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West Virginia Adjutant General burial and cemetery records including cemetery maps. The records consists of forms containing name; residence at death (city, county, state); cemetery name and location including town and county; date of burial; type of grave marker; information on grave marker including additional identification; date and place of birth; date, place, and cause of death; next of kin and their address; dates enlisted and discharged; serial number; rank; race; service branch; war of service; and a summary of their war record. Most records are of those who served in the Civil War or World War I. There are very few records of those who served in other wars. There are also cemetery maps with cemetery name and county which include name listings of those veterans interred and plot location sketch diagrams.

A collection of biographical sketches written by West Virginia Representatives and Senators for inclusion in the 1859 and 1869 editions of Charles Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress", as well as correspondence and photographs. Congressmen represented in this collection include William Armstrong, Jacob Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Alexander Boteler, William Gay Brown, John S. Carlile, Sherrard Clemens, Isaac Duval, C.D. Hubbard, A. G. Jenkins, Zedekiah Kidwell, B.M. Kitchen, George R. Latham, Isaac Leffler, James McGrew, William S. Morgan, Daniel H. Polsley, James Stephenson, George William Summers, Peter Van Winkle, Kellian Whaley, John S. Witcher, Waitman T. Willey, Edgar C. Wilson, Henry Wise, and John S. Witcher. This collection contains photographs of Hubbard, Kidwell, Whaley, and Charles James Faulkner. Also includes a photocopy of the Foreword to the 1971 edition of "The Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress".

Memorabilia regarding the musicians and music of the country and western music show "Jamboree" broadcast by Wheeling, West Virginia radio station WWVA. Includes eight song or history books, two song sheets, and thirteen photographs of the musicians who performed at the "Jamboree." Among the performers represented are Mack Jeffers' Fiddlin' Farmers, Jake Taylor and his Rail Splitters, Joe Barker's Radio Circus, Cowboy Loye, Grandpa Jones, Curley Miller and his Ploughboys, as well as West Virginians Doc Williams and his Border Riders, Big Slim "Lone Cowboy," and Frank Dudgeon. Also includes addenda that feature additional memorabilia regarding the country and western musicians who performed on radio stations WWVA (Wheeling, W.Va.) and WMMN (Fairmont, W.Va.).

Printed "Uniform Examination" question in Geography, Spelling, Penmanship, and grammar, of the West Virginia Department of Free Schools.

The West Virginia Department of Health Vital Statistics microfilm (10 reels, labeled 21-25 and 35-39) contains the index for deaths in West Virginia for the years 1917 to 1983. The indexes are organized alphabetically by year, and include name, date of death, county, volume number, and certificate number for each decedent. Starting in 1945, a cause of death code is listed for each decedent. Social Security numbers were added to each record beginning with the 1979 index. The microfilm collection also contains obituaries for Roane County circa 1973 to 1987. (The "gaps" in the sequence of reel numbers reflects the original numbering system as we inherited it.).

Clippings, photographs, minutes, activity reports, histories, and scrapbooks of state Business and Professional Women's Club presidents, districts, and local clubs (including Morgantown, Lewisburg, and Parkersburg). See Scope and Content Note for details about addenda.

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, or WVGES, was established in 1897 by the West Virginia state legislature, and has published numerous maps, bulletins, and guides related to the state's geological and physical resources. Records are grouped into three primary series: Letter Books, 1898-1930; Correspondence, 1923-1949; and WVU Department of Geology Materials, 1919-1927. Letter books date from 1898 to 1930 and are arranged in chronological order. Topics include foundries, natural gas, railroads, the geological survey, the coal, lumber, and glass industries, supplies, World War I war production, and Dr. Israel C. White. Correspondence from 1923 to 1949 is arranged in chronological order by year and then in alphabetical order by correspondent. Topics include the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, soils, surveys, topographic maps, and electric power. Materials from the WVU Department of Geography include financial papers (bills, salaries, field expenses) from 1919 to 1929 and departmental correspondence from 1921 to 1926. This correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order.

A computer disk (3.5 in. floppy) index of the map holdings of the West Virginia Geological Survey in 1994. This electronic map catalog of 306 pages was originally generated in Word Perfect 5.1 by Dr. Peter Lessing of the WV Geological and Economic Survey. The original diskette is in the collection, but its content has been converted to a 372 page Microsoft Word text file that is readable by contemporary devices.

Collection of 77 boxes of glass plate negatives and 18 boxes of sleeves that originally contained the negatives, which have descriptive information pertaining to the negatives. Glass plate negatives were taken by various creators. Subjects include portraits of Morgantown citizens, parades, industry, businesses, buildings, churches, High Street, and bridges. Outside of Morgantown, areas depicted include Monongalia County, Morgan County, Mason County, Martinsburg, Lewis County, Jefferson County, Hampshire County, Harpers Ferry, Grant County, Hardy County, Berkeley County. Subjects depicted outside of Morgantown but of an unidentified location include logging and lumbering, industry, fairs, exhibits, congresses, coal mines and mining, caves, camps, canals, agriculture, bridges. Boxes 1-33a contain glass plate negatives
Boxes 34-52 contain sleeves Please note that transcriptions of the text on the sleeves are only available online for boxes 1-12a; the rest have yet to be transcribed.

Minutes of the Board of Directors of the West Virginia Reform School, Pruntytown, West Virginia, 1890-1899 with index at beginning of ledger. Memoranda from the Superintendent, H.E. Flesher, 1919-1925, to staff members at the school.