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County court and public records consisting primarily of case papers and record books related to court proceedings, as well as some personal property and land tax records and private account books.

Typescripts compiled by a Wellsburg local historian, on the history of Holliday's Cove and the Hancock-Brooke County area. Subjects include prominent settlers, churches, schools, post office, toll roads, oil and gas wells, floods, gristmills, manufacture of gunpowder, iron and brick industries, newspapers, Indians, and the James Campbell and Alexander Morrow family genealogy.

The case book of a Wellsburg attorney containing debt proceedings, compensation, and tenancy transactions. Also his record book of farm lands sold in the Cross Creek District of Brooke County.

An unpublished history of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company compiled by J.S. Algeo, completed in 1956. In 1885 this firm originated in Wellsburg, West Virginia, as the Hazel Glass Company and established, later, plants at Clarksburg, Grafton, Wheeling, and Washington, Pennsylvania.

Scrapbook of Julia C. Polsley, "Sunny Side," Point Pleasant, containing clippings on the career and death of her father, Daniel W. Polsley, editor of the Wellsburg TRANSCRIPT, lieutenant governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, judge of the Seventh Judicial District, and member of the Fortieth Congress.

A ledger, receipts, notes, and account statements for the general merchandise retail business of Robert T. Moore, Wellsburg, 1797-1826. Also, several account statements for the wholesale and retail meat business of George M. West, Wellsburg, 1909.

Financial papers of Samuel Jacob of Wellsburg, West Virginia. Loose financial documents chiefly include receipts and bills from 1824 to 1921 (bulk 1824-1899). Receipts are for a wide variety of items, including textiles (muslin, calico, and gingham), food (coffee and pepper), and household items (latches, screws, glass, comb, nails, and twine). Materials also include financial documents related to the estate of John Shryer, 1839-1842, and pages from the herd book of F. H. Jacob. Collection also includes two cash account books, 1832-1837 and 1871-1911; an account book that contains charges for dry goods (hay, potatoes, flour, corn, apples, pork, and bacon), room rentals, work records, and short horn cattle records, 1871-1911; a work records ledger noting number of days worked and payment for harvesting, threshing, and corn shucking, 1884-1899; an invoice ledger, 1872-1874; and an undated ledger showing notes and interest.

Seven original paper freight shipping bags printed by S. George Company of Wellsburg, West Virginia. All are 25 lb. flour sacks labeled for the Voigt Milling Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Contains a bag for Voigt's Cream Flake Flour with a note on the label "Emergency Quality Milled in accourdance with War Food Order No. 144" (suggesting it was made in the 1940s during World War II), Voigt's Crescent Flour for Bread and Pastry, Voigt's Crescent Brand White Frost Flour, Voigt's Crescent Brand Self-Rising Pancake Flour, Voigt's Crescent Brand White Rose Flour, Carnation Brand Flour, and Carnation Brand Self-Rising Flour. See also A&M 2799, S. George Company Records, and A&M 3868, Printmaker Clifford Harvey's Mill Sack Advertising Art from the S. George Company.

Includes appraisals, tax records, employee earning records, account books, and labor records, of the S. George Company, paper sack manufacturers, of Wellsburg, West Virginia. See contents list in control folder. See also paper sacks in A&M 4206, and A&M 3868, Printmaker Clifford Harvey's Mill Sack Advertising Art from the S. George Company.