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Booker T. Washington, Commemorative Articles and Other Miscellaneous Items 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Commemorative articles about Tuskegee Institute and its founder, the educator, Booker T. Washington. Also copies of a few articles by this renowned turn of the century leader of Afro-Americans and a copy of his autobiography, Up From Slavery. Also includes photographs of Washington and his family and facsimiles of his passport application and death certificate. This material reflects Washington's philosophy of economic self help for African-Americans.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bradford Laidley Papers 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Laidley, Bradford
Papers and volumes collected by Bradford Laidley pertaining to him and his family. Includes records of the Morgantown Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal Church, genealogical information on the Rogers and Laidleys, a pioneer school book of Anne McKinnon, and a personal letter book of L. Wilcox of Kanawha Salines. Also includes three receipts for slaves purchased in Richmond, Virginia by Major W.A. Bradford(e).
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document 0 Linear Feet Summary: 46 pages

Noyes, Bradford (b. 1860)
Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers 1.7 Linear Feet 1 ft. 8 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each)

Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957

Collection includes typescripts drafts of unpublished works, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printer's picture plates. Unpublished typescript drafts are titled George Rodgers Clark Floyd of Logan County, West Virginia, and Huckleberry Ranger Lieutenant John Blue, Confederate. Also includes correspondence from Robert L. Floyd to Dr. Ambler regarding the Floyd family (1953-1957), and a manuscript titled The Life of Henry Floyd by Robert L. Floyd. The 58 printer's picture plates were used in A History of Education in West Virginia by Charles H. Ambler.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles L. Campbell (b. 1876), Compiler, Typescripts 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (ca. 50 pages, 1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Campbell, Charles L., 1876-1961
Typescripts compiled by a Wellsburg local historian, on the history of Holliday's Cove and the Hancock-Brooke County area. Subjects include prominent settlers, churches, schools, post office, toll roads, oil and gas wells, floods, gristmills, manufacture of gunpowder, iron and brick industries, newspapers, Indians, and the James Campbell and Alexander Morrow family genealogy.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charlottesville City Schools collection 10.25 Cubic Feet 21 document boxes, 1 small oversize box

The collection includes school census materials for the following years: 1910, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940. The census materials are separated into the categories of Black children, with the term "colored" used on the forms, and White children.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Claude N. Feamster Papers 4 Item

Feamster, Claude E.

This collection contains typescripts of reference letters concerning Feamster while he was a student at Washington and Lee University, and then a teacher at Lee Military Academy in Lewisburg West Virginia, Seven Islands School in Arvonia, Virginia, Summerville Normal School in Summerville, West Virginia, Church High School for Boys in Salisbury, North Carolina, and Gordonsville Female College in Gordonsville, Virginia. It also contains signed copies of two of Feamster's French exams dated December 13, 1895 and December 16, 1895.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Daniel Hirst (b. 1809) Notebooks 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Hirst, Daniel (b. 1809)
Seven notebooks and booklets, one folder of miscellaneous material, notes and class materials of Daniel Hirst, who taught school in Loudoun County, Virginia, around 1826 and later. There are exercises and definitions on practical mathematics, surveying, algebra, geometry, simple accounting and English grammar.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ebenezer Dickey Junkin Scrapbook 1 Item

Junkin, Ebenezer Dickey

Presbyterian minister Ebenezer Dickey Junkin's pocket sized bound scrapbook of articles submitted to the Presbyterian Watchman and Observer newspaper by his father, George Junkin, D.D. between 1853-1856. George Junkin, under the pen name Theophilus, wrote the series of letters to the Richmond, Virginia publication on the role of the church in higher education. They include his commentary on the relationship between chuch and government. Junkin penned the letters during his tenure as President of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. E.D. Junkin titled the scrapbook, "Lux Mundi - A series of newspaper articles on the education question by the Rev. Dr. George Junkin, 1854 or 6"

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Education in West Virginia, Scrapbooks 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm (6 vols.), 1.75 in.)

Chapman, Berlin B., 1900-1995
These scrapbooks which were collected or compiled by B.B. Chapman concern Webster Springs High School, Fairmont State College, Glenville State College, and West Virginia University. Included are correspondence, faculty contracts, diplomas, teaching certificates, report cards, class lists, and other similar materials.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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