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Scrapbooks of the presidents of Psi Chapter, Alpha Delta Kappa, an International Honorary Teachers Sorority. Contains newsclippings, brochures, photographs and typed documents of the organizations' convention and state officers.

This collection consists of material from the Centerville Presbyterian Church including histories, correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, and papers about the women's auxiliary, missionary society work, finances, and social activities.

Scrapbooks, slides, correspondence, booklets and histories of Delta Kappa Gamma (Gamma Chapter), an organization of women educators. For more Alpha Phi State records, see A&M 3353 for Alpha Phi State records and A&M 3957 for Alpha Phi State and Xi (Beckley) Chapter records.

Printed and photocopied material relating to Alpha Phi State (now known as the West Virginia State Organization), the West Virginia arm of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, and to its Xi Chapter, based in Beckley, West Virginia. Includes various chapter and state committee reports (1964-2008); Alpha Phi newsletters (1977, 1992-2001); music (1919, 1985-1995, undated); state annual convention materials (1985-2007); and other material. Also includes biographical information on prominent member Kathryne Anne Williams (1923-2013), and diagrams showing the breakdown of West Virginia chapters. For more Alpha Phi State records, see A&M 2879 for Gamma (Morgantown) Chapter Records, and A&M 3353 for more Alpha Phi State records.

Meeting minutes of the Easton-Avery (W.Va.) Farm Woman's Club from 1945 to 1959 in two volumes. Volume I is from 1945 to 1948 and Volume II is from 1949 to 1959. Topics include membership, treasury information and dues, fundraising, household activity demonstrations and discussions (including canning, kitchen improvements and cooking, plants, and home decor), and community activities, (including a play, auction, curb market, parties, holiday dinners, food sales, and more). Minutes are handwritten in bound volumes.

Printed material and publications of the Greater Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) and the Woman's Club of Beckley, which is federated with GFWC. Includes the Woman's Club constitution and bylaws, financial material, conference material, and various publications, such as an issue of the GFWC magazine and a chronology of women in the West Virginia legislature.

Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil Sheridan; and his return to Orange County, Virginia, where following the passage of the Secession Ordinance he enlisted in the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry serving as chief musician. The memoir concludes with Mugler's military career during 1861-1862. The diary covers the remainder of his military service, 1862-1864, and his confinement as a war prisoner at Elmira, New York, 1864-1865. Following the war, Mugler returned to Washington, D.C., and eventually gained employment with the National Cemetery Corps, working at various Virginia battlefields. While in Virginia he served as a delegate to the Virginia Republican Convention of 1867. He worked at the National Cemetery at Grafton and for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, eventually becoming superintendent of painters on the Road Division in West Virginia. After 1874 he worked briefly as a self-employed painter, and then opened a paint and hardware store in Grafton which he managed until the end of his life. Subjects include the Battle of Mine Run, the retreat from Antietam, the Battle of the Wilderness, prison life at Elmira, New York; reconstruction in Virginia; railroading and the railroad towns of Keyser, Oakland (Maryland), Parkersburg, Fairmont, and Wheeling; the strikes of 1877; interviews with Generals Ord and Sheridan; the Murphy Temperance Movement and W.C.T.U. activities; the Liberal Republican movement of 1872; the Greenback Party; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; political figures such as John S. Carlile, John G. Carlisle, John T. McGraw, John W. Mason, Frank Hereford, John E. Kenna, John A. Logan, James G. Blaine, and "Sockless" Jerry Simpson.