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ADAMS
FAMILY
ACCESSION 540
Dates: 1942-1950
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 22 items.
Method of Acquisition and date:
Gift of Chris Hatten, 1992.
Description: Huntington, West Virginia, family; papers include ration
books for gasoline and other rationing documents, newspaper clippings,
and certificate. ADKINS FAMILY
ACCESSION 320
Dates: 1818-1915
Collection Type/Materials and size: Bible record (photoreproduction), 10
leaves.
Method of Acquisition and date: Loaned for copying by Hobart Franklin, 1980.
Description: Births, deaths and marriages of Anderson Adkins family of West Virginia.
ADKINS FAMILY
ACCESSION 521; PROCESSED (MS 123)
Dates: 1273 - ca. 1984.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 1 vol.: 156 pp. + 1 folder.
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of James K. Jeffrey, 1990.
Description: Genealogical material on a Wayne County, West Virginia,
family.
AGEE, Elizabeth Francis
ACCESSION 2008/02.0763Dates: 1929 - 1934(?)
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 1 scrapbook
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of Susan Riggs (daughter of Mrs. Agee), 2007.
Description: Scrapbook of Marshall College photographs, ephemera, and memorabilia collected by former student Elizabeth Francis.
AINGER, Alfred. 1837-1904
ACCESSION 293. (Transferred, 1980)
Dates: 1891
Collection Type/Materials and size: Letter, 1 item.
Description: Letter to Rev. William Ince of Christ Church, Oxford.
ALDERMAN, Henry.
ACCESSION 43.
Dates: 1898-1918
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 8 items.
Description: Account book (1898) and charge books (1902-1904) of a Huntington, West
Virginia resident.
ALDERSON, W. VA. OLD GREENFIELD CHURCH.
ACCESSION 146
Dates: 1776-1798
Method of Acquisition and date: Acquired, 1974
Collection Type/Materials and size: Typescript (photoreproduction), 11 leaves.
Description: Copy of marriage register kept by Reverend John Alderson, Jr., containing Greenbrier County marriages.
ALESHIRE FAMILY.
ACCESSION 54 (MANUSCRIPT 4) PROCESSED
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Dates: 1862-1889
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of Gloria
Johnston Henderson, 1973.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 1 linear ft.
Description: Correspondence among members of a Gallipolis, Ohio, family; includes
letters written by sons in the Union Army during and after the Civil
War.
ALEXANDER, Helen
ACCESSION 633
Dates: 1901-1996
Method of Acquisition and date:Gift, 1996.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, ca. 1860-1996. 1.5 linear ft.
Description: Resident of Huntington, W. Va. Papers include photographs of Lasley and Alexander families of Gallia Co., Ohio; scrapbooks of Alexander’s years at Sayre College, Lexington, Ky., and of motor trips during the 1930s to the Chicago World’s Fair, Washington, D. C., and Florida. Also included are diaries kept by Alexander and her mother from 1929 to 1986.
ALEXANDER, Robert P.
ACCESSION 426
Dates:1981-1984
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of
Dr. Alexander, 1986.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 5 cubic feet.
Description: Dean, College of Business, Marshall University; member of Huntington,
West Virginia, City Council. Papers relate to term on Council, including
a one-year term as mayor.
ALLEN, John (collector)
ACCESSION 529
Dates: 1784-1991
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of John Allen, 1991
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers (photoreproductions),7 items
Description:
Wheeling, West Virginia, lawyer. Papers consist of deeds of property owned by George Washington and the will of Archibald McClean, all relating to property in what is now Ohio and Marshall Counties, West Virginia.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, West Virginia Division
ACCESSION 176(MANUSCRIPT 44) PROCESSED ACCESS RESTRICTED:
MEMBERS ONLY.
Dates: 1923-1980
Method of Acquisition and date: Transferred, 1970
Collection Type/Materials and size: Records, 12 cu. ft.
Description: President's papers, minute books, working papers; reports from branches,
officers, and committee chairmen; financial papers.
AAUW - West Virginia Division
ACCESSION 2013/04.0807 ACCESS RESTRICTED; MEMBERS ONLY
Dates: 1929-2011.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Records,
5 cu. ft.
Method of Acquisition and date: Received, May 2012
Description: This collection contains paper and multimedia materials related to the American Association of University Women- West Virginia Division from 1929-2011. The collection includes meeting minutes, agendas, and officer reports, publications, initiative plans, and correspondence. Branch yearbooks and statewide directories are also included, as well as workshop materials. The "kits" associated with the collection were produced by the AAUW on a national level, and distributed to chapters. Each kit is representative of AAUW workshops.
AMERCIAN RED CROSS: WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER
ACCESSION 2004/09.0738
Dates: 1917-2002
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of Western West Virginia Chapter, American Red Cross
Collection Type/Materials and size: Papers, 31 cu. ft.
Description: Papers, photographs, memorabilia and other items related to the operation of the Huntington, West Virginia office.
AMOS, Enos
ACCESSION
321
Dates: 1864
Method of Acquisition and date: Purchased, 1980
Collection Type/Materials and size: Oath, 1 item
Description: Oath of allegiance for election of office of second lieutenant, 17th
Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia Militia, Marion
County, West Virginia.
[ANCESTOR CHART]
ACCESSION 423
Dates: 1872
Method of Acquisition and date: Transferred, 1986.
Collection Type/Materials and size: 2 leaves.
Description:
Found in Appleton's Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton (1868). Holograph
chart titled, `How many ancestors have you?' plots number of ancestors
for each generation for 24 generations.
ANDERSON-NEWCOMB CO. (Huntington, W. Va.)
ACCESSION 672
Dates:
1895-1957
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of James Surratt, 1998.
Collection Type/Materials and size:
Photographs, 9 items. (8 photographs in room 217, map case, drawer 4)
Description: Huntington,
W. Va. department store. Photographs of predecessor store,
Valentine-Newcomb and of store outing.
ANONYMOUS
ACCESSION 150
Dates: ca. 1865
Method of Acquisition and date: Transferred, 1976.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Manuscript, . 1 item. .
Description:
Holograph manuscript of a debate about the evils of war.
ANONYMOUS
ACCESSION 401
Dates: 1913
Method of Acquisition and date: Transferred, 1981.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Memorandum book, . 1 item.
Description:
Contains items relating to Pocahontas County, West Virginia: jurors, tax
notations, and expenses.
ARCHER, ROBERT L.
ACCESSION 530 (MANUSCRIPT 124) PROCESSED
Dates:
1871-1896
Method of Acquisition and date:
Transferred, 1991.
Collection Type/Materials and size:
Typescripts, 31 items.
Description: Manuscripts include "Chronicles of Early Huntington," used
by Doris Miller for her centennial history of
Huntington,
West Virginia.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ACCESSION 689
Dates: 1963
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of C. Bosworth Johnson,
2000.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Bulletins,50 items.
Description: Copy read on the air by newscasters at WSAZ-TV, the local NBC affiliate in Huntington, W. Va. on Nov. 22 and 23, 1963, during coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHERN WOMEN FOR THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING
ACCESSION 609 (MANUSCRIPT 135) PROCESSED
Dates: 1930 -1942
Method of Acquisition and date:
Originals in Special Collections and Archives Division, Robert W.
Woodruff Library, Atlanta University. Received, ca. 1993.
Collection Type/Materials and size:
Papers, 8 microfilm reels; 35 mm.
Description: Women's social action group that grew out of the
Women's Work Committee of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation
(CIC) Papers document the pursuit of their goal to eliminate lynching;
include correspondence, pamphlets, reports, newspaper clippings,
petitions and speeches.
AUTOGRAPH BOOK
ACCESSION 574 (MANUSCRIPT 112-A) PROCESSED
Dates:
1851-1948
Method of Acquisition and date:
Placed on permanent loan by Mrs. Charles Dodrill, 1993.
Collection Type/Materials and size: 1 volume.
Description:
Divided in sections entitled, `President and Cabinet,' `Senate,' and
`House of Representatives,' the book contains the signatures of these
persons; owner/collector not identified, but may have been the property
of James Butler Bowlin (1804-1874), Minister Resident to New Granada
(Colombia), 1854-1857.
ATHENS, W. VA. METHODIST CHURCH
ACCESSION 59
Dates: 1848-ca. 1940
Method of Acquisition and date: Gift of J. B. Yoak, 1973.
Collection Type/Materials and size: Typescript,
. 3 leaves.
Description:
Anonymous history of a Mercer County, West Virginia church.
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