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Typed transcriptions provided by WVU Hospital staff of legislative reports prepared by WVU Vice-President Edwin Flowers. The reports were made available to the WVU community during legislative sessions. Special emphasis is placed on information relevant to WVU Hospitals. Because of general budget tightening, there was much concern at the time about funding for the new hospital and salary increases for classified employees.

One (11.5' x 12') volume of photographs documenting the Sanitarium located at Hopemont, Preston County, WV. The volume contains over 130 photographs depicting the facilities, services, staff, patients, and local scenery.

The microfilm is the only existing copy of the records of the student nursing program at Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown. The records, alphabetized by student name, document cases handled by the student nurses. The microfiche duplicate the microfilm version.

Civil War hospital records from the National Archives. Includes muster and pay roll of the hospital corps employed at the Contraband Camp Hospital at Washington, D.C. (February - August 1863, May - June 1864) and muster roll of steward, wardmaster, cooks, nurses, matrons, detached soldiers, sick, in the hospital of Freedman's Hospital at Washington, D.C. (March - August 1865) Also includes records of the U.S.A. Post/General Hospital at Wheeling, West Virginia: monthly, weekly, and morning reports (June 1864 - October 1865), registers of sick and wounded (November 1864 - September 1865), 'muster rolls of steward, wardmaster, cooks, nurses, matrons, detached soldiers, sick, in the hospital' (April 1864 - June 1865), and two printed pages, 'Directions for Entries in the Register of Sick and Wounded for U.S.A. General Hospital' and 'Classification of Gunshot Wounds'. Muster rolls include information such as name, rank, company, regiment, where and when enlisted, dates of contract, nature of service, pay period, rate of pay, and general remarks. Monthly, weekly, morning reports, and registers of sick and wounded capture the nature of admittance and dismissal from the hospital, including lists of patients diseases, patients who transferred, furloughed, returned to duty, were discharged from service, deserted, or died. Individuals represented in the records of the U.S.A. Post/General Hospital at Wheeling, WV were mostly privates who had enlisted in either West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, or Tennessee. Most were admitted not for wounds inflicted in battle, but for sicknesses such as measles, chronic diarrhea, typhoid fever, or rheumatism.

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.