Greeting Card from Al Gore and Family
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23
    Miscellaneous
    1973-2004, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 1
    Political -- from Bill Clinton (form letters)
    1992-1998, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 2
    Political -- from Al Gore (form letter and greeting card)
    1996-1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 3
    Political -- from "Americans for Change" Presidential Task Force
    1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 4
    Political -- from Clinton/Gore '96
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 5
    Political -- from Democratic National Committee
    1992-1996, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 6
    Political -- from Democratic National Committee (includes commemorative photo prints)
    1995-1998, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 7
    Political -- from Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (includes commemorative photo prints)
    1995-1998, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 8
    Political -- Miscellaneous
    1992-1996, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A Folder: 9
    Postcards of Statue of Liberty and San Francisco (only Statue of Liberty postcard is used)
    1988-1997, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3A unfoldered
    Political -- Clinton/Gore '96 Folder
    ca. 1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 1
    First National Bank
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 2
    2004 Political Campaign -- Lloyd Jackson
    2003-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 3
    2004 Political Campaign -- Joe Manchin
    2004-2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 4
    2004 Political Campaign -- John Kerry
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 5
    2004 Political Campaign -- Mike Oliverio
    2003-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 6
    2004 Political Campaign -- John Purdue
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 7
    2004 Political Campaign -- Jim Rowe, Monty Warner
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3B Folder: 8
    2004 Political Campaign -- Other Candidates
    ca. 2004
Series 2. Lemley Family Material
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Mixed Materials Box: 5 Mixed Materials Box: 6 Mixed Materials Box: 7 Mixed Materials Box: 8 Mixed Materials Box: 9 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated
Scope and Contents

This series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts.

Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service.

Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos.

Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books.

The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information.

See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
    Personal Letter (from man in Dawson, IL to unknown recipient)
    1861
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2-3
    Samuel Lemley Correspondence
    1930s-1940s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence -- Scripts, Poems, Religion
    1943-1955, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence
    1952-1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6-7
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence -- From Nephew Michael Dimmick (19 letters; December 1968 letter includes a church program)
    1968-1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence
    ca. 1968-1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence
    ca. 1969-1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10
    Mrs. Icie Lemley Correspondence
    1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11
    Correspondence -- Greeting Cards with Photos, Etc.
    1946-1966
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12
    Correspondence -- Greeting Cards with Photos, Etc.
    1950s-1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 13
    Correspondence -- Greeting Cards with Photos, Etc. -- Water Damage
    1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 14
    Correspondence -- Postcards, Letters, Etc.
    1950s-1970s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
    Mounted Photos, Identified
    1944, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2
    WWII Photos (occupation of Japan)
    1946, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3
    Photos from Tokyo, Japan, Etc.
    ca. 1946, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4-11
    Family Photos, Etc.
    ca. 1930s-1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12
    Family Photos, Water Damaged
    ca. 1950s-1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 13
    Family Photos, Etc.
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 14
    Small Portrait Photos
    ca. 1950s-1970s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 15
    Real Photo Postcards and Older Photo
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 16
    Negatives of Tokyo Photos and Other Subjects
    ca. 1946, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 17-19
    Negatives
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 20-21
    Framed Photos
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1-4
    Clippings -- Obituaries, Social Events, Etc.
    ca. 1940s-1960s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5-6
    Clippings
    1940s-1950s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
    Red and Blue Journal (Morgantown High School newspaper, various issues)
    1933-1934
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
    Ephemera and Miscellaneous
    ca. 1930s-1940s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
    Programs, Religious
    ca. 1934-1950
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
    Programs and Other Printed Material, Hi-Y Club
    1933-1934
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
    Programs and Other Printed Material, Morgantown High School and University High School
    1930s-1940s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
    Programs, WVU
    1938
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
    Programs, Miscellaneous
    1933, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
    Miscellaneous Printed Material
    1930s-1940s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
    Samuel N. Lemley's B.A. Diploma from WVU
    1938
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
    WWII Ration Books
    ca. 1940s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
    Icie Lemley's Diary
    1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1
    W. Lawrence Lemley's Bible (includes family genealogy information)
    ca. 1928
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Two Color-Tinted Black and White Portraits in Frames, Unidentified Subjects
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Grandma Lemley's Medicine Spoon (with note regarding provenance)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Western Pennsylvania I.O.O.F. Cap
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Yellow Guest Ribbon for "Jubilee Year 1819 -1939, Morgantown, W.Va. Fraternal Visit to Western Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh April 29-30, 1939"
    1939
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Fabric with "Hi-Y Minstrel" Written on It
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Blue and Red Ribbons
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 unfoldered
    Piece of Wood
    undated
Series 3. Photographs
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Mixed Materials Box: 11 Mixed Materials Box: 12A Mixed Materials Box: 12B Mixed Materials Box: 12C Mixed Materials Box: 12D Mixed Materials Box: 13 Mixed Materials Box: 14 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject.

Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players.

Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown.

Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated).

Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects.

Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects.

Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1
    Cabinet Cards -- Identified
    1880s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2-3
    Cabinet Cards -- Unidentified
    ca. 1870-1890, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4
    Cabinet Cards -- From Morgantown WV Pictures Envelope
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5
    Mounted -- From Morgantown WV Pictures Envelope -- Group Portraits
    1918-1930, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6
    Mounted -- From Morgantown WV Pictures Envelope -- Interiors and Exteriors of Shops
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 7
    Mounted -- Interiors and Exteriors of Shops
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 8
    Mounted -- From Morgantown WV Pictures Envelope -- Scenery and Crashed Riverboat
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 9
    Mounted -- Cities and Scenery
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 10
    Mounted -- Group Portraits, Identified
    1910s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 11
    Mounted -- Group Portraits, Identified, Delicate
    1900s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 12
    Mounted -- Group Portraits, Unidentified
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 13
    Mounted -- Individual and Group Portraits, Most Unidentified
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1
    Mounted -- Senator McDermott's Horse
    ca. 1900s?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2
    Mounted -- James Pietro Construction
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3
    Mounted -- Miscellaneous
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4
    Mounted -- Mantini Envelope No. 1, Cheat Lake Photos
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5
    Mounted -- Mantini Envelope No. 2, Copies of Cheat Lake Photos (originals in previous folder)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6
    Mounted -- Mantini Envelope No. 3, Photo of House
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7
    Mounted -- Mantini Envelope No. 4, Photos of House and Rockley on Cheat
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8
    Mounted and Prints -- Individual and Group Portraits
    1905, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 9
    Cyanotypes of Dog and River
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 10
    Negatives
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 11
    Real Photo Postcard of Fred Hewitt with Supporting Documents
    1910s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 12
    Real Photo Postcards
    1900s-1910s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 13-14
    Stereo Cards
    ca. 1890s-1900s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 1
    Prints -- Cheat Lake Area -- Lone Pine Camp, Etc.
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 2
    Prints -- Fairmont, WV -- W.H. Ice
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 3
    Clipping and Photocopy, Westover Bridge
    1909
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 4
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Baseball League Group Portrait, and Menu with League Schedule
    late 1930s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 5
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Country Club
    ca. 1950s?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 6
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Low Water in Monongahela River
    1930?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 7
    Prints -- Morgantown -- People
    1926-1948, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 8
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Places
    ca. 1910s-1950s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 9
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Richwood Avenue
    1936-1937
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 10
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Thomas Ray Dillie and Grace York White in front of Law Office on Chancery Row
    ca. 1910s?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 11
    Prints -- Morgantown -- Tornado Damage
    1929?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 12
    Prints -- Morgantown -- WVU
    1920s-1960s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 13
    Prints -- From Morgantown WV Pictures Envelope
    1920s-1960s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 14-16
    Prints -- Family Photos (includes photos of Morgantown and WVU)
    1930s-1950s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 17
    Prints and Other Material -- Fitch Family Photos (group and individual photos, Rockley on Cheat scenery)
    1930, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 18
    Prints -- Morgantown? -- Home Front, World War I
    1918
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 19
    Prints -- Miscellaneous People and Places
    1930s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 20
    Prints -- Unidentified Scenery
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12A Folder: 21
    Prints and Other Material -- Waitman T. Willey Photo and Short Biography
    ca. late 1800s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 1
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Morgantown Viewed from Westover, WV
    ca. 1887
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 2
    Framed Outdoor Scene of Workers and Equipment at Agricultural Experiment Station Farm, WVU
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 3
    Framed Outdoor Scene of Winter View from Sunnyside of West Virginia University and Morgantown, WV
    ca. 1893-1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 4
    Framed Outdoor Scene of 5 High Street, Morgantown, WV, in the Snow
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 5
    Framed Interior Scene of WVU Agricultural Experiment Station Library
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 6
    Framed Interior Scene of WVU Agricultural Experiment Station's Horticulture Room
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 7
    Framed Interior Scene, Possibly a Chapel
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 8
    Framed Group Portrait, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members, Morgantown, WV
    May 30, 1918
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 9
    Framed Group Portrait of WVU Football Team
    1891
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 10
    Framed Photo of WVU Agricultural Experiment Station
    ca. 1891
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 11
    Framed Photo of Home of the Late Judge J.M. Hogans in Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 12
    Framed Photo of Home of James C. Frazer, 615 Grand Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 13
    Framed Photo of Evans House on the Southeast Corner of Spruce and Willey Streets, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 14
    Framed Photo of Home of Hattie Tennant on Southeast Corner of Spruce and Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 15
    Framed Photo of Aaron Garlow House, 351 Spruce Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 16
    Framed Photo of Old Stone House, Chestnut Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 17
    Framed Photo of Church on Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 18
    Framed Photo of Buildings and Church on Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 19
    Framed Photo of Buildings and Church on Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV
    1893
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12B Folder: 20
    Framed Photo of Judge Isaac Grant Lazzelle House, 515 Grand Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 1
    Framed Photo of Stewart Hall, WVU
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 2
    Framed Photo of Home of Zackquill Morgan on Corner of University and Fayette Street, Morgantown, WV
    ca. 1920-1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 3
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Home of Senator J. H. McDermott on Kirk Street, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 4
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Horse and Buggy on the Pleasant Street Bridge to South Park, Morgantown, WV
    ca. 1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 5
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Wool Market, Morgantown, WV
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 6
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Suspension Bridge Across Monongahela River, Morgantown, WV
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12C Folder: 7
    Framed Outdoor Scene, Group of Men Standing on Bridge, Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12D Folder: 1
    Senator Robert C. Byrd Fundraiser Documents
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12D Folder: 2-4
    Senator Robert C. Byrd Fundraiser (negatives and prints)
    November 22, 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12D Folder: 5
    Framed Group Portrait of WVU Board of Governors (subjects identified)
    2001 or 2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1-2
    Cabinet Cards and Mounted Photos -- WVU Football Players
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3-5
    Prints -- WVU Football Players
    1920s-1940s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 6
    Prints and Other Material -- Miscellaneous WVU Football Players
    1919-1946, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 7
    Unmatched Name Cards
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 8
    Print -- Damaged -- WVU Football Player
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1
    Prints and Postcards, Mostly Morgantown Area
    1870s-1930s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2-3
    Album of Postcards, Prints, Correspondence
    1900s-1920s, 1965, 1998, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4
    Album of Family Photo Prints
    ca. 1920s, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 5
    Scrapbook Pages -- Morgantown Area Photos
    ca. 1920s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 6
    Scrapbook Page -- Sesquicentennial Morgantown Parade Photos, Etc.
    1935
Series 4. Ley Family Material
Mixed Materials Box: 15 1856-1956, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A&M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers.

The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau.

The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1
    Biographical Material about Lillie Climer Ley Robinson/Robison and Mont Chateau Hotel
    1956
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2
    Financial Material of Christian S. and Ellen M. Ley
    1856-1884
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3
    Financial Material of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Robinson/Robison
    1893-1923
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4
    Ley Correspondence (recipient: C.S. Ley)
    1858-1879
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5
    Ley Correspondence, Damaged (recipient: C.S. Ley)
    1879-1883
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6
    Ley Correspondence (recipients: C.S., Lillie, and Will/Billy Ley)
    1880-1885
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 7
    Ley Correspondence (recipients: C.S., Lillie, Will, and John/J.S. Ley)
    1886-1889
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 8
    Ley Correspondence (recipients: C.S., Lillie, and Ida Ley)
    1890
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 9
    Ley Correspondence (recipients: C.S. and Will Ley)
    1892, 1895
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 10
    Ley Correspondence (recipients: Lillie and Will Ley)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 11
    Robison/Robinson Correspondence (recipients: Lillie and George)
    1891-1895
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 12
    Robison/Robinson Correspondence (recipients: Lillie and George, and their hotel)
    1896-1899
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 13
    Robison/Robinson Correspondence (recipients: Lillie and George)
    1901-1908
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 14
    Robison/Robinson Correspondence (recipients: Lillie and George)
    1913-1925
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 15
    Robison/Robinson Correspondence (recipients: Lillie, George, and Edna)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 16
    Blosser Papers (includes photographs, printed material, and correspondence; subjects include Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau; see also box 15, folder 1)
    1941-1947, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 17
    Miscellaneous Correspondence (includes a mid-1900s Christmas greeting card with Swedish text and black and white photo)
    1884-1887, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 18
    Ley Album (includes real photo postcards, photographs, correspondence, printed material--some material is water-damaged)
    1875-1886, 1935, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 19
    Album (includes real photo postcards, tintype, ephemera, and an artifact; subjects include Cheat Lake, George Robison/Robinson, and local elections)
    1896-1953, undated
Series 5. Subjects
Mixed Materials Box: 16 2003-2004, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1
    Woodburn Seminary (includes drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2
    Mountain Honorary -- Centennial Program and Related Correspondence
    2003-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3
    Mountain Honorary -- Group Portrait
    ca. 2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 unfoldered
    Mountain Honorary -- Ledger of Membership, 1904-1995 (pages are photocopies)
    undated
Series 6. Printed Material
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Mixed Materials Box: 18 Mixed Materials Box: 19 Mixed Materials Box: 20 1867, 1902-2005, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of  The Athenaeum  (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1
    Rice, Clinton. Manual of the U.S. Bankruptcy Act, 1867: With the Rules, Orders, and Forms of Proceedings Thereunder, Conveniently Annotated, Classified, and Arranged. Washington, D.C.: Philip & Solomons, 1867. (book has G.D. Camden's signature on front endpapers)
    1867
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 1
    Morgantown High School Yearbook
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2
    Morgantown Schools Yearbook
    1923
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 3
    Morgantown High School Yearbook
    1924
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 4
    Morgantown High School Yearbook
    1925
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5
    Various Pamphlets from Morgantown High School (these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1923-1945, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 6
    Program for Little Women , put on by the Senior Class of Saint Francis High School
    1946
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 7-9
    Morgantown's Suburbs, Illustrated (originals, most in poor condition; for photocopy, see P1015)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10
    Morgantown, West Virginia Past and Present (photocopy, undated) and Morgantown Neighborhoods, 2nd Edition (original, 1992) Booklets
    1992, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11
    Morgantown Event Pamphlets and Programs (includes Jascha Heifetz, violinist [1919]; Monongalia County Sesquicentennial [1926]; "Pennsylvania on Parade" [1944]; and Cole Brothers Circus and Clyde Beatty's Gigantic Trained Wild Animal Exhibition [undated]; these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1919-1944, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1
    West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin
    1867
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2
    WVU Football Program (1922), South Carolina Gamecocks Material (1948 and undated), Morgantown Post Page (1949)
    1922-1949, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3
    Various Pamphlets from WVU (these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1923-1962
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4
    Programs for Dulcy , put on by the WVU Dramatic Club
    ca. 1924
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5
    Monticola (WVU yearbook)
    1973
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6
    WVU Foundation and Alumni Association Material (includes pamphlets, correspondence, and ephemera; additional subjects include Academy of Distinguished Alumni, College of Law, Marmaduke H. Dent Society, and Blaney House)
    2002-2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7
    WVU Graduation Weekend Material (includes ephemera)
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8
    West Virginia in color; official volume of the West Virginia Centennial
    1963
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9
    Monongalia County Bicentennial Calendar
    1976
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10
    Nesius, Ernest J. and Kerr W. Crosby. Morgantown, West Virginia, bicentennial pictorial essay, 1985. Morgantown, W. Va.: Morgantown Printing and Binding, 1987.
    1987
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11
    The Athenaeum (WVU student weekly publication, 3 issues)
    March-May 1902
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 12
    Scribbler (WVU literary magazine, volume 1, number 1)
    March 1926
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1
    The West Virginia School Journal and Educator (1 issue, July 1918)
    1918
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2
    WV Geological and Economic Survey Pamphlets (these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1936-1942
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3
    West Virginia Pamphlets (contains Fairview vs. Rivesville basketball program [1963] and Coronation Service of Queen Silva IX [undated]; these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1963, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4
    The West Virginia State Bar 1993 Directory
    1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5
    Stevenson, Amy A. and Rae Jean V. Sielen, eds. Mountain state stories of the people: celebrating West Virginia . Morgantown, W. Va.: Populore Pub. Co., 1997.
    1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 6
    Foley's Family Almanac Pamphlet
    1922
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7
    Historic Shepherdstown Pamphlet
    ca. 1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 8
    Mountain State Forest Festival Program
    1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 9
    New Testament Given to Fred Wyant upon his Graduation (institution unknown) in 1952
    1946
Series 7. Ephemera
Mixed Materials Box: 21 Mixed Materials Box: 22 1854-1959, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 1
    Advertisement Materials from Monongalia County Organizations (includes booklets, business cards, calendars, mailer, and other material)
    1901-1953, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 2
    Tickets and Other Ephemera of Monongalia County Organizations (includes event tickets, Morgantown Country Club golf card, purchase orders, and other material)
    1881-1950, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 3
    Huston & Demain (Morgantown Contractors) Envelopes
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 4
    C.W. Huston Receipt Book or Check Book
    ca. 1890s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 5
    Mont Chateau Inn Envelope Piece
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 6
    WVU Ephemera (includes a military ball dance card (1926), Varsity Club membership card (undated), football schedule (1940), and other material)
    1926-1948, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 7
    William Luzier's WVU Sports Ephemera (includes various football and basketball schedules, sporting event tickets, and other material)
    1944-1959, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 8
    William Luzier's WVU Student Activity Books
    1947-1951
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 9
    William Luzier's WVU Mountainlair Student Cards and WV Learner's Permit
    1948-1951
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 10
    Financial Materials (these items arrived with the Ley family material)
    1854-1889
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 11
    Advertisement and Other Ephemera, Location Unknown
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 1-2
    Jarman Shoes for Men Ads
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 3
    Jockey Men's Underwear Ad
    undated
Series 8. Artifacts
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Mixed Materials Box: 24 ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated
Scope and Contents

This series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 unfoldered
    Heritage Collection Ornaments (contains ornaments depicting WVU's Colson Hall [1], E. Moore Hall [6], Chitwood Hall [5], and Woodburn Hall [4]; Morgantown High School [1]; and the West Virginia State Flag [10])
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 unfoldered
    Ornament of the Dr. and Mrs. James A. Cox House
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Red-O-Led Drawing Plaster Product Display Box
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Two A.S. & T.P. Company Sabraton Works Pay Roll Cards for Melvin Graham
    ca. 1914-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Two Baldwin Advertisement Pocket Mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company of Morgantown and Fairmont, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Paper Puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company of Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Senator Byrd Campaign Sticker
    ca. 2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 unfoldered
    Jay Campaign Pin
    undated
Series 9. Scrapbooks
Mixed Materials Box: 25 Mixed Materials Box: 26 Mixed Materials Box: 27 ca. 1880s-1988
Scope and Contents

This series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 25 unfoldered
    Virginia Esther Cole's Morgantown High School Scrapbook (includes photographs, printed material, ephemera, correspondence, artifacts, and other material regarding her time at MHS, sporting events, friends, etc.)
    ca. 1918-1923
  • Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 1
    Loose Items Found in Virginia Esther Cole's Morgantown High School Scrapbook (includes pamphlets from local events)
    ca. 1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 26 unfoldered
    Eleanor Bolyard Scrapbook (includes photographs but mainly newspaper clippings; subject is mainly 1942 Morgantown High School graduates' military service and marriages)
    ca. 1942-1948
  • Mixed Materials Box: 26 unfoldered
    Eva Coffman's WVU Scrapbook (from Eva's time in summer school; includes photos, ephemera, correspondence; subjects include Cheat Lake, McVicker's Drug Store, Morgantown Bathing Beach, Cooper's Rock, and Hawaii)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 unfoldered
    Colonel Thomas M. Davies III, Morgantown, WV Scrapbook (note on cover: "Album used for Photography Class WVU June 1967"; includes notes regarding the class, photographs, negatives, newspaper clippings, correspondence, printed materials; photographs include prints made of items dating back to the 1880s; subjects include Davies, family, airplanes, gravestones, WVU and Morgantown buildings, and more)
    ca. 1880s-1988
Series 10. Oversize
Mixed Materials Box: 28-64 Mixed Materials unboxed Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undatedBulk, 1880–1940
Scope and Contents

This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:

Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23.

Oversize--Artwork & Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25.
Oversize--Architectural Drawings & Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet.
Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1.
Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2.
Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 28-49 Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 1-4 Mixed Materials Box: 51 Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Mixed Materials unboxed
    Oversize--Photographs
    ca. 1880s - 2010s, undatedBulk, 1900–1930
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs.

    Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include:
    group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911);
    the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904);
    the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated);
    WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947);
    composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I;
    portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker);
    Deering Day parade (undated); and
    buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated).

    Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include:
    the Brewer family (1927, undated);
    WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated);
    portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated);
    exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated);
    outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and
    additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects.

    Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982).

    Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 28 unfoldered
      Cabinet Card Album (includes individual and group portraits, subjects unidentified, possibly Renner family)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 29 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Farmers Week, January 5-9, 1920
      1920
    • Mixed Materials Box: 29 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown High School Football Team (each subject named)
      1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 29 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Unidentified Large Group of Men in Ties
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 30 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Unidentified Group (subjects include mostly youth, possibly a school group)
      ca. early 1900s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 30 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Unidentified Group (subjects include mostly youth, possibly a school group)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 31 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (Morgantown, WV; top row, left to right: I. Grant Lazzelle, D.C. Hoffman, Samuel Hackney, S.A. Posten, M.L. Brown, J.M. Wood; second row: [possibly] J.A. Martin, George C. Baker, L.S. Brock, T.W. Anderson, [possibly] J.M. Gregg, W.E. Arnett, Layton Coombs; bottom row: A.W. Lorentz, George C. Sturgiss, Reverend M.F. Compton, J.A. Davis, P.S. Johnson; possibly not pictured: R.A. Armstrong, W.P. Willey, R.W. Douthat, W.E. Glasscock)
      1904
    • Mixed Materials Box: 32 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown High School Graduating Class of 1909 (boy in front row, third from left is Roscoe Posten, Hale J. Posten's brother)
      1909
    • Mixed Materials Box: 33 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown High School Class of 1907 (some subjects identified; includes Charles George Baker, with a note about him on reverse)
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown, WV Lions Club
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown, WV Lions Club
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown, WV Lions Club
      1934
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait Composite or Sketch Composite of Confederate Commanders (created by Notman)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Men from Morgantown Leaving to Join the Army in World War II
      1943
    • Mixed Materials Box: 34 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of WVU ROTC Band
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 35 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Large Group of Men in Ties (all subjects are identified, but not the group itself; includes Charles George Baker)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 35 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait, "Harmony Grove Picnic, Sept. 21st 07"
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 35 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Three Monongalia County Commissioners (note on reverse includes the words "on 2nd floor, one is Keener, early 1900s")
      early 1900s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 35 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Unidentified Subjects outside a Building (includes two men and two women, all older)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 36 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of WVU Mountaineers Football Team (note on reverse includes the 1939-1940 schedule of games, with some scores recorded)
      1939
    • Mixed Materials Box: 36 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Football Team, Possibly WVU
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 36 unfoldered
      Framed Color Group Portrait of WVU Football Team ("1975 Peach Bowl Champions"; subjects are identified)
      1975
    • Mixed Materials Box: 36 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Jamison Family (taken outside at Jamison Family Farm, River Road, Harmony Grove, WV [Morgantown, WV]; subjects are identified; note on reverse also lists John Harry Jamison's children)
      ca. 1900
    • Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 1
      Framed Group Portrait of Morgantown High School Baseball Team (framed removed for preservation; all subjects identified)
      1911
    • Mixed Materials Box: 37 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Monongahela West Penn American Legion Junior League Baseball Team ("State Champs"; Morgantown, WV)
      1929
    • Mixed Materials Box: 37 unfoldered
      Framed Composite "Group A. West Virginia Lawyers who Served in the Military or Naval Service of the United States Government in the World War: 1917-19" (each subject is identified with rank, name, and city)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 38 unfoldered
      Framed Composite of Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1863-1960 (each subject is identified with name, county, and date range)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 38 unfoldered
      Framed Composite of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners and Executive Directors from 1937-1982 (each subject is identified with name, county of origin [except for the executive directors], and date range)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 38 unfoldered
      Framed Composite of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners and Executive Directors from 1937-2012 (commemorating 75th anniversary of the Commission; each subject is identified with name, county of origin [except for the executive directors], and date range)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 39 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of Mayor Joseph Moreland (father of Bill Moreland)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 39 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of George Rogers of Rogers House on Willey Street (George Rogers developed Morgantown's Woodburn neighborhood)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 39 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of Unidentified Man with Beard
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 40 unfoldered
      Framed Portraits of Reverend J.V. Potter and Wife Reverend Anna Potter (frame contains a portrait of Rev. J.V. Potter as a younger man, with an added photo of his wife as an older woman)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 40 unfoldered
      Framed Color Portrait of A. James Manchin (includes note from "Jimbo" to Vaughn Kiger)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 40 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of Jay Rockefeller
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 41 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of a Young George Baker
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of a Middle Aged George C. Baker
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of an Older George C. Baker
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 unfoldered
      Framed Candid Photo of Older George C. Baker
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 1
      Print Portrait of Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 1
      Print Group Portrait of 1963-1964 Masonic Division [?] Bowling Champions (subjects identified; includes Charles G. Baker)
      ca. 1963-1964
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 1
      Print Group Portrait of Kappa Alpha Order [?] Officers (subjects identified; includes Charles G. Baker as Commander of Wood Province)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 2
      Manuscript Tribute to Juliette Boyers Baker (wife of George C. Baker; manuscript was made by Mrs. Lough at a Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] meeting)
      1941
    • Mixed Materials Box: 43 unfoldered
      Framed Cabinet Card Portrait of Dr. Brock (of Drs. Brock, [Reed,] and Wade)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 43 unfoldered
      Framed Cabinet Card Portrait of Dr. Reed (of Drs. Brock, [Reed,] and Wade)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 43 unfoldered
      Framed Portrait of Dr. Wade (of Drs. Brock, [Reed,] and Wade)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 43 Folder: 1
      Envelope with Identifying Information regarding Brock, Reed, and Wade Photos
      1999
    • Mixed Materials Box: 43 Folder: 1
      Semi-Annual Statement from Drs. Brock and Wade to Mr. George Robinson [?]
      1902
    • Mixed Materials Box: 44 unfoldered
      Framed Color Portrait of Jerry West and his #44 WVU Basketball Jersey (with unidentified signature)
      ca. 2010s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 45 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Deering Day Parade
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 45 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Deering Day Parade
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 45 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Deering Day Parade Participants in a Field
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 45 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Elizabeth Moore Hall
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 45 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Pietro Family in Front of their House
      ca. 1909-1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 46 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Monongalia County Courthouse, Morgantown, WV
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 46 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Evans-Dille House on 889 River View Drive
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 46 unfoldered
      Framed Photo of Log Cabin, Morgantown, WV Area
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 47 unfoldered
      Framed Poster of 1946-1947 Mountaineers WVU Basketball Team (photos are labeled but fading)
      ca. 1946-1947
    • Mixed Materials Box: 47 unfoldered
      Framed Group Portrait of Men Outside, with Boy and Dogs (possibly a hunting party; labeled "Beech-wood")
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 47 unfoldered
      Mounted Series of Five Candid Photos of "WVU Students Celebrating Victory" (photos of large groups of people on the streets of downtown Morgantown)
      1928
    • Mixed Materials Box: 47 Folder: 1
      Mounted Group Portrait of Brewer Family (includes note with name of another individual in the photo which is not decipherable)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 47 Folder: 1
      Mounted Group Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. D.S. Brewer and Family at their Golden Wedding Anniversary (December 25, 1927)
      1927
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo of Three Players of WVU Football Team (Harlan Courtright class of 1907, Mont Earle Morgan class of 1904, and Floyd Simmons class of 1906; all three were members of Phi Kappa Psi West Virginia Alpha Chapter; includes mounted photo [1903], photocopies of photo, photocopied pages from the 1905 Monticola, and newspaper article [undated])
      1903-1905, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 1
      Mounted Group Portrait of Athletic Team (possibly basketball)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 1
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Baseball Team (marked "W.V. Alumnae 1921"; reverse marked "Errett Rogers")
      1921
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 2
      Mounted Copy of Group Portrait of First WVU Football Team (reverse marked "Property of Frank M. Dent McVicker's Drug Store")
      1891
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 2
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Football Team (reverse marked "Mountaineers of 1924")
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 2
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Football Team (reverse marked "W.Va. Team of 1928")
      1928
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 2
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Football Team (reverse marked "WVU Freshmen 1928" "and "Property of Frank M. Dent McVicker's Drug Store")
      1928
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 3
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Football Players (includes note with the names of the six men pictured, as well as E.E. Harris's business card [University photographer])
      ca. 1920s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 3
      Mounted Group Portrait of the [West Virginia] Wesleyan Bobcats Football or Baseball Team
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 4
      Mounted Outdoor Portrait of Ross McHenry, Guard and Tackle, WVU Football
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 4
      Mounted Outdoor Portrait of Mike Leatherwood, Captain, WVU Football
      1915
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 4
      Mounted Outdoor Portrait of Pete Barnum, WVU Football (according to note, "Brother of Freshman Coach Feets/Felts [?] Barnum")
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 4
      Mounted Outdoor Portraits of Dr. Spears ("of Minn. and WVU") and "Hurry Up" Yost ("of W.Va. and Mich."), WVU Football
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 5
      Mounted Group Portrait at Sangstone's Boarding House, 2nd Street, Sunnyside, Morgantown, WV (note on reverse: "Boarding Club of winter and spring 1904")
      1904
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 5
      Mounted Group Portrait of Men at WVU
      ca. 1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 5
      Mounted Group Portrait of Men at WVU
      1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 5
      Mounted Group Portrait of the Young Men's Christian Association at WVU
      1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 6
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Cadets
      ca. 1880s-1910s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 6
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Cadets
      ca. 1880s-1910s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 6
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Cadets
      ca. 1880s-1910s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 7
      Mounted Group Portrait of WVU Alumni [?] on Sports Field (photo probably includes Mrs. Ethel Friend)
      1919
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 7
      Mounted Group Portrait at Farmer's Week, WVU
      1917
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 7
      Mounted Group Portrait of Unidentified WVU Sorority (includes Helen Houston Courtney)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 8
      Mounted Group Portrait of Morgantown Concert Band
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 8
      Mounted Composite Portraits, St. Mary's of the Mount
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 8
      Mounted Group Portrait of Three Police Officers and Chief of Police (unidentified)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 9
      Mounted Portrait of Frank M. Dent (owner of McVickers Drug Store)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 9
      Mounted Portrait of Gaylord Hess Dent (owner of McVickers Drug Store)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 9
      Mounted Photo of Mantle Displaying Dent Family Materials (shows portraits of Gaylord Hess Dent and Frank M. Dent, and a certificate for the compounding of one million prescriptions at their McVicker's Drug Store in 1956)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo "Exhibit Woodfill No. 2", Man Standing on Dirt Road (from L.V. Harner et al vs. County of Monongalia, filed with deposition of A.L. Woodfill, L.B. West Notary)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo "Exhibit Woodfill No. 3", Railroad Track and Telephone Poles (from L.V. Harner et al vs. County of Monongalia, filed with deposition of A.L. Woodfill, L.B. West Notary)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo "Exhibit Woodfill No. 6", Covered Bridge over Ravine (from L.V. Harner et al vs. County of Monongalia, filed with deposition of A.L. Woodfill, L.B. West Notary)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo "Exhibit Woodfill No. 9", Railroad Tracks with Back of Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Rail Car (from L.V. Harner et al vs. County of Monongalia, filed with deposition of A.L. Woodfill, L.B. West Notary)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 1
      Mounted Photo "Exhibit Woodfill No. 10", Man Standing in Field (from L.V. Harner et al vs. Monongalia County, filed with deposition of A.L. Woodfill, L.B. West Notary)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 2
      Two Identical Mounted Photos of Canoe on River or Lake (possibly the Cheat)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 2
      Mounted Color Photo of Cabin and Water at Rockley-on-Cheat
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 2
      Mounted Color Photo of Snowy Cabin and Surroundings at Rockley-on-Cheat [?] in Winter
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 2
      Mounted Photo of House Near Water at Rockley-on-Cheat
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 2
      Mounted Photo of Cheat Lake or River
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 3
      Mounted Color Photo of Cottage at Mont Chateau (possibly taken by Herbert Colebrook)
      1922 (?)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 4
      Mounted Aerial Photo of Fort Martin Power Plant
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 5
      Mounted Aerial Photo of WVU Old Stadium and Campus
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: drawer 18
      Mounted Photo of Washington and Jefferson Varsity Football Squad (score recorded on back is WVU-40, W&J-7)
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: top of cabinet
      Damaged Poster of 1924 WVU Football Team (includes individual outdoor portraits of named players)
      ca. 1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 1
      Print Photo of Lake Lynn with Recently Built Dam (Lake Lynn is now known as Cheat Lake)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 2
      Print Photos Showing Aerial Views of Morgantown, WV (two photos of Monongahela River with WVU campus and old football stadium visible; one photo showing the river, the Westover bridge, and downtown; note on original container said "from General Woodworking")
      ca. 1950s?
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 3
      Print Photo of Old Mountaineer Field (in color; this was the WVU Football Stadium from 1924-1979)
      pre-1979
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 4
      Composite Photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners, 1937-1982 (contains three copies)
      ca. 1982
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 1
      Panoramic Group Portrait of WVU Football Team
      1925
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Group Portrait of Strangers Bible Class, M.P. Church
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Group Portrait of Strangers Bible Class, M.P. Church
      April 17, 1927
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Photo of West Virginia Tuberculosis Sanitarium Dairy Farm
      July 1928
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Group Portrait of Civilian Conservation Corps Co. 3527, Morgantown, WV (names are typed on the back of the photo)
      September 4, 1940
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Photo of Football Game in Progress
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 51 unfoldered
      Panoramic Group Portrait of Family Reunion? (photo not labeled)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 1, Framed Panoramic Landscape Photo of Morgantown, WV Showing the Monongahela River and the Morgantown Riverfront, Downtown, and WVU Campus
      1903
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Items 2 and 3, Framed Panoramic Group Portraits of Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad Gospel Train, Jerome Park M.E. Church (Ollis A. Snodgrass, Pastor; two copies of same photo)
      February 26, 1911
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 4, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of 12th Annual Session of the Grand Chapter O.E.S. in front of Mechanical Hall, Morgantown, WV
      October 6 or 7, 1915
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 5, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of United States Window Glass Company, Cutting Department, with Inset Portrait of Unidentified Man
      1916
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 6, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Company L, Morgantown, WV (possibly soldiers or ROTC group; photo is very dirty)
      August 1, 1917?
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 7, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Company 5, Morgantown, WV (possibly soldiers or ROTC group)
      1918
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 8, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Monongalia County Registrants Entrained in Morgantown, WV for Camp Lee, VA
      June 26, 1918
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 9, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Monongalia County Registrants Entrained in Morgantown, WV for Camp Meade, MD
      July 21, 1918
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 10, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Monongalia County Registrants Entrained in Morgantown, WV (destination not given)
      September 4, 1918
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 11, Framed Panoramic Photo of the Lawn at the University of Virginia, Facing the Rotunda
      1919
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 12, Framed Panoramic Photo of Morgantown, WV as Viewed from Westover
      1920s
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 13, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, West Virginia Consistory, Frank DeBruin Class (almost all 183 subjects are named)
      June 2, 1921
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 14, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Men Wearing "Candidate" Ribbons (all subjects are named; they are posed in front of the Masonic Temple on High Street, Morgantown, WV)
      October 27, 1921
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Items 15 and 16, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the M.P. (Methodist Protestant?) Sunday School, Spruce Street, Morgantown, WV (two copies of the same photo; label notes that the attendance on that date was 1472, the pastor was Reverend G.G. Shurtz, and the Superintendent was O.O. Donley)
      May 2, 1926
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 17, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the WVU College of Law
      October 15, 1926
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 18, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of Family and Friends (?) at Mr. and Mrs. M McLaughlin's Golden Anniversary
      May 6, 1930
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 19, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the C.E. Convention at First Methodist [Protestant?] Church, Spruce Street, Morgantown, WV
      June 3-6, 1930
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 20, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the Employees of Morgan Shirt Company, Morgantown, WV
      May 2, 1939
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 21, Framed Panoramic Group Portrait of the Night Shift of the River Seam Coal Company, Booth, WV (also labeled "Tallent Photo"; the miners' names are written on the back)
      August 7, 1940
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 22, Framed Panoramic Photo of Woodburn Circle, WVU Campus, Morgantown, WV
      1981
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 23, Framed Panoramic Photo of Unidentified Town and Surrounding Landscape (photo shows a river with bridge, and trains across the river)
      undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 5-11 Mixed Materials Box: 52-56 Mixed Materials unboxed
    Oversize--Artwork & Picture Prints
    1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 5
      Watercolors of WVU Buildings (contains a watercolor of Moore Hall [1969], WVU Dairy Farm [undated], Chitwood [Science] Hall [undated], Mountainlair {undated], WVU Library [undated], Woodburn Hall [1968], and sketches of people [undated]; note on original folder said "Belonged to Marjorie Buckhols Cleveland, WVU Professor Social Work, Born 8/10/13, Died 9/28/03 90 yrs. old")
      1968-1969, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 6
      Dorsey & Kiger Realtors Christmas House Pictures with Staff (contains two sketches of building with people and one letter from Meredith Pearce regarding the artwork [1989])
      1989-1990
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 7
      Sketches of Two Buildings (original folder labeled Judge Cox House, Dr. Cox House, Morgantown, WV)
      1998
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 8
      Sketch of Stone House, Morgantown, WV
      1965
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 9
      Sketch of Court House #2, Morgantown, WV
      1971
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 10
      Copy of Portrait Painting of Mary Hickey, by Elizabeth Gulland
      ca. 1929
    • Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 11
      Damaged Black and White Drawings of Unidentified Man and Woman
      undated
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 24, Framed Portrait Painting, Waitman T. Willey (signed "HALLAM-1901")
      1901
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 25, Framed Portrait Painting, Waitman T. Willey's Wife, Elizabeth Evans Willey, nee Ray (signed "HALLAM-1901")
      1901
    • Mixed Materials Box: 52 unfoldered
      Pieces of Frames (from Willey's and wife's portraits)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 53 unfoldered
      Framed Sketch of Composite Skyline of Morgantown, WV by Jo and Bill Aull
      1970-1971
    • Mixed Materials Box: 53 unfoldered
      Framed Sketch of Rogers House (Campus Ministry Building) on 293 Willey Street, Morgantown, WV, by Virginia M. Stelzig
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 53 unfoldered
      Framed Sketch of Dorsey Realtor's Office
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 53 unfoldered
      Framed Sketch of "Proposed New Court House at Morgantown, W. Va."
      1900
    • Mixed Materials Box: 53 unfoldered
      Framed Sketch of Unidentified Sawmill
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 54 unfoldered
      Framed Black and White Copy of George Washington Portrait
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 54 unfoldered
      Framed Silhouette of Abraham Lincoln
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 55 unfoldered
      Framed Lithograph of Robert E. Lee and His Generals
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 55 unfoldered
      Two Framed Prints of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Sold to Benefit the Jackson Monument Association
      1871
    • Mixed Materials Box: 55 unfoldered
      Framed Print of George Washington Entering New York (from The Christian Herald February 20, 1907, page 150)
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 56 unfoldered
      Framed Print of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 56 unfoldered
      Framed Print of Robert E. Lee
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 56 unfoldered
      Framed Print Titled "Treaty with the Creek Indians"
      undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Mixed Materials unboxed
    Oversize--Architectural Drawings & Maps
    1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.

    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: drawer 18
      Various Architectural Drawings for Proposed Masonic Temple in Morgantown, WV, Architect John H. Harman
      1915-1916
    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: drawer 18
      Westbrook Heights Storm Drainage Plan, Morgan District, Monongalia County, WV (Williams Engineering Company, Developer: Selba Corporation)
      1987
    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: drawer 18
      Eight Architectural Drawings for Fort Morgan Plaza, Morgantown, WV by Vlastimil Koubek
      1972
    • Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet Folder: drawer 18
      Two Sheets of Details Accompanying Architectural Plans for Mr. S.G. Chadwick Residence, Park Street and Hagans Avenue, Morgantown, WV (property sold to Lewis R. Pellegrin February 4, 1949; see also box 57, folders 1 and 2)
      ca. 1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 1
      Specifications for Mr. S.G. Chadwick Residence, Park Street and Hagans Avenue, Morgantown, WV, by Architect Carl Reger (also includes 2 pages describing hardware and hot water heating system)
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 2
      Architectural Plans for Mr. S.G. Chadwick Residence, Park Street and Hagans Avenue, Morgantown, WV (8 separate pages; property sold to Lewis R. Pellegrin February 4, 1949)
      ca. 1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 3
      Two Copies of Plan for Memorial to Old Mountaineer Stadium at WVU, by RJAnkrom Associates
      1989
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 4
      Plat of Valley View Area in Fifth Ward, Morgantown, WV
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 4
      Supplement of New Dominion Outline Map of Monongalia County, WV, Showing Districts
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 4
      Plat of Property Owned by S.E. Diescher of Pittsburgh, PA on Lake Lynn, Monongalia County, WV, Known as Mont Chateau
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 4
      Plats of Survey for John Jamison, Morgantown, WV (shows area around White Avenue and Conrad Place)
      ca. 2004-2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 58 unfoldered Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 1
    Oversize--Historical Manuscripts
    1785-1829
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 58 unfoldered
      Framed Land Grant from Virginia under Governor Patrick Henry to John McClelland (?) (mentions the District of Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio)
      1785
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 1
      Survey of the Lewis Criss/Crist Land in Monongalia County, [West] Virginia (also references Yohogania and Ohio Counties)
      1785
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 1
      Indenture Owed by Richard Philan of Allegany County, Maryland to Lewis Criss/Crist of Monongalia County, [West] Virginia and Others
      1795-1798
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 1
      Indenture between Pindall Daughters and John Shisler (Named parties include the Pindall daughters, Elizabeth, Jemima, and Rachel, and their respective spouses, Forbes Britton [newspaper publisher in Morgantown and Clarksburg], George J. Davisson, and Thomas P. More. The land that they transferred to Shisler is located at the corner of University Street and Pleasant Street in Morgantown, WV. Legal documents were filed with Monongalia County and Harrison County.)
      1818-1820
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 1
      Indenture between Lamar Moore of Harrison County and John Shisler of Monongalia County, [West] Virginia (pertains to a plot of land on Front Street, now University Avenue, in Morgantown, WV)
      1829
  • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 2-7 Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 1-2
    Oversize--Printed Material
    1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the  New Dominion , the Post-Chronicle , and the Dominion Post ;  Dominion Post articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical  The Better Way . Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork & Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 2
      Photocopies of John Leech Illustrations from Unknown Book (14 illustrations depicting horseback riding, fox hunting, and other subjects)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 3
      Prosperity and Education Edition of the New Dominion (Compiled and edited by Justin M. Kunkle. Morgantown, W. Va.: New Dominion Publishing Company, February 1903)
      1903
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 4
      Industrial Edition of the New Dominion (Compiled and edited by Charles J. Holmes. Morgantown, W. Va.: Julian E. Fleming, May 1906)
      1906
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 5
      Industrial Supplement of the Post-Chronicle: Morgantown, The City of Opportunities (Morgantown, W. Va.: Julian E. Fleming, January 16, 1913. 2 copies)
      1913
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 6
      Morgantown District Industrial and Business Survey (title in library catalog: Industrial and business survey of Morgantown District . Compiled and prepared by L.E. McKenzie. Morgantown, W. Va.: Morgantown Chamber of Commerce, 1921. 2 copies)
      1921
    • Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 7
      Dominion Post Sunday "Panorama" Regarding Bicentennial and Quasquicentennial Bonus Edition (2 items, dated June 13, 1976 [item pulled from box 19, folder 4] and March 1, 1992 respectively)
      1976-1992
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 1
      Dominion Post Articles Regarding WVU (3 items, dated May 19, 2004, and May 29-30, 2005; the 2005 article [in two parts] mentions Vaughn Kiger and Phi Sigma Kappa)
      2004-2005
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 2
      Damaged Issue of Spiritualist Periodical The Better Way (Cincinnati: The Better Way Co., August 27, 1892)
      1892
  • Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 1 Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 3-6 Mixed Materials Box: 61 Mixed Materials Box: 62 Mixed Materials Box: 63 Mixed Materials Box: 64 unfoldered Mixed Materials unboxed
    Oversize--Miscellaneous
    1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated
    Scope and Contents

    This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 1
      Washington and Lee Football Team Signs (includes group portrait of team, members' names, and schedule of games; 5 items)
      1938-1941
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 3
      Morgantown Business Advertisements (pertaining to O.B. Fawley Music Company, O.S. Chittum, and Equitable Life Insurance Company)
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 4
      Bank of Morgantown Calendar
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 5
      Broadside for WVU Theatrical Production of "The Whole Town's Talking" (on reverse is photograph of and note regarding possible "Tech" football player "Donohoe--halfback")
      1927, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 5
      "Morgantown Welcomes W.V.U. Students" Broadside
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 5
      "We're for You Mountaineers" Broadside
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 6
      Various Certificates Pertaining to the West Virginia Realtor's Institute
      1975-1989
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      Sample of Official Ballot of the Republican Party Primary Election, May 12, 1936 (includes national, state, Preston County, WV, and Grant District tickets)
      1936
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      Sample of Official Ballot of the Democratic Party Primary Election, May 12, 1936 (includes national, state, Preston County, WV, and Grant District tickets)
      1936
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      Advertisement for The Morgantown Post Great Profit Sharing Contest (prizes offered for guessing the popular vote for the U.S. President in the November 1904 election)
      1904
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      "Beat Pitt" Broadside
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      "Let's Go W.V.U." Broadside
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      "Welcome Visitors, Morgantown Merchants are Backing the Mountaineers 100%" Broadside
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 1
      Broadside of Public Forum Sponsored by the Morgantown Kiwanis Club on Theme "Modernizing West Virginia's Constitutional System"
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 2
      Jay Rockefeller Political Signs (includes a senatorial campaign sign from 1996; 11 items)
      1996, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 2
      Gaston Caperton, Democrat for Governor Political Signs (4 items)
      ca. 1990s
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 unfoldered
      Framed Charter Issued by National Association of Real Estate Boards to Morgantown Board of Realtors
      1940
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 unfoldered
      Framed Mirror and Mini Calendar Advertising Royal Furniture Company, Morgantown, WV
      1948
    • Mixed Materials Box: 61 unfoldered
      Framed Memorial Lithograph for Mary Kiger
      undated
    • Mixed Materials unboxed
      Item 26, Framed Memorial Lithograph for Members of the John and Kiger Families
      undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 62 unfoldered
      Framed Diploma for William Earle Rumsey, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Cornell University (damaged)
      1891
    • Mixed Materials Box: 63 unfoldered
      Framed Lithograph Marriage Certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material)
      1911
    • Mixed Materials Box: 64 unfoldered
      Framed Diploma for Samuel Newton Lemley, Elementary School (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material)
      1931
    • Mixed Materials Box: 64 unfoldered
      Framed Diploma for Samuel N. Lemley, Morgantown High School (damaged; includes 4 portrait photographs, subjects unidentified; see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material)
      1934
Series 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1-2 1798-1853, 1896, undated
Scope and Contents

This addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Invoice for Material Purchased by Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern (Michael Kern was possibly the first permanent settler of Morgantown, and built Kern's Fort)
    1798-1800
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Manuscript Letter, Damaged (written from unknown sender in Morgantown to "My Dear Wife", mentions a bequest, John Hoye, and John Rogers; 1 leaf, 4 pages, half of pp. 3-4 missing)
    December 21, 1834
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Invoice for Fabric (?) Purchased by John Rogers from Steubenville
    June 14, 1823
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Manuscript Letter, from Wm. or Mr. A. Sowns (?) of Millwood, VA to Col. Rogers of Morgantown (subject of letter is a proposal for land usage)
    December 2, 1839
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Manuscript Letter, from Smith Ford of Cincinnati to John Rogers, Esq. of Morgantown (on reverse is a letter from John Rogers of Morgantown to Smith Ford; subject of letter is judgment and payment regarding legal or financial claims)
    March 15-31, 1853
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 1
    Manuscript Letter, from John Lyon (?) to John Rogers of Morgantown
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 unfoldered
    Manuscript Letter, Damaged, from Niece Ellen W. ? to Uncle John Rogers of Morgantown
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 2
    Mounted Photo of Kappa Alpha Fraternity Members Sledding at WVU
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 2
    Mounted Group Portrait of Residents of Episcopal Hall, WVU
    1896
Series 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16
Mixed Materials Box: 65-76 Mixed Materials Box: 77 Mixed Materials unboxed ca. 1838-2012
Scope and Contents

This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 65
    Framed Items (includes photographs and documents; subjects include West Virginia University and Morgantown High School group portraits, and other)
    ca. 1885-1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 66a
    Subject Files (includes historical information on Dille residence, Union Lodge, Order of Vandalia, James Cox residence [1896], Kiger family endowment, Blaney House funding)
    ca. 1980-2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 66a
    West Virginia University Publications (includes athletics and Alumni Association related material)
    ca. 1920-1980
  • Mixed Materials Box: 66a
    Memories (yearbook of Morgantown High School)
    1923
  • Mixed Materials Box: 66a
    Monticola (in original leather cover; owned by Mabel Griffith-Stoyer; see A&M 3530 for scrapbooks owned by Mabel Griffith)
    1913
  • Mixed Materials Box: 66b
    Monticola (in original leather cover; owned by Mabel Griffith-Stoyer; see A&M 3530 for scrapbooks owned by Mabel Griffith)
    1912
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 1
    Photographs -- Group Portraits -- Mounted Photographs (4 items; includes Fairmont Miners' Memorial Hospital; Teachers Institute, Morgantown; others)
    ca. 1900-1915
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 2
    Photographs -- Miscellaneous -- Mounted Photographs (3 items; includes Cox Meats; home in Little Falls, West Virginia; "Dering" carriage decorated for parade)
    ca. 1900-1915
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 3
    Photographs -- Portrait -- Mounted Photograph (1 item; portrait of "Selby)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 4
    Photographs -- Miscellaneous -- Prints (9 items; includes scene of Morgantown, 1868; Dellslow mill, undated; view of Morgantown from Westover, undated; other material)
    ca. 1865-1950
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 5
    Photographs -- Prohibition Raid -- Prints (3 items)
    ca. 1920-1934
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 6
    Photographs -- Westover Volunteer Fire Department -- Prints (2 items)
    1937, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 7
    Photographs -- Morgantown Ordinance Works -- Prints (27 items; includes set of photos showing the "Employment Department")
    ca. 1940s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 8
    Photographs -- Sheriff's Department -- Mounted Photograph (1 item)
    1905-1909
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 9
    Photographs -- Morgantown High School Basketball Team -- Print (1 item)
    1926-1927
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 10
    Photographs -- WVU Football -- Mounted Photographs and Prints (9 items)
    ca. 1895-1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 11
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternities -- Mounted Photograph and Prints (4 items; includes
    ca. 1900-1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 12
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternities -- Prints (3 items; includes Phi Kappa Psi)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 13
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternity, Big Man On Campus [BMOC] -- Print (1 item)
    ca. 1915-1925
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 14
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternity, Big Man On Campus [BMOC] -- Print (1 item; Phi Sigma Kappa; group portrait includes Vaughn Kiger)
    1966
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 15
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternity, Officers -- Print (1 item; Phi Sigma Kappa; group portrait includes Vaughn Kiger)
    1966
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 16
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternity House, Sigma Phi Epsilon -- Print (1 item)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 17
    Photographs -- WVU Fraternity Houses -- Postcards (3 items)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 18
    Photographs -- Group Portrait -- Print (1 item; includes Vaughn Kiger)
    ca. 1970-1985
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 19
    Photographs -- Morgantown Subjects -- Postcards (19 items)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 20
    Photographs -- West Virginia University Subjects -- Postcards (11 items)
    ca. 1910-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 21
    Photographs -- Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of Artist -- CDV (1 item; image from studio of Mathew Brady)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 22
    Negatives -- Dill Family (?), Morgantown, WV
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 23
    Prints -- Image of Abraham Lincoln, Image of James Morgan (2 items)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 24
    Postcard of Artwork -- Shenandoah River
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 68
    Manuscript Ledger -- "Day Book" (for tailor Sanford Pickenpaugh of Morgantown; includes names, services, and prices)
    1838
  • Mixed Materials Box: 68
    Manuscripts Documenting Financial Transactions (related to Davis Prichard of Marion County, Virginia; one item includes signature of Waitman Willey)
    1850s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 68
    Ephemera -- Framed West Virginia "alumni" Felt Ribbon
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 68
    Ephemera -- Civil War Commission for George H. King (signed by Francis H. Pierpont)
    1861
  • Mixed Materials Box: 68
    Ephemera -- Poster of Judges on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1863-1865
    ca. 1980-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Morgantown Centennial Ribbon
    1885
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Souvenir Picture Books of Morgantown (2 items)
    1902, 1906
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Morgantown High School -- Building Dedication Program
    1927
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- WVU Commencement Program
    1929
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Phi Kappa Sigma -- Dance Card (for Helen Shuttleworth and Rual Swiger)
    1923
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- WVU Commencement Program, School of Law
    1889
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- WVU Calendar
    1905
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- WVU Varsity Football Schedule
    1936
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Merchants and Mechanics Bank of Wheeling, Five Dollar bill
    1852
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Boyd Anderson Restaurant, Clarksburg, West Virginia, Menu
    1932
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Clothing Button -- Chadwick Day (Admiral French E. Chadwick)
    1899
  • Mixed Materials Box: 69
    Ephemera -- Clothing Button -- Mountaineer Field
    ca. 1920s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 70
    Ephemera -- Commercial Calender for Morgantown Funeral Home
    ca. 1890-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 70
    Oversize Photographs (includes WVU law class [3 items], football players, and unidentified material)
    ca. 1890-1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 70
    Artifact -- blue and gold felt banner, Mountaineers
    ca. 1910-1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 71
    Disc Recordings (includes album of West Virginia University songs)
    1945, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 71
    Publications -- Original Copies of the Athenaeum, Student Newspaper of WVU
    ca. 1890-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 72
    Artifact -- "Yell-A-Phone" (megaphone)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 72
    Artifact -- Metal Logo of Letters "WVU"
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 72
    Artifact -- Real Estate Convention Badge, Colorado
    1913
  • Mixed Materials Box: 72
    Artifact -- Small Blue WVU Souvenir Cup with Gold Paper Clips
    ca. 1980-2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 73
    Artifact -- Trophy, WVU Alumni Association Award for Best Decorated Business
    1924
  • Mixed Materials Box: 74
    Artifact -- Whiskey Bottle -- "Monongahela Pure Rye Whiskey"
    ca. 1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 74
    Artifact -- Pharmacy Bottle -- "Dr. Jason A. Cox, Morgantown, W. Va."
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 74
    Artifact -- Souvenir Cream Pitcher -- "Souvenir of Morgantown, W. Va."
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 75
    Oversize Print -- "Harper's Weekly, Constituent Convention of Virginia"
    1861/07/06
  • Mixed Materials Box: 75
    Oversize Photographs -- Morgantown History -- Prints (6 items)
    ca. 1890-1925
  • Mixed Materials Box: 76
    Oversize Photographs -- Portrait of Frank Bowman or Dennis Willis -- Print (1 item; Republican politician, Monongalia County)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 76
    Oversize Photographs -- Group Portrait of West Virginia Legislature, House of Delegates -- Print (1 item)
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 76
    Oversize Photographs -- Group Portrait of West Virginia Legislature, State Senate -- Print (1 item)
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 76
    Oversize Photographs -- "The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia" -- Print (1 item)
    1906
  • Mixed Materials Box: 76
    Oversize Document -- Diploma, Morgantown High School
    1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 77
    Artifacts -- West Virginia University Pennants and Other Artifacts
    undated
  • Mixed Materials unboxed
    Artifact -- Seal Stamper, "Morgantown, W. Va., Incorporated"
    undated
  • Mixed Materials unboxed
    Artifact -- Seal Stamper, "Davison-Connellsville Coal and Coke Co., Morgantown, W. Va."
    undated
Series 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19
Mixed Materials Box: 77 Mixed Materials Box: 78-87 1859-1992, undatedEnglish.
Scope and Contents

This addendum is minimally processed.

Box 77 includes a "WVU 1966" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says "West Virginia" on it.

Boxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled "Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.

The last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).

Boxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910. Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the Allerli , and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.

Box 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact. The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.

Box 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992). Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a "Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).

Series 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09
Mixed Materials Box: 88-100 1878-1990, undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 88 Object: 01
    Yearbooks -- Morgantown High School History
    1939-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 88 Object: 02
    Yearbooks -- Morgantown High School History
    1939-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 88 Folder: 01
    Yearbooks -- Morgantown High School Allerlei
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 88 Object: 03
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1938
  • Mixed Materials Box: 88 Object: 04
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1943
  • Mixed Materials Box: 89 Folder: 01
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1906
  • Mixed Materials Box: 90 Folder: 01
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1896
  • Mixed Materials Box: 90 Folder: 02
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1919
  • Mixed Materials Box: 90 Folder: 03
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1912
  • Mixed Materials Box: 90 Object: 01
    Yearbooks -- WVU Monticola
    1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 90 Folder: 04
    Publications, WVU -- Woodburn Female Seminary Grade Report
    1858-1866
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 01
    Publications, WVU -- The Athenaeum
    1896/01/28
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 02
    Publications, WVU -- The Athenaeum
    1901/02/01
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 03
    Publications, WVU -- The Athenaeum
    1908/06
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 04
    Publications, WVU -- Geological and Economic Survey Dedication Bulletin
    1942
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 05
    Publications, WVU -- Event Programs
    1904-2001
    Scope and Contents

    Includes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 06
    Publications, WVU -- WVU Bulletins
    1944-1953
    Scope and Contents

    Two bulletins: "Greater West Virginia Weekend," May 1953 and "An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building," September 1944.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 07
    Publications, WVU -- Basketball and Football Banquet Programs
    1962-1963
    Scope and Contents

    Two programs: "The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962" and "The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963"

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 08
    Publications, WVU -- West Virginia v. Waynesburg Program
    1949/09/17
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 09
    Publications, WVU -- WVU Women Planner
    1989-1990
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 10
    Publications, WVU -- WVU College of Engineering Bulletin
    1929/06
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 11
    Publications, WVU -- Commencement and Dedication Bulletins
    1966-1979
    Scope and Contents

    Two programs: "West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966" and "Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979"

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 12
    Publications, WVU -- Songs of West Virginia University (1st and 2nd editions)
    1931
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 13
    Publications, WVU -- Phi Sigma Kappa Programs
    1958-1962
    Scope and Contents

    Titles include: "The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa," "By These Things We Stand," and "Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 14
    Publications, WVU -- Student Directories and Freshman Handbook
    1938-1948
    Scope and Contents

    Includes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with "Guide 1938" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 15
    Publications, Morgantown -- First Presbyterian Church and Rotary Histories
    1938-1968
    Scope and Contents

    Includes two copies of "The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of "Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 16
    Publications, Morgantown -- Greater Morgantown and Its Environments
    1902
  • Mixed Materials Box: 91 Folder: 17
    Publications, Morgantown -- Women's Edition of The New Dominion
    1896
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 01
    Publications, Morgantown -- Herbert Hoover Dinner Program
    1928
    Scope and Contents

    Program and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 02
    Publications, Morgantown -- Morgantown's Suburbs and Souvenir Album
    ca. 1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 03
    Publications, WV -- Wheeling Rediscovered
    1976
    Scope and Contents

    "Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools"

  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 04
    Publications, WV -- Roosevelt Album
    1945
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 05
    Publications, WV -- WV Capitol - Dedication Program and Commemorative History
    1932-1990
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 06
    Publications, WV -- Illustrated Beckley West Virginia
    ca. 1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 07
    Publications, WV -- Elks Memorial Service Program and Reprinted Letters from Sallie Holmes (1857-1879)
    1941-1987
    Scope and Contents

    Includes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes "Bonds of Friendship, Love & Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 08
    Publications, WV -- The West Virginia Review
    1929/02
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 09
    Publications, WV -- McClelland Bible Class, Clarksburg, Roster
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 10
    Publications, WV -- Washington Irving High School Yearbook, Clarksburg
    1919
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 11
    Publications, WV -- Photocopy of Laurel Iron Works, Ice's Ferry, and Uneva History
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 12
    Ley, Blosser, and Robison Family -- Papers concerning Cheat Lake
    1878-1996
    Scope and Contents

    Includes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Folder: 13
    Ephemera -- Jay Rockefeller Bumper Stickers
    ca. 1980
  • Mixed Materials Box: 92 Object: 01
    Ephemera -- Rockefeller and Arch Moore Campaign Buttons
    ca. 1980
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 01
    Ephemera -- Exchange Club Minstrel Signs
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Two identical cardboard signs that read "Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here"

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 02
    Ephemera -- Pocket Directory
    1921
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 03
    Postcards -- WVU
    ca. 1900-1960
    Scope and Contents

    Most includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 04
    Postcards -- WVU
    ca. 1900-1940
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 05
    Postcards -- WVU
    ca. 1900-1940
    Scope and Contents

    Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a "Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va." containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 06
    Postcards -- WVU
    ca. 1910-1950
    Scope and Contents

    Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 07
    Postcards -- WVU
    ca. 1900-1920
    Scope and Contents

    Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of "The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates," one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 08
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1920
    Scope and Contents

    Images on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 09
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1950
    Scope and Contents

    Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 10
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1930
    Scope and Contents

    Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled "Business section and bridge across Monongahela River," remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 11
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1950
    Scope and Contents

    Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 12
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1960
  • Mixed Materials Box: 93 Folder: 13
    Postcards -- Morgantown
    ca. 1900-1950
    Scope and Contents

    Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 01
    Postcards -- WV - Other
    ca. 1900-1930
    Scope and Contents

    Five postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 02
    Postcards -- Camp Buddy
    ca. 1930-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 03
    Postcards -- Boyer Family
    1909-1922
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 04
    Postcards -- Photos of early postcards
    ca. 1900-1920
    Scope and Contents

    Prints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 05
    Postcards -- Photos of early postcards
    ca. 1900-1920
    Scope and Contents

    Prints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M&K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled "Bathing in Cheat River," among other subjects.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 06
    Photographs -- WVU Football
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 07
    Photographs -- WVU Football Teams
    ca. 1913-1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 08
    Photographs -- Early Morgantown Photos
    ca. 1900-1958
    Scope and Contents

    Includes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled "Pleasant St. Morgantown."

  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 09
    Photographs -- Morgantown Bicentennial House
    1976
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 10
    Photographs -- Cheat River Scenery
    ca. 1920
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 11
    Photographs -- Barbe and Davis Hardware Storefront
    ca. 1915
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 12
    Photographs -- Early Hardware Delivery Truck
    ca. 1915
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 13
    Photographs -- Blatt's Auto and Radio Store
    1941
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 14
    Photographs -- Fire at M&K Railroad Shop
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 15
    Photographs -- M&K Railroad Shop
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 16
    Photographs -- Morgantown Brass Band
    ca. 1870
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 17
    Photographs -- Second Ward School
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 18
    Photographs -- Sabraton School
    1910
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 19
    Photographs -- Star City Class Workers
    ca. 1880
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 20
    Photographs -- House near Cheat Lake
    ca. 1890
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 21
    Photographs -- Prints and negatives of Morgantown
    ca. 1920-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 22
    Photographs -- Parade Float
    ca. 1890
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 23
    Photographs -- Seneca Glass Workers
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 94 Folder: 24
    Photographs -- Phi Sigma Kappa Rush
    1991
  • Mixed Materials Box: 95 Folder: 01
    Photographs -- Morgantown Brickworkers
    ca. 1880
  • Mixed Materials Box: 95 Folder: 02
    Photographs -- Morgantown Brickyard
    ca. 1880
  • Mixed Materials Box: 95 Folder: 03
    Photographs -- Shorty Anderson Auto Garage
    ca. 1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 95 Folder: 04
    Photographs -- Men on the Tracks in Morgantown
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 96 Object: 01
    Oversize -- Photograph of WVU Football Team
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 96 Object: 02
    Oversize -- Photograph of Horse-drawn delivery wagon outside Wallpaper Shop
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 96 Folder: 01
    Oversize -- Morgantown District Industrial and Business Survey
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Object: 01
    Oversize -- Framed Photograph of West Virginia Judges
    1909
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 01
    Oversize -- Group photograph of Farmers' Week, WVU
    1918
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 02
    Oversize -- "Threshold" - WVU Centennial Publication
    1967
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 03
    Oversize -- The Upshur Republican - Industrial Edition
    1912/03
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 04
    Oversize -- The Charleston Daily Mail (with photo of WVU Football Team)
    1925/11/08
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 05
    Oversize -- The Athenaeum
    1901-1904
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 06
    Oversize -- The Athenaeum
    1903-1904
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 97 Folder: 07
    Oversize -- The Charleston Daily Mail (includes story on WVU Football game)
    1925/11/08
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Object: 01
    Oversize -- Industrial Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.
    1906/05/10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Folder: 01
    Oversize -- Industrial Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va. (2 copies)
    1906/05
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Folder: 02
    Oversize -- Morgantown District Industrial and Business Survey (2 copies)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Folder: 03
    Oversize -- The Post Chronicle - Illustrated Industrial Edition
    ca. 1910
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Folder: 04
    Oversize -- Threshold - WVU Centennial Publication
    1967
  • Mixed Materials Box: 98 Folder: 05
    Oversize -- Watercolors of WVU and Laidley Family Photographs
    ca. 1910-1968
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 99 Object: 01
    Oversize -- Alpha Phi Sorority Paddle (printed "To Meredith '66 from Linda '66)
    1966
  • Mixed Materials Box: 99 Object: 02
    Oversize -- Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity paddle (printed "From Rick '66 to Vaughn '66)
    1966
  • Mixed Materials Box: 99 Object: 03
    Oversize -- Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity paddle (signed with names of members)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 99 Object: 04
    Oversize -- Fi Batar Cappar fraternity paddle (signed with names of members, Vaughn Kiger written at top)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 99 Object: 05
    Oversize -- Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity paddle (signed with names of members)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 100 Object: 01
    Oversize -- Felt pennant - yellow, "Hold 'em West Virginia"
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 100 Object: 02
    Oversize -- Wool pennant - navy blue, "Mountaineers West Virginia"
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 100 Object: 03
    Oversize -- Felt pennant - navy blue with yellow stitched lettering in fancy script
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 100 Object: 04
    Oversize -- Felt pennant - "West Virginia Gator Bowl Jacksonvill, Fla."
    undated
Series 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12
Mixed Materials Box: 101-102 1903-1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 01
    German Awards Booklet
    1957
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 02
    Hope Natural Gas Company Seventy-fifth Anniversary Booklet
    1973
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 03
    Photographs - Morgantown Fairgrounds
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 04
    Photographs - Anderson House and Barn
    ca. 1900
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 05
    Photograph - Morgantown Class of '03
    1903
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 06
    Photographs - University High School Basketball Team
    1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 07
    Photographs - Morgantown
    ca. 1920-1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 08
    Photographs - Municipal Airport
    1936
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 09
    Photographs - University High School Students
    1948
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 10
    Photographs - Road Building in Morgantown
    ca. 1965-1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 11
    Photograph - Arnold Palmer at Lakeview
    1972
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101 Folder: 12
    Photograph - Sunnyside
    1981
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101
    Monticola
    1974
  • Mixed Materials Box: 101
    Monticola
    1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 102 Folder: 01
    Photograph - Hope Natural Gas Company
    ca. 1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 102 Folder: 02
    Photograph - Benjamin Gordon Byron Class Spring Reunion
    1956
  • Mixed Materials Box: 102 Folder: 03
    Zoning map of Morgantown
    1959
  • Mixed Materials unboxed
    Vaughn Kiger Fraternity Cane
    1960-1962
Series 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02
Mixed Materials Box: 103-104 1903-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 01
    Genealogy, Heraldry, Family and Local History
    1973
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 02
    A Dictionary of the Episcopal Church
    1953
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 03
    The West Virginia Society of Washington, D.C. - Directory
    1979-1980
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 04
    Mary R. Laidley Book of Common Prayer
    1944
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 05
    West Virginia Association of Realtors Membership Roster and Bylaws
    1977
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 06
    The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia - Short Biographical Sketches
    1938
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 07
    Directory of Resident Members - First Baptist Church, Morgantown, West Virginia
    1976
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 08
    West Virginia University Alumni News
    1976
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 09
    "Hills and a Star" - Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Handbook
    1982
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 10
    Mohigan Yearbook
    1931
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 103 Folder: 11
    Bicentennial of Monongalia County West Virginia, 1976
    1980
    Scope and Contents

    Published by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark. Three copies, two with inscriptions. One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 104 Folder: 01
    West Virginia University Alumni Record, 1867-1903
    1903
    Scope and Contents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 104 Folder: 02
    A Game of Uncommon Skill: Leading the Modern College and University
    2002
    Scope and Contents
Series 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09
Mixed Materials Box: 105 Folder: 1-5 1879-1927English.
Scope and Contents

Includes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.

Series 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13
Mixed Materials Box: 105 Folder: 6 Mixed Materials Box: 106 Folder: 1-2 1886, 1971-1983, undatedEnglish.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 105 Folder: 6
    Publications by or about WVU
    ca. 1886, 1971-1981, undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886, West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings , WVU - an early portrait , and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 106 Folder: 1-2
    Political Publications
    1972-1983English.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a Democrats in Convention 1972 book.