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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters, A&amp;M 1577, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the "West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide," and the publication of Diss Debar's "West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser."</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Immigration.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - politics.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Jacob, John J.</persname>
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