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Smith; post-World War I radicalism and reaction; Ku Klux Klan; United Mine Workers; National Miners' Union; labor conflict, 1920s; U.S. Railway Administration; New Deal agencies; and Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. Correspondents include Van A. Bittner, William E. Chilton, William G. Conley, John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Eugene V. Debs, James A. Farley, William Green, Averell Harriman, Homer Adams Holt, Rush Dew Holt, Hugh S. Johnson, Louis Johnson, Harley M. Kilgore, H.G. Kump, John L. Lewis, William A. MacCorkle, J. Howard McGrath, Clarence W. Meadows, M.M. Neely, Okey L. Patteson, Jennings Randolph, Adlai E. Stevenson, Clarence W. Watson, and James O. Watson. There are also papers of Clarence L. Smith (1850-1905), editor of the Fairmont INDEX (1889) and founder of the Fairmont TIMES (1900), which include a domestic diary of his wife, 1876-1910; minute book of the Fleming Association, 1890-1894; papers of Clarence Edwin Smith, Jr., 1940-1941; papers of Thomas Barns (1750-1836), and his sons, John S. (delegate to Second Wheeling Convention) and James F.; Marion County millers and manufacturers, 1795-1908. There are also papers of Waitman T. Willey and a taped interview with C.E. Smith, 1956. Correspondents include John L. Lewis, Matthew M. Neely, Francis H. Pierpont, and John J. Cornwell. There are also papers, 1917-1950, of Smith's brother, Earl H. (1880-1941), co-founder and editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1900-1925), state legislator, officer in the National Guard, and state commander of the American Legion. Subjects include World War I; Woodrow Wilson; American Legion; and state and national politics, 1918-1940. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Sam T. Mallison, M.M. Neely, Jennings Randolph, and Howard Sutherland. The collection also includes papers, 1908-1940, of Herschel H. Rose, Smith's son-in-law, Fairmont attorney, Democrat politician, and circuit court judge. M.M. Neely is a correspondent. Financial records include account books, 1826-1893, of Thomas Barns, John S. Barns and Company, Barns, Fleming and Company (1857), James R. Fleming, woolen and flour milling, shoe manufacturing, and general merchandise operations in Marion County; account book of Mary Fleming Smith, 1888-1912; Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company, 1919-1949; Fairmont Broadcasting Company, 1932, 1947-1949; and Jackson Coal Company, 1917-1924; Fairmont Coal Company founding mortgage document, 1901 (box 2, folder 4).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; presidential elections and national and state politics, 1916-1956; John W. Davis; Alfred E. Smith; post-World War I radicalism and reaction; Ku Klux Klan; United Mine Workers; National Miners' Union; labor conflict, 1920s; U.S. Railway Administration; New Deal agencies; and Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. Correspondents include Van A. Bittner, William E. Chilton, William G. Conley, John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Eugene V. Debs, James A. Farley, William Green, Averell Harriman, Homer Adams Holt, Rush Dew Holt, Hugh S. Johnson, Louis Johnson, Harley M. Kilgore, H.G. Kump, John L. Lewis, William A. MacCorkle, J. Howard McGrath, Clarence W. Meadows, M.M. Neely, Okey L. Patteson, Jennings Randolph, Adlai E. Stevenson, Clarence W. Watson, and James O. Watson. 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SEE ALSO Coal mining.","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.","This collection of personal, business and financial papers, and photographs reflect Kubach's business interests and employment in West Virginia coal mines, Honduras gold and silver mines, and other activities. The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.","\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:","Ca. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).","This addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.","\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:","Ca. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).","This addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.","This folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.","This series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.","This series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026 Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026 Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.","This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).","The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026 Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.","The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.","The mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.","The loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.","These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","Also included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.","This series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.","This addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.","This folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.","This sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.","This folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.","This folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.","This folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.","This folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.","This folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026 A.M.\"","This certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.","This folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company.","This folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026 Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026 Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026 Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.","This folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026 Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.","This folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.","This folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.","This folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).","This box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.","Large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCa. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCa. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026amp; Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026amp; Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026amp; Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026amp; A.M.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026amp; Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026amp; Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026amp; Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026amp; Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarge, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of personal, business and financial papers, and photographs reflect Kubach's business interests and employment in West Virginia coal mines, Honduras gold and silver mines, and other activities. The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.","\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:","Ca. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).","This addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.","\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:","Ca. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).","This addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.","This folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.","This series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.","This series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026 Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026 Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.","This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).","The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026 Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.","The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.","The mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.","The loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.","These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","Also included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.","This series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.","This addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.","This folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.","This sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.","This folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.","This folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.","This folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.","This folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.","This folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026 A.M.\"","This certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.","This folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company.","This folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026 Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026 Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026 Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.","This folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026 Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.","This folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.","This folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.","This folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).","This box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.","Large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_ed3b58955d2d76a8d295f8cf231e7386\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["Beury Coal and Coke Company","Cherokee Coal Company","Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company","Honduras Mining Company","Hughes Awning Company","Joes Creek Oil \u0026 Gas Company","Kubach, Oscar C.","Moore, Humphrey Coal Co."],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Beury Coal and Coke Company","Cherokee Coal Company","Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company","Honduras Mining Company","Hughes Awning Company","Joes Creek Oil \u0026 Gas Company","Kubach, Oscar C.","Moore, Humphrey Coal Co."],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Beury Coal and Coke Company","Cherokee Coal Company","Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company","Honduras Mining Company","Hughes Awning Company","Joes Creek Oil \u0026 Gas Company"],"persname_ssim":["Kubach, Oscar C.","Moore, Humphrey Coal Co."],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":43,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T01:27:14.479Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_480","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_480","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_480","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_480","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_480.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/195064","title_ssm":["Oscar Kubach Papers"],"title_tesim":["Oscar Kubach Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["ca. 1815-1939"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["ca. 1815-1939"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 2454","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/480"],"text":["A\u0026M 2454","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/480","Oscar Kubach Papers","Honduras","Coal mining - coal companies.","Coal mining.","Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining.","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.","This collection of personal, business and financial papers, and photographs reflect Kubach's business interests and employment in West Virginia coal mines, Honduras gold and silver mines, and other activities. The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.","\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:","Ca. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).","This addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.","\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:","Ca. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).","This addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.","This folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.","This series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.","This series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026 Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026 Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.","This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).","The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026 Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.","The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.","The mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.","The loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.","These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","Also included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.","This series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.","This addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.","This folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.","This sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.","This folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.","This folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.","This folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.","This folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.","This folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026 A.M.\"","This certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.","This folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company.","This folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026 Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026 Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026 Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.","This folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026 Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.","This folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.","This folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.","This folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).","This box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.","Large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCa. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCa. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026amp; Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026amp; Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026amp; Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026amp; A.M.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026amp; Coke Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026amp; Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026amp; Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026amp; Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026amp; Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarge, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of personal, business and financial papers, and photographs reflect Kubach's business interests and employment in West Virginia coal mines, Honduras gold and silver mines, and other activities. The correspondence, concentrated in the years 1885-87, concerns Kubach's responsibilities as secretary-treasurer of the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company of Stone Cliff, West Virginia, as well as personal and family matters. There are also thirty-six letters to Kubach written in German from 1818 to 1886. Among the business and financial papers are also several publicity circulars from the Honduras Mining Company, a gold and silver ore venture in which Kubach probably had a financial stake. An index to the correspondence is available.","\nAddendum of 1978/08/23:","Ca. 1870s-1920s; 5 in. (1 document case).","This addendum includes mounted and loose paper photographs of railroads, settlements, and buildings, and cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of Kubach, Sr., his family, and other unidentified persons.","\nAddendum of 2018/08/02:","Ca. 1875-1933; 10 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each).","This addendum includes photographs, documents, and other material pertaining to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr., Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., and their family. Photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs of members of the Kubach family and other, unidentified persons. Documents include personal and business correspondence (a few items), Masonic certificates and documents, and the Kubach family coat of arms. Also included in this addendum are a large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV, Masonic awards, a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV, and other personal effects of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's work with mining companies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, business transactions, and personal matters, such as the death of Kubach's first wife, Clara, and the choice of hospitals for surgery. Several letters in this series (folder 2, 1914-1939) pertain to Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and his time at the University of Indiana. A section of this series (folder 3) is written wholly in German; no translations are available. The final folder in this series consists of Xerox copies of the letters in the first two folders. An index of the correspondence is also available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on mines, mine production, and the acquisition of property in West Virginia. There is also a letter pertaining to Kubach, Sr.'s involvement with the Honduras Mining Company. The personal letters focus on the death of Kubach, Sr.'s first wife, Clara. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes business and personal letters. The business letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s involvement in the Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company, but there are also letters regarding the Fayette Coal \u0026 Coke Company, the Honduras Mining Company, and the beginnings of the New River Coal Company. The personal letters focus on Kubach, Sr.'s family and happenings in Shamokin, PA and Stone Cliff, WV. Also included are three letters regarding Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s time at the University of Indiana. An index of this correspondence is available.","This folder includes letters from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s family and friends in his native Germany written in German. These letters have not been translated, although an index with the date each letter was written and the place from which each letter was sent is available.","This folder includes Xerox copies of the correspondence in File Folders 1 and 2 made at the time of the 1978 Addendum. An index of the correspondence in this folder is available.","This series includes four books. Two of these are Kubach's account books, one personal and one business. Another is a small personal notebook with various measurements and accounting notes. The final book is a World War II military edition of \"Japanese Phrase-Book for Beginners and Tourists\" compiled by Arthur Rose-Innes published by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 at the Headquarters of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Presidio of San Francisco, CA; this book was likely owned by Kubach's son Oscar C. Kubach, Jr..","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's business interests and work with various companies and mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the Cherokee Coal Company of Charleston, WV, Hughes Awning Company of Charleston, WV, and the Beury Coal and Coke Company of Stone Cliff, WV.  Also included are documents pertaining to the interest of Kubach's family in the Joes Creek Gas Company of Charleston, WV after Kubach's death in 1899.","This series includes material pertaining to Kubach's stocks in the Honduras Mining Company. This material primarily consists of circulars sent to stockholders from 1885-1886 and various maps of mining sites. Also included is a business prospectus from the Santa Lucia Mining and Milling Company in 1886.","This series includes bills, checks, and receipts pertaining to Kubach's business interests as well as several of Kubach's personal bills and receipts. The bills and receipts include orders for stamped envelopes, shirts, a surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, WV, and work done by employees and contractors. The checks are primarily from J. M. Shuman \u0026 Co., A. H. Thomas, Wm. W. Muir \u0026 Co., and Joseph Wolf, all from Shamokin, PA.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, articles, personal note and card, and a 1887 tax return. The pamphlets and booklets pertain to Kubach's membership in the Shamokin Masonic Lodge, no. 155 in Shamokin, PA, including a book of by-laws from 1883, two small booklets detailing meeting dates in 1883 and 1885, and blank membership applications. The articles include a list of books on mining and a prospectus for the American Art Union from 1885.","This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).","The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman \u0026 Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.","The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during \"Extreme Night\" at Harry Phillips' Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.","The mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.","The loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, \"River View Charleston, WV\"), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man's head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach's death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card's content.","These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","Also included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.","This series includes envelopes from correspondence and orders/receipts. The correspondence envelopes (ca. 1880-1939, undated) likely correspond to those letters in Series 1. The order and receipt envelopes (1877-1898) are labeled by their past contents with recordkeeping and payment notes written on each one in pencil. The origins of most of these envelopes are unknown, but several are labeled as Stirling Colliery, Henry Clay Colliery.","This addendum includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and paper photographs owned by Kubach and his family. Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include mostly portraits of unidentified persons from studios in Pennsylvania. Subjects of mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1898, undated) include railroads and trains, Kubach's second wife, Bettie, and Kubach's oldest two children, Howard and Clara, various unidentified persons, and localities around Stone Cliff, WV and Charleston, WV. Subjects of paper photographs (1910s, undated) include unidentified people and persons and unidentified buildings and localities. Many of these images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and two loose paper photographs. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1910s, undated) include building settlements, railroads, trains, unidentified groups of people, and Oscar Kubach himself. Subjects of the loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s, undated) are an unidentified woman perched on a wood pole and a large, unidentified building. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs and a cabinet card. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include landscapes, buildings, and construction work. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) is of an unidentified infant in a christening gown taken by Thomas in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and one portrait of Kubach's second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and two children, likely Howard Kubach and Clara Kubach. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and roads.","This folder includes mounted photographs of various sizes. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, buildings, several unidentified groups of people, monks or priests outside a Roman Catholic church, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Charleston, WV. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and a group of unidentified persons.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include railroads, trains, and buildings. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This folder includes mounted photographs, a cabinet card, and a loose paper photograph. Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include buildings and several groups of unidentified children. The cabinet card (ca. 1870s-1899, undated) is a posed portrait of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. taken by George M. Bretz's studio in Pottsville, PA. The loose paper photograph (ca. 1910s, undated) is of an unidentified river dam.","This folder includes mounted photographs. Subjects of these photographs (ca. 1870s-1890s, undated) include several posed and candid groups of unidentified children and adults, landscapes, buildings, boats, forests, rivers, roads, and construction sites. These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).","This addendum contains photographs of Kubach, his family, and others, letters in English and German, artifacts and certificates (most of which are related to Freemasonry or Masonry), and other material. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This addendum also includes a 1914 Charlestonian Charleston High School yearbook owned by Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. that was also signed by most of the graduating class, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.'s 1919 certificate to practice law in West Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio railway train cards, business cards, and a hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV.","This sub-series contains photographs owned by the Oscar C. Kubach family. The photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated) include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cased photographs, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs. This sub-series is first organized by identified subject. Those photographs with unidentified subjects are further organized by type.","This folder includes cased tintype and paper photographs (ca. 1875-1920s, undated). The tintype depicts two unidentified children. The subjects of the cased paper photographs are an unidentified woman and Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and an unidentified child, likely either Annetta Kubach or Nancie Kubach, Kubach, Sr. and Bettie's oldest daughters.","This folder includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and their children. Subjects of the cabinet cards are Bettie Toland Kubach, Oscar C. Kubach, Jr., Annetta and Narcie Kubach, and Howard Kubach. Subjects of the mounted and loose paper photographs include Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and Bettie Toland Kubach.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and a loose paper photograph (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of members of the extended Kubach family. Subjects of the cabinet cards include Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s sisters, brother, sisters-and-brothers-in-law, and nieces. Subjects of the cartes de visite are Kubach, Sr.'s stepmother and nephew. Subjects of the mounted photographs are Kubach, Sr.'s brother-in-law's sister and sister-in-law. The loose paper photograph is of Kubach, Sr.'s sister. All photographs are labeled by either Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. or the collection's seller.","This folder includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, mounted photographs, and loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1899, undated) of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. Several of the mounted photographs also include other, unidentified persons.","This folder includes cabinet cards and cartes de visite (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons. The cabinet cards were made by studios in Greensboro, Philadelphia, and Shamokin, PA and Kansas City. The cartes de visite were both taken by C. Raker in Shamokin, PA.","This folder includes mounted photographs (ca. 1875-1910s, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. Some of these images have listed studios, including Fleming in Ironton, OH, an unidentified studio in Glen Jean, WV, and an unidentified studio in Gallipolis, OH.","This folder includes loose paper photographs (ca. 1875-1933, undated) of unidentified persons and groups of people. These images are predominately posed portraits. Three of these images are printed post cards with little information on the reverse. This folder also includes one image labeled \"St. Paul's Cathedral,\" presumably the cathedral in London, England.","This folder includes three artifacts (ca. 1875-1899): a small leather wallet, a medal from the Maysville Commandery of the Knights Templar no. 10 in Maysville, KY, and a Square medal from the Shamokin Masonic Lodge no. 255 inscribed \"Presented to Past Master Oscar C. Kubach by Shamokin lodge No. 255 F. \u0026 A.M.\"","This certificate is a license to practice law in the State of West Virginia given to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. on July 15, 1919.","This folder includes four Employee's Passes and one Pass Check from Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1891-1899). All four Passes show Oscar C. Kubach travelling to Stone Cliff, WV, and two reference Beury Coal \u0026 Coke Company.","This folder contains five business cards belonging to Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. and one compliment card (ca. 1875-1899, undated). Only one of the business cards is related to Kubach's business work (an Edward C. Jones of Edward C. Jones \u0026 Co. in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). The other four cards are for a Philip Nash with Stewart \u0026 Bauer of Philadelphia, PA, a Henry W. Thomas with Geo. W. Driver of Washington, DC (this card has quotes from Hamlet on the reverse), a P. Hesse with Browning, King, \u0026 Co. of Cincinnati, OH, and a John W. Hill of Cincinnati, OH.","This folder contains other papers from Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s wallet, including Instructions for Washing from Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Co., a prescription from C. A. Barron \u0026 Company, Druggists and Pharmacists of Shamokin, PA, a prescription from F. Speth Sons, Opticians of Cincinnati, OH, and an identification card.","This folder includes a variety of Oscar C. Kubach, Sr.'s letters. These letters, both written by and to Kubach, are predominately personal letters to his second wife, Bettie Toland Kubach, and personal letters from friends and family in Germany written in German. Also included are several business letters and personal letters to Narcie Kubach and Oscar C. Kubach, Jr.","This folder includes a rendering and explanation of the Kubach family coat of arms prepared by Halberts, a guest map for an unidentified 12th century castle, an illustration of a set of armor with explanations of the different parts, and a program from the 1867 Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Exchange.","This folder includes three certificates: a membership certificate to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (now known as Shriners International) from the Osiris Temple in Wheeling, WV (1889), a membership certificate to the Pennsylvania National Guard (1875), of which Oscar C. Kubach, Sr. was a 1st Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Infantry, and an achievement certificate for ascending to a 33rd Degree Mason and Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry conferred by the Supreme Council of New York (1887).","This box contains a 1914 Charlestonian yearbook from Charleston High School in Charleston, WV. The book is inscribed to Oscar C. Kubach, Jr. and contains signatures from most of that year's graduating class.","Large, hand-drawn map of Stone Cliff, WV (ca. 1875-1899, undated)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies operating in the Pocahontas district during these years. 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Va.)","Bluefield (W. Va.)","Snowville, V.A. ","Norfolk, V.A.","Landgraff, W.Va.","Coal mining - coal companies.","Coal mining - coal operators associations.","Coal mining.","Unions.","Pocahontas (Va.)","No special access restriction applies.","1564, 1830","Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies operating in the Pocahontas district during these years. Some files include reports on net production by grade. ","The historical files cover the early history of Pocahontas, Va., the Pocahontas Coal Company, the Lynchburg Coal \u0026 Coke Company, the membership and activities of the Pocahontas Operators Association, the Southern Coal Producer's Association (1953, 1957), the Turkey Gap Coal \u0026 Coke Company, The Ennis Coal Company, Aileen Coal Company, Buckeye Coal \u0026 Coke Company, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, and the Pocahontas Fuel Company. There is a brief history of the coal industry in West Virginia, 1800-1951, a contract between coal producers and the railroads, 1886, 1895, a copy of a miner's pay statement, United Mine Workers contracts and working agreements (1919, 1924) and a schedule of the rate of pay in the Pocahontas district, June 1, 1931.","Individuals referred to include W.A. Bishop, C.P. Blair, Mrs. Gordon L. Cox, W.E.E. Koepler, John J. Lincoln, Roland C. Luther, William D. Ord W. L. Osborne, Princess Pocahontas, W.C. Stephenson. 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