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This sub-series focuses on the broader topic of occupational safety and health in various industries with which JDM worked throughout his career, as part of the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, and the federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Much of this work was specifically related to occupational health and safety in the coal mining industry, but various other industries are represented in this content, including textile production, mushroom growing and processing, poultry processing, and more. Materials related to travel abroad for the purpose of researching, writing about, and proposing policy changes based on international labor practices and occupational health and safety policies around the world are included in this sub-series. Also included are materials related to JDM's work to provide legal counsel for individuals and groups in various industries against corporations and the resulting legal proceedings for the protection of workers. Other notable content is labor history course curriculum created by JDM in collaboration with the WV Humanities Council, various workplace injury and fatality reports, information on the effects of formaldehyde and other causes of work-related respiratory illness and injury, and material on migrant employees' workplace conditions. Notable organizations mentioned and their abbreviations: the United States Department of Labor (DOL), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA), The United States Department of the Interior (DOI), Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center (OSHLC), the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Formats include clippings, articles, publications, facsimiles of articles and other publications, government reports, travel planning documents, receipts, travel journals, notes, correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials.

3 items. Items include a photograph of Battery D, 1st Regiment of Field Artillery, Virginia Volunteers, at Richmond, 27 June 1916, honorary degree from College of William and Mary (1985), and copy of the "Frenchman's Map" of Williamsburg.

This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.

This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.