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This folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed "Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. & A.M."

This folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones & Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart & Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, & Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.

This folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.

This folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal & Coke Company.

This folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.

This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal & Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal & Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.

This folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.

Large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated).

This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History OnView.