Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

This series include company directives; management guides; pamphlets; memoranda files and bidding instructions; photographs of mining engineers, mine operations, and the surrounding landscape; maps, plans, and drawings pertaining to engineering, air circulation, and auger mining, among other mining techniques; procedures and equipment used by Island Creek, Pond Creek Pocahontas, and Marianna Smokeless Coal Companies. There are also maps, drawings and plans regarding the inventions of F.C. Menk.

This series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).

This series contains materials relating to Tida Bailey, a teacher in Monongalia County in the 1890s. It includes correspondence, school materials, teacher certificates, programs, suffrage poems, photographs, and social event ephemera dated from 1887 and 1926.

Class notes and material used by Goldstein to teach classes at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and papers about reforming the American healthcare system.

This series includes correspondence, membership lists, and minutes books of the West Virginia College Music Educators from 1944-1990.

This series consists of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, post cards, and photocopies of books relating to West Virginia history from the late 1700s to the late 1900s.

This series includes ledgers for the Hammond & Siler and John T. Siler & Son businesses, assorted account books, and family bibles.

This addendum contains materials Kemp collected, worked on, and produced, which date between 1768-2014. Items of interest include materials on early oil drilling and Kemp's trip to Canada, Fairbank Oil and the Canadian Oil Museum; materials on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, suspension bridges in France, the United Kingdom and the United States; mixed materials from his work on West Virginia covered bridges; paper on "Marc Seguin and the origins of the Modern Long Span Wire Suspension Bridge"; old postcards of United States and French suspension bridges and of West Virginia covered bridges; materials about King's Covered Bridge; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and Independence Hall; an engineering paper on covered bridge restoration; mixed materials on the restoration of both Philippi and Barrackville Covered Bridges; materials from chapters of Kemp's book Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology; original documents and drawings from Bull Creek Bridge ca. 1855; a Mason-Dixon Line Map facsimile ca. 1768; The General Advertiser (Philadelphia) May 6, 1797. Also includes photos of West Virginia locks and dams, West Virginia covered bridges, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations/roundhouses, early West Virginia oil wells, old farm buildings, locks and dams, suspension bridges, etc.