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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1883/1897" type="inclusive">1883-1897</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts Microfilm, A&amp;M 2266, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>2298</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Two diaries of Charles Edwin Ward (1841-1915), dealing mainly with trips to Europe and California, in 1883 and 1886, plus a scrapbook of the Charles Ward Engineering Company, a Charleston boat building company, for the year 1897.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="ingest">Charleston.</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631" source="lcsh">Europe</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086206" source="lcsh">Mississippi River</geogname>
    <subject source="local_LC">Boating industry -- Charleston (W. Va.)</subject>
    <subject source="local_LC">Boating industry -- Charleston (W. Va.)</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137027" source="lcsh">Transportation</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Ward Engineering Company</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Ward, Charles Edwin.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Ward, Charles</persname>
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