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One ledger labeled "copy of freight way bills" for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway depot at Barboursville, West Virginia for period February 1880 to February 1884. Information recorded into the ledger includes where goods are being shipped, from whom and to whom, what the goods are, and the charges. Destinations in West Virginia include Charleston, Guyandotte, Huntington, Milton, and St. Albans, among others; other destinations include Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Richmond, among others. Goods include apple butter, bacon, coffee, eggs, flour, potatoes, and wheat; other goods include carpet, leather, seeds, and varnish, among others. There is a piece of ephemera tipped into the October 1880 pages, an advertising card for "The Phoenix" in Huntington, a shop that sells whiskey, beer, tobacco, and cigars.

Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf Operators' Association, and the Smokeless Coal Operators Association of West Virginia.

Six contemporary photographic copies of earlier of scenes along the Lexington and Longdale branches of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Two images in this collection are from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Historical Society and cannot be reproduced without its permission. One of the photographs is attributed to Randolph Kean. The four smaller photos are copy prints from early student scrapbooks from WLU manuscripts.