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Storer College Alumni and Student Records 0.58 Linear Feet Summary: 7 in. (4 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Storer College

Records of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia on microfilm, including alumni listing (1872-1955); student records, volumes 1-8 (1900-1937); student records, summer school (1924-1942); student register, volumes 1-2 (1888-1944); and student record cards (circa 1929-1955).

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Storer College Architectural Drawings, Diplomas, and Other Material 0.90 Linear Feet (3 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each; 1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Storer College

Architectural drawings (blueprints, campus plans, topographic maps, etc.), diplomas, and other material regarding Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry.

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Storer College Correspondence, Business Papers and Other Material 21.3 Linear Feet Summary: 21 ft. 4 in. (39 document cases, 5 in. each); (4 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (2 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 3 in.); (2 large flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (1 card file box, 4 in.); (1 roll storage box, 4 in.)

Storer College
Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the College, among other topics. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.
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Storer College Records 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Storer College

Documents regarding Storer College at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The collection includes a prospectus regarding the nature, history, and future of the college (1908); an invitation to the unveiling and dedication of a memorial to Heyward Shepherd (1931); a program for the Twentieth Founders Day Exercises (1943); and a transcript of an address given by Storer College alumnus and professor William A. Saunders for the Twentieth Founders Day Exercises (1943). Please see "Historical Note" for further information regarding Storer College.

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Summers County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers 41.27 Linear Feet Summary: 41 ft. 3.25 in. (97 document cases, 5 in. each); (5 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each); (1 ledger, 1.5 in)

West Virginia. County Court (Summers County)
County court records consisting primarily of marriage records and sheriff settlements relating to roads, schools, and poor funds. There are also estate administration papers; lunacy proceedings; Board of Education records; receipts and bank records; other misc. records, and an account book of the firm of Meador and Graham in Hinton, WV. There are also some papers of former clerks E. H. Peck and P. B. Pack.
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Thomas P. Ray Diary 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.)

Ray, Thomas P.
Copy of a diary of a Morgantown resident, with references to early merchants and public officials; the building of schools, churches, and business buildings; volume of river traffic; and roads and mail routes opened.
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Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers 1.75 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 8 1/2 in. (3 document cases, 5 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.)

Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912
Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman Barbe, Danske Dandridge, William M.O. Dawson, Granville D. Hall, Hu Maxwell, Mrs. Alexander McVeigh Miller, and Melville D. Post. See Scope and Content Note for contents list.
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Watson Family Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1/2 in. (1 folder)

Watson family

The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and Wheeling, WV, and Ireland; westward migration [1849]; gold mining, enslaved Africans; and business and family affairs.

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William W. Trent (1878-1960) Papers 2.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each)

Trent, William W., 1878-1960

The papers of West Virginia's State Superintendent of Free Schools from 1933-1957 includes three boxes of newspaper clipping scrapbooks, 1934-1941, a file of mimeograph bulletins, news releases, reports and circular letters, 1937-1954. There is one box of Trent's college essays.

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William W. Trent (1878-1960) Papers 2.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each)

Trent, William W., 1878-1960

Correspondence, reports, bulletins, and reports of the Board of Public Works, Utility Assessment Hearing of the State Superintendent of Free Schools from 1933 to 1956. Papers cover such subjects as the foundation program, teachers' salaries, and certification.

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