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Bondurant and \n          Emily (Morrison) Bondurant were the chief\n         correspondents in this collection. \n          Alexander J. Bondurant (1836-1910) was a \n          Confederate soldier, farmer, politician,\n         superintendent of \n          Buckingham County, Va. schools, professor\n         of agriculture at \n          Auburn University , and tobacco consultant\n         to the government of \n          Australia . His father, \n          Thomas Moseley Bondurant (1797-1862), was\n         a landowner, member of the board of trustees of \n          Hampden-Sydney College , a soldier in the\n         War of 1812, a member of the \n          Virginia Senate , and one of the founders\n         of the \n          Richmond Whig . His oldest son, \n          Alexander Lee Bondurant (1865-1937) was\n         professor of Latin and head of the graduate school of the \n          University of Mississippi .","Emily MacFarland Morrison (b. 1837) was\n         the daughter of Rev. \n          James Morrison and \n          Frances (Brown) Morrison of \n          Rockbridge County, Va. A copy of her\n         reminiscences can be found in the Rare Books collection (F 231\n         .B65 1944 1962ed). The \n          Morrison family material consists chiefly of\n         the papers of Rev. \n          James Morrison (1797-1870), including\n         correspondence concerning his family, his congregation, and\n         the \n          Presbyterian Church ; also included are\n         his seminary and sermon notes from 1815-1874, and diaries and\n         account books for his home, \n          Bellevue .","Subjects included in this collection are farms in \n          Buckingham Co., Va. , family affairs, the\n         Civil War, school administration in \n          Buckingham Co. , \n          Auburn University , the \n          University of Virginia , mining and\n         mineral rights in \n          Virginia , immigrant land schemes in \n          Virginia , including the \n          James River Valley Immigrant Society and\n         the \n          Virginia Land and Immigrant Company , \n          Virginia and national politics, tobacco\n         culture in \n          Australia and the southern \n          United States , Rev. \n          James Morrison 's education at the \n          University of North Carolina , his\n         pastorates in \n          North Carolina and \n          Virginia , the \n          Presbyterian Church in the South, and the \n          Bellevue School in \n          Rockbridge County, Virginia .","Most of the personal correspondence in the collection is\n         concerned with family matters. A great deal of the letters\n         discussed agriculture with regard to the family farms,\n         especially \n          Variety Shade , and \n          Alexander J. Bondurant 's various\n         agricultural positions and interests. AJB's letters from \n          Australia to various family members\n         spanned the period from 1896 to 1901. These contain some\n         information on agriculture and the culture of \n          Australia . Some of the letters from \n          Charles W. Dabney to \n          A.J. Bondurant (1881-1898) discuss iron\n         ore and mineral rights in \n          Virginia as well as agriculture.","The Civil War and its affects is another subject to be\n         found in the correspondence. Letters from \n          Emily (Morrison) Bondurant to \n          Alexander J. Bondurant mention her\n         brothers' war activities and posts (29 Jul, 8 Aug, and 11 Aug\n         1862; 6 [Apr] and 22 Apr 1863; 1 Mar, 28 Mar, 5 Apr 1865). A\n         13 May 1863 letter from \n          Thomas Lee Bondurant to \n          A.J.Bondurant mentions the reaction to the\n         death of General \n          Thomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson . Letters to \n          E.M. Bondurant from \n          A.J. Bondurant mention the war and his\n         desire to support the army (12 Apr, 27 Apr, 26 May 1863). Rev.\n          James Morrison also wrote to his daughter \n          E.M. Bondurant about the war and her\n         brother, \n          Samuel Morrison 's appointment as a\n         surgeon in the army (5 Nov 1861, 23 May 1865). Letters to Rev.\n          James Morrison mention the early rumblings\n         of the Civil War and rumors of secession (25 Jul, 20 Oct, 9\n         Nov, 4 Dec 1860), as well as letters from his sons telling of\n         their posts (20 Feb, 4 Dec 1863; 14 Jan, 21 May 1863).","Politics is also a prominent subject in some of the\n         correspondence. The \n          Bondurants were active in the publishing\n         of the \n          Richmond Whig (est. 1824) and it is\n         mentioned in a few letters. \n          E.M. Bondurant to \n          A.J. Bondurant mentions that \n          George [P. Bondurant] (1838-1886) wanted\n         to leave the management of the paper to \n          A.J. Bondurant . \n          Thomas M. Bondurant mentions the paper in\n         a letter (19 Nov 1857) to his son \n          A.J. Bondurant . A letter from \n          George P. Bondurant to his father \n          A.J. Bondurant mentions the \n          Whig again and the \n          Bondurant interests in the paper (22 Mar\n         1896). Local and national politics is found in several letters\n         from \n          E.M. Bondurant to \n          A.J. Bondurant (26 Jul, 27 Sep, 8, 11, 31\n         Oct 1896). Letters from \n          Alexander Lee Bondurant to his father \n          A.J. Bondurant mention local politics and\n         the race for the legislature (25 Oct 1887, 7 May 1889). \n          Thomas M. Bondurant was also concerned\n         with local politics; a letter from \n          J.T. Bocock mentions Sen. \n          Flood and local tax collecting practices\n         and the justice system and how they could be changed (8 Jan\n         1834).","Religion and the \n          Presbyterian Church is also a prominent\n         subject in the correspondence of Rev. \n          James Morrison , pastor of \n          New Providence Presbyterian Church , \n          Rockbridge County, Virginia . The letters\n         from Rev. \n          Elam J. 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Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEmily (Morrison) Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ewere the chief\n         correspondents in this collection. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e(1836-1910) was a \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003esoldier, farmer, politician,\n         superintendent of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County, Va.\u003c/geogname\u003eschools, professor\n         of agriculture at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eAuburn University\u003c/corpname\u003e, and tobacco consultant\n         to the government of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. His father, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Moseley Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e(1797-1862), was\n         a landowner, member of the board of trustees of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHampden-Sydney College\u003c/corpname\u003e, a soldier in the\n         War of 1812, a member of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Senate\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one of the founders\n         of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRichmond Whig\u003c/corpname\u003e. His oldest son, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Lee Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-1937) was\n         professor of Latin and head of the graduate school of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Mississippi\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEmily MacFarland Morrison\u003c/persname\u003e(b. 1837) was\n         the daughter of Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Morrison\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrances (Brown) Morrison\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRockbridge County, Va.\u003c/geogname\u003eA copy of her\n         reminiscences can be found in the Rare Books collection (F 231\n         .B65 1944 1962ed). The \n         \u003cfamname\u003eMorrison family\u003c/famname\u003ematerial consists chiefly of\n         the papers of Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Morrison\u003c/persname\u003e(1797-1870), including\n         correspondence concerning his family, his congregation, and\n         the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003ePresbyterian Church\u003c/corpname\u003e; also included are\n         his seminary and sermon notes from 1815-1874, and diaries and\n         account books for his home, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBellevue\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects included in this collection are farms in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham Co., Va.\u003c/geogname\u003e, family affairs, the\n         Civil War, school administration in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham Co.\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eAuburn University\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e, mining and\n         mineral rights in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, immigrant land schemes in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, including the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eJames River Valley Immigrant Society\u003c/corpname\u003eand\n         the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Land and Immigrant Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003eand national politics, tobacco\n         culture in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003eand the southern \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003e, Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Morrison\u003c/persname\u003e's education at the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of North Carolina\u003c/corpname\u003e, his\n         pastorates in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003ePresbyterian Church\u003c/corpname\u003ein the South, and the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBellevue School\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRockbridge County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the personal correspondence in the collection is\n         concerned with family matters. A great deal of the letters\n         discussed agriculture with regard to the family farms,\n         especially \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVariety Shade\u003c/corpname\u003e, and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e's various\n         agricultural positions and interests. AJB's letters from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003eto various family members\n         spanned the period from 1896 to 1901. These contain some\n         information on agriculture and the culture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. Some of the letters from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles W. Dabney\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e(1881-1898) discuss iron\n         ore and mineral rights in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as agriculture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Civil War and its affects is another subject to be\n         found in the correspondence. Letters from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEmily (Morrison) Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003emention her\n         brothers' war activities and posts (29 Jul, 8 Aug, and 11 Aug\n         1862; 6 [Apr] and 22 Apr 1863; 1 Mar, 28 Mar, 5 Apr 1865). A\n         13 May 1863 letter from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Lee Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J.Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ementions the reaction to the\n         death of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e. Letters to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eE.M. 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The \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBondurants\u003c/persname\u003ewere active in the publishing\n         of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRichmond Whig\u003c/corpname\u003e(est. 1824) and it is\n         mentioned in a few letters. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eE.M. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ementions that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge [P. Bondurant]\u003c/persname\u003e(1838-1886) wanted\n         to leave the management of the paper to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas M. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ementions the paper in\n         a letter (19 Nov 1857) to his son \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e. A letter from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge P. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto his father \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ementions the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eWhig\u003c/corpname\u003eagain and the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eBondurant\u003c/famname\u003einterests in the paper (22 Mar\n         1896). Local and national politics is found in several letters\n         from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eE.M. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003e(26 Jul, 27 Sep, 8, 11, 31\n         Oct 1896). Letters from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Lee Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003eto his father \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA.J. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003emention local politics and\n         the race for the legislature (25 Oct 1887, 7 May 1889). \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas M. Bondurant\u003c/persname\u003ewas also concerned\n         with local politics; a letter from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ.T. 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Morrison\u003c/persname\u003efrom Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Morrison\u003c/persname\u003e(1820-1826) are concerned\n         with family matters, friends in the ministry, questions and\n         and advice about the ministry, the Presbytery and synods.\n         Letters to Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Morrison\u003c/persname\u003e(1813-1863, n.d.) contain\n         many similar topics and include family letters and letters\n         from friends and relatives in the ministry.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consist of ca. 16,000 items, 1787-1936, and\n         contains the papers of the \n          Bondurant family of \n          Buckingham County, Virginia , and the \n          Morrison family of \n          Rockbridge County, Virginia who were\n         related through the marriage of \n          Alexander Joseph Bondurant and \n          Emily MacFarland Morrison in 1859. \n          Alexander J. Bondurant and \n          Emily (Morrison) Bondurant were the chief\n         correspondents in this collection. \n          Alexander J. Bondurant (1836-1910) was a \n          Confederate soldier, farmer, politician,\n         superintendent of \n          Buckingham County, Va. schools, professor\n         of agriculture at \n          Auburn University , and tobacco consultant\n         to the government of \n          Australia . His father, \n          Thomas Moseley Bondurant (1797-1862), was\n         a landowner, member of the board of trustees of \n          Hampden-Sydney College , a soldier in the\n         War of 1812, a member of the \n          Virginia Senate , and one of the founders\n         of the \n          Richmond Whig . His oldest son, \n          Alexander Lee Bondurant (1865-1937) was\n         professor of Latin and head of the graduate school of the \n          University of Mississippi .","Emily MacFarland Morrison (b. 1837) was\n         the daughter of Rev. \n          James Morrison and \n          Frances (Brown) Morrison of \n          Rockbridge County, Va. A copy of her\n         reminiscences can be found in the Rare Books collection (F 231\n         .B65 1944 1962ed). The \n          Morrison family material consists chiefly of\n         the papers of Rev. \n          James Morrison (1797-1870), including\n         correspondence concerning his family, his congregation, and\n         the \n          Presbyterian Church ; also included are\n         his seminary and sermon notes from 1815-1874, and diaries and\n         account books for his home, \n          Bellevue .","Subjects included in this collection are farms in \n          Buckingham Co., Va. , family affairs, the\n         Civil War, school administration in \n          Buckingham Co. , \n          Auburn University , the \n          University of Virginia , mining and\n         mineral rights in \n          Virginia , immigrant land schemes in \n          Virginia , including the \n          James River Valley Immigrant Society and\n         the \n          Virginia Land and Immigrant Company , \n          Virginia and national politics, tobacco\n         culture in \n          Australia and the southern \n          United States , Rev. \n          James Morrison 's education at the \n          University of North Carolina , his\n         pastorates in \n          North Carolina and \n          Virginia , the \n          Presbyterian Church in the South, and the \n          Bellevue School in \n          Rockbridge County, Virginia .","Most of the personal correspondence in the collection is\n         concerned with family matters. A great deal of the letters\n         discussed agriculture with regard to the family farms,\n         especially \n          Variety Shade , and \n          Alexander J. Bondurant 's various\n         agricultural positions and interests. AJB's letters from \n          Australia to various family members\n         spanned the period from 1896 to 1901. These contain some\n         information on agriculture and the culture of \n          Australia . Some of the letters from \n          Charles W. Dabney to \n          A.J. Bondurant (1881-1898) discuss iron\n         ore and mineral rights in \n          Virginia as well as agriculture.","The Civil War and its affects is another subject to be\n         found in the correspondence. Letters from \n          Emily (Morrison) Bondurant to \n          Alexander J. Bondurant mention her\n         brothers' war activities and posts (29 Jul, 8 Aug, and 11 Aug\n         1862; 6 [Apr] and 22 Apr 1863; 1 Mar, 28 Mar, 5 Apr 1865). A\n         13 May 1863 letter from \n          Thomas Lee Bondurant to \n          A.J.Bondurant mentions the reaction to the\n         death of General \n          Thomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson . Letters to \n          E.M. Bondurant from \n          A.J. Bondurant mention the war and his\n         desire to support the army (12 Apr, 27 Apr, 26 May 1863). Rev.\n          James Morrison also wrote to his daughter \n          E.M. Bondurant about the war and her\n         brother, \n          Samuel Morrison 's appointment as a\n         surgeon in the army (5 Nov 1861, 23 May 1865). Letters to Rev.\n          James Morrison mention the early rumblings\n         of the Civil War and rumors of secession (25 Jul, 20 Oct, 9\n         Nov, 4 Dec 1860), as well as letters from his sons telling of\n         their posts (20 Feb, 4 Dec 1863; 14 Jan, 21 May 1863).","Politics is also a prominent subject in some of the\n         correspondence. The \n          Bondurants were active in the publishing\n         of the \n          Richmond Whig (est. 1824) and it is\n         mentioned in a few letters. \n          E.M. Bondurant to \n          A.J. Bondurant mentions that \n          George [P. Bondurant] (1838-1886) wanted\n         to leave the management of the paper to \n          A.J. Bondurant . \n          Thomas M. Bondurant mentions the paper in\n         a letter (19 Nov 1857) to his son \n          A.J. Bondurant . A letter from \n          George P. Bondurant to his father \n          A.J. Bondurant mentions the \n          Whig again and the \n          Bondurant interests in the paper (22 Mar\n         1896). Local and national politics is found in several letters\n         from \n          E.M. Bondurant to \n          A.J. Bondurant (26 Jul, 27 Sep, 8, 11, 31\n         Oct 1896). Letters from \n          Alexander Lee Bondurant to his father \n          A.J. Bondurant mention local politics and\n         the race for the legislature (25 Oct 1887, 7 May 1889). \n          Thomas M. Bondurant was also concerned\n         with local politics; a letter from \n          J.T. Bocock mentions Sen. \n          Flood and local tax collecting practices\n         and the justice system and how they could be changed (8 Jan\n         1834).","Religion and the \n          Presbyterian Church is also a prominent\n         subject in the correspondence of Rev. \n          James Morrison , pastor of \n          New Providence Presbyterian Church , \n          Rockbridge County, Virginia . The letters\n         from Rev. \n          Elam J. 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Her siblings included: Louisa Anna Sexton Hays (1822-1899); Freeman Sexton (1827-1911); Worthington Sexton (b. 1829); and Almira Emmaline Sexton Farmington (1834-1900).","Anna Young Sexton was the first school teacher in French Creek, and Augustus Sexton taught in schools for more than forty years. Amie's oldest sister, Louisa, was a teacher before her marriage, as was her brother. Born into a family that valued education, it's likely that Amie began her education at an early age. When school wasn't in session she studied various subjects on her own.","Since Amie's father was away during the winter months teaching, and her mother was busy managing a farm, it seems probable that Louisa, who was fourteen years older than Amie, looked after her. In May 1849 Louisa married Peregrine \"Perry\" Hays of Gilmer County and moved to Glenville. In June, Amie joined her on a visit. Thereafter she spent most of her remaining life with or near Louisa.","From an early age Amie liked to write letters and poetry, which was sometimes published in local newspapers. Amie first taught in Glenville at age sixteen. She later taught at schools in Harrison and Calhoun counties.","In 1859 Amie married George W. Silcott (1830-1903), the county clerk of Calhoun County. They built a home at Arnoldsburg, then the county seat. Their daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott was born in 1860. When the Civil War broke out George Silcott supported the Confederate cause. Captured and later exchanged at Vicksburg in 1863, he returned to the Confederate army under General W. L. Jackson. In December 1864 Amie traveled to Monroe County to see her husband. She returned to Arnoldsburg in April 1865.","Amie Sexton Silcott fell ill after her return and in July 1865 she was too sick to get out of bed. Her health continued to decline and on November 30, 1865, she died of \"Lung fever\". She was buried at Arnoldsburg.","(Based on article authored by Hunter Armentrout that appeared in the Calhoun Chronicle in 2007.)","Minter Jackson:","Minter Jackson speculated on land in central western Virginia (West Virginia). Milton Norris conducted surveys of and drew plats for some of these lands, and in some cases, Jackson sold lands to Norris a year after he had surveyed them. Just before the Civil War Jackson moved to Marion, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia, where he was involved in banking.","(Information from Hunter Armentrout.)","Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).","This series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.","This series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","This series chiefly contains the poetry and penmanship exercises of the Sexton sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington, Louisa Sexton Hays, and Amie Sexton Silcott, as well as writings by their uncle, Loyal Young, and Silcott's daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott. Where materials could be identified by author, including a six-page 1851 diary and poetry written by Amie Sexton Silcott, items are arranged in alphabetical order according to creator. Some items are dated between 1847 and 1855, but much of this material is undated and its authors are unknown.","This series primarily contains receipts, bills, deeds, and tax tickets from the 1850s to the 1880s. Some documents are related to Augustus and Annie Young Sexton, and these have been separated from the general financial materials.","This series includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, land speculation records pertaining to lands, Jackson genealogy information, and some papers of Walter Jackson that extensively document Minter Jackson's land speculation in north central western Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1840s and 1850s.","This series contains advertisements and circulars, almanacs from 1883 and 1902, Confederate currency, the entire run of the newsletter \"Horse's Mouth,\" regarding Glenville residents in World War II, and mostly undated pamphlets, probably from the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.","This series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).","The photographs in this series are primarily of the Glenville Normal School but also include a photograph of Hunter Armentrout.","This series consists of an unidentified lock of hair.","Two Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. The legend on the index map includes a key for symbols that identify the following on the maps: gas wells, oil wells, gas and oil wells, gas wells with a \"show of oil\", and locations of abandoned gas or oil wells.) 2) Map of Roane and Calhoun Counties with Grantsville and Spencer, West Virginia; 2006 (Includes roads and cities.)","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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She was the daughter of Augustus W. Sexton (1792-1870) and Anna Young Sexton (1796-1880), both of whom were born in Massachusetts and were part of the significant migration of settlers from New England to western Virginia after 1800. Amie Sexton Silcott was the youngest of five children. Her siblings included: Louisa Anna Sexton Hays (1822-1899); Freeman Sexton (1827-1911); Worthington Sexton (b. 1829); and Almira Emmaline Sexton Farmington (1834-1900).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Young Sexton was the first school teacher in French Creek, and Augustus Sexton taught in schools for more than forty years. Amie's oldest sister, Louisa, was a teacher before her marriage, as was her brother. Born into a family that valued education, it's likely that Amie began her education at an early age. When school wasn't in session she studied various subjects on her own.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSince Amie's father was away during the winter months teaching, and her mother was busy managing a farm, it seems probable that Louisa, who was fourteen years older than Amie, looked after her. In May 1849 Louisa married Peregrine \"Perry\" Hays of Gilmer County and moved to Glenville. In June, Amie joined her on a visit. Thereafter she spent most of her remaining life with or near Louisa.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom an early age Amie liked to write letters and poetry, which was sometimes published in local newspapers. Amie first taught in Glenville at age sixteen. She later taught at schools in Harrison and Calhoun counties.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1859 Amie married George W. Silcott (1830-1903), the county clerk of Calhoun County. They built a home at Arnoldsburg, then the county seat. Their daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott was born in 1860. When the Civil War broke out George Silcott supported the Confederate cause. Captured and later exchanged at Vicksburg in 1863, he returned to the Confederate army under General W. L. Jackson. In December 1864 Amie traveled to Monroe County to see her husband. She returned to Arnoldsburg in April 1865.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmie Sexton Silcott fell ill after her return and in July 1865 she was too sick to get out of bed. Her health continued to decline and on November 30, 1865, she died of \"Lung fever\". She was buried at Arnoldsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Based on article authored by Hunter Armentrout that appeared in the Calhoun Chronicle in 2007.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMinter Jackson:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMinter Jackson speculated on land in central western Virginia (West Virginia). Milton Norris conducted surveys of and drew plats for some of these lands, and in some cases, Jackson sold lands to Norris a year after he had surveyed them. Just before the Civil War Jackson moved to Marion, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia, where he was involved in banking.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Information from Hunter Armentrout.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Amie Evaline Sexton-Silcott:","Amie Evaline Sexton was born on Sunday, May 29, 1836, at French Creek, Lewis County, Virginia, now Upshur County, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Augustus W. Sexton (1792-1870) and Anna Young Sexton (1796-1880), both of whom were born in Massachusetts and were part of the significant migration of settlers from New England to western Virginia after 1800. Amie Sexton Silcott was the youngest of five children. Her siblings included: Louisa Anna Sexton Hays (1822-1899); Freeman Sexton (1827-1911); Worthington Sexton (b. 1829); and Almira Emmaline Sexton Farmington (1834-1900).","Anna Young Sexton was the first school teacher in French Creek, and Augustus Sexton taught in schools for more than forty years. Amie's oldest sister, Louisa, was a teacher before her marriage, as was her brother. Born into a family that valued education, it's likely that Amie began her education at an early age. When school wasn't in session she studied various subjects on her own.","Since Amie's father was away during the winter months teaching, and her mother was busy managing a farm, it seems probable that Louisa, who was fourteen years older than Amie, looked after her. In May 1849 Louisa married Peregrine \"Perry\" Hays of Gilmer County and moved to Glenville. In June, Amie joined her on a visit. Thereafter she spent most of her remaining life with or near Louisa.","From an early age Amie liked to write letters and poetry, which was sometimes published in local newspapers. Amie first taught in Glenville at age sixteen. She later taught at schools in Harrison and Calhoun counties.","In 1859 Amie married George W. Silcott (1830-1903), the county clerk of Calhoun County. They built a home at Arnoldsburg, then the county seat. Their daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott was born in 1860. When the Civil War broke out George Silcott supported the Confederate cause. Captured and later exchanged at Vicksburg in 1863, he returned to the Confederate army under General W. L. Jackson. In December 1864 Amie traveled to Monroe County to see her husband. She returned to Arnoldsburg in April 1865.","Amie Sexton Silcott fell ill after her return and in July 1865 she was too sick to get out of bed. Her health continued to decline and on November 30, 1865, she died of \"Lung fever\". She was buried at Arnoldsburg.","(Based on article authored by Hunter Armentrout that appeared in the Calhoun Chronicle in 2007.)","Minter Jackson:","Minter Jackson speculated on land in central western Virginia (West Virginia). Milton Norris conducted surveys of and drew plats for some of these lands, and in some cases, Jackson sold lands to Norris a year after he had surveyed them. Just before the Civil War Jackson moved to Marion, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia, where he was involved in banking.","(Information from Hunter Armentrout.)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records, A\u0026amp;M 3659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records, A\u0026M 3659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series chiefly contains the poetry and penmanship exercises of the Sexton sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington, Louisa Sexton Hays, and Amie Sexton Silcott, as well as writings by their uncle, Loyal Young, and Silcott's daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott. Where materials could be identified by author, including a six-page 1851 diary and poetry written by Amie Sexton Silcott, items are arranged in alphabetical order according to creator. Some items are dated between 1847 and 1855, but much of this material is undated and its authors are unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series primarily contains receipts, bills, deeds, and tax tickets from the 1850s to the 1880s. Some documents are related to Augustus and Annie Young Sexton, and these have been separated from the general financial materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, land speculation records pertaining to lands, Jackson genealogy information, and some papers of Walter Jackson that extensively document Minter Jackson's land speculation in north central western Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1840s and 1850s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains advertisements and circulars, almanacs from 1883 and 1902, Confederate currency, the entire run of the newsletter \"Horse's Mouth,\" regarding Glenville residents in World War II, and mostly undated pamphlets, probably from the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs in this series are primarily of the Glenville Normal School but also include a photograph of Hunter Armentrout.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of an unidentified lock of hair.\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"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).","This series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.","This series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","This series chiefly contains the poetry and penmanship exercises of the Sexton sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington, Louisa Sexton Hays, and Amie Sexton Silcott, as well as writings by their uncle, Loyal Young, and Silcott's daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott. Where materials could be identified by author, including a six-page 1851 diary and poetry written by Amie Sexton Silcott, items are arranged in alphabetical order according to creator. Some items are dated between 1847 and 1855, but much of this material is undated and its authors are unknown.","This series primarily contains receipts, bills, deeds, and tax tickets from the 1850s to the 1880s. Some documents are related to Augustus and Annie Young Sexton, and these have been separated from the general financial materials.","This series includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, land speculation records pertaining to lands, Jackson genealogy information, and some papers of Walter Jackson that extensively document Minter Jackson's land speculation in north central western Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1840s and 1850s.","This series contains advertisements and circulars, almanacs from 1883 and 1902, Confederate currency, the entire run of the newsletter \"Horse's Mouth,\" regarding Glenville residents in World War II, and mostly undated pamphlets, probably from the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.","This series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).","The photographs in this series are primarily of the Glenville Normal School but also include a photograph of Hunter Armentrout.","This series consists of an unidentified lock of hair."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. The legend on the index map includes a key for symbols that identify the following on the maps: gas wells, oil wells, gas and oil wells, gas wells with a \"show of oil\", and locations of abandoned gas or oil wells.) 2) Map of Roane and Calhoun Counties with Grantsville and Spencer, West Virginia; 2006 (Includes roads and cities.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Two Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. The legend on the index map includes a key for symbols that identify the following on the maps: gas wells, oil wells, gas and oil wells, gas wells with a \"show of oil\", and locations of abandoned gas or oil wells.) 2) Map of Roane and Calhoun Counties with Grantsville and Spencer, West Virginia; 2006 (Includes roads and cities.)"],"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. 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Her siblings included: Louisa Anna Sexton Hays (1822-1899); Freeman Sexton (1827-1911); Worthington Sexton (b. 1829); and Almira Emmaline Sexton Farmington (1834-1900).","Anna Young Sexton was the first school teacher in French Creek, and Augustus Sexton taught in schools for more than forty years. Amie's oldest sister, Louisa, was a teacher before her marriage, as was her brother. Born into a family that valued education, it's likely that Amie began her education at an early age. When school wasn't in session she studied various subjects on her own.","Since Amie's father was away during the winter months teaching, and her mother was busy managing a farm, it seems probable that Louisa, who was fourteen years older than Amie, looked after her. In May 1849 Louisa married Peregrine \"Perry\" Hays of Gilmer County and moved to Glenville. In June, Amie joined her on a visit. Thereafter she spent most of her remaining life with or near Louisa.","From an early age Amie liked to write letters and poetry, which was sometimes published in local newspapers. Amie first taught in Glenville at age sixteen. She later taught at schools in Harrison and Calhoun counties.","In 1859 Amie married George W. Silcott (1830-1903), the county clerk of Calhoun County. They built a home at Arnoldsburg, then the county seat. Their daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott was born in 1860. When the Civil War broke out George Silcott supported the Confederate cause. Captured and later exchanged at Vicksburg in 1863, he returned to the Confederate army under General W. L. Jackson. In December 1864 Amie traveled to Monroe County to see her husband. She returned to Arnoldsburg in April 1865.","Amie Sexton Silcott fell ill after her return and in July 1865 she was too sick to get out of bed. Her health continued to decline and on November 30, 1865, she died of \"Lung fever\". She was buried at Arnoldsburg.","(Based on article authored by Hunter Armentrout that appeared in the Calhoun Chronicle in 2007.)","Minter Jackson:","Minter Jackson speculated on land in central western Virginia (West Virginia). Milton Norris conducted surveys of and drew plats for some of these lands, and in some cases, Jackson sold lands to Norris a year after he had surveyed them. Just before the Civil War Jackson moved to Marion, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia, where he was involved in banking.","(Information from Hunter Armentrout.)","Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).","This series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.","This series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","This series chiefly contains the poetry and penmanship exercises of the Sexton sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington, Louisa Sexton Hays, and Amie Sexton Silcott, as well as writings by their uncle, Loyal Young, and Silcott's daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott. Where materials could be identified by author, including a six-page 1851 diary and poetry written by Amie Sexton Silcott, items are arranged in alphabetical order according to creator. Some items are dated between 1847 and 1855, but much of this material is undated and its authors are unknown.","This series primarily contains receipts, bills, deeds, and tax tickets from the 1850s to the 1880s. Some documents are related to Augustus and Annie Young Sexton, and these have been separated from the general financial materials.","This series includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, land speculation records pertaining to lands, Jackson genealogy information, and some papers of Walter Jackson that extensively document Minter Jackson's land speculation in north central western Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1840s and 1850s.","This series contains advertisements and circulars, almanacs from 1883 and 1902, Confederate currency, the entire run of the newsletter \"Horse's Mouth,\" regarding Glenville residents in World War II, and mostly undated pamphlets, probably from the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.","This series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).","The photographs in this series are primarily of the Glenville Normal School but also include a photograph of Hunter Armentrout.","This series consists of an unidentified lock of hair.","Two Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. 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Her siblings included: Louisa Anna Sexton Hays (1822-1899); Freeman Sexton (1827-1911); Worthington Sexton (b. 1829); and Almira Emmaline Sexton Farmington (1834-1900).","Anna Young Sexton was the first school teacher in French Creek, and Augustus Sexton taught in schools for more than forty years. Amie's oldest sister, Louisa, was a teacher before her marriage, as was her brother. Born into a family that valued education, it's likely that Amie began her education at an early age. When school wasn't in session she studied various subjects on her own.","Since Amie's father was away during the winter months teaching, and her mother was busy managing a farm, it seems probable that Louisa, who was fourteen years older than Amie, looked after her. In May 1849 Louisa married Peregrine \"Perry\" Hays of Gilmer County and moved to Glenville. In June, Amie joined her on a visit. Thereafter she spent most of her remaining life with or near Louisa.","From an early age Amie liked to write letters and poetry, which was sometimes published in local newspapers. Amie first taught in Glenville at age sixteen. She later taught at schools in Harrison and Calhoun counties.","In 1859 Amie married George W. Silcott (1830-1903), the county clerk of Calhoun County. They built a home at Arnoldsburg, then the county seat. Their daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott was born in 1860. When the Civil War broke out George Silcott supported the Confederate cause. Captured and later exchanged at Vicksburg in 1863, he returned to the Confederate army under General W. L. Jackson. In December 1864 Amie traveled to Monroe County to see her husband. She returned to Arnoldsburg in April 1865.","Amie Sexton Silcott fell ill after her return and in July 1865 she was too sick to get out of bed. Her health continued to decline and on November 30, 1865, she died of \"Lung fever\". She was buried at Arnoldsburg.","(Based on article authored by Hunter Armentrout that appeared in the Calhoun Chronicle in 2007.)","Minter Jackson:","Minter Jackson speculated on land in central western Virginia (West Virginia). Milton Norris conducted surveys of and drew plats for some of these lands, and in some cases, Jackson sold lands to Norris a year after he had surveyed them. Just before the Civil War Jackson moved to Marion, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia, where he was involved in banking.","(Information from Hunter Armentrout.)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records, A\u0026amp;M 3659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records, A\u0026M 3659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. 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(A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. 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Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).","This series includes research notes and other materials as compiled by Hunter F. Armentrout chiefly related to Amie Sexton Silcott, including detailed listings and transcripts of her letters as well as a chronological listing of the letters (note that this chronological order was broken down by the donor and re-filed alphabetically but that the numerical annotations were retained). Research materials also include Sexton and Young family genealogies; information about Butler, Pennsylvania, and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia; and genealogy of the Burr, Gould, Hays, Haymaker, and Silcott families.","This series contains two groupings, A. and B., that were organized by collector Hunter Armentrout. Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis \"Nellie\" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.","Incoming letters to Amie Sexton Silcott are organized by correspondent; letters written by Silcott are organized in chronological order from 1849 to 1865. Silcott's letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun counties before and during the Civil War. (A paper copy of transcriptions of letters authored by her is available in box 1, folders 4 and 5; a compact disc containing a Word file of transcriptions of her letters is filed in box 1, folder 3b; another electronic copy of same is filed with the Curator of Manuscripts.)","Amie Silcott's letters chiefly include news about friends and family; her delicate health; the weather; household activities (chores, sewing, reading, gardening, and cooking); social activities (church, visits with friends, and parties); nature and her physical surroundings (Butler, Pennsylvania; Glenville and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia); education; and marriage. Topics related to the Civil War include Silcott's allegiance to the South; news of friends and family in the Confederate army; and the impact of war on her home. Significant items include an 1859 letter in defense of slavery and an 1864 letter about her desire for peace and the sacrifices of soldiers.","Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.","This series chiefly contains the poetry and penmanship exercises of the Sexton sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington, Louisa Sexton Hays, and Amie Sexton Silcott, as well as writings by their uncle, Loyal Young, and Silcott's daughter, Ella Louise \"Nellie\" Silcott. Where materials could be identified by author, including a six-page 1851 diary and poetry written by Amie Sexton Silcott, items are arranged in alphabetical order according to creator. Some items are dated between 1847 and 1855, but much of this material is undated and its authors are unknown.","This series primarily contains receipts, bills, deeds, and tax tickets from the 1850s to the 1880s. Some documents are related to Augustus and Annie Young Sexton, and these have been separated from the general financial materials.","This series includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, land speculation records pertaining to lands, Jackson genealogy information, and some papers of Walter Jackson that extensively document Minter Jackson's land speculation in north central western Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1840s and 1850s.","This series contains advertisements and circulars, almanacs from 1883 and 1902, Confederate currency, the entire run of the newsletter \"Horse's Mouth,\" regarding Glenville residents in World War II, and mostly undated pamphlets, probably from the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.","This series is composed of miscellaneous subject files that contain information related to: the distribution of abolitionist literature in Gilmer County (3 pages, 1857); the Civil War in Gilmer County; land speculation in Lewis County; and the Buckhannon and Little Kanawha Turnpike (1854).","The photographs in this series are primarily of the Glenville Normal School but also include a photograph of Hunter Armentrout.","This series consists of an unidentified lock of hair."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. The legend on the index map includes a key for symbols that identify the following on the maps: gas wells, oil wells, gas and oil wells, gas wells with a \"show of oil\", and locations of abandoned gas or oil wells.) 2) Map of Roane and Calhoun Counties with Grantsville and Spencer, West Virginia; 2006 (Includes roads and cities.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Two Accessions to Map Collection: 1) Farm Line Maps of North-Central West Virginia (16 maps and 1 index map); 1958-1961 (The maps show boundaries of properties and names of owners, and location of oil and gas wells, for Gilmer County and surrounding areas in the counties of Calhoun, Ritchie, Doddridge, Lewis, and Braxton. The legend on the index map includes a key for symbols that identify the following on the maps: gas wells, oil wells, gas and oil wells, gas wells with a \"show of oil\", and locations of abandoned gas or oil wells.) 2) Map of Roane and Calhoun Counties with Grantsville and Spencer, West Virginia; 2006 (Includes roads and cities.)"],"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. 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Lucy taught at Huntington High School from 1899-1913, and taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College (now Marshall University) from 1914-1941. Marshall's Prichard Hall was named in her honor.","Louis Eckert Reed  (born October 1, 1899 in Wirt County, WV; died January 31, 1979 in Elizabeth, WV) served as a sergeant in the US Army during WWI, served as Administrative Assistant to Senator Chapman Revercomb, and worked as a prosecuting attorney in Wirt County, WV. He also wrote for  Atlantic Monthly .","James Franklin \"Jim\" Comstock  was born to Harry Clinton and Myrtle Blanche in Richwood, West Virginia on February 25, 1911. He married Miss Ola Stowers in Huntington, WV, on October 18, 1933; they would have two daughters, Sandra Ferguson and Elaine Nagy, and a son, Jay. In 1934, Comstock received B.A. from Marshall College (now Marshall University). From 1938-1942, he taught at Richwood High School and wrote for the  Clarksburg Telegram . He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946, and upon returning home he founded the  Nicholas County News Leader  (originally  News Letter ) with Bronson D. McClung (1920-2004), a former student of his. On December 25, 1963, the  Nicholas County News Leader  combined with  Nicholas Republican ; in 1984, it became the  Richwood News Leader . Comstock remained an active part of the paper till his death on May 22, 1996.\n \n In 1957, Comstock founded the weekly  West Virginia Hillbilly  with McClung, and became its editor. The paper included feature articles, columns of special interest to West Virginians, book notes, and the \"Comstock Load,\" the editor's own column on the back page. Comstock first tried to sell the  Hillbilly  in 1976. In 1981, he sold it to the South Charleston Publishing Company. On February 25, 1986, he repurchased and began resuscitating the  Hillbilly . In 1992, he sold the  Hillbilly  to Sandy McCauley. In 2001, the  Hillbilly  ceased publication.","Comstock was involved in many endeavors in addition to his newspaper editing and reporting activities. In 1963, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Republican ticket. He wrote, edited, and contributed to various books, including  Pa and Ma and Mr. Kennedy , a 50-volume  West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia , and a collection of newspaper highlights entitled  Best of Hillbilly . He was also involved in republishing books by West Virginian authors. He campaigned to purchase and preserve author Pearl S. Buck's birthplace at Hillsboro, and he helped save the Cass Scenic Railroad. He also founded the University of Hard Knocks, a lighthearted honorary society that recognizes the accomplishments of people who have succeeded in life without a college degree.","Papers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers.","Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and  Atlantic Monthly  writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]).","An addendum of 2013/05 includes additional personal and professional correspondence, publications, newspaper morgue files, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, scrapbooks, account books, and maps. For more information on Jim Comstock, see the Historical Note.","Series 1. Historical Documents; 1717, 1754-1988, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1 - box 3, folder 2. \nSeries 2. Lucy Prichard Papers; 1913-1936, undated; box 3, folders 3-8. \nSeries 3. Louis Reed Papers; ca. 1960-1975, undated; boxes 4-5. \nSeries 4. Account Books; 1830-1938; boxes 6-17. \nSeries 5. Printed Material; 1829-1995, undated; boxes 18-25. \nSeries 6. Comstock Correspondence; 1882-1995, undated (bulk 1950-1995); boxes 26-72. \nSeries 7. Photographs; ca. 1850s-1995, undated; boxes 73-81. \nSeries 8. Motion Pictures; undated; box 82. \nSeries 9. Microfilm; undated; box 82. \nSeries 10. Cassette Tapes; undated; box 82. \nSeries 11. Glass Lantern Slides; 1871-1897, undated; boxes 83-85. \nSeries 12. Scrapbooks; 1883-1918; boxes 86-91. \nSeries 13. Broadsides; ca. 1827-1960 (includes facsimiles); box 92. \nSeries 14. Maps; 1730-1976, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 93-103, and map cabinet 1, drawer 12. \nSeries 15. Newspapers; ca. 1826-1924, 1976; box 104. \nSeries 16. Artifacts; 1952-1976, undated; boxes 105-109. \nSeries 17. Oversize; 1650-1671, 1720-1991, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 110-118.","Addendum of 2013/05  includes material much like that in the initial acquisition, divided into the following series:","Series 18. Correspondence; 1838-2003, undated (bulk 1950-1995); box 119 - box 133 folder 4, and box 134 folders 1-11.* \nSeries 19. Publications; 1889-2002, undated; box 133, folders 5-6, box 134, folder 12, and boxes 135-136.* \nSeries 20. Subject Files; ca. 1851-1995, undated; boxes 137-146. \nSeries 21. Photographs; ca. 1870s-2003, undated; boxes 147-149.* \nSeries 22. Audio-Visual Material; 1990-1992, undated; box 150. \nSeries 23. Artifacts; undated; box 151, folders 1-2. \nSeries 24. Scrapbooks; ca. 1953-1984; box 151, folder 3 and scrapbook. \nSeries 25. Account Books; 1954-1960s; box 151 ledgers. \nSeries 26. Oversize Material; 1861-1866, 1893-1933, 1950-1998, undated; box 152 - box 156, folder 3, loose folders 1-4, oversize folder 1, and box 157. \nSeries 27. Maps; 1884-1891, 1920, 1957-1987; box 156, folders 4-10. \nSeries 28. Historical Documents; 1839-1909; box 158.","*Please note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes financial records such as receipts and invoices, legal documents such as deeds and court cases, correspondence, land records, genealogy materials, ephemera, and typescript histories. Box 1 includes three subgroups: the Barnet Cushwa Papers, West Virginia Documents, and Non-West Virginia Documents. Boxes 2a-3 contain material of mixed origin. Additional historical documents can be found in Series 17, Oversize, and in subseries Oversize--Manuscripts.","This subseries includes a collection of materials documenting the activities of Cushwa, a prominent farmer and later the sheriff of Berkeley County in the 1850s. Cushwa's papers reveal his activities as administrator of the Daniel Gehr estate (1839-1843). The Berkeley County documents, including lists of landholdings, orders, taxes, and fee collections, demonstrate his duties as sheriff in the 1850s. See Series 17, Oversize, box 117 for Berkeley County land holdings, sheriff's accounts, and lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc. (1854-1858).","This subseries is comprised of correspondence and other material, principally concerning commercial and development activities in north-central West Virginia. These items are grouped by county; please note that there is overlap between counties.   Highlights include:  items relating to Harman Blennerhassett (box 1, folder 12);  a six-page letter written by William G. Brown answering questions concerning the constitutionality of the movement for West Virginia statehood (June 28, 1862) (box 1, folder 13);  letters and reminiscences focusing on the reunions of the Battle of Philippi (1911-1935) (box 1, folder 14); and  two letters from the abolitionist John Brown (box 1, folder 15)."," Additional West Virginia documents can be found in boxes 2a-2c.","Highlights of this subseries include:  four letters from soldiers in the Mexican War;  seventeen letters from Pennsylvania soldier James M. Weaver, principally to his wife, during his service in the Civil War;  a confidential letter from President James Monroe explaining his policy on fortifying the frontier;  seven Booker T. Washington letters;  two letters from Revolutionary War general Horatio Gates; and  a folder of letters written by famous 19th century figures including Samuel Clemens, Collis P. Huntington, Nathaniel P. Banks, and Newton D. Baker.","This subseries contains correspondence, invoices, deeds, tax documents, court cases, and other material. Most of the items pertain to West Virginia.  Highlights include:  bills and invoices of G.H.A. Kunst and John H. Kunst (1853-1867, 1892-1893);  papers of the Wells family of Sistersville (1806-1885);  a telegram regarding the burning of Harpers Ferry (1861);  a broadside listing members of Company H, 3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Infantry (undated); and  legal documents regarding the manumission of slaves (1820-1828, 1856).","Lucy Prichard taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College from 1914 to 1941. This series includes correspondence, photographs, and printed material. Correspondence includes Karl Prichard's letters (1918) and Lucy Prichard's letters (1925-1927, undated). Lucy's letters are addressed to her mother, Mrs. R.H. Prichard, in Huntington, WV. Many of Lucy's letters relate to her travels and studies in the Peloponnesus peninsula of Greece, the British Isles, Western Europe, and Italy in 1925 and 1927. For more information on Lucy Prichard, see the Historical Note.","This series includes newspaper clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and Atlantic Monthly writer Louis Eckert Reed. The newspaper clippings show images of Reed family photos (1960). The typescripts are short stories written by Louis, many likely unpublished. Also included are notes and a draft of  Burning Springs, Virginia: The Civil War's Unsolved Mystery , initially a paper that Reed prepared for the West Virginia Historical Society (see  Burning Springs, West Virginia: the Civil War's Unsolved Mystery , by Louis Reed, self-published in Elizabeth, WV, 1960). This material may have been developed for his later fictional novel,  Burning Springs  (published in Huntington, WV by University Editions/Aegina Press, 1985). For more information on Reed, see the Historical Note. A letter from Louis Reed to Jim Comstock regarding Reed's book  Warning in Appalachia  (1967) can be found in Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 62, folder 27. Other letters from Reed may be found elsewhere in Series 6, Correspondence.","This series includes 27 account books, many of which relate to north-central West Virginia businesses. These ledgers document general stores, a Jewish-owned clothing store in Richwood, the activities of an itinerant Methodist minister in the mining villages of north-central West Virginia, grocery stores and meat markets, a glass manufacturer, and other businesses. See Separated Materials note for information on volumes separated to other collections.","Thistle and Cox formed a partnership in Tyler County, [West] Virginia in March of 1835. This is the partnership's first ledger, which spans the years 1835-1837, but reference is made to the transfer of accounts to at least one subsequent ledger. The business appears to have been located near the Ohio River (probably in Sistersville), since customers included Ohio as well as Tyler County citizens. Although the debit side for each customer only lists the term \"merchandise\" for purchases, the ledger reveals the barter nature of much of the rural economy of Tyler County on the credit side. Among items received in trade by Thistle and Cox were chestnuts, hides, bees wax, rags, sand, tobacco, clothes, meats, produce, and various forms of labor. The ledger also frequently lists the occupations or residences of many of the customers. Included were coopers, tanners, blacksmiths, preachers, schoolteachers, and carpenters, scattered from Point Pleasant to Wheeling.","Inventory and Book Accounts. This volume contains a 66-page inventory of goods on hand and their prices in a Tyler County general store in January 1877. The inventory is divided into the following categories: fancy groceries, groceries, men's shoes, ladies' shoes, children's shoes, overshoes, dress goods, wall paper, housewares, and other. Starting on page 71 is a four-page list of the book accounts of the store's customers, presumably on that same date.","The Cordray Carriage Company was a short-lived business in Fairmont, WV. The ledger lists only the customers and the amount they owed T.L. Cordray, the proprietor of the Carriage Company. The ledger does not list the services for which the customers were charged. However, one itemized account invoice on an inserted piece of paper suggests that the Cordray Carriage Company repaired vehicles. For H.O. Amos, from 1907 through 1911, the Company repaired couplings, repaired and painted the body, repaired the interior, raised the body, and tightened and repaired the fenders, for a total charge of $118. The ledger includes more than 400 customers.","A. H. Breckstein was a Jewish merchant who operated a clothing store in the boom town of Richwood, in Nicholas County. Volume 10 is a cash book detailing daily transactions in the store, both sales and expenses, for part of 1910, and consistently for the period 1928 to 1936. There are also monthly accountings of both cash and credit sales as well as expenses. Volume 11 documents sales and purchases of clothing for the period 1926 to 1934. The sales portion of this volume repeats information available in volume 10. Volume 12 is a ledger of accounts payable for the period 1921-1928, showing the firms from which Breckstein purchased his goods. Included are companies in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York.","J.C. Shock was a Methodist minister assigned to a parish in Pullman, WV in 1910. However, he also appeared to be an itinerant preacher, and his account book lists ministerial services provided for the towns and villages of Duffy, Straight Fork, Falls Mill, Glady, and Kingknob, in the north-central West Virginia counties of Lewis, Ritchie, and Wetzel. The account book documents Shock's ministry, listing the text for sermons preached at various towns as well as the contributions of those towns to his salary. Most of the entries cover the years 1910-1917, at which time his base of operations seems to have shifted permanently to Falls Run and Falls Mill in Braxton County. There are entries for sermons, marriages, and assessments for those towns running to 1938. An additional folder contains miscellaneous documents related to Shock found within the ledger.","In the 1890s, Mrs. Samuel C. Gans operated a general store in Moundsville, which by 1900 was specializing in dry goods. This ledger reflects the volume of business and the timing and means of settling accounts. The early pages (for the 1890s) are more detailed, listing the items purchased from the general store. For the later period, the entries are frequently limited to the terms \"goods\" or \"merchandise.\" The back of the volume also contains some notes and miscellaneous accounts, such as rooms rented.","In 1892, a number of Charleston's German families banded together to form an Evangelical Lutheran Church. Subscriptions for a building fund and other church work began to be collected in October of that year. This ledger documents the subscriptions of the founding members of St. Paul's Evangelical Church. It also provides an accounting of the expenses and building funds contributed by the members, including the purchase of a lot on Court Street in Charleston, the church's construction, and the salary of the minister.","These volumes were written by Albert S. Hayden, Notary Public in and for the county of Marion and the state of West Virginia. He recorded handwritten copies of promissory notes and bills presented at Fairmont, WV banks for redemption, which were protested by the First National Bank of Fairmont's cashier. The ledgers also list the date protested, by whom, and the notices mailed to note signers. Most notes originated in West Virginia, but some originated in Ohio. Volume 16a covers 1870-1873. Volume 16b covers 1875-1876.","Anthony Zidn operated a grocery and dry goods store outside of Fairmont on RFD #2. Zidn was an immigrant from the Middle East (perhaps Armenia, as suggested by the fact he kept his accounts in Persian and had a Christian name). These three ledgers document his business, although most of the information is written in Persian.","The Price Brothers operated a general store in the small village of Amos on the Paw Paw Creek, eleven miles from the town of Fairmont in Marion County. The Price Brothers sold all sorts of groceries to people in the town, as documented by this ledger. In addition, the Polk business directory for 1902-1903 notes that the Price sisters operated a millinery business in Amos. There are loose papers within the ledger, including statements and product advertisements (1905-1907, undated).","At the turn of the century, there were four wholesale meat provisioners in Wheeling. This ledger represents the operations of one of them for the years 1901-1902. The company principally supplied general stores and grocers in eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and western Maryland. However, individuals could also buy directly. Entries typically include the name of the purchaser, the town in which the purchaser resides, and the amount of the purchase. For local buyers, the ledger frequently lists the Wheeling address. Since transactions are usually noted only as merchandise, it is impossible to glean what types of meats were being purchased at what costs.","Jacob Hornbrook was born in Tavistock, England, in 1812 and moved with his parents to Wheeling when he was a small child. Jacob's father ran a small [business?] in Wheeling. As a young man, Jacob began a mercantile business buying and selling produce on the flatboats travelling on the Ohio River. He later started a notions store, purchased interest in a steamship line and the First National Bank, and was president and owned stock in the Wheeling Gas Company. These three books, a journal (volume 20; 1847-1874), a ledger (volume 21; 1847-1874), and a cash book (volume 22; 1845-1874), document his business interests, investments, and personal expenses during the last three decades of his life. Although he remained an active investor, Hornbrook retired from his mercantile business in 1855 with an estate valued at more than $30,000. In 1852, he moved to what he called \"Forest Home\" near Wheeling Park, and he served in the West Virginia legislature during the Civil War.","This volume includes a manuscript copy of the act \"To incorporate the Wheeling Gas Company\" issued March 18, 1850; a copy of a related Wheeling city ordinance, issued April 29, 1850; stockholders meeting minutes, April 15, April 25, May 1, May 9, and May 11, 1850; and lists of subscribers, the number of shares of stock, and the amount paid.","George C. Gans was a physician practicing in Marshall County in the decades prior to the Civil War. Although most of his patients resided in the area around Moundsville and Elizabeth, Gans does not appear in either the 1840 or the 1850 U.S. census schedules for Marshall County. The ledger documents his treatment of families in Marshall County for a wide variety of ills, including typhoid fever (1861), cholera (1847), and farm injuries. Gans also routinely attended childbirths. His treatments included blistering, bleeding, venesection, lancing, and operating as well as administering medicine and pills. In return for his services, Gans routinely accepted farm produce, labor on his farm, and other useful items such as shingles. He went on to serve as an assistant surgeon in the Civil War.","This is a ledger of an Elizabeth, PA, glass manufacturer's accounts with his workers. The manufacturer ran some type of company store, and the ledger thus includes debits for cash and merchandise received by the workers and credits for the various types of labor performed, including glass blowing, teasing, cutting, coal mining, blacksmithing, and box making. In addition, the ledger includes the manufacturer's accounts with a boarding house owner for boarding his workers and with a local merchant who supplied the company store. In general, the ledger provides insights into the earnings of mid-19th century artisans as well as the operation of a small, rural glass-making establishment.","This consignment book documents commodity prices and the wide variety of goods received by a Wheeling commission merchant house during the 1830s. It also provides insights into the local industrial development, since the commission merchants routinely received goods on consignment from local manufacturers, such as the German Manufacturing Company (textiles). At the beginning of the book, there is evidence that the firm engaged a peddler to make trips in 1830, and the commission house also conducted auctions during the 1830s.","Moses Chapline was a prominent citizen in Wheeling, at various times an attorney, a general store owner, and in the 1830s, mayor. This daybook documents the daily trade at his store during 1845. Included are entries for purchases of a wide variety of goods as well as entries for store expenses, such as insurance, soap, and transportation. The A. Loring who appears frequently throughout was probably Alonzo Loring, a clerk at the store.","Harry Hood and Company was a retail meat and dairy market in Fairmont, WV. This ledger covers the last few months of 1906 and the first months of 1907. It documents purchases of meat from wholesale producers, such as Armour and Company, and sales of meat to local businesses and individuals in Fairmont. Transactions are typically listed only as \"merchandise,\" making it difficult to glean any information concerning prices or consumption patterns. The ledger is used only for the first 150 of its 500 pages, and the business does not appear in the Polk business directory of 1906-1907, suggesting the possibility that it folded some time in 1907.","This ledger documents a general store in Tyler County, probably near Middlebourne, the county seat. Although fairly routine entries characterize customer purchases, the volume also documents purchases from wholesale merchants, beginning on page 251. Included are such firms as Hubbard and Paull, and Jos. Speidel, both of Wheeling; Ed Roome of Sistersville; and Burgunder Brothers and Company, of Columbus, Ohio. Also, the ledger often lists the occupations of the store's customers. Included are John Gates, an oil rig builder (reflecting the emergence of the local oil business) and a number of customers connected to a local woolen mill.","John Gallaher, Christian Ansbrutz, and Caleb Bleakmor started a general store partnership in 1853. Prior to that date, Gallaher operated a store in Moundsville, which is documented in the first 90 pages of the daybook. The daybook follows the partnership for only six months (until September 1853), but then another Moundsville general store (involving Bleakmor) used the daybook during 1856. In the 1850 census, Bleakmor was listed as a constable, age 49, born in Maryland; and Ansbrutz was listed as a miller, age 47, born in France, worth $23,000. Only Gallaher, a 53-year-old Irishman worth $12,000, was listed as a merchant. From the evidence in the daybook, it appears that the partnership was short-lived.","This series includes ephemera, sheet music, booklets, pamphlets, and correspondence. Additional miscellaneous printed material can be found in Series 17, Oversize.","  Box 18 includes calendars, sheet music, notecards, and printed material related to West Virginia history. The notecards include screen printed notecards from Wolf Creek Printery in Alderson, WV (1976). The history printed material includes a booklet entitled  Wheeling Bicentennial, 1769-1969  (1969?).","  Box 19 includes West Virginia serial publications and magazines, as well as printed material about West Virginia schools and locations. Highlights include three issues of  The Searchlight , a serial about education (two published in Summersville, WV [1895-1896], and one published in Fayetteville, WV [1899]); an issue of  The Mikrophone: Devoted to Religion, Morality, and Temperance  (published in Highland, WV, by D.H. Davis, 1906); Scottish Rite pamphlets (published in Wheeling, 1910-1917); the Richwood High School Class of 1940 reunion program (1960); Craigsville Grade School's first yearbook (1973); and  Mountaineer Spirit , a WVU student magazine featuring an article about Jim Comstock (1968).","  Box 20 includes non-West Virginia serial publications and magazines. Highlights include an issue of  The Religious Magazine, or Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews  (Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1829); and E.D. Cope's  On Vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous Rocks of the North West Territory  (Montreal: W.F. Brown \u0026 Co., 1891);  Naval Training School -- Indoctrination, Hollywood Florida: Quarterdeck, Class of 3-44, 20 June 1944  (Hollywood, FL: Naval Training School, 1944); and issue no. 18 of  Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge  (undated).","  Box 21 includes various writings, such as student literary magazines, works of fiction, poetry booklets, and George T. Swain's  The Incomparable Don Chafin  (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962).","  Box 22 includes George T. Swain's  Facts About the Two Armed Marches on Logan  (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962), as well as printed materials for a variety of West Virginia and non-West Virginia businesses and organizations. These include advertisements and booklets regarding the West Virginia glass industry, including Fenton Glass (1966-1976, undated), a Woman's Club of Gassaway booklet (1970), a reprint of the Berkeley Springs Hotel Brochure of 1885 (1988), and the constitution of the First Baptist Church of Richwood, WV (undated). For additional business-related printed material, see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2b, folders 11-12.","  Box 23 includes miscellaneous booklets, programs, book plates, articles, clippings, and other material. Highlights include  Rules of Practice in the United States Patent Office  (Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1892), Elbert Hubbard's  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Erasmus  (East Aurora, Erie County, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), the Richwood Spud and Splinter Festival Program (1940), and Eugene L. Huddleston's  The World's Greatest Mallets: C \u0026 O H-8 Versus N \u0026 W Class A  (Alderson, WV: Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Historical Society, 1986).","  Boxes 24 and 25 contain books, including Comstock's autobiography.","This series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence. This series contains materials that are diverse in format, including letters, scripts for radio and other media, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial materials (e.g. bank books and checks), printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 7, Photographs. Some materials were moved to Series 17, Oversize -- see the Series 17 description for details."," Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files are dispersed throughout the series. Other notations that Comstock used include \"LR\" for letters received, \"Sp\" for speech-related correspondence, \"NL\" for  News Leader -related correspondence, and \"HB\" for  West Virginia Hillbilly -related correspondence."," Topics and items of interest include:  \n letters written to Comstock by regional author Jesse Stuart, and by political figures such as Hubert H. Humphrey, Robert C. Byrd, Jennings Randolph, and Barry Goldwater (box 26 and others);  rejection letters from newspapers and magazines to which Comstock submitted material (box 26);  biographical material about Jim Comstock and his family, including a thesis about Comstock by Mary Abel (boxes 26 and 47);  Larry Maynor, journalist for the  Charleston Daily Mail  (box 29);  the sale and ultimate demise of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  (boxes 31 and 72);  the University of Hard Knocks, including a mock-up diploma, resumes, and portrait photograph headshots of potential graduates (boxes 31 and 60);  [Delf] Norona Collection payments (boxes 33 and 46);  Pearl S. Buck (box 33 and others);  Billy Edd Wheeler, West Virginia writer and musician (box 36);  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) reunion in 1979 (box 36);  Otto Whittaker, who worked with Comstock on  The Best of the Hillbilly  (boxes 37 and 65);  the  West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia  (box 40);  Comstock's appearance on John Nebel's WOR radio show in 1960, including postcards and letters regarding the appearance and requests for Comstock's Richwood Kinsey Report as well as  News Leader  or  West Virginia Hillbilly  subscriptions (boxes 41-42);  Comstock's appearance on the Today Show in 1966 (box 42);  Comstock's appearance on Patricia/Patsy McCann's WOR radio show in New York in August 1977, including letters and postcards regarding the appearance and requests to receive the free six-week subscription to the  West Virginia Hillbilly  which Comstock offered on the show (boxes 42-43);  writers, with an emphasis on West Virginia authors, whose work Comstock was interested in collecting (boxes 40, 44, 45, and 62);  writings by Comstock, including short stories, articles, drafts, etc. (boxes 47-49);  Comstock's nomination and campaign for a U.S. House of Representatives seat on the Republican ticket in 1964 (boxes 51 and 56);  the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and  News Leader , including morgue files, old articles, submissions, letters, and other items (boxes 54, 55, 57, 61, 63, and others; for oversize items, see Series 17, Oversize, box 116);  Eck Bozeman (box 57);  Comstock's pocket diaries (box 57);  Comstock's naval service during World War II (box 60);  H.C. Comstock, Jim's father (box 68); and  historical research material, possibly for the  Encyclopedia  (box 72)."," Please note that the above list is not exhaustive.","This series includes print photographs, negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photos, tintypes, photo postcards, slides, clippings, printed material, correspondence, photo plates, and eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies). Subjects include furniture; first ladies of West Virginia; historic homes of West Virginia; identified and unidentified individual and group portraits; cities and towns of West Virginia; buildings; scenery; Museum of the Hills in Richwood, WV; glass and glassmaking; and the Greenbrier. Some of the material in this series was transferred from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence -- in cases where the photographic item was attached to correspondence, the correspondence was transferred as well. Please note that some negatives are nitrate; keep these away from heat and handle with care. Additional photographic material can be found in Series 6, Correspondence, boxes 35, 54, 55, and 72. For photos of Fenton Glass products, see Series 5, Printed Material, box 22. Some oversize photos have been separated to the Photographs Collection; most of these have been added to West Virginia History OnView. Additional oversize photos can be found in Series 17, Oversize."," Contents of the eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies):"," Box 80; Canister label: \"Huntington 1-6000 April 1947\"  Box 80; Canister label: \"Chas. [Charleston?] 1957, Nitro, 1957; St. Albans, 1957, Old Chas., 1948, Airport, Big Scale (?)\"  Box 80; Canister labels: \"Elk River Coal \u0026 Lumber Co., Aerial Map Flown April 1953.\" and \"City of Huntington Scale 1-6000 Apr 28 1947\"  Box 80; Canister label: \"Harmony Near Ripley, [?] ft to 1\" old; Colin Creek Coal Stripping, large scale, 1948; Lake Chaweva, 1948; Armour Park, 1948; C\u0026O Ry [Railway?] Coal River 1948; Bellings Airport, 1947; Kanawha Airport, large and small scale, 12-9-1947; Strip to City Blvd 12-9-1947; City Strip \u0026 Kenna Home; C\u0026CCC Research 1947; Cedar Grove to Montgomery.\"  Box 81; Unlabeled canister.  Box 81; Canister label: \"1949\"  Box 81; Canister label: \"Coal City - Park Beckley, 1947 [?]\" (not usable)  Box 81; Canister label: \"4/20/53 Dick Stata Film, St. Albans - Charleston\" (not usable)","This series contains two rolls of 35 mm black and white motion picture film, and three rolls of 16 mm color motion picture film of a train. Also included is one of the canisters which contained the film. The box which formerly contained the film was labeled \"F.M.C. Movie Scraps.\" Please note that some reels are nitrate; handle with care.","This series contains two reels of microfilm, which were likely the property of Delf Norona before they were acquired by Comstock. The first reel contains West Virginia-related Civil War records; the second contains payroll and public service claims from the West Virginia region in the 1770s."," Reel 1 Contents Notes:  Records of the War Department, Office of the Adjutant General, General Orders, Mountain Department, Army in the Field, May 9 - June 28, 1862.  National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1956. 101 total pgs.  March 18 - June 18, 1862 86 total pgs."," Reel 2 Contents Notes:  Payroll for Pittsburgh, 122 leaves; Payroll for Romney, 43 leaves; Public Service Claims Romney and Winchester 1775, 37 leaves; Public Service Claims West Augusta 1775, 49 leaves; Records of Soldiers and Public Service in Dunmore's War, 279 leaves; index, 25 leaves.","This series includes two cassette tapes which were found in an envelope marked \"Larry Maynor Personal.\" The tapes include recordings of children reading stories and an oral history interview with an unidentified subject.","This series contains 75 wood framed glass lantern slides. Most slides are labeled with the subject, and some are dated. Subjects include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV, as well as Brooke County and Marshall County, WV, and Belmont County, Ohio. These images were likely created by Thomas M. Darrah of Belmont County, Ohio. For the two wooden boxes in which the slides were previously stored, please see Series 16, Artifacts, boxes 105 and 106.","This series includes scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings and ephemera. Subjects include the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and U.S. military history with a focus on Civil War history. These scrapbooks may have belonged to Colonel Albert Kern of Dayton, Ohio.","This series includes originals and copies of broadsides and posters. Included are a John Dillinger wanted poster (1934); a Garrett Snuff advertisement (undated); copies of various political notices (originals ca. 1827-1886); Russian broadsides with Cyrillic text, depicting events of the Russian Civil War, USSR propaganda, and other things (ca. 1920-1930); posters for the Marshall County Fair (ca. 1960) and the Moundsville, Powhatan and Clarington Seventh Grand Annual Picnic (1873); advertisements for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus at the Moundsville Fairgrounds (undated); Showboat Rhododendron advertisements (undated); and other material.","This series includes original and facsimile maps, atlases, and books about maps. Highlights include pre- and post-Civil War maps of the West Virginia area;  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illustrated: containing ... special history of the Virginias, maps and histories of Tyler and Wetzel Counties, West Virginia ; maps of America before 1775; copies of [West] Virginia county maps by John Wood from 1820-1821; maps of various West Virginia cities, including, Morgantown, Moundsville, and Wheeling; and various Fry-Jefferson maps (original and copies). A detailed contents list of boxes 93-100b and map cabinet 1, drawer 12 is available. ","\nNote that the date for each map reflects the date of creation of the item, though in the case of copies it may indicate the date of the creation of the original item rather than the date the copy was made. Also, the number of items may indicate different items or different pieces of the same map. ","\n  Not yet located; Item Number 113; County Map of Virginia and West Virginia; 1874","This series includes newspapers from Wheeling, as well as a special bicentennial salute issue of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  (1976). The majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated to the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings. A list of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder."," Most of the West Virginia newspapers have been microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113 in the Microfilm Room. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. Additional newspaper pages and clippings can be found throughout Series 6, Comstock Correspondence and Series 17, Oversize, box 117.","This series includes a variety of artifacts and ephemera belonging to or collected by Comstock."," Boxes 105 and 106 include two wooden boxes (undated) which contained glass lantern slides (see Series 11). One box is labeled \"T.M. Darrah.\" Also included are a fountain pen used by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman to sign the contract to begin building the Bureau of Mines' Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown, WV, with letters documenting the donation of the pen by Senator Harley M. Kilgore (1952); and a dinner plate showing a photo-like image of a priest with a group of children, from St. Albans, WV (undated)."," Box 107 includes various nametags for Comstock and his wife, from a variety of conventions and meetings (1960-1963, undated); glasses and sunglasses (undated); a sewing needle pack and a mini ruler advertising Jim Comstock for Congress (ca. 1964); a press pass for President Ford's visit to Charleston, WV (1975); and tickets to the Republican National Convention (1976); among other material."," Box 108 contains two figurines and four whiskey decanters. The figurines are a coal miner (made of coal, undated) and \"Morgan's Virginia Rifleman 1776\" (undated). The decanters are \"Old Time Coal Miner\" (1976), \"Coal Miner\" (1975), Robert E. Lee (undated), and Stonewall Jackson on horseback (undated)."," Box 109 contains six whiskey decanters: Abraham Lincoln (undated), Stonewall Jackson (undated), Hill Billy (1969), General Stonewall Jackson (1974), Randolph McCoy (1973), and Devil Anse Hatfield (1973).","This series contains oversize material that may be relevant to other series.","This subseries includes paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, educational posters, architectural drawings, vinyl records, typescripts, transparencies, clippings, manuscripts, and printed material, among other formats. Topics include Pearl Buck's birthplace, West Virginia, the Civil War, Jim Comstock's work, and other topics. More manuscripts are in the Manuscripts subseries, box 118."," Box 110 and box 111, folders 1-2 contain artwork depicting Pearl Buck's birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, including paintings, sketches, a chalk drawing, and a plan for a sign (1965-1966, undated)."," Box 111, folders 3-4 and unfoldered items include two West Virginia-related prints and an unidentified photo (undated); one framed and six unframed prints depicting mining machinery, possibly of Joy Manufacturing Company (undated); an unframed painting of a coal miner (undated); twelve mounted photographs and sketches (most unidentified, undated); and four rolled photographs (1918-1955?)."," Box 112 includes educational posters regarding the Civil War and West Virginia history (undated). The posters include text, images, and photographs. Also includes mounted photographs, most with accompanying text, that have been added to West Virginia History On View. An additional eight posters regarding maps made by or related to North American Indians, likely assembled by Delf Norona, are also included (ca. 1950). For additional maps related to North American Indians/Native Americans, see also Series 14, Maps, box 98, item number 349."," Box 113 includes various West Virginia-related prints, including one of Mount Chantal near Wheeling (undated); prints of Civil War scenes sketched from nature and drawn on stone by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated); a copy print of the camps of the 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps. near Romney (undated); prints made from Civil War engravings (1960); W.R. Leigh bullfighting prints (1950); copies of architectural plans for alterations of Wheeling's Custom House and Post Office (undated); and other items."," Box 114 contains limited edition black and white prints from a series entitled \"Covered Bridges of West Virginia\" by Marj Teague (1977) and three copies of a vinyl record album titled \"The Legend of Clark Kessinger\" (ca. 1965)."," Box 115 includes paintings by John Wellington (undated); oversize photos (undated); an unidentified floor plan (undated); and architectural drawings or blueprints for five properties that were part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (undated). These properties are \"The Old Stone Church\" Presbyterian, Lewisburg, WV; Harewood and the ruins of St. George's Chapel, both near Charles Town, Jefferson County, WV; Traveler's Rest, near Leetown, Jefferson County, WV; and the Lee Barn in Leetown, WV."," Box 116 includes radio scripts (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67); calendars (1984-1991);  Hillbilly  transparencies (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 54); various printed images and magazine clippings (1860-1921, undated); \"Our Wacky Weekly\" and newspaper article typescripts, probably written by Comstock (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 48, folder 1); and music-related magazines and pamphlets (1959-1966, undated)."," Box 117 includes Berkeley County documents from the Barnet Cushwa Papers (see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 1, folders 1-5). These include lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc.; sheriff's office accounts; and land holdings (all 1854-1858). Box 117 also includes television scripts (undated); an envelope and survey plat from the Wells Family Papers (1856, undated; see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2a, folder 24); Civil War-related prints (1861-1868, 1955); newspaper clippings (1861, 1927-1944, undated; some from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67, folders 4 and 7); miscellaneous printed material (1817-1863, undated; includes facsimiles); and facsimile broadsides, legal documents, and clippings regarding West Virginia statehood (1861-1863).","This subseries includes oversize manuscripts, most of which pertain to West Virginia. West Virginia materials include pre- and post-statehood indentures, land grants, other legal documents, letters, certificates, and other formats pertaining to Barbour, Berkeley, Fayette, Hampshire, Hardy, Marshall, Ohio, Raleigh, and Tyler Counties. Additional indentures and land grants pertain to England (1650-1671, 1720-1721, 1833), and to Maryland, Virginia, and Texas.","This series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence, and is composed of a wide range of formats, including letters, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial documents, printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 21, Photographs."," Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files can be found in boxes 119-125. Other notations that Comstock used include \"NL\" for  News Leader -related correspondence and \"HB\" for  West Virginia Hillbilly -related correspondence."," Topics and items of interest include:  card from Comstock to recent graduates regarding a gift subscription to the  Hillbilly  (undated) (box 119);  Comstock's work with the Pearl Buck House (box 127);  the University of Hard Knocks (box 128);  photocopies of a scrapbook about ramps and Comstock's ramp-scented ink incident; and  material regarding Comstock's work on the  Hillbilly , the  News Leader , and the  West Virginia Encyclopedia  (boxes 126-127 and other material throughout) (see also Series 20, Subject Files)."," Please note that the above list is not exhaustive and that material on the above topics may also exist in boxes not mentioned."," *Please note: boxes 123  and 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes books, magazines, newspapers, journals, promotional materials, poetry, and sheet music. Topics include Jim Comstock's work, the state of West Virginia, WVU, Storer College, industry (e.g., coal, railways), and New England baked beans, among other topics.","Please note: box 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes mostly morgue files of material that Comstock used in connection with his newspapers. Contents are not in alphabetical order. Formats include clippings, typescripts, photographs, print material, and other formats. The  News Leader  morgue materials (boxes 137-138) include items on a variety of subjects, such as covered bridges and the early history of Clay County. The  News Leader  morgue material also includes a folder of autographs of early West Virginia governors and other politicians, such as D.D.T. Farnsworth, John J. Jacobs, and A.B. Fleming. The  Hillbilly  morgue materials (box 139-140) pertain to a wide variety of subjects, most of whom are likely local individuals. The Newspaper Subjects (boxes 141-146) includes material for which the intended newspaper was not specified; topics include specific local individuals, national figures like Abraham Lincoln, steel and other industries, and towns.","This series includes cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, photographic prints, clippings, and other formats. Many subjects are identified. They include portraits and candid photos of individuals, families, politicians, sports figures, West Virginia towns and buildings. Other notable photographs include crime scene and/or accident photographs, including images of a non-commercial plane crash (undated), and photos of Jim Comstock at the West Virginia Senate (1966). Photographs can also be found in Series 18, Correspondence; Series 20, Subject Files; and Series 26, Oversize Material.  Please note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes magnetic recording tapes, a VHS tape about college financing, and a vinyl record and cassette tape of Billy Crain music.","This series includes a WVLA cloth ribbon, an empty wallet, and a West Virginia Picture Book imprint plate.","This series includes material from two scrapbooks. One set of loose scrapbook pages contains clippings chiefly regarding Comstock's \"Past 80\" parties (ca. 1956). The other scrapbook of newspaper clippings chronicles the history of Richwood's Sacred Heart Hospital during the years of influence of the Pallottine Sisters from 1913-1983 (ca. 1953-1984).","This series includes two account books. One contains stencil orders from various schools as well as other bills (1960s), and the other is an account book for 1954.","This series includes newspapers, magazines, clippings, posters, prints, photographs, artwork, calendars, a genealogy chart, and other material."," Newspapers and magazines in box 152 include the  West Virginia Hillbilly  Bicentennial special edition (1976), newspaper layouts from the  Hillbilly  (1950-1976, undated), and pages from  Harper's Weekly  (1861-1866)."," Prints in boxes 153 and 154 include Civil War scenes by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated)."," Photographs (in boxes 153-156 and loose folders) include regular oversize and cirkut (panoramic) photographs on a wide variety of subjects. Boxes 153 and 154 include photographs of unidentified buildings and a group portrait of a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion (1982). Boxes 155 and 156 include photos of Evenwood (1915), group portrait of a conference of National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (ca. 1932), campaign photographs (ca. 1972), an unidentified group of cars preparing for a parade (undated), and duplicates from the loose folders."," Additional cirkut photos include:  Loose folder 1: a group portrait of the West Virginia Young People's Conference, Greenbrier Military School, Lewisburg, WV (1929), and a group portrait of the Divisional Young People's Congress, Charleston, WV (1929);  Loose folder 2: a group portrait of the Western Virginia Conference Epworth League (1928-1929);  Loose folder 3: photos of an unidentified bridge and factories or plants (1916 and undated) and the Appalachian Electric Power Company Turner Substation (1929);  Loose folder 4: a birds-eye view of Richwood (undated) and a group portrait of Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company Safety First Teams (1933)."," Box 156 also includes a genealogy chart and architectural drawings. The genealogy chart (undated) documents the Paull family, which is accompanied by a note: \"Goes with Jefferson [Fry-Jefferson?] Map.\" The architectural drawings (1972-1976, undated) depict buildings from Richwood.\n \n Box 157 includes a book of exhibits from the Virginia vs. West Virginia Supreme Court case in 1914, and a license for John W. Love to practice Law (1925).\n \n Also includes a muster roll for Company I, 2nd Regiment, [West] Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army (1863 February).","This series includes maps of West Virginia locations, such as Greenbrier County and the Monongahela National Forest, as well as maps of other states and a few world maps.","Mostly financial and legal documents from Marion, Monongalia, and Harrison Counties, bulk from 1840s to 1860s.","Separated to A\u0026M collections:","Various autographed items have been moved to A\u0026M 435.","Account book volumes 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3b, and 3c, daybooks and ledgers from the Sistersville General Store run by Joshua and William Russell, were separated to A\u0026M 3071, Russell, Joshua \u0026 William. Sistersville General Store. Daybooks and Ledgers.","Account book volumes 4, 4a, and 4b, daybooks of John Goshorn, were separated to A\u0026M 2426, Goshorn Family. Papers.","Account book volumes 6-8, law records and accounts of Judge George A. Vincent, as well as Vincent's letters from the Historical Documents series, were separated to A\u0026M 3068, Vincent, George A., Lawyer and Judge. Papers.","Separated to the Printed Ephemera Collection:","Articles, maps, and letters, 1582-1877  (includes selections relating to the South Seas during the colonial period), on 1 reel of microfilm, P13438","Articles, letters, maps, and speeches, 1808-1863  (16 items which are listed on a sheet in the box), 1 reel of microfilm, P13439","Burnett, Nancy S.  Slovenes in Rural Appalachia: An Oral History  (Richwood, W. Va.: News Leader Press, 1994).","Separated to Printed Ephemera (Pamphlets), Periodicals, etc.:","West Virginia Odd Fellow , 1919, Charleston (1 item)","West Virginia State Weekly , 1910-1911, Fairmont (several items)","Exponent , 1917-1918, Moundsville (4 items)","Oros , 1927, Moundsville (1 item)","Pedagogue's Pastime , 1885, Moundsville (3 items)","Princeton Observer , 1950 (1 item)","Searchlight , Summersville (32 items)","West Virginia Farm Journal , 1872, Union (1 item)","Church Calendar , 1917, Wheeling (1 item)","Church News , 1892, Wheeling (1 item)","English Lutheran , 1900, Wheeling (1 item)","Musical Monthly , 1896-1897, Wheeling (6 items)","The Saturday Review , 1912 August 10, Wheeling","State Fair News , 1910, Wheeling (1 item)","William's Courier , undated, Wheeling (1 item)","Valley News Echo , Hagerstown, MD; reprint of an 1861 paper","Haney's Journal , 1869 March-October except July, New York (several items)","Our Southern Home , 1893 November, Hamlet, NC","Books separated to the West Virginia Collection or the WVU Downtown Library stacks:","Donnelly, Shirley.  Yesterday and Today: A Keepsake I, II, and III.  Fayetteville, W. Va.: Fayette County Historical Society, no date.","Keepsake Stories of the Ozarks.  Cassville, Mo.: Litho Printers, 1978.","Norton, Andre.  Catseye . London: Gollancz, 1974.","Deacon, William A.  The Four Jameses . Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1974.","Haslip, Joan.  Catherine the Great: A Biography . New York: Putnam, 1977.","Separated to the Maps Collection:","Virginie [Virginia], Maryland en 2 Feuilles par Fry et Jefferson, 1777","Bird's Eye View of the City of Wheeling, West Virginia","Sistersville, West Virginia","Bird's Eye View of Philippi, West Virginia","Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia","Fairmont and Palatine, West Virginia","Mannington, West Virginia","Morgantown, West Virginia","Clarksburg, West Virginia","Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia","Grafton, West Virginia","Cairo, West Virginia","Cameron, West Virginia","Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia","Moundsville, West Virginia","New Martinsville, West Virginia","Parkersburg, Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia","Pennsboro, West Virginia","Salem, West Virginia","St. Mary's, West Virginia","Wellsburg, West Virginia","Buckhannon, West Virginia","Weston, West Virginia","Bird's Eye View of Keyser, West Virginia","View of Parsons, West Virginia","Aero View of Bluefield, West Virginia","Aero View of Keystone, West Virginia","Aero View of North Fork and Town of Clark, West Virginia","West Virginia Agricultural Society on Wheeling Island","Note: A spreadsheet with more details regarding the separated maps can be found in the control folder.","The majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated into the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings.  Lists of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder. Most of the West Virginia newspapers were microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. On the third page is a list of items separated from the Comstock Collection to printed ephemera (pamphlets), periodicals, etc.","Sheet music separated to A\u0026M 723, Sheet Music:","Americans, Together.","Back to West Virginia.","Battle of Port Royal.","Brave Boys Are They.","Canoeing on the Kanawha.","Capt. Linch March.","Cherry.","Cotton Field Dance.","Down in the Lonely Dell.","Dynamite Twist.","Fair West Virginia.","Fire Fly Polka.","Glory Hallelujah.","Going Back to West Virginia.","Home Alone in West Virginia.","I Have Something Sweet to Tell You.","Imagine Me.","In Flanders' Fields.","I Want to Go Back to Michigan Down On the Farm.","J'aime Mon Amour.","Just Before the Battle, Mother.","Kingdom Coming.","La Violette de Carafa.","Love and Devotion.","Memory's Dream.","Men of West Augusta.","Mountain Land West Virginia.","On, On, On, the Boys Came Marching!","Our Grateful Heart Save Singing.","Reminiscing at Cass or the Greenbrier Shay.","Something Tells Me You're the Girl.","Song of a Woman.","Sweet Kitty Wells.","The Ballad of Oakland.","The Battle Cry of Freedom.","The Last Hope.","The Self Service Chain Store.","The Sunny Hours of Childhood.","The Vacant Chair.","The West Virginia Singer.","There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning.","Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The Prisoners Hope.","We Are Mountaineers.","West Virginia.","West Virginia! And My Home.","West Virginia University Songs.","What a Lovely Day!","Who Will Care For Mother Now?","Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.","William Tell Overture.","Willie My Brave.","Transferred to A\u0026M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. Papers:  Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photographs and clippings by and about Pearl S. Buck and her birthplace collected by Jim Comstock (1938-1973; 6 in.)","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.","Papers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and  Atlantic Monthly  writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]). An addendum of 2013/05 includes additional personal and professional correspondence, publications, newspaper morgue files, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, scrapbooks, account books, and maps. For more information on Jim Comstock, see the Historical Note.","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/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Bleakmor, Gallaher \u0026 Ansbrutz","First National Bank of Fairmont","Grand Army of the Republic","Harry Hood \u0026 Company","St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church  (Charleston, W. Va.)","Thistle \u0026 Cox","University of Hard Knocks.","Wheeling Gas Company","Comstock, Jim (James Franklin), 1911-1996","Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937","Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894","Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831","Breckstein, A. H.","Brown, John, 1800-1859","Brown, William G.  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Please contact the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center for more information.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eResearchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. \u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Box 93 cannot be retrieved for use at this time. Please contact the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center for more information.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or 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. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLucy Elizabeth Prichard\u003c/emph\u003e (October 26, 1876 - July 29, 1964) was born in Cattlettsburg, Kentucky. Daughter of Robert H. and Mary Prichard, she had a brother, Karl, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth. Lucy taught at Huntington High School from 1899-1913, and taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College (now Marshall University) from 1914-1941. Marshall's Prichard Hall was named in her honor.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLouis Eckert Reed\u003c/emph\u003e (born October 1, 1899 in Wirt County, WV; died January 31, 1979 in Elizabeth, WV) served as a sergeant in the US Army during WWI, served as Administrative Assistant to Senator Chapman Revercomb, and worked as a prosecuting attorney in Wirt County, WV. He also wrote for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJames Franklin \"Jim\" Comstock\u003c/emph\u003e was born to Harry Clinton and Myrtle Blanche in Richwood, West Virginia on February 25, 1911. He married Miss Ola Stowers in Huntington, WV, on October 18, 1933; they would have two daughters, Sandra Ferguson and Elaine Nagy, and a son, Jay. In 1934, Comstock received B.A. from Marshall College (now Marshall University). From 1938-1942, he taught at Richwood High School and wrote for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eClarksburg Telegram\u003c/emph\u003e. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946, and upon returning home he founded the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNicholas County News Leader\u003c/emph\u003e (originally \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Letter\u003c/emph\u003e) with Bronson D. McClung (1920-2004), a former student of his. On December 25, 1963, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNicholas County News Leader\u003c/emph\u003e combined with \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNicholas Republican\u003c/emph\u003e; in 1984, it became the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eRichwood News Leader\u003c/emph\u003e. Comstock remained an active part of the paper till his death on May 22, 1996.\n \n In 1957, Comstock founded the weekly \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e with McClung, and became its editor. The paper included feature articles, columns of special interest to West Virginians, book notes, and the \"Comstock Load,\" the editor's own column on the back page. Comstock first tried to sell the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003ein 1976. In 1981, he sold it to the South Charleston Publishing Company. On February 25, 1986, he repurchased and began resuscitating the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e. In 1992, he sold the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003eto Sandy McCauley. In 2001, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003eceased publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eComstock was involved in many endeavors in addition to his newspaper editing and reporting activities. In 1963, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Republican ticket. He wrote, edited, and contributed to various books, including \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePa and Ma and Mr. Kennedy\u003c/emph\u003e, a 50-volume \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia\u003c/emph\u003e, and a collection of newspaper highlights entitled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBest of Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e. He was also involved in republishing books by West Virginian authors. He campaigned to purchase and preserve author Pearl S. Buck's birthplace at Hillsboro, and he helped save the Cass Scenic Railroad. He also founded the University of Hard Knocks, a lighthearted honorary society that recognizes the accomplishments of people who have succeeded in life without a college degree.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Lucy Elizabeth Prichard  (October 26, 1876 - July 29, 1964) was born in Cattlettsburg, Kentucky. Daughter of Robert H. and Mary Prichard, she had a brother, Karl, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth. Lucy taught at Huntington High School from 1899-1913, and taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College (now Marshall University) from 1914-1941. Marshall's Prichard Hall was named in her honor.","Louis Eckert Reed  (born October 1, 1899 in Wirt County, WV; died January 31, 1979 in Elizabeth, WV) served as a sergeant in the US Army during WWI, served as Administrative Assistant to Senator Chapman Revercomb, and worked as a prosecuting attorney in Wirt County, WV. He also wrote for  Atlantic Monthly .","James Franklin \"Jim\" Comstock  was born to Harry Clinton and Myrtle Blanche in Richwood, West Virginia on February 25, 1911. He married Miss Ola Stowers in Huntington, WV, on October 18, 1933; they would have two daughters, Sandra Ferguson and Elaine Nagy, and a son, Jay. In 1934, Comstock received B.A. from Marshall College (now Marshall University). From 1938-1942, he taught at Richwood High School and wrote for the  Clarksburg Telegram . He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946, and upon returning home he founded the  Nicholas County News Leader  (originally  News Letter ) with Bronson D. McClung (1920-2004), a former student of his. On December 25, 1963, the  Nicholas County News Leader  combined with  Nicholas Republican ; in 1984, it became the  Richwood News Leader . Comstock remained an active part of the paper till his death on May 22, 1996.\n \n In 1957, Comstock founded the weekly  West Virginia Hillbilly  with McClung, and became its editor. The paper included feature articles, columns of special interest to West Virginians, book notes, and the \"Comstock Load,\" the editor's own column on the back page. Comstock first tried to sell the  Hillbilly  in 1976. In 1981, he sold it to the South Charleston Publishing Company. On February 25, 1986, he repurchased and began resuscitating the  Hillbilly . In 1992, he sold the  Hillbilly  to Sandy McCauley. In 2001, the  Hillbilly  ceased publication.","Comstock was involved in many endeavors in addition to his newspaper editing and reporting activities. In 1963, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Republican ticket. He wrote, edited, and contributed to various books, including  Pa and Ma and Mr. Kennedy , a 50-volume  West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia , and a collection of newspaper highlights entitled  Best of Hillbilly . He was also involved in republishing books by West Virginian authors. He campaigned to purchase and preserve author Pearl S. Buck's birthplace at Hillsboro, and he helped save the Cass Scenic Railroad. He also founded the University of Hard Knocks, a lighthearted honorary society that recognizes the accomplishments of people who have succeeded in life without a college degree."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 2600, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers, A\u0026M 2600, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMaterials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c/emph\u003e writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAn addendum of 2013/05 includes additional personal and professional correspondence, publications, newspaper morgue files, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, scrapbooks, account books, and maps. For more information on Jim Comstock, see the Historical Note.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Historical Documents; 1717, 1754-1988, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1 - box 3, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Lucy Prichard Papers; 1913-1936, undated; box 3, folders 3-8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Louis Reed Papers; ca. 1960-1975, undated; boxes 4-5.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Account Books; 1830-1938; boxes 6-17.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Printed Material; 1829-1995, undated; boxes 18-25.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Comstock Correspondence; 1882-1995, undated (bulk 1950-1995); boxes 26-72.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Photographs; ca. 1850s-1995, undated; boxes 73-81.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Motion Pictures; undated; box 82.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Microfilm; undated; box 82.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Cassette Tapes; undated; box 82.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Glass Lantern Slides; 1871-1897, undated; boxes 83-85.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Scrapbooks; 1883-1918; boxes 86-91.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Broadsides; ca. 1827-1960 (includes facsimiles); box 92.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Maps; 1730-1976, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 93-103, and map cabinet 1, drawer 12.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Newspapers; ca. 1826-1924, 1976; box 104.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Artifacts; 1952-1976, undated; boxes 105-109.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Oversize; 1650-1671, 1720-1991, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 110-118.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2013/05\u003c/emph\u003e includes material much like that in the initial acquisition, divided into the following series:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18. Correspondence; 1838-2003, undated (bulk 1950-1995); box 119 - box 133 folder 4, and box 134 folders 1-11.*\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 19. Publications; 1889-2002, undated; box 133, folders 5-6, box 134, folder 12, and boxes 135-136.*\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 20. Subject Files; ca. 1851-1995, undated; boxes 137-146.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 21. Photographs; ca. 1870s-2003, undated; boxes 147-149.*\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 22. Audio-Visual Material; 1990-1992, undated; box 150.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 23. Artifacts; undated; box 151, folders 1-2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 24. Scrapbooks; ca. 1953-1984; box 151, folder 3 and scrapbook.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 25. Account Books; 1954-1960s; box 151 ledgers.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 26. Oversize Material; 1861-1866, 1893-1933, 1950-1998, undated; box 152 - box 156, folder 3, loose folders 1-4, oversize folder 1, and box 157.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 27. Maps; 1884-1891, 1920, 1957-1987; box 156, folders 4-10.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 28. Historical Documents; 1839-1909; box 158.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e*Please note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes financial records such as receipts and invoices, legal documents such as deeds and court cases, correspondence, land records, genealogy materials, ephemera, and typescript histories. Box 1 includes three subgroups: the Barnet Cushwa Papers, West Virginia Documents, and Non-West Virginia Documents. Boxes 2a-3 contain material of mixed origin. Additional historical documents can be found in Series 17, Oversize, and in subseries Oversize--Manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes a collection of materials documenting the activities of Cushwa, a prominent farmer and later the sheriff of Berkeley County in the 1850s. Cushwa's papers reveal his activities as administrator of the Daniel Gehr estate (1839-1843). The Berkeley County documents, including lists of landholdings, orders, taxes, and fee collections, demonstrate his duties as sheriff in the 1850s. See Series 17, Oversize, box 117 for Berkeley County land holdings, sheriff's accounts, and lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc. (1854-1858).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries is comprised of correspondence and other material, principally concerning commercial and development activities in north-central West Virginia. These items are grouped by county; please note that there is overlap between counties. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e Highlights include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eitems relating to Harman Blennerhassett (box 1, folder 12); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ea six-page letter written by William G. Brown answering questions concerning the constitutionality of the movement for West Virginia statehood (June 28, 1862) (box 1, folder 13); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eletters and reminiscences focusing on the reunions of the Battle of Philippi (1911-1935) (box 1, folder 14); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003etwo letters from the abolitionist John Brown (box 1, folder 15).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additional West Virginia documents can be found in boxes 2a-2c.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHighlights of this subseries include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003efour letters from soldiers in the Mexican War; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eseventeen letters from Pennsylvania soldier James M. Weaver, principally to his wife, during his service in the Civil War; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ea confidential letter from President James Monroe explaining his policy on fortifying the frontier; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eseven Booker T. Washington letters; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003etwo letters from Revolutionary War general Horatio Gates; and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ea folder of letters written by famous 19th century figures including Samuel Clemens, Collis P. Huntington, Nathaniel P. Banks, and Newton D. Baker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains correspondence, invoices, deeds, tax documents, court cases, and other material. Most of the items pertain to West Virginia. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHighlights include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ebills and invoices of G.H.A. Kunst and John H. Kunst (1853-1867, 1892-1893); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003epapers of the Wells family of Sistersville (1806-1885); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ea telegram regarding the burning of Harpers Ferry (1861); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ea broadside listing members of Company H, 3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Infantry (undated); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003elegal documents regarding the manumission of slaves (1820-1828, 1856).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Prichard taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College from 1914 to 1941. This series includes correspondence, photographs, and printed material. Correspondence includes Karl Prichard's letters (1918) and Lucy Prichard's letters (1925-1927, undated). Lucy's letters are addressed to her mother, Mrs. R.H. Prichard, in Huntington, WV. Many of Lucy's letters relate to her travels and studies in the Peloponnesus peninsula of Greece, the British Isles, Western Europe, and Italy in 1925 and 1927. For more information on Lucy Prichard, see the Historical Note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newspaper clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and Atlantic Monthly writer Louis Eckert Reed. The newspaper clippings show images of Reed family photos (1960). The typescripts are short stories written by Louis, many likely unpublished. Also included are notes and a draft of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBurning Springs, Virginia: The Civil War's Unsolved Mystery\u003c/emph\u003e, initially a paper that Reed prepared for the West Virginia Historical Society (see \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBurning Springs, West Virginia: the Civil War's Unsolved Mystery\u003c/emph\u003e, by Louis Reed, self-published in Elizabeth, WV, 1960). This material may have been developed for his later fictional novel, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBurning Springs\u003c/emph\u003e (published in Huntington, WV by University Editions/Aegina Press, 1985). For more information on Reed, see the Historical Note. A letter from Louis Reed to Jim Comstock regarding Reed's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWarning in Appalachia\u003c/emph\u003e (1967) can be found in Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 62, folder 27. Other letters from Reed may be found elsewhere in Series 6, Correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 27 account books, many of which relate to north-central West Virginia businesses. These ledgers document general stores, a Jewish-owned clothing store in Richwood, the activities of an itinerant Methodist minister in the mining villages of north-central West Virginia, grocery stores and meat markets, a glass manufacturer, and other businesses. See Separated Materials note for information on volumes separated to other collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThistle and Cox formed a partnership in Tyler County, [West] Virginia in March of 1835. This is the partnership's first ledger, which spans the years 1835-1837, but reference is made to the transfer of accounts to at least one subsequent ledger. The business appears to have been located near the Ohio River (probably in Sistersville), since customers included Ohio as well as Tyler County citizens. Although the debit side for each customer only lists the term \"merchandise\" for purchases, the ledger reveals the barter nature of much of the rural economy of Tyler County on the credit side. Among items received in trade by Thistle and Cox were chestnuts, hides, bees wax, rags, sand, tobacco, clothes, meats, produce, and various forms of labor. The ledger also frequently lists the occupations or residences of many of the customers. Included were coopers, tanners, blacksmiths, preachers, schoolteachers, and carpenters, scattered from Point Pleasant to Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInventory and Book Accounts. This volume contains a 66-page inventory of goods on hand and their prices in a Tyler County general store in January 1877. The inventory is divided into the following categories: fancy groceries, groceries, men's shoes, ladies' shoes, children's shoes, overshoes, dress goods, wall paper, housewares, and other. Starting on page 71 is a four-page list of the book accounts of the store's customers, presumably on that same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Cordray Carriage Company was a short-lived business in Fairmont, WV. The ledger lists only the customers and the amount they owed T.L. Cordray, the proprietor of the Carriage Company. The ledger does not list the services for which the customers were charged. However, one itemized account invoice on an inserted piece of paper suggests that the Cordray Carriage Company repaired vehicles. For H.O. Amos, from 1907 through 1911, the Company repaired couplings, repaired and painted the body, repaired the interior, raised the body, and tightened and repaired the fenders, for a total charge of $118. The ledger includes more than 400 customers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. H. Breckstein was a Jewish merchant who operated a clothing store in the boom town of Richwood, in Nicholas County. Volume 10 is a cash book detailing daily transactions in the store, both sales and expenses, for part of 1910, and consistently for the period 1928 to 1936. There are also monthly accountings of both cash and credit sales as well as expenses. Volume 11 documents sales and purchases of clothing for the period 1926 to 1934. The sales portion of this volume repeats information available in volume 10. Volume 12 is a ledger of accounts payable for the period 1921-1928, showing the firms from which Breckstein purchased his goods. Included are companies in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ.C. Shock was a Methodist minister assigned to a parish in Pullman, WV in 1910. However, he also appeared to be an itinerant preacher, and his account book lists ministerial services provided for the towns and villages of Duffy, Straight Fork, Falls Mill, Glady, and Kingknob, in the north-central West Virginia counties of Lewis, Ritchie, and Wetzel. The account book documents Shock's ministry, listing the text for sermons preached at various towns as well as the contributions of those towns to his salary. Most of the entries cover the years 1910-1917, at which time his base of operations seems to have shifted permanently to Falls Run and Falls Mill in Braxton County. There are entries for sermons, marriages, and assessments for those towns running to 1938. An additional folder contains miscellaneous documents related to Shock found within the ledger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the 1890s, Mrs. Samuel C. Gans operated a general store in Moundsville, which by 1900 was specializing in dry goods. This ledger reflects the volume of business and the timing and means of settling accounts. The early pages (for the 1890s) are more detailed, listing the items purchased from the general store. For the later period, the entries are frequently limited to the terms \"goods\" or \"merchandise.\" The back of the volume also contains some notes and miscellaneous accounts, such as rooms rented.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, a number of Charleston's German families banded together to form an Evangelical Lutheran Church. Subscriptions for a building fund and other church work began to be collected in October of that year. This ledger documents the subscriptions of the founding members of St. Paul's Evangelical Church. It also provides an accounting of the expenses and building funds contributed by the members, including the purchase of a lot on Court Street in Charleston, the church's construction, and the salary of the minister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese volumes were written by Albert S. Hayden, Notary Public in and for the county of Marion and the state of West Virginia. He recorded handwritten copies of promissory notes and bills presented at Fairmont, WV banks for redemption, which were protested by the First National Bank of Fairmont's cashier. The ledgers also list the date protested, by whom, and the notices mailed to note signers. Most notes originated in West Virginia, but some originated in Ohio. Volume 16a covers 1870-1873. Volume 16b covers 1875-1876.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnthony Zidn operated a grocery and dry goods store outside of Fairmont on RFD #2. Zidn was an immigrant from the Middle East (perhaps Armenia, as suggested by the fact he kept his accounts in Persian and had a Christian name). These three ledgers document his business, although most of the information is written in Persian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Price Brothers operated a general store in the small village of Amos on the Paw Paw Creek, eleven miles from the town of Fairmont in Marion County. The Price Brothers sold all sorts of groceries to people in the town, as documented by this ledger. In addition, the Polk business directory for 1902-1903 notes that the Price sisters operated a millinery business in Amos. There are loose papers within the ledger, including statements and product advertisements (1905-1907, undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the century, there were four wholesale meat provisioners in Wheeling. This ledger represents the operations of one of them for the years 1901-1902. The company principally supplied general stores and grocers in eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and western Maryland. However, individuals could also buy directly. Entries typically include the name of the purchaser, the town in which the purchaser resides, and the amount of the purchase. For local buyers, the ledger frequently lists the Wheeling address. Since transactions are usually noted only as merchandise, it is impossible to glean what types of meats were being purchased at what costs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Hornbrook was born in Tavistock, England, in 1812 and moved with his parents to Wheeling when he was a small child. Jacob's father ran a small [business?] in Wheeling. As a young man, Jacob began a mercantile business buying and selling produce on the flatboats travelling on the Ohio River. He later started a notions store, purchased interest in a steamship line and the First National Bank, and was president and owned stock in the Wheeling Gas Company. These three books, a journal (volume 20; 1847-1874), a ledger (volume 21; 1847-1874), and a cash book (volume 22; 1845-1874), document his business interests, investments, and personal expenses during the last three decades of his life. Although he remained an active investor, Hornbrook retired from his mercantile business in 1855 with an estate valued at more than $30,000. In 1852, he moved to what he called \"Forest Home\" near Wheeling Park, and he served in the West Virginia legislature during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes a manuscript copy of the act \"To incorporate the Wheeling Gas Company\" issued March 18, 1850; a copy of a related Wheeling city ordinance, issued April 29, 1850; stockholders meeting minutes, April 15, April 25, May 1, May 9, and May 11, 1850; and lists of subscribers, the number of shares of stock, and the amount paid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge C. Gans was a physician practicing in Marshall County in the decades prior to the Civil War. Although most of his patients resided in the area around Moundsville and Elizabeth, Gans does not appear in either the 1840 or the 1850 U.S. census schedules for Marshall County. The ledger documents his treatment of families in Marshall County for a wide variety of ills, including typhoid fever (1861), cholera (1847), and farm injuries. Gans also routinely attended childbirths. His treatments included blistering, bleeding, venesection, lancing, and operating as well as administering medicine and pills. In return for his services, Gans routinely accepted farm produce, labor on his farm, and other useful items such as shingles. He went on to serve as an assistant surgeon in the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a ledger of an Elizabeth, PA, glass manufacturer's accounts with his workers. The manufacturer ran some type of company store, and the ledger thus includes debits for cash and merchandise received by the workers and credits for the various types of labor performed, including glass blowing, teasing, cutting, coal mining, blacksmithing, and box making. In addition, the ledger includes the manufacturer's accounts with a boarding house owner for boarding his workers and with a local merchant who supplied the company store. In general, the ledger provides insights into the earnings of mid-19th century artisans as well as the operation of a small, rural glass-making establishment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis consignment book documents commodity prices and the wide variety of goods received by a Wheeling commission merchant house during the 1830s. It also provides insights into the local industrial development, since the commission merchants routinely received goods on consignment from local manufacturers, such as the German Manufacturing Company (textiles). At the beginning of the book, there is evidence that the firm engaged a peddler to make trips in 1830, and the commission house also conducted auctions during the 1830s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoses Chapline was a prominent citizen in Wheeling, at various times an attorney, a general store owner, and in the 1830s, mayor. This daybook documents the daily trade at his store during 1845. Included are entries for purchases of a wide variety of goods as well as entries for store expenses, such as insurance, soap, and transportation. The A. Loring who appears frequently throughout was probably Alonzo Loring, a clerk at the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarry Hood and Company was a retail meat and dairy market in Fairmont, WV. This ledger covers the last few months of 1906 and the first months of 1907. It documents purchases of meat from wholesale producers, such as Armour and Company, and sales of meat to local businesses and individuals in Fairmont. Transactions are typically listed only as \"merchandise,\" making it difficult to glean any information concerning prices or consumption patterns. The ledger is used only for the first 150 of its 500 pages, and the business does not appear in the Polk business directory of 1906-1907, suggesting the possibility that it folded some time in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis ledger documents a general store in Tyler County, probably near Middlebourne, the county seat. Although fairly routine entries characterize customer purchases, the volume also documents purchases from wholesale merchants, beginning on page 251. Included are such firms as Hubbard and Paull, and Jos. Speidel, both of Wheeling; Ed Roome of Sistersville; and Burgunder Brothers and Company, of Columbus, Ohio. Also, the ledger often lists the occupations of the store's customers. Included are John Gates, an oil rig builder (reflecting the emergence of the local oil business) and a number of customers connected to a local woolen mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Gallaher, Christian Ansbrutz, and Caleb Bleakmor started a general store partnership in 1853. Prior to that date, Gallaher operated a store in Moundsville, which is documented in the first 90 pages of the daybook. The daybook follows the partnership for only six months (until September 1853), but then another Moundsville general store (involving Bleakmor) used the daybook during 1856. In the 1850 census, Bleakmor was listed as a constable, age 49, born in Maryland; and Ansbrutz was listed as a miller, age 47, born in France, worth $23,000. Only Gallaher, a 53-year-old Irishman worth $12,000, was listed as a merchant. From the evidence in the daybook, it appears that the partnership was short-lived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ephemera, sheet music, booklets, pamphlets, and correspondence. Additional miscellaneous printed material can be found in Series 17, Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 18 includes calendars, sheet music, notecards, and printed material related to West Virginia history. The notecards include screen printed notecards from Wolf Creek Printery in Alderson, WV (1976). The history printed material includes a booklet entitled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWheeling Bicentennial, 1769-1969\u003c/emph\u003e (1969?).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 19 includes West Virginia serial publications and magazines, as well as printed material about West Virginia schools and locations. Highlights include three issues of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Searchlight\u003c/emph\u003e, a serial about education (two published in Summersville, WV [1895-1896], and one published in Fayetteville, WV [1899]); an issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Mikrophone: Devoted to Religion, Morality, and Temperance \u003c/emph\u003e(published in Highland, WV, by D.H. Davis, 1906); Scottish Rite pamphlets (published in Wheeling, 1910-1917); the Richwood High School Class of 1940 reunion program (1960); Craigsville Grade School's first yearbook (1973); and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMountaineer Spirit\u003c/emph\u003e, a WVU student magazine featuring an article about Jim Comstock (1968).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 20 includes non-West Virginia serial publications and magazines. Highlights include an issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Religious Magazine, or Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews\u003c/emph\u003e (Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1829); and E.D. Cope's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOn Vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous Rocks of the North West Territory\u003c/emph\u003e (Montreal: W.F. Brown \u0026amp; Co., 1891); \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNaval Training School -- Indoctrination, Hollywood Florida: Quarterdeck, Class of 3-44, 20 June 1944\u003c/emph\u003e (Hollywood, FL: Naval Training School, 1944); and issue no. 18 of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePapers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge\u003c/emph\u003e (undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 21 includes various writings, such as student literary magazines, works of fiction, poetry booklets, and George T. Swain's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Incomparable Don Chafin\u003c/emph\u003e (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 22 includes George T. Swain's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFacts About the Two Armed Marches on Logan\u003c/emph\u003e (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962), as well as printed materials for a variety of West Virginia and non-West Virginia businesses and organizations. These include advertisements and booklets regarding the West Virginia glass industry, including Fenton Glass (1966-1976, undated), a Woman's Club of Gassaway booklet (1970), a reprint of the Berkeley Springs Hotel Brochure of 1885 (1988), and the constitution of the First Baptist Church of Richwood, WV (undated). For additional business-related printed material, see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2b, folders 11-12.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box 23 includes miscellaneous booklets, programs, book plates, articles, clippings, and other material. Highlights include \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eRules of Practice in the United States Patent Office\u003c/emph\u003e (Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1892), Elbert Hubbard's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLittle Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Erasmus\u003c/emph\u003e (East Aurora, Erie County, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), the Richwood Spud and Splinter Festival Program (1940), and Eugene L. Huddleston's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe World's Greatest Mallets: C \u0026amp; O H-8 Versus N \u0026amp; W Class A\u003c/emph\u003e (Alderson, WV: Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio Historical Society, 1986).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Boxes 24 and 25 contain books, including Comstock's autobiography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence. This series contains materials that are diverse in format, including letters, scripts for radio and other media, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial materials (e.g. bank books and checks), printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 7, Photographs. Some materials were moved to Series 17, Oversize -- see the Series 17 description for details.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files are dispersed throughout the series. Other notations that Comstock used include \"LR\" for letters received, \"Sp\" for speech-related correspondence, \"NL\" for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e-related correspondence, and \"HB\" for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e-related correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Topics and items of interest include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n letters written to Comstock by regional author Jesse Stuart, and by political figures such as Hubert H. Humphrey, Robert C. Byrd, Jennings Randolph, and Barry Goldwater (box 26 and others); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003erejection letters from newspapers and magazines to which Comstock submitted material (box 26); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ebiographical material about Jim Comstock and his family, including a thesis about Comstock by Mary Abel (boxes 26 and 47); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLarry Maynor, journalist for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCharleston Daily Mail\u003c/emph\u003e (box 29); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ethe sale and ultimate demise of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e (boxes 31 and 72); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ethe University of Hard Knocks, including a mock-up diploma, resumes, and portrait photograph headshots of potential graduates (boxes 31 and 60); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e[Delf] Norona Collection payments (boxes 33 and 46); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePearl S. Buck (box 33 and others); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBilly Edd Wheeler, West Virginia writer and musician (box 36); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC) reunion in 1979 (box 36); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOtto Whittaker, who worked with Comstock on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Best of the Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e (boxes 37 and 65); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ethe \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia\u003c/emph\u003e (box 40); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's appearance on John Nebel's WOR radio show in 1960, including postcards and letters regarding the appearance and requests for Comstock's Richwood Kinsey Report as well as \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e subscriptions (boxes 41-42); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's appearance on the Today Show in 1966 (box 42); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's appearance on Patricia/Patsy McCann's WOR radio show in New York in August 1977, including letters and postcards regarding the appearance and requests to receive the free six-week subscription to the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e which Comstock offered on the show (boxes 42-43); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ewriters, with an emphasis on West Virginia authors, whose work Comstock was interested in collecting (boxes 40, 44, 45, and 62); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ewritings by Comstock, including short stories, articles, drafts, etc. (boxes 47-49); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's nomination and campaign for a U.S. House of Representatives seat on the Republican ticket in 1964 (boxes 51 and 56); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ethe \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e, including morgue files, old articles, submissions, letters, and other items (boxes 54, 55, 57, 61, 63, and others; for oversize items, see Series 17, Oversize, box 116); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEck Bozeman (box 57); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's pocket diaries (box 57); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's naval service during World War II (box 60); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH.C. Comstock, Jim's father (box 68); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ehistorical research material, possibly for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEncyclopedia \u003c/emph\u003e(box 72).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Please note that the above list is not exhaustive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes print photographs, negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photos, tintypes, photo postcards, slides, clippings, printed material, correspondence, photo plates, and eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies). Subjects include furniture; first ladies of West Virginia; historic homes of West Virginia; identified and unidentified individual and group portraits; cities and towns of West Virginia; buildings; scenery; Museum of the Hills in Richwood, WV; glass and glassmaking; and the Greenbrier. Some of the material in this series was transferred from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence -- in cases where the photographic item was attached to correspondence, the correspondence was transferred as well. Please note that some negatives are nitrate; keep these away from heat and handle with care. Additional photographic material can be found in Series 6, Correspondence, boxes 35, 54, 55, and 72. For photos of Fenton Glass products, see Series 5, Printed Material, box 22. Some oversize photos have been separated to the Photographs Collection; most of these have been added to West Virginia History OnView. Additional oversize photos can be found in Series 17, Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Contents of the eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies):\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 80; Canister label: \"Huntington 1-6000 April 1947\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 80; Canister label: \"Chas. [Charleston?] 1957, Nitro, 1957; St. Albans, 1957, Old Chas., 1948, Airport, Big Scale (?)\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 80; Canister labels: \"Elk River Coal \u0026amp; Lumber Co., Aerial Map Flown April 1953.\" and \"City of Huntington Scale 1-6000 Apr 28 1947\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 80; Canister label: \"Harmony Near Ripley, [?] ft to 1\" old; Colin Creek Coal Stripping, large scale, 1948; Lake Chaweva, 1948; Armour Park, 1948; C\u0026amp;O Ry [Railway?] Coal River 1948; Bellings Airport, 1947; Kanawha Airport, large and small scale, 12-9-1947; Strip to City Blvd 12-9-1947; City Strip \u0026amp; Kenna Home; C\u0026amp;CCC Research 1947; Cedar Grove to Montgomery.\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 81; Unlabeled canister. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 81; Canister label: \"1949\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 81; Canister label: \"Coal City - Park Beckley, 1947 [?]\" (not usable) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBox 81; Canister label: \"4/20/53 Dick Stata Film, St. Albans - Charleston\" (not usable)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains two rolls of 35 mm black and white motion picture film, and three rolls of 16 mm color motion picture film of a train. Also included is one of the canisters which contained the film. The box which formerly contained the film was labeled \"F.M.C. Movie Scraps.\" Please note that some reels are nitrate; handle with care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains two reels of microfilm, which were likely the property of Delf Norona before they were acquired by Comstock. The first reel contains West Virginia-related Civil War records; the second contains payroll and public service claims from the West Virginia region in the 1770s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Reel 1 Contents Notes: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eRecords of the War Department, Office of the Adjutant General, General Orders, Mountain Department, Army in the Field, May 9 - June 28, 1862. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNational Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1956. 101 total pgs. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 18 - June 18, 1862 86 total pgs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Reel 2 Contents Notes: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePayroll for Pittsburgh, 122 leaves; Payroll for Romney, 43 leaves; Public Service Claims Romney and Winchester 1775, 37 leaves; Public Service Claims West Augusta 1775, 49 leaves; Records of Soldiers and Public Service in Dunmore's War, 279 leaves; index, 25 leaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two cassette tapes which were found in an envelope marked \"Larry Maynor Personal.\" The tapes include recordings of children reading stories and an oral history interview with an unidentified subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 75 wood framed glass lantern slides. Most slides are labeled with the subject, and some are dated. Subjects include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV, as well as Brooke County and Marshall County, WV, and Belmont County, Ohio. These images were likely created by Thomas M. Darrah of Belmont County, Ohio. For the two wooden boxes in which the slides were previously stored, please see Series 16, Artifacts, boxes 105 and 106.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings and ephemera. Subjects include the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and U.S. military history with a focus on Civil War history. These scrapbooks may have belonged to Colonel Albert Kern of Dayton, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes originals and copies of broadsides and posters. Included are a John Dillinger wanted poster (1934); a Garrett Snuff advertisement (undated); copies of various political notices (originals ca. 1827-1886); Russian broadsides with Cyrillic text, depicting events of the Russian Civil War, USSR propaganda, and other things (ca. 1920-1930); posters for the Marshall County Fair (ca. 1960) and the Moundsville, Powhatan and Clarington Seventh Grand Annual Picnic (1873); advertisements for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus at the Moundsville Fairgrounds (undated); Showboat Rhododendron advertisements (undated); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes original and facsimile maps, atlases, and books about maps. Highlights include pre- and post-Civil War maps of the West Virginia area; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illustrated: containing ... special history of the Virginias, maps and histories of Tyler and Wetzel Counties, West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e; maps of America before 1775; copies of [West] Virginia county maps by John Wood from 1820-1821; maps of various West Virginia cities, including, Morgantown, Moundsville, and Wheeling; and various Fry-Jefferson maps (original and copies). A detailed contents list of boxes 93-100b and map cabinet 1, drawer 12 is available. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNote that the date for each map reflects the date of creation of the item, though in the case of copies it may indicate the date of the creation of the original item rather than the date the copy was made. Also, the number of items may indicate different items or different pieces of the same map. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n  Not yet located; Item Number 113; County Map of Virginia and West Virginia; 1874\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newspapers from Wheeling, as well as a special bicentennial salute issue of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e (1976). The majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated to the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings. A list of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Most of the West Virginia newspapers have been microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113 in the Microfilm Room. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. Additional newspaper pages and clippings can be found throughout Series 6, Comstock Correspondence and Series 17, Oversize, box 117.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a variety of artifacts and ephemera belonging to or collected by Comstock.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Boxes 105 and 106 include two wooden boxes (undated) which contained glass lantern slides (see Series 11). One box is labeled \"T.M. Darrah.\" Also included are a fountain pen used by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman to sign the contract to begin building the Bureau of Mines' Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown, WV, with letters documenting the donation of the pen by Senator Harley M. Kilgore (1952); and a dinner plate showing a photo-like image of a priest with a group of children, from St. Albans, WV (undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 107 includes various nametags for Comstock and his wife, from a variety of conventions and meetings (1960-1963, undated); glasses and sunglasses (undated); a sewing needle pack and a mini ruler advertising Jim Comstock for Congress (ca. 1964); a press pass for President Ford's visit to Charleston, WV (1975); and tickets to the Republican National Convention (1976); among other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 108 contains two figurines and four whiskey decanters. The figurines are a coal miner (made of coal, undated) and \"Morgan's Virginia Rifleman 1776\" (undated). The decanters are \"Old Time Coal Miner\" (1976), \"Coal Miner\" (1975), Robert E. Lee (undated), and Stonewall Jackson on horseback (undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 109 contains six whiskey decanters: Abraham Lincoln (undated), Stonewall Jackson (undated), Hill Billy (1969), General Stonewall Jackson (1974), Randolph McCoy (1973), and Devil Anse Hatfield (1973).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains oversize material that may be relevant to other series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, educational posters, architectural drawings, vinyl records, typescripts, transparencies, clippings, manuscripts, and printed material, among other formats. Topics include Pearl Buck's birthplace, West Virginia, the Civil War, Jim Comstock's work, and other topics. More manuscripts are in the Manuscripts subseries, box 118.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 110 and box 111, folders 1-2 contain artwork depicting Pearl Buck's birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, including paintings, sketches, a chalk drawing, and a plan for a sign (1965-1966, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 111, folders 3-4 and unfoldered items include two West Virginia-related prints and an unidentified photo (undated); one framed and six unframed prints depicting mining machinery, possibly of Joy Manufacturing Company (undated); an unframed painting of a coal miner (undated); twelve mounted photographs and sketches (most unidentified, undated); and four rolled photographs (1918-1955?).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 112 includes educational posters regarding the Civil War and West Virginia history (undated). The posters include text, images, and photographs. Also includes mounted photographs, most with accompanying text, that have been added to West Virginia History On View. An additional eight posters regarding maps made by or related to North American Indians, likely assembled by Delf Norona, are also included (ca. 1950). For additional maps related to North American Indians/Native Americans, see also Series 14, Maps, box 98, item number 349.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 113 includes various West Virginia-related prints, including one of Mount Chantal near Wheeling (undated); prints of Civil War scenes sketched from nature and drawn on stone by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated); a copy print of the camps of the 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps. near Romney (undated); prints made from Civil War engravings (1960); W.R. Leigh bullfighting prints (1950); copies of architectural plans for alterations of Wheeling's Custom House and Post Office (undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 114 contains limited edition black and white prints from a series entitled \"Covered Bridges of West Virginia\" by Marj Teague (1977) and three copies of a vinyl record album titled \"The Legend of Clark Kessinger\" (ca. 1965).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 115 includes paintings by John Wellington (undated); oversize photos (undated); an unidentified floor plan (undated); and architectural drawings or blueprints for five properties that were part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (undated). These properties are \"The Old Stone Church\" Presbyterian, Lewisburg, WV; Harewood and the ruins of St. George's Chapel, both near Charles Town, Jefferson County, WV; Traveler's Rest, near Leetown, Jefferson County, WV; and the Lee Barn in Leetown, WV.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 116 includes radio scripts (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67); calendars (1984-1991); \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003etransparencies (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 54); various printed images and magazine clippings (1860-1921, undated); \"Our Wacky Weekly\" and newspaper article typescripts, probably written by Comstock (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 48, folder 1); and music-related magazines and pamphlets (1959-1966, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 117 includes Berkeley County documents from the Barnet Cushwa Papers (see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 1, folders 1-5). These include lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc.; sheriff's office accounts; and land holdings (all 1854-1858). Box 117 also includes television scripts (undated); an envelope and survey plat from the Wells Family Papers (1856, undated; see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2a, folder 24); Civil War-related prints (1861-1868, 1955); newspaper clippings (1861, 1927-1944, undated; some from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67, folders 4 and 7); miscellaneous printed material (1817-1863, undated; includes facsimiles); and facsimile broadsides, legal documents, and clippings regarding West Virginia statehood (1861-1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes oversize manuscripts, most of which pertain to West Virginia. West Virginia materials include pre- and post-statehood indentures, land grants, other legal documents, letters, certificates, and other formats pertaining to Barbour, Berkeley, Fayette, Hampshire, Hardy, Marshall, Ohio, Raleigh, and Tyler Counties. Additional indentures and land grants pertain to England (1650-1671, 1720-1721, 1833), and to Maryland, Virginia, and Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence, and is composed of a wide range of formats, including letters, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial documents, printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 21, Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files can be found in boxes 119-125. Other notations that Comstock used include \"NL\" for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e-related correspondence and \"HB\" for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e-related correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Topics and items of interest include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ecard from Comstock to recent graduates regarding a gift subscription to the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003e(undated) (box 119); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eComstock's work with the Pearl Buck House (box 127); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ethe University of Hard Knocks (box 128); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ephotocopies of a scrapbook about ramps and Comstock's ramp-scented ink incident; and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ematerial regarding Comstock's work on the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Encyclopedia\u003c/emph\u003e (boxes 126-127 and other material throughout) (see also Series 20, Subject Files).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Please note that the above list is not exhaustive and that material on the above topics may also exist in boxes not mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph\u003e *Please note: boxes 123  and 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes books, magazines, newspapers, journals, promotional materials, poetry, and sheet music. Topics include Jim Comstock's work, the state of West Virginia, WVU, Storer College, industry (e.g., coal, railways), and New England baked beans, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph\u003ePlease note: box 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes mostly morgue files of material that Comstock used in connection with his newspapers. Contents are not in alphabetical order. Formats include clippings, typescripts, photographs, print material, and other formats. The \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e morgue materials (boxes 137-138) include items on a variety of subjects, such as covered bridges and the early history of Clay County. The \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNews Leader\u003c/emph\u003e morgue material also includes a folder of autographs of early West Virginia governors and other politicians, such as D.D.T. Farnsworth, John J. Jacobs, and A.B. Fleming. The \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003emorgue materials (box 139-140) pertain to a wide variety of subjects, most of whom are likely local individuals. The Newspaper Subjects (boxes 141-146) includes material for which the intended newspaper was not specified; topics include specific local individuals, national figures like Abraham Lincoln, steel and other industries, and towns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, photographic prints, clippings, and other formats. Many subjects are identified. They include portraits and candid photos of individuals, families, politicians, sports figures, West Virginia towns and buildings. Other notable photographs include crime scene and/or accident photographs, including images of a non-commercial plane crash (undated), and photos of Jim Comstock at the West Virginia Senate (1966). Photographs can also be found in Series 18, Correspondence; Series 20, Subject Files; and Series 26, Oversize Material. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003cemph\u003ePlease note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes magnetic recording tapes, a VHS tape about college financing, and a vinyl record and cassette tape of Billy Crain music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a WVLA cloth ribbon, an empty wallet, and a West Virginia Picture Book imprint plate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material from two scrapbooks. One set of loose scrapbook pages contains clippings chiefly regarding Comstock's \"Past 80\" parties (ca. 1956). The other scrapbook of newspaper clippings chronicles the history of Richwood's Sacred Heart Hospital during the years of influence of the Pallottine Sisters from 1913-1983 (ca. 1953-1984).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two account books. One contains stencil orders from various schools as well as other bills (1960s), and the other is an account book for 1954.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newspapers, magazines, clippings, posters, prints, photographs, artwork, calendars, a genealogy chart, and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Newspapers and magazines in box 152 include the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e Bicentennial special edition (1976), newspaper layouts from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003e(1950-1976, undated), and pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHarper's Weekly\u003c/emph\u003e (1861-1866).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Prints in boxes 153 and 154 include Civil War scenes by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Photographs (in boxes 153-156 and loose folders) include regular oversize and cirkut (panoramic) photographs on a wide variety of subjects. Boxes 153 and 154 include photographs of unidentified buildings and a group portrait of a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion (1982). Boxes 155 and 156 include photos of Evenwood (1915), group portrait of a conference of National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (ca. 1932), campaign photographs (ca. 1972), an unidentified group of cars preparing for a parade (undated), and duplicates from the loose folders.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additional cirkut photos include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose folder 1: a group portrait of the West Virginia Young People's Conference, Greenbrier Military School, Lewisburg, WV (1929), and a group portrait of the Divisional Young People's Congress, Charleston, WV (1929); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose folder 2: a group portrait of the Western Virginia Conference Epworth League (1928-1929); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose folder 3: photos of an unidentified bridge and factories or plants (1916 and undated) and the Appalachian Electric Power Company Turner Substation (1929); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose folder 4: a birds-eye view of Richwood (undated) and a group portrait of Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company Safety First Teams (1933).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Box 156 also includes a genealogy chart and architectural drawings. The genealogy chart (undated) documents the Paull family, which is accompanied by a note: \"Goes with Jefferson [Fry-Jefferson?] Map.\" The architectural drawings (1972-1976, undated) depict buildings from Richwood.\n \n Box 157 includes a book of exhibits from the Virginia vs. West Virginia Supreme Court case in 1914, and a license for John W. Love to practice Law (1925).\n \n Also includes a muster roll for Company I, 2nd Regiment, [West] Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army (1863 February).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes maps of West Virginia locations, such as Greenbrier County and the Monongahela National Forest, as well as maps of other states and a few world maps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly financial and legal documents from Marion, Monongalia, and Harrison Counties, bulk from 1840s to 1860s.\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","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":["Papers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers.","Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and  Atlantic Monthly  writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]).","An addendum of 2013/05 includes additional personal and professional correspondence, publications, newspaper morgue files, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, scrapbooks, account books, and maps. For more information on Jim Comstock, see the Historical Note.","Series 1. Historical Documents; 1717, 1754-1988, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1 - box 3, folder 2. \nSeries 2. Lucy Prichard Papers; 1913-1936, undated; box 3, folders 3-8. \nSeries 3. Louis Reed Papers; ca. 1960-1975, undated; boxes 4-5. \nSeries 4. Account Books; 1830-1938; boxes 6-17. \nSeries 5. Printed Material; 1829-1995, undated; boxes 18-25. \nSeries 6. Comstock Correspondence; 1882-1995, undated (bulk 1950-1995); boxes 26-72. \nSeries 7. Photographs; ca. 1850s-1995, undated; boxes 73-81. \nSeries 8. Motion Pictures; undated; box 82. \nSeries 9. Microfilm; undated; box 82. \nSeries 10. Cassette Tapes; undated; box 82. \nSeries 11. Glass Lantern Slides; 1871-1897, undated; boxes 83-85. \nSeries 12. Scrapbooks; 1883-1918; boxes 86-91. \nSeries 13. Broadsides; ca. 1827-1960 (includes facsimiles); box 92. \nSeries 14. Maps; 1730-1976, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 93-103, and map cabinet 1, drawer 12. \nSeries 15. Newspapers; ca. 1826-1924, 1976; box 104. \nSeries 16. Artifacts; 1952-1976, undated; boxes 105-109. \nSeries 17. Oversize; 1650-1671, 1720-1991, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 110-118.","Addendum of 2013/05  includes material much like that in the initial acquisition, divided into the following series:","Series 18. Correspondence; 1838-2003, undated (bulk 1950-1995); box 119 - box 133 folder 4, and box 134 folders 1-11.* \nSeries 19. Publications; 1889-2002, undated; box 133, folders 5-6, box 134, folder 12, and boxes 135-136.* \nSeries 20. Subject Files; ca. 1851-1995, undated; boxes 137-146. \nSeries 21. Photographs; ca. 1870s-2003, undated; boxes 147-149.* \nSeries 22. Audio-Visual Material; 1990-1992, undated; box 150. \nSeries 23. Artifacts; undated; box 151, folders 1-2. \nSeries 24. Scrapbooks; ca. 1953-1984; box 151, folder 3 and scrapbook. \nSeries 25. Account Books; 1954-1960s; box 151 ledgers. \nSeries 26. Oversize Material; 1861-1866, 1893-1933, 1950-1998, undated; box 152 - box 156, folder 3, loose folders 1-4, oversize folder 1, and box 157. \nSeries 27. Maps; 1884-1891, 1920, 1957-1987; box 156, folders 4-10. \nSeries 28. Historical Documents; 1839-1909; box 158.","*Please note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes financial records such as receipts and invoices, legal documents such as deeds and court cases, correspondence, land records, genealogy materials, ephemera, and typescript histories. Box 1 includes three subgroups: the Barnet Cushwa Papers, West Virginia Documents, and Non-West Virginia Documents. Boxes 2a-3 contain material of mixed origin. Additional historical documents can be found in Series 17, Oversize, and in subseries Oversize--Manuscripts.","This subseries includes a collection of materials documenting the activities of Cushwa, a prominent farmer and later the sheriff of Berkeley County in the 1850s. Cushwa's papers reveal his activities as administrator of the Daniel Gehr estate (1839-1843). The Berkeley County documents, including lists of landholdings, orders, taxes, and fee collections, demonstrate his duties as sheriff in the 1850s. See Series 17, Oversize, box 117 for Berkeley County land holdings, sheriff's accounts, and lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc. (1854-1858).","This subseries is comprised of correspondence and other material, principally concerning commercial and development activities in north-central West Virginia. These items are grouped by county; please note that there is overlap between counties.   Highlights include:  items relating to Harman Blennerhassett (box 1, folder 12);  a six-page letter written by William G. Brown answering questions concerning the constitutionality of the movement for West Virginia statehood (June 28, 1862) (box 1, folder 13);  letters and reminiscences focusing on the reunions of the Battle of Philippi (1911-1935) (box 1, folder 14); and  two letters from the abolitionist John Brown (box 1, folder 15)."," Additional West Virginia documents can be found in boxes 2a-2c.","Highlights of this subseries include:  four letters from soldiers in the Mexican War;  seventeen letters from Pennsylvania soldier James M. Weaver, principally to his wife, during his service in the Civil War;  a confidential letter from President James Monroe explaining his policy on fortifying the frontier;  seven Booker T. Washington letters;  two letters from Revolutionary War general Horatio Gates; and  a folder of letters written by famous 19th century figures including Samuel Clemens, Collis P. Huntington, Nathaniel P. Banks, and Newton D. Baker.","This subseries contains correspondence, invoices, deeds, tax documents, court cases, and other material. Most of the items pertain to West Virginia.  Highlights include:  bills and invoices of G.H.A. Kunst and John H. Kunst (1853-1867, 1892-1893);  papers of the Wells family of Sistersville (1806-1885);  a telegram regarding the burning of Harpers Ferry (1861);  a broadside listing members of Company H, 3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Infantry (undated); and  legal documents regarding the manumission of slaves (1820-1828, 1856).","Lucy Prichard taught Latin and Classical Studies at Marshall College from 1914 to 1941. This series includes correspondence, photographs, and printed material. Correspondence includes Karl Prichard's letters (1918) and Lucy Prichard's letters (1925-1927, undated). Lucy's letters are addressed to her mother, Mrs. R.H. Prichard, in Huntington, WV. Many of Lucy's letters relate to her travels and studies in the Peloponnesus peninsula of Greece, the British Isles, Western Europe, and Italy in 1925 and 1927. For more information on Lucy Prichard, see the Historical Note.","This series includes newspaper clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and Atlantic Monthly writer Louis Eckert Reed. The newspaper clippings show images of Reed family photos (1960). The typescripts are short stories written by Louis, many likely unpublished. Also included are notes and a draft of  Burning Springs, Virginia: The Civil War's Unsolved Mystery , initially a paper that Reed prepared for the West Virginia Historical Society (see  Burning Springs, West Virginia: the Civil War's Unsolved Mystery , by Louis Reed, self-published in Elizabeth, WV, 1960). This material may have been developed for his later fictional novel,  Burning Springs  (published in Huntington, WV by University Editions/Aegina Press, 1985). For more information on Reed, see the Historical Note. A letter from Louis Reed to Jim Comstock regarding Reed's book  Warning in Appalachia  (1967) can be found in Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 62, folder 27. Other letters from Reed may be found elsewhere in Series 6, Correspondence.","This series includes 27 account books, many of which relate to north-central West Virginia businesses. These ledgers document general stores, a Jewish-owned clothing store in Richwood, the activities of an itinerant Methodist minister in the mining villages of north-central West Virginia, grocery stores and meat markets, a glass manufacturer, and other businesses. See Separated Materials note for information on volumes separated to other collections.","Thistle and Cox formed a partnership in Tyler County, [West] Virginia in March of 1835. This is the partnership's first ledger, which spans the years 1835-1837, but reference is made to the transfer of accounts to at least one subsequent ledger. The business appears to have been located near the Ohio River (probably in Sistersville), since customers included Ohio as well as Tyler County citizens. Although the debit side for each customer only lists the term \"merchandise\" for purchases, the ledger reveals the barter nature of much of the rural economy of Tyler County on the credit side. Among items received in trade by Thistle and Cox were chestnuts, hides, bees wax, rags, sand, tobacco, clothes, meats, produce, and various forms of labor. The ledger also frequently lists the occupations or residences of many of the customers. Included were coopers, tanners, blacksmiths, preachers, schoolteachers, and carpenters, scattered from Point Pleasant to Wheeling.","Inventory and Book Accounts. This volume contains a 66-page inventory of goods on hand and their prices in a Tyler County general store in January 1877. The inventory is divided into the following categories: fancy groceries, groceries, men's shoes, ladies' shoes, children's shoes, overshoes, dress goods, wall paper, housewares, and other. Starting on page 71 is a four-page list of the book accounts of the store's customers, presumably on that same date.","The Cordray Carriage Company was a short-lived business in Fairmont, WV. The ledger lists only the customers and the amount they owed T.L. Cordray, the proprietor of the Carriage Company. The ledger does not list the services for which the customers were charged. However, one itemized account invoice on an inserted piece of paper suggests that the Cordray Carriage Company repaired vehicles. For H.O. Amos, from 1907 through 1911, the Company repaired couplings, repaired and painted the body, repaired the interior, raised the body, and tightened and repaired the fenders, for a total charge of $118. The ledger includes more than 400 customers.","A. H. Breckstein was a Jewish merchant who operated a clothing store in the boom town of Richwood, in Nicholas County. Volume 10 is a cash book detailing daily transactions in the store, both sales and expenses, for part of 1910, and consistently for the period 1928 to 1936. There are also monthly accountings of both cash and credit sales as well as expenses. Volume 11 documents sales and purchases of clothing for the period 1926 to 1934. The sales portion of this volume repeats information available in volume 10. Volume 12 is a ledger of accounts payable for the period 1921-1928, showing the firms from which Breckstein purchased his goods. Included are companies in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York.","J.C. Shock was a Methodist minister assigned to a parish in Pullman, WV in 1910. However, he also appeared to be an itinerant preacher, and his account book lists ministerial services provided for the towns and villages of Duffy, Straight Fork, Falls Mill, Glady, and Kingknob, in the north-central West Virginia counties of Lewis, Ritchie, and Wetzel. The account book documents Shock's ministry, listing the text for sermons preached at various towns as well as the contributions of those towns to his salary. Most of the entries cover the years 1910-1917, at which time his base of operations seems to have shifted permanently to Falls Run and Falls Mill in Braxton County. There are entries for sermons, marriages, and assessments for those towns running to 1938. An additional folder contains miscellaneous documents related to Shock found within the ledger.","In the 1890s, Mrs. Samuel C. Gans operated a general store in Moundsville, which by 1900 was specializing in dry goods. This ledger reflects the volume of business and the timing and means of settling accounts. The early pages (for the 1890s) are more detailed, listing the items purchased from the general store. For the later period, the entries are frequently limited to the terms \"goods\" or \"merchandise.\" The back of the volume also contains some notes and miscellaneous accounts, such as rooms rented.","In 1892, a number of Charleston's German families banded together to form an Evangelical Lutheran Church. Subscriptions for a building fund and other church work began to be collected in October of that year. This ledger documents the subscriptions of the founding members of St. Paul's Evangelical Church. It also provides an accounting of the expenses and building funds contributed by the members, including the purchase of a lot on Court Street in Charleston, the church's construction, and the salary of the minister.","These volumes were written by Albert S. Hayden, Notary Public in and for the county of Marion and the state of West Virginia. He recorded handwritten copies of promissory notes and bills presented at Fairmont, WV banks for redemption, which were protested by the First National Bank of Fairmont's cashier. The ledgers also list the date protested, by whom, and the notices mailed to note signers. Most notes originated in West Virginia, but some originated in Ohio. Volume 16a covers 1870-1873. Volume 16b covers 1875-1876.","Anthony Zidn operated a grocery and dry goods store outside of Fairmont on RFD #2. Zidn was an immigrant from the Middle East (perhaps Armenia, as suggested by the fact he kept his accounts in Persian and had a Christian name). These three ledgers document his business, although most of the information is written in Persian.","The Price Brothers operated a general store in the small village of Amos on the Paw Paw Creek, eleven miles from the town of Fairmont in Marion County. The Price Brothers sold all sorts of groceries to people in the town, as documented by this ledger. In addition, the Polk business directory for 1902-1903 notes that the Price sisters operated a millinery business in Amos. There are loose papers within the ledger, including statements and product advertisements (1905-1907, undated).","At the turn of the century, there were four wholesale meat provisioners in Wheeling. This ledger represents the operations of one of them for the years 1901-1902. The company principally supplied general stores and grocers in eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and western Maryland. However, individuals could also buy directly. Entries typically include the name of the purchaser, the town in which the purchaser resides, and the amount of the purchase. For local buyers, the ledger frequently lists the Wheeling address. Since transactions are usually noted only as merchandise, it is impossible to glean what types of meats were being purchased at what costs.","Jacob Hornbrook was born in Tavistock, England, in 1812 and moved with his parents to Wheeling when he was a small child. Jacob's father ran a small [business?] in Wheeling. As a young man, Jacob began a mercantile business buying and selling produce on the flatboats travelling on the Ohio River. He later started a notions store, purchased interest in a steamship line and the First National Bank, and was president and owned stock in the Wheeling Gas Company. These three books, a journal (volume 20; 1847-1874), a ledger (volume 21; 1847-1874), and a cash book (volume 22; 1845-1874), document his business interests, investments, and personal expenses during the last three decades of his life. Although he remained an active investor, Hornbrook retired from his mercantile business in 1855 with an estate valued at more than $30,000. In 1852, he moved to what he called \"Forest Home\" near Wheeling Park, and he served in the West Virginia legislature during the Civil War.","This volume includes a manuscript copy of the act \"To incorporate the Wheeling Gas Company\" issued March 18, 1850; a copy of a related Wheeling city ordinance, issued April 29, 1850; stockholders meeting minutes, April 15, April 25, May 1, May 9, and May 11, 1850; and lists of subscribers, the number of shares of stock, and the amount paid.","George C. Gans was a physician practicing in Marshall County in the decades prior to the Civil War. Although most of his patients resided in the area around Moundsville and Elizabeth, Gans does not appear in either the 1840 or the 1850 U.S. census schedules for Marshall County. The ledger documents his treatment of families in Marshall County for a wide variety of ills, including typhoid fever (1861), cholera (1847), and farm injuries. Gans also routinely attended childbirths. His treatments included blistering, bleeding, venesection, lancing, and operating as well as administering medicine and pills. In return for his services, Gans routinely accepted farm produce, labor on his farm, and other useful items such as shingles. He went on to serve as an assistant surgeon in the Civil War.","This is a ledger of an Elizabeth, PA, glass manufacturer's accounts with his workers. The manufacturer ran some type of company store, and the ledger thus includes debits for cash and merchandise received by the workers and credits for the various types of labor performed, including glass blowing, teasing, cutting, coal mining, blacksmithing, and box making. In addition, the ledger includes the manufacturer's accounts with a boarding house owner for boarding his workers and with a local merchant who supplied the company store. In general, the ledger provides insights into the earnings of mid-19th century artisans as well as the operation of a small, rural glass-making establishment.","This consignment book documents commodity prices and the wide variety of goods received by a Wheeling commission merchant house during the 1830s. It also provides insights into the local industrial development, since the commission merchants routinely received goods on consignment from local manufacturers, such as the German Manufacturing Company (textiles). At the beginning of the book, there is evidence that the firm engaged a peddler to make trips in 1830, and the commission house also conducted auctions during the 1830s.","Moses Chapline was a prominent citizen in Wheeling, at various times an attorney, a general store owner, and in the 1830s, mayor. This daybook documents the daily trade at his store during 1845. Included are entries for purchases of a wide variety of goods as well as entries for store expenses, such as insurance, soap, and transportation. The A. Loring who appears frequently throughout was probably Alonzo Loring, a clerk at the store.","Harry Hood and Company was a retail meat and dairy market in Fairmont, WV. This ledger covers the last few months of 1906 and the first months of 1907. It documents purchases of meat from wholesale producers, such as Armour and Company, and sales of meat to local businesses and individuals in Fairmont. Transactions are typically listed only as \"merchandise,\" making it difficult to glean any information concerning prices or consumption patterns. The ledger is used only for the first 150 of its 500 pages, and the business does not appear in the Polk business directory of 1906-1907, suggesting the possibility that it folded some time in 1907.","This ledger documents a general store in Tyler County, probably near Middlebourne, the county seat. Although fairly routine entries characterize customer purchases, the volume also documents purchases from wholesale merchants, beginning on page 251. Included are such firms as Hubbard and Paull, and Jos. Speidel, both of Wheeling; Ed Roome of Sistersville; and Burgunder Brothers and Company, of Columbus, Ohio. Also, the ledger often lists the occupations of the store's customers. Included are John Gates, an oil rig builder (reflecting the emergence of the local oil business) and a number of customers connected to a local woolen mill.","John Gallaher, Christian Ansbrutz, and Caleb Bleakmor started a general store partnership in 1853. Prior to that date, Gallaher operated a store in Moundsville, which is documented in the first 90 pages of the daybook. The daybook follows the partnership for only six months (until September 1853), but then another Moundsville general store (involving Bleakmor) used the daybook during 1856. In the 1850 census, Bleakmor was listed as a constable, age 49, born in Maryland; and Ansbrutz was listed as a miller, age 47, born in France, worth $23,000. Only Gallaher, a 53-year-old Irishman worth $12,000, was listed as a merchant. From the evidence in the daybook, it appears that the partnership was short-lived.","This series includes ephemera, sheet music, booklets, pamphlets, and correspondence. Additional miscellaneous printed material can be found in Series 17, Oversize.","  Box 18 includes calendars, sheet music, notecards, and printed material related to West Virginia history. The notecards include screen printed notecards from Wolf Creek Printery in Alderson, WV (1976). The history printed material includes a booklet entitled  Wheeling Bicentennial, 1769-1969  (1969?).","  Box 19 includes West Virginia serial publications and magazines, as well as printed material about West Virginia schools and locations. Highlights include three issues of  The Searchlight , a serial about education (two published in Summersville, WV [1895-1896], and one published in Fayetteville, WV [1899]); an issue of  The Mikrophone: Devoted to Religion, Morality, and Temperance  (published in Highland, WV, by D.H. Davis, 1906); Scottish Rite pamphlets (published in Wheeling, 1910-1917); the Richwood High School Class of 1940 reunion program (1960); Craigsville Grade School's first yearbook (1973); and  Mountaineer Spirit , a WVU student magazine featuring an article about Jim Comstock (1968).","  Box 20 includes non-West Virginia serial publications and magazines. Highlights include an issue of  The Religious Magazine, or Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews  (Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1829); and E.D. Cope's  On Vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous Rocks of the North West Territory  (Montreal: W.F. Brown \u0026 Co., 1891);  Naval Training School -- Indoctrination, Hollywood Florida: Quarterdeck, Class of 3-44, 20 June 1944  (Hollywood, FL: Naval Training School, 1944); and issue no. 18 of  Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge  (undated).","  Box 21 includes various writings, such as student literary magazines, works of fiction, poetry booklets, and George T. Swain's  The Incomparable Don Chafin  (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962).","  Box 22 includes George T. Swain's  Facts About the Two Armed Marches on Logan  (Charleston, WV: Ace Enterprises, 1962), as well as printed materials for a variety of West Virginia and non-West Virginia businesses and organizations. These include advertisements and booklets regarding the West Virginia glass industry, including Fenton Glass (1966-1976, undated), a Woman's Club of Gassaway booklet (1970), a reprint of the Berkeley Springs Hotel Brochure of 1885 (1988), and the constitution of the First Baptist Church of Richwood, WV (undated). For additional business-related printed material, see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2b, folders 11-12.","  Box 23 includes miscellaneous booklets, programs, book plates, articles, clippings, and other material. Highlights include  Rules of Practice in the United States Patent Office  (Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1892), Elbert Hubbard's  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Erasmus  (East Aurora, Erie County, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), the Richwood Spud and Splinter Festival Program (1940), and Eugene L. Huddleston's  The World's Greatest Mallets: C \u0026 O H-8 Versus N \u0026 W Class A  (Alderson, WV: Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Historical Society, 1986).","  Boxes 24 and 25 contain books, including Comstock's autobiography.","This series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence. This series contains materials that are diverse in format, including letters, scripts for radio and other media, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial materials (e.g. bank books and checks), printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 7, Photographs. Some materials were moved to Series 17, Oversize -- see the Series 17 description for details."," Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files are dispersed throughout the series. Other notations that Comstock used include \"LR\" for letters received, \"Sp\" for speech-related correspondence, \"NL\" for  News Leader -related correspondence, and \"HB\" for  West Virginia Hillbilly -related correspondence."," Topics and items of interest include:  \n letters written to Comstock by regional author Jesse Stuart, and by political figures such as Hubert H. Humphrey, Robert C. Byrd, Jennings Randolph, and Barry Goldwater (box 26 and others);  rejection letters from newspapers and magazines to which Comstock submitted material (box 26);  biographical material about Jim Comstock and his family, including a thesis about Comstock by Mary Abel (boxes 26 and 47);  Larry Maynor, journalist for the  Charleston Daily Mail  (box 29);  the sale and ultimate demise of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  (boxes 31 and 72);  the University of Hard Knocks, including a mock-up diploma, resumes, and portrait photograph headshots of potential graduates (boxes 31 and 60);  [Delf] Norona Collection payments (boxes 33 and 46);  Pearl S. Buck (box 33 and others);  Billy Edd Wheeler, West Virginia writer and musician (box 36);  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) reunion in 1979 (box 36);  Otto Whittaker, who worked with Comstock on  The Best of the Hillbilly  (boxes 37 and 65);  the  West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia  (box 40);  Comstock's appearance on John Nebel's WOR radio show in 1960, including postcards and letters regarding the appearance and requests for Comstock's Richwood Kinsey Report as well as  News Leader  or  West Virginia Hillbilly  subscriptions (boxes 41-42);  Comstock's appearance on the Today Show in 1966 (box 42);  Comstock's appearance on Patricia/Patsy McCann's WOR radio show in New York in August 1977, including letters and postcards regarding the appearance and requests to receive the free six-week subscription to the  West Virginia Hillbilly  which Comstock offered on the show (boxes 42-43);  writers, with an emphasis on West Virginia authors, whose work Comstock was interested in collecting (boxes 40, 44, 45, and 62);  writings by Comstock, including short stories, articles, drafts, etc. (boxes 47-49);  Comstock's nomination and campaign for a U.S. House of Representatives seat on the Republican ticket in 1964 (boxes 51 and 56);  the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and  News Leader , including morgue files, old articles, submissions, letters, and other items (boxes 54, 55, 57, 61, 63, and others; for oversize items, see Series 17, Oversize, box 116);  Eck Bozeman (box 57);  Comstock's pocket diaries (box 57);  Comstock's naval service during World War II (box 60);  H.C. Comstock, Jim's father (box 68); and  historical research material, possibly for the  Encyclopedia  (box 72)."," Please note that the above list is not exhaustive.","This series includes print photographs, negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photos, tintypes, photo postcards, slides, clippings, printed material, correspondence, photo plates, and eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies). Subjects include furniture; first ladies of West Virginia; historic homes of West Virginia; identified and unidentified individual and group portraits; cities and towns of West Virginia; buildings; scenery; Museum of the Hills in Richwood, WV; glass and glassmaking; and the Greenbrier. Some of the material in this series was transferred from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence -- in cases where the photographic item was attached to correspondence, the correspondence was transferred as well. Please note that some negatives are nitrate; keep these away from heat and handle with care. Additional photographic material can be found in Series 6, Correspondence, boxes 35, 54, 55, and 72. For photos of Fenton Glass products, see Series 5, Printed Material, box 22. Some oversize photos have been separated to the Photographs Collection; most of these have been added to West Virginia History OnView. Additional oversize photos can be found in Series 17, Oversize."," Contents of the eight canisters of large format aerial diapositives (photo transparencies):"," Box 80; Canister label: \"Huntington 1-6000 April 1947\"  Box 80; Canister label: \"Chas. [Charleston?] 1957, Nitro, 1957; St. Albans, 1957, Old Chas., 1948, Airport, Big Scale (?)\"  Box 80; Canister labels: \"Elk River Coal \u0026 Lumber Co., Aerial Map Flown April 1953.\" and \"City of Huntington Scale 1-6000 Apr 28 1947\"  Box 80; Canister label: \"Harmony Near Ripley, [?] ft to 1\" old; Colin Creek Coal Stripping, large scale, 1948; Lake Chaweva, 1948; Armour Park, 1948; C\u0026O Ry [Railway?] Coal River 1948; Bellings Airport, 1947; Kanawha Airport, large and small scale, 12-9-1947; Strip to City Blvd 12-9-1947; City Strip \u0026 Kenna Home; C\u0026CCC Research 1947; Cedar Grove to Montgomery.\"  Box 81; Unlabeled canister.  Box 81; Canister label: \"1949\"  Box 81; Canister label: \"Coal City - Park Beckley, 1947 [?]\" (not usable)  Box 81; Canister label: \"4/20/53 Dick Stata Film, St. Albans - Charleston\" (not usable)","This series contains two rolls of 35 mm black and white motion picture film, and three rolls of 16 mm color motion picture film of a train. Also included is one of the canisters which contained the film. The box which formerly contained the film was labeled \"F.M.C. Movie Scraps.\" Please note that some reels are nitrate; handle with care.","This series contains two reels of microfilm, which were likely the property of Delf Norona before they were acquired by Comstock. The first reel contains West Virginia-related Civil War records; the second contains payroll and public service claims from the West Virginia region in the 1770s."," Reel 1 Contents Notes:  Records of the War Department, Office of the Adjutant General, General Orders, Mountain Department, Army in the Field, May 9 - June 28, 1862.  National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1956. 101 total pgs.  March 18 - June 18, 1862 86 total pgs."," Reel 2 Contents Notes:  Payroll for Pittsburgh, 122 leaves; Payroll for Romney, 43 leaves; Public Service Claims Romney and Winchester 1775, 37 leaves; Public Service Claims West Augusta 1775, 49 leaves; Records of Soldiers and Public Service in Dunmore's War, 279 leaves; index, 25 leaves.","This series includes two cassette tapes which were found in an envelope marked \"Larry Maynor Personal.\" The tapes include recordings of children reading stories and an oral history interview with an unidentified subject.","This series contains 75 wood framed glass lantern slides. Most slides are labeled with the subject, and some are dated. Subjects include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV, as well as Brooke County and Marshall County, WV, and Belmont County, Ohio. These images were likely created by Thomas M. Darrah of Belmont County, Ohio. For the two wooden boxes in which the slides were previously stored, please see Series 16, Artifacts, boxes 105 and 106.","This series includes scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings and ephemera. Subjects include the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and U.S. military history with a focus on Civil War history. These scrapbooks may have belonged to Colonel Albert Kern of Dayton, Ohio.","This series includes originals and copies of broadsides and posters. Included are a John Dillinger wanted poster (1934); a Garrett Snuff advertisement (undated); copies of various political notices (originals ca. 1827-1886); Russian broadsides with Cyrillic text, depicting events of the Russian Civil War, USSR propaganda, and other things (ca. 1920-1930); posters for the Marshall County Fair (ca. 1960) and the Moundsville, Powhatan and Clarington Seventh Grand Annual Picnic (1873); advertisements for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus at the Moundsville Fairgrounds (undated); Showboat Rhododendron advertisements (undated); and other material.","This series includes original and facsimile maps, atlases, and books about maps. Highlights include pre- and post-Civil War maps of the West Virginia area;  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illustrated: containing ... special history of the Virginias, maps and histories of Tyler and Wetzel Counties, West Virginia ; maps of America before 1775; copies of [West] Virginia county maps by John Wood from 1820-1821; maps of various West Virginia cities, including, Morgantown, Moundsville, and Wheeling; and various Fry-Jefferson maps (original and copies). A detailed contents list of boxes 93-100b and map cabinet 1, drawer 12 is available. ","\nNote that the date for each map reflects the date of creation of the item, though in the case of copies it may indicate the date of the creation of the original item rather than the date the copy was made. Also, the number of items may indicate different items or different pieces of the same map. ","\n  Not yet located; Item Number 113; County Map of Virginia and West Virginia; 1874","This series includes newspapers from Wheeling, as well as a special bicentennial salute issue of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  (1976). The majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated to the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings. A list of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder."," Most of the West Virginia newspapers have been microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113 in the Microfilm Room. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. Additional newspaper pages and clippings can be found throughout Series 6, Comstock Correspondence and Series 17, Oversize, box 117.","This series includes a variety of artifacts and ephemera belonging to or collected by Comstock."," Boxes 105 and 106 include two wooden boxes (undated) which contained glass lantern slides (see Series 11). One box is labeled \"T.M. Darrah.\" Also included are a fountain pen used by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman to sign the contract to begin building the Bureau of Mines' Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown, WV, with letters documenting the donation of the pen by Senator Harley M. Kilgore (1952); and a dinner plate showing a photo-like image of a priest with a group of children, from St. Albans, WV (undated)."," Box 107 includes various nametags for Comstock and his wife, from a variety of conventions and meetings (1960-1963, undated); glasses and sunglasses (undated); a sewing needle pack and a mini ruler advertising Jim Comstock for Congress (ca. 1964); a press pass for President Ford's visit to Charleston, WV (1975); and tickets to the Republican National Convention (1976); among other material."," Box 108 contains two figurines and four whiskey decanters. The figurines are a coal miner (made of coal, undated) and \"Morgan's Virginia Rifleman 1776\" (undated). The decanters are \"Old Time Coal Miner\" (1976), \"Coal Miner\" (1975), Robert E. Lee (undated), and Stonewall Jackson on horseback (undated)."," Box 109 contains six whiskey decanters: Abraham Lincoln (undated), Stonewall Jackson (undated), Hill Billy (1969), General Stonewall Jackson (1974), Randolph McCoy (1973), and Devil Anse Hatfield (1973).","This series contains oversize material that may be relevant to other series.","This subseries includes paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, educational posters, architectural drawings, vinyl records, typescripts, transparencies, clippings, manuscripts, and printed material, among other formats. Topics include Pearl Buck's birthplace, West Virginia, the Civil War, Jim Comstock's work, and other topics. More manuscripts are in the Manuscripts subseries, box 118."," Box 110 and box 111, folders 1-2 contain artwork depicting Pearl Buck's birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, including paintings, sketches, a chalk drawing, and a plan for a sign (1965-1966, undated)."," Box 111, folders 3-4 and unfoldered items include two West Virginia-related prints and an unidentified photo (undated); one framed and six unframed prints depicting mining machinery, possibly of Joy Manufacturing Company (undated); an unframed painting of a coal miner (undated); twelve mounted photographs and sketches (most unidentified, undated); and four rolled photographs (1918-1955?)."," Box 112 includes educational posters regarding the Civil War and West Virginia history (undated). The posters include text, images, and photographs. Also includes mounted photographs, most with accompanying text, that have been added to West Virginia History On View. An additional eight posters regarding maps made by or related to North American Indians, likely assembled by Delf Norona, are also included (ca. 1950). For additional maps related to North American Indians/Native Americans, see also Series 14, Maps, box 98, item number 349."," Box 113 includes various West Virginia-related prints, including one of Mount Chantal near Wheeling (undated); prints of Civil War scenes sketched from nature and drawn on stone by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated); a copy print of the camps of the 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps. near Romney (undated); prints made from Civil War engravings (1960); W.R. Leigh bullfighting prints (1950); copies of architectural plans for alterations of Wheeling's Custom House and Post Office (undated); and other items."," Box 114 contains limited edition black and white prints from a series entitled \"Covered Bridges of West Virginia\" by Marj Teague (1977) and three copies of a vinyl record album titled \"The Legend of Clark Kessinger\" (ca. 1965)."," Box 115 includes paintings by John Wellington (undated); oversize photos (undated); an unidentified floor plan (undated); and architectural drawings or blueprints for five properties that were part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (undated). These properties are \"The Old Stone Church\" Presbyterian, Lewisburg, WV; Harewood and the ruins of St. George's Chapel, both near Charles Town, Jefferson County, WV; Traveler's Rest, near Leetown, Jefferson County, WV; and the Lee Barn in Leetown, WV."," Box 116 includes radio scripts (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67); calendars (1984-1991);  Hillbilly  transparencies (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 54); various printed images and magazine clippings (1860-1921, undated); \"Our Wacky Weekly\" and newspaper article typescripts, probably written by Comstock (undated; see also Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 48, folder 1); and music-related magazines and pamphlets (1959-1966, undated)."," Box 117 includes Berkeley County documents from the Barnet Cushwa Papers (see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 1, folders 1-5). These include lists of orders, taxes, fees, etc.; sheriff's office accounts; and land holdings (all 1854-1858). Box 117 also includes television scripts (undated); an envelope and survey plat from the Wells Family Papers (1856, undated; see also Series 1, Historical Documents, box 2a, folder 24); Civil War-related prints (1861-1868, 1955); newspaper clippings (1861, 1927-1944, undated; some from Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 67, folders 4 and 7); miscellaneous printed material (1817-1863, undated; includes facsimiles); and facsimile broadsides, legal documents, and clippings regarding West Virginia statehood (1861-1863).","This subseries includes oversize manuscripts, most of which pertain to West Virginia. West Virginia materials include pre- and post-statehood indentures, land grants, other legal documents, letters, certificates, and other formats pertaining to Barbour, Berkeley, Fayette, Hampshire, Hardy, Marshall, Ohio, Raleigh, and Tyler Counties. Additional indentures and land grants pertain to England (1650-1671, 1720-1721, 1833), and to Maryland, Virginia, and Texas.","This series includes Jim Comstock's personal and professional correspondence, and is composed of a wide range of formats, including letters, clippings, postcards, typescripts, articles, financial documents, printed material, ephemera, and photographs. Most of the photographic material in this series has been moved to Series 21, Photographs."," Comstock marked much of his correspondence to be filed by the first letter of the correspondent's last name. Some of this organizational scheme has survived; folders containing specific letter and year files can be found in boxes 119-125. Other notations that Comstock used include \"NL\" for  News Leader -related correspondence and \"HB\" for  West Virginia Hillbilly -related correspondence."," Topics and items of interest include:  card from Comstock to recent graduates regarding a gift subscription to the  Hillbilly  (undated) (box 119);  Comstock's work with the Pearl Buck House (box 127);  the University of Hard Knocks (box 128);  photocopies of a scrapbook about ramps and Comstock's ramp-scented ink incident; and  material regarding Comstock's work on the  Hillbilly , the  News Leader , and the  West Virginia Encyclopedia  (boxes 126-127 and other material throughout) (see also Series 20, Subject Files)."," Please note that the above list is not exhaustive and that material on the above topics may also exist in boxes not mentioned."," *Please note: boxes 123  and 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes books, magazines, newspapers, journals, promotional materials, poetry, and sheet music. Topics include Jim Comstock's work, the state of West Virginia, WVU, Storer College, industry (e.g., coal, railways), and New England baked beans, among other topics.","Please note: box 133 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes mostly morgue files of material that Comstock used in connection with his newspapers. Contents are not in alphabetical order. Formats include clippings, typescripts, photographs, print material, and other formats. The  News Leader  morgue materials (boxes 137-138) include items on a variety of subjects, such as covered bridges and the early history of Clay County. The  News Leader  morgue material also includes a folder of autographs of early West Virginia governors and other politicians, such as D.D.T. Farnsworth, John J. Jacobs, and A.B. Fleming. The  Hillbilly  morgue materials (box 139-140) pertain to a wide variety of subjects, most of whom are likely local individuals. The Newspaper Subjects (boxes 141-146) includes material for which the intended newspaper was not specified; topics include specific local individuals, national figures like Abraham Lincoln, steel and other industries, and towns.","This series includes cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, photographic prints, clippings, and other formats. Many subjects are identified. They include portraits and candid photos of individuals, families, politicians, sports figures, West Virginia towns and buildings. Other notable photographs include crime scene and/or accident photographs, including images of a non-commercial plane crash (undated), and photos of Jim Comstock at the West Virginia Senate (1966). Photographs can also be found in Series 18, Correspondence; Series 20, Subject Files; and Series 26, Oversize Material.  Please note: boxes 123, 133, and 149 could contain allergens. Masks and gloves will be provided for patrons wishing to use them.","This series includes magnetic recording tapes, a VHS tape about college financing, and a vinyl record and cassette tape of Billy Crain music.","This series includes a WVLA cloth ribbon, an empty wallet, and a West Virginia Picture Book imprint plate.","This series includes material from two scrapbooks. One set of loose scrapbook pages contains clippings chiefly regarding Comstock's \"Past 80\" parties (ca. 1956). The other scrapbook of newspaper clippings chronicles the history of Richwood's Sacred Heart Hospital during the years of influence of the Pallottine Sisters from 1913-1983 (ca. 1953-1984).","This series includes two account books. One contains stencil orders from various schools as well as other bills (1960s), and the other is an account book for 1954.","This series includes newspapers, magazines, clippings, posters, prints, photographs, artwork, calendars, a genealogy chart, and other material."," Newspapers and magazines in box 152 include the  West Virginia Hillbilly  Bicentennial special edition (1976), newspaper layouts from the  Hillbilly  (1950-1976, undated), and pages from  Harper's Weekly  (1861-1866)."," Prints in boxes 153 and 154 include Civil War scenes by J. Nep Roesler, Corporal of Color 47th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers (undated)."," Photographs (in boxes 153-156 and loose folders) include regular oversize and cirkut (panoramic) photographs on a wide variety of subjects. Boxes 153 and 154 include photographs of unidentified buildings and a group portrait of a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion (1982). Boxes 155 and 156 include photos of Evenwood (1915), group portrait of a conference of National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (ca. 1932), campaign photographs (ca. 1972), an unidentified group of cars preparing for a parade (undated), and duplicates from the loose folders."," Additional cirkut photos include:  Loose folder 1: a group portrait of the West Virginia Young People's Conference, Greenbrier Military School, Lewisburg, WV (1929), and a group portrait of the Divisional Young People's Congress, Charleston, WV (1929);  Loose folder 2: a group portrait of the Western Virginia Conference Epworth League (1928-1929);  Loose folder 3: photos of an unidentified bridge and factories or plants (1916 and undated) and the Appalachian Electric Power Company Turner Substation (1929);  Loose folder 4: a birds-eye view of Richwood (undated) and a group portrait of Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company Safety First Teams (1933)."," Box 156 also includes a genealogy chart and architectural drawings. The genealogy chart (undated) documents the Paull family, which is accompanied by a note: \"Goes with Jefferson [Fry-Jefferson?] Map.\" The architectural drawings (1972-1976, undated) depict buildings from Richwood.\n \n Box 157 includes a book of exhibits from the Virginia vs. West Virginia Supreme Court case in 1914, and a license for John W. Love to practice Law (1925).\n \n Also includes a muster roll for Company I, 2nd Regiment, [West] Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army (1863 February).","This series includes maps of West Virginia locations, such as Greenbrier County and the Monongahela National Forest, as well as maps of other states and a few world maps.","Mostly financial and legal documents from Marion, Monongalia, and Harrison Counties, bulk from 1840s to 1860s."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M collections:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVarious autographed items have been moved to A\u0026amp;M 435.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAccount book volumes 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3b, and 3c, daybooks and ledgers from the Sistersville General Store run by Joshua and William Russell, were separated to A\u0026amp;M 3071, Russell, Joshua \u0026amp; William. Sistersville General Store. Daybooks and Ledgers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAccount book volumes 4, 4a, and 4b, daybooks of John Goshorn, were separated to A\u0026amp;M 2426, Goshorn Family. Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAccount book volumes 6-8, law records and accounts of Judge George A. Vincent, as well as Vincent's letters from the Historical Documents series, were separated to A\u0026amp;M 3068, Vincent, George A., Lawyer and Judge. Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeparated to the Printed Ephemera Collection:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArticles, maps, and letters, 1582-1877  (includes selections relating to the South Seas during the colonial period), on 1 reel of microfilm, P13438\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArticles, letters, maps, and speeches, 1808-1863  (16 items which are listed on a sheet in the box), 1 reel of microfilm, P13439\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBurnett, Nancy S. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSlovenes in Rural Appalachia: An Oral History\u003c/title\u003e (Richwood, W. Va.: News Leader Press, 1994).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeparated to Printed Ephemera (Pamphlets), Periodicals, etc.:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Odd Fellow\u003c/title\u003e, 1919, Charleston (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia State Weekly\u003c/title\u003e, 1910-1911, Fairmont (several items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eExponent\u003c/title\u003e, 1917-1918, Moundsville (4 items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOros\u003c/title\u003e, 1927, Moundsville (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePedagogue's Pastime\u003c/title\u003e, 1885, Moundsville (3 items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePrinceton Observer\u003c/title\u003e, 1950 (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSearchlight\u003c/title\u003e, Summersville (32 items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Farm Journal\u003c/title\u003e, 1872, Union (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eChurch Calendar\u003c/title\u003e, 1917, Wheeling (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eChurch News\u003c/title\u003e, 1892, Wheeling (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eEnglish Lutheran\u003c/title\u003e, 1900, Wheeling (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMusical Monthly\u003c/title\u003e, 1896-1897, Wheeling (6 items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c/title\u003e, 1912 August 10, Wheeling\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eState Fair News\u003c/title\u003e, 1910, Wheeling (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWilliam's Courier\u003c/title\u003e, undated, Wheeling (1 item)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eValley News Echo\u003c/title\u003e, Hagerstown, MD; reprint of an 1861 paper\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eHaney's Journal\u003c/title\u003e, 1869 March-October except July, New York (several items)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Southern Home\u003c/title\u003e, 1893 November, Hamlet, NC\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks separated to the West Virginia Collection or the WVU Downtown Library stacks:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDonnelly, Shirley. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eYesterday and Today: A Keepsake I, II, and III.\u003c/title\u003e Fayetteville, W. Va.: Fayette County Historical Society, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eKeepsake Stories of the Ozarks.\u003c/title\u003e Cassville, Mo.: Litho Printers, 1978.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNorton, Andre. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCatseye\u003c/title\u003e. London: Gollancz, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDeacon, William A. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Four Jameses\u003c/title\u003e. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHaslip, Joan. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCatherine the Great: A Biography\u003c/title\u003e. New York: Putnam, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeparated to the Maps Collection:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVirginie [Virginia], Maryland en 2 Feuilles par Fry et Jefferson, 1777\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBird's Eye View of the City of Wheeling, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSistersville, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBird's Eye View of Philippi, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eElkins, Randolph County, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFairmont and Palatine, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMannington, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMorgantown, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eClarksburg, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis, Tucker County, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGrafton, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCairo, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCameron, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHarrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMoundsville, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNew Martinsville, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eParkersburg, Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePennsboro, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSalem, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSt. Mary's, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWellsburg, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBuckhannon, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWeston, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBird's Eye View of Keyser, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eView of Parsons, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAero View of Bluefield, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAero View of Keystone, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAero View of North Fork and Town of Clark, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia Agricultural Society on Wheeling Island\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNote: A spreadsheet with more details regarding the separated maps can be found in the control folder.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated into the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings.\u003c/emph\u003e Lists of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder. Most of the West Virginia newspapers were microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. On the third page is a list of items separated from the Comstock Collection to printed ephemera (pamphlets), periodicals, etc.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSheet music separated to A\u0026amp;M 723, Sheet Music:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmericans, Together.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBack to West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBattle of Port Royal.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBrave Boys Are They.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCanoeing on the Kanawha.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCapt. Linch March.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCherry.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCotton Field Dance.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDown in the Lonely Dell.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDynamite Twist.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFair West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFire Fly Polka.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGlory Hallelujah.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGoing Back to West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHome Alone in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI Have Something Sweet to Tell You.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eImagine Me.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn Flanders' Fields.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI Want to Go Back to Michigan Down On the Farm.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJ'aime Mon Amour.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJust Before the Battle, Mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKingdom Coming.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLa Violette de Carafa.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLove and Devotion.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMemory's Dream.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMen of West Augusta.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMountain Land West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn, On, On, the Boys Came Marching!\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOur Grateful Heart Save Singing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReminiscing at Cass or the Greenbrier Shay.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSomething Tells Me You're the Girl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSong of a Woman.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSweet Kitty Wells.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Ballad of Oakland.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Battle Cry of Freedom.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Last Hope.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Self Service Chain Store.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Sunny Hours of Childhood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Vacant Chair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe West Virginia Singer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTramp! Tramp! Tramp! The Prisoners Hope.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWe Are Mountaineers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia! And My Home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia University Songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhat a Lovely Day!\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWho Will Care For Mother Now?\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWild and Wonderful West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Tell Overture.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWillie My Brave.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTransferred to A\u0026amp;M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. Papers:\u003c/emph\u003e Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photographs and clippings by and about Pearl S. Buck and her birthplace collected by Jim Comstock (1938-1973; 6 in.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Separated to A\u0026M collections:","Various autographed items have been moved to A\u0026M 435.","Account book volumes 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3b, and 3c, daybooks and ledgers from the Sistersville General Store run by Joshua and William Russell, were separated to A\u0026M 3071, Russell, Joshua \u0026 William. Sistersville General Store. Daybooks and Ledgers.","Account book volumes 4, 4a, and 4b, daybooks of John Goshorn, were separated to A\u0026M 2426, Goshorn Family. Papers.","Account book volumes 6-8, law records and accounts of Judge George A. Vincent, as well as Vincent's letters from the Historical Documents series, were separated to A\u0026M 3068, Vincent, George A., Lawyer and Judge. Papers.","Separated to the Printed Ephemera Collection:","Articles, maps, and letters, 1582-1877  (includes selections relating to the South Seas during the colonial period), on 1 reel of microfilm, P13438","Articles, letters, maps, and speeches, 1808-1863  (16 items which are listed on a sheet in the box), 1 reel of microfilm, P13439","Burnett, Nancy S.  Slovenes in Rural Appalachia: An Oral History  (Richwood, W. Va.: News Leader Press, 1994).","Separated to Printed Ephemera (Pamphlets), Periodicals, etc.:","West Virginia Odd Fellow , 1919, Charleston (1 item)","West Virginia State Weekly , 1910-1911, Fairmont (several items)","Exponent , 1917-1918, Moundsville (4 items)","Oros , 1927, Moundsville (1 item)","Pedagogue's Pastime , 1885, Moundsville (3 items)","Princeton Observer , 1950 (1 item)","Searchlight , Summersville (32 items)","West Virginia Farm Journal , 1872, Union (1 item)","Church Calendar , 1917, Wheeling (1 item)","Church News , 1892, Wheeling (1 item)","English Lutheran , 1900, Wheeling (1 item)","Musical Monthly , 1896-1897, Wheeling (6 items)","The Saturday Review , 1912 August 10, Wheeling","State Fair News , 1910, Wheeling (1 item)","William's Courier , undated, Wheeling (1 item)","Valley News Echo , Hagerstown, MD; reprint of an 1861 paper","Haney's Journal , 1869 March-October except July, New York (several items)","Our Southern Home , 1893 November, Hamlet, NC","Books separated to the West Virginia Collection or the WVU Downtown Library stacks:","Donnelly, Shirley.  Yesterday and Today: A Keepsake I, II, and III.  Fayetteville, W. Va.: Fayette County Historical Society, no date.","Keepsake Stories of the Ozarks.  Cassville, Mo.: Litho Printers, 1978.","Norton, Andre.  Catseye . London: Gollancz, 1974.","Deacon, William A.  The Four Jameses . Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1974.","Haslip, Joan.  Catherine the Great: A Biography . New York: Putnam, 1977.","Separated to the Maps Collection:","Virginie [Virginia], Maryland en 2 Feuilles par Fry et Jefferson, 1777","Bird's Eye View of the City of Wheeling, West Virginia","Sistersville, West Virginia","Bird's Eye View of Philippi, West Virginia","Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia","Fairmont and Palatine, West Virginia","Mannington, West Virginia","Morgantown, West Virginia","Clarksburg, West Virginia","Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia","Grafton, West Virginia","Cairo, West Virginia","Cameron, West Virginia","Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia","Moundsville, West Virginia","New Martinsville, West Virginia","Parkersburg, Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia","Pennsboro, West Virginia","Salem, West Virginia","St. Mary's, West Virginia","Wellsburg, West Virginia","Buckhannon, West Virginia","Weston, West Virginia","Bird's Eye View of Keyser, West Virginia","View of Parsons, West Virginia","Aero View of Bluefield, West Virginia","Aero View of Keystone, West Virginia","Aero View of North Fork and Town of Clark, West Virginia","West Virginia Agricultural Society on Wheeling Island","Note: A spreadsheet with more details regarding the separated maps can be found in the control folder.","The majority of the newspapers in this collection have been separated into the West Virginia Collection's newspaper holdings.  Lists of the newspapers originally inventoried for this collection can be found in the control folder. Most of the West Virginia newspapers were microfilmed; see Miscellaneous Reel 113. For a list of the contents of this reel, please see the \"W.Va. Newspapers from Comstock Collection\" three-page packet in the control folder. On the third page is a list of items separated from the Comstock Collection to printed ephemera (pamphlets), periodicals, etc.","Sheet music separated to A\u0026M 723, Sheet Music:","Americans, Together.","Back to West Virginia.","Battle of Port Royal.","Brave Boys Are They.","Canoeing on the Kanawha.","Capt. Linch March.","Cherry.","Cotton Field Dance.","Down in the Lonely Dell.","Dynamite Twist.","Fair West Virginia.","Fire Fly Polka.","Glory Hallelujah.","Going Back to West Virginia.","Home Alone in West Virginia.","I Have Something Sweet to Tell You.","Imagine Me.","In Flanders' Fields.","I Want to Go Back to Michigan Down On the Farm.","J'aime Mon Amour.","Just Before the Battle, Mother.","Kingdom Coming.","La Violette de Carafa.","Love and Devotion.","Memory's Dream.","Men of West Augusta.","Mountain Land West Virginia.","On, On, On, the Boys Came Marching!","Our Grateful Heart Save Singing.","Reminiscing at Cass or the Greenbrier Shay.","Something Tells Me You're the Girl.","Song of a Woman.","Sweet Kitty Wells.","The Ballad of Oakland.","The Battle Cry of Freedom.","The Last Hope.","The Self Service Chain Store.","The Sunny Hours of Childhood.","The Vacant Chair.","The West Virginia Singer.","There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning.","Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The Prisoners Hope.","We Are Mountaineers.","West Virginia.","West Virginia! And My Home.","West Virginia University Songs.","What a Lovely Day!","Who Will Care For Mother Now?","Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.","William Tell Overture.","Willie My Brave.","Transferred to A\u0026M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. Papers:  Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photographs and clippings by and about Pearl S. Buck and her birthplace collected by Jim Comstock (1938-1973; 6 in.)"],"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."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_65d6b5a9a55c1158201a2641c226d229\"\u003ePapers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c/emph\u003e writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]). An addendum of 2013/05 includes additional personal and professional correspondence, publications, newspaper morgue files, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, scrapbooks, account books, and maps. For more information on Jim Comstock, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of James (\"Jim\") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the  West Virginia Hillbilly  and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy Prichard, former instructor at Marshall College (now Marshall University) (1925-1927, undated); clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and  Atlantic Monthly  writer Louis Eckert Reed (ca. 1960-1975, undated); account books concerning economic development and commercial activities in the northern part of the state in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1830-1938); printed material about West Virginia schools, businesses, and events as well as non-West Virginia books and pamphlets (1829-1995, undated); Comstock's personal and professional correspondence (1882-1995, undated); a wide variety of photographs, including images of West Virginia cities and towns, among many others (ca. 1850s-1995, undated); microfilmed records of the Civil War and Dunmore's War (undated); glass lantern slides, which include views of scenery and buildings in Wheeling and various other locations in Ohio County, WV (1871-1897, undated); Grand Army of the Republic and U.S. military history scrapbooks (1883-1918); broadsides, including advertisements for a circus in Moundsville (ca. 1827-1960 [includes facsimiles]); and maps and atlases of pre- and post-statehood West Virginia, counties, colonial North America, and other topics (1730-1976, undated [includes facsimiles]). 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The financial papers, news clippings, pedigrees, manuscripts, and other miscellaneous material have been placed after the correspondence in the last box.","Randolph Huntington (1828-1916), born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1828, was a New York City pharmaceutical manufacturer. After the Civil War, Huntington moved to a farm in Ontario County, New York, belonging to his wife, to breed and sell fine saddle and coach horses and became a leading American authority on the Arabian horse. Later he moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1891, before returning to central New York at Rochester, in 1905. ","In 1854, Huntington married Louise Elizabeth Hayes (1833-1917) and they had several children, including: 1)Isabella Lord (1861-1932) who married (1892) the Reverend James Winthrop Hegeman; 2) Allie Louise \n(1863-1908) who married (1884) 1st Willis Fred Gove [died 1892?] and 2nd Frank N. Kondolf in 1893; 3)\nNathaniel Wheeler (1865-1891); 4) Henry Gaylord Norton (1868-1876); and 5) Albert William (1870-1876).","The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections has an earlier and larger group of Randolph Huntington Correspondence and Ephemera, MSS 11844, with many of the same correspondents.","This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. "," The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees and breeding records, some printed and some hand-written; hand-written manuscripts by Avedis G. Asdikian and Randolph Huntington on horse breeding; news clippings; and several photographs. "," Huntington became interested in using the two stallions given to former President U.S. Grant in 1877 by the Sultan of Turkey to breed a national horse for the United States. His breeding project, based on the Grant stallions and mares bred from the trotting horse \"Henry Clay,\" was not successful but it did bring the value of Arabian blood to the attention of other American horsemen, most notably Homer Davenport. This collection contains one letter from Homer Davenport to Randolph Huntington (July 15, 1902). "," The depression of 1893 forced Huntington's breeding operations into receivership and his stock was sold by Peter C. Kellogg and Company, auctioneers according to \"The New York Times\" February 18, 1894. Correspondence with Collis P. Huntington, railroad magnate, discusses his requests for loans to alleviate his financial difficulties and save his work. Huntington and several other backers had formed a company in 1891 for the breeding of \"Americo-Arab\" horses, but in 1893 the treasurer, Francis H. Weeks, embezzled most of the company's assets and fled to Costa Rica. This embezzlement also contributed to Huntington's financial troubles which plagued him the rest of his life."," This collection also contains about sixty letters or copies of letters written by Huntington himself, though about fifteen are incomplete. There are also several hand-written manuscripts by Huntington in his papers, many of them also incomplete.\n \nAn eight page letter from Randolph Huntington, August 31, 1899, to George V. Cresson, was added to the \ncollection in 2014 as MSS 15564-a.","Correspondents include: Arthur Ardagh and Armstrong, Shaw and Macauley","Asdikian, chiefly while employed by the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, writes about his work on his paper on the history of the horse for Dr. Salmon (June 21, 1890) and discusses his attempts to have the Department of Agriculture fund his research on horses in Turkey (July 12, 1890).","Correspondents include: Clinton Babbitt, Charles Backman, Bailey Manufacturing Co., Spencer Baird (Smithsonian), Dr. S. Baller, James E. Bathgate, Joseph Battell, Isaac A. Baxter, the Rev. J. Baxter, A.W. Beach, General E.F. Beale, W.E. Beames, and Charles A. Benton.","Correspondents include: Charles Blackmer, J.P. Blackmer, M.H. Blackmer, Jerry Bolles, C.F. Bouthillier, John Bradburn, John T. Bramhall, \"Breeder and Sportsman\" John Cairn Simpson, editor, William A. Brodie, W.I. Buchanan, and F.M. Buzzell.","Baker expresses his enthusiasm for young \"Clay Pilot\" and urges the creation of a society \"devoted to the pure breeding of the Anglo-Arabian incorporated by law\" (April 22, 1890).","Baker's letters concern making photographs of Randolph Huntington's horses.","Includes one letter from him written on a printed pedigree for his horse, \"Randolph H. Clay\" (January 12, 1890).","Correspondents include: F.F. Carr, William J. Carter, J.I. Case, Chicago Horseman Newspaper Company, William N. Clark, F.D. Coburn, Leonard W. Colby, Harlow Colegrove, and A.G. Collins.","Correspondents include Henry W. Conklin, Henry N. Copp, Ben Cooper, Erastus Corning, Parker Corning, Robert S. Critchell, J. Reid Crowell, S.A. Cruikshank, William W. Crump, D.F. Currie, and J.A.C.","One letter includes a mention of the Corning farm (August 3 and 6, 1900).","Correspondents include: J.S. Darnell, Homer Davenport, C.C. Davison, [H.W. De Forest], Richard H. Derby, J. Dewing, John S. Deye, Charles S. Dole, H.T. Dollard, A.B. Donelson, G.D. Dooer, D.W. Dox, Samuel Dunham, E.C. Dunton, and C.N. Dyson.","One letter includes printed pedigrees for \"Joe Baird\" and \"Clay Pilot\" as enclosures (June 26, 1885).","Dunton solicits material from Huntington for his publication.","Correspondents include: Walter G. Earl, Eastman Kodak Company, William Easton, Empire Furniture Company, and A.S. Estabrook.","Correspondents include: A. Failor, G.S. Fanning, William B. Fasig, Lester B. Faulkner, D.C. Feely, W.J. Fletcher, H.V. Flickinger, B.W. Ford, Charles E. Ford, O.R. Ford, W.C. France, Horace B. Fry of The Union League Club, and P.H. Fry.","Letters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella, Nathaniel, and Allie, but also include cousins and other relatives, and sons-in-law, Willis Fred Gove and Frank N. Kondolf.","Letters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella and Allie, and son-in-law, Frank N. Kondolf.","Correspondents include: A.B. Gauss, T.H. Geddy, Charles Goodwin, O.B. Gould, S. Edward Grant, Alex Gregory, and P. Grover.","Correspondents include: George S. Hall, Henry J.S. Hall, C.A. Halsted, John S. Hamlin, P.A. Hargous, T.W. Harvey (with list of horses sold to him), S. Hayward, James H. Hazard, Thomas A. Hendrick, H.J. Hill, and Thomas M. Hilliard.","Correspondents include: Edward G. Holden, George W. Holdridge, William E. Holworthy, A.O. Hooker, Hooker Nurseries, A.G. Hooley, David Hopkins, Wheeler Hoppough, Horace Hotchkiss, J.M. Hough, Colonel W.A. Houghton, L.T. Howland, W.G. Hughes, Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, H.J. Drum Hunt, Archer M. Huntington, J.B. Huntington, and R.G.H. Huntington.","C.P. Huntington discusses Huntington's requests for various loans to save his horse breeding operations.","Includes copies of his letters to: Erastus Corning, [H.S.] Kittredge, M.B. Anderson, Ira Peck, The Century Company, Miss Midy Morgan, Charles Goodwin, General E.F. Beale, and Frank O. Homer (arranged chronologically).","Includes copies of his letters to: [W.T. Chester?], twelve long letters to General L.W. Colby, and William R. Kramer.","Includes copies of his letters to: the Reverend Baker, F.C. Warren, James W. Cox, Jr., O.H. Stevens, C.V. Hall, General L.W. Colby, Mr. Vidal (incomplete), and Mr. Patterson.","Includes copies of his letters to: S.W. Parlin, Colonel Spencer Borden, H.E. Huntington, Henry F. Osborne, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Hyler, and Messrs. Luther Tucker and Son.","Correspondents include: Lorenzo Ingraham, G.H. Jack, Henry C. Jewett, D.L. Kase, Peter C. Kellogg, Madison Kimball, W.R. Kimball, B.F. Kingsley, H.S. Kittredge, Animal Painter and Engraver), and C.W. Koons.","Correspondents include: James D. Ladd, R.P. Lake, M.G. Lampkins, John Landers, F.J. Lang, Adderson L. Langdon, W.A. LaRue, Ariel Lathrop, Launder and Harter, James A. Lawrence, Edward Learned, Frank Learned, W.J. Leonard, G.W. Lefler, and S.C. Lewis.","Correspondents include: J.B. Lippincott Company per A.J. Borie (concerning estimates for the publication of his book), H.M. Littel, Francis G. Lloyd, George G. Lobdell, M.E. Longfella, W.A. Lottimer, Charles H. Loucks, Atherton Loving, Phoebe H. Lum, Luther Tucker and Son, A.M. Lyman, and Joseph M.V. Lytle.","Linard was the author of articles and books about horses, using the pseudonym Dinah Sharpe.  See her letters about her work, February 17, June 9 and 15, 1892, and a letter about her son  returning alive from being a political prisoner in Chile while her daughter's husband was dead in Guatemala (March 31, 1892).","Look discusses the National Association of Breeders.","Correspondents include: John D. McCarthy, Charles P. McClelland, W.P. McCreary, S.W. McKibben, H.D. McKinney, and Henry McMillan.","Correspondents include: J.W. Madara, M.D., George A. Martin, R.F. Mayhew, Jack Meara, H.C. Merwin, C.W. Mihills, J.H. Miller, Thomas K. Miller, Charles W. Mitchell, George E. Molleson, Samuel J. Morgan, Theodore M. Morgan, A. Moseley, George A. Moody, and J.P. Munn.","Correspondents include: National Horse Show Association of America, Alexander Neave, C.A. Nelson, New York State Agricultural Society, and A.B. Norton.","Correspondents include: S.E. Olivier and Harrison G. Otis.","Correspondents include: C.G. Palmer, W.L. Palmer, Charles S. Parke, S.W. Parlin, Patchen Stock Farm (Dr. J.W. Day), E.S. Payson, George W. Pearce , Sanderson Pearcy, B.R. Peltz, George Penston, E.M. Phelon, Henry Phillips, Photo-Electrotype Engraving Company, J.E. Pierpont, C.S. Plumb, D.W. Prime, Porter and Coates, Stewart L. Purdy and C.F. Pynchon.","Correspondence includes a printed description of a horse \"Clara P.\" (January 1, 1890).","Correspondents include: R.S. Peale and Co., J.A.P. Ramsdell, N.A. Randall, N.C.F. Randolph, H.P. Ray (editor of Whip and Spur Publishing Co.), Asa L. Reed, M.F. Reynolds, The Riding Club [of New York City], George H. Ripley, S.J. Rogers, J.I. Row, and Benjamin S. Runyan.","Correspondents include: Schaffer Bros., E.H. Schley, A.J. Schultz, S.H. Seamans, Robert Sewell, James H. Shears, Joseph Cairn Simpson, William Sinnot, F.G. Smith, H.M. Smith, L.G. Spillman, John Splan, Sarah H. Spratt, S.H. Stafford, H.G. Steele, Samuel Stewart, William H. Stith, Mrs. E. Stoddard, and L.T. Stoneburner.","Correspondents include: Joseph Tague, S.J. Tallmadge, A.R. Tatum, John J. Taylor, W.B. Thorpe, Allen W. Thomson, Emma A. Tompkins, J.D. Tompkins, Ida N. Thompson, Thompson Bros., Howard H. Tozer, C.L. Townsend, P. Traynor, Treasury Department (concerning the address of Charlemagne Tower, U.S. Ambassador to Russia), W.W. Tucker, Cameron J. Turnbull, John Tynar, and Ed Tyler.","Correspondents include: Thomas K. Van Zandt, Nelson Varney, R.L. Veech, and William N. Vest.","Correspondents include: W.A. Walker, C.H. [Wanger?], Fred C. Warren, William R. Watson, Fred Webster, Francis H. Weeks, L.A. Wendell, R.C. Wetmore, Robert Whaley, James E. Wheeler, Walter R. Willets, J.D. Willis, Hiram Wilson, W. Wodell, I.S. Wolfing, C.D. Worden, E.S. Wood, E.L. Woodside, and W.W. Wright (includes an article about Ely Parker and \"Captain\" Grant, August 4, 1887).","One Wilder letter includes a photograph of the sire of his horse (December 19, 1903).","Correspondents include: S.A. Young, Thomas F. Youngs, and an unidentified \"Y.\"","This consists chiefly of receipts and accounts; but also includes notes on a horse sale [1879]; a copy of a letter by Corning and a paper sent to Huntington by gentlemen of Rochester during his legal troubles (1886); note about Welling buying stock in the Arab Stock Farm Company [circa 1890-1891]; and a certificate of incorporation of the Arab, Anglo-Arab and Clay Stock Farm.","Items include two separate drafts of articles of incorporation for the \"Arab, Anglo-Arab and Clay Stock Farm\" [ca. 1891] and the Americo-Arab Horse Association (1901) and an undated list of horses sold and their buyers.","The manuscripts are all incomplete (usually missing at least page one) and undated, except for one manuscript dated February 24, 1905, describing his experiences after leaving Fleetwood, Oyster Bay, Long Island, on December 2, 1904, and moving to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.","These include an article by Dinah Sharpe, pen name of Sara Buckman Linard (January 24, 1892).","Photographs include horses and portraits of horses from the Mrs. Harry A. 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Later he moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1891, before returning to central New York at Rochester, in 1905. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1854, Huntington married Louise Elizabeth Hayes (1833-1917) and they had several children, including: 1)Isabella Lord (1861-1932) who married (1892) the Reverend James Winthrop Hegeman; 2) Allie Louise \n(1863-1908) who married (1884) 1st Willis Fred Gove [died 1892?] and 2nd Frank N. Kondolf in 1893; 3)\nNathaniel Wheeler (1865-1891); 4) Henry Gaylord Norton (1868-1876); and 5) Albert William (1870-1876).\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Randolph Huntington (1828-1916), born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1828, was a New York City pharmaceutical manufacturer. After the Civil War, Huntington moved to a farm in Ontario County, New York, belonging to his wife, to breed and sell fine saddle and coach horses and became a leading American authority on the Arabian horse. Later he moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1891, before returning to central New York at Rochester, in 1905. ","In 1854, Huntington married Louise Elizabeth Hayes (1833-1917) and they had several children, including: 1)Isabella Lord (1861-1932) who married (1892) the Reverend James Winthrop Hegeman; 2) Allie Louise \n(1863-1908) who married (1884) 1st Willis Fred Gove [died 1892?] and 2nd Frank N. Kondolf in 1893; 3)\nNathaniel Wheeler (1865-1891); 4) Henry Gaylord Norton (1868-1876); and 5) Albert William (1870-1876)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRandolph Huntington papers, MSS 15564, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,  Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Randolph Huntington papers, MSS 15564, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,  Charlottesville, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections has an earlier and larger group of Randolph Huntington Correspondence and Ephemera, MSS 11844, with many of the same correspondents.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections has an earlier and larger group of Randolph Huntington Correspondence and Ephemera, MSS 11844, with many of the same correspondents."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees and breeding records, some printed and some hand-written; hand-written manuscripts by Avedis G. Asdikian and Randolph Huntington on horse breeding; news clippings; and several photographs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Huntington became interested in using the two stallions given to former President U.S. Grant in 1877 by the Sultan of Turkey to breed a national horse for the United States. His breeding project, based on the Grant stallions and mares bred from the trotting horse \"Henry Clay,\" was not successful but it did bring the value of Arabian blood to the attention of other American horsemen, most notably Homer Davenport. This collection contains one letter from Homer Davenport to Randolph Huntington (July 15, 1902). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The depression of 1893 forced Huntington's breeding operations into receivership and his stock was sold by Peter C. Kellogg and Company, auctioneers according to \"The New York Times\" February 18, 1894. Correspondence with Collis P. Huntington, railroad magnate, discusses his requests for loans to alleviate his financial difficulties and save his work. Huntington and several other backers had formed a company in 1891 for the breeding of \"Americo-Arab\" horses, but in 1893 the treasurer, Francis H. Weeks, embezzled most of the company's assets and fled to Costa Rica. This embezzlement also contributed to Huntington's financial troubles which plagued him the rest of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e This collection also contains about sixty letters or copies of letters written by Huntington himself, though about fifteen are incomplete. There are also several hand-written manuscripts by Huntington in his papers, many of them also incomplete.\n \nAn eight page letter from Randolph Huntington, August 31, 1899, to George V. Cresson, was added to the \ncollection in 2014 as MSS 15564-a.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Arthur Ardagh and Armstrong, Shaw and Macauley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsdikian, chiefly while employed by the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, writes about his work on his paper on the history of the horse for Dr. Salmon (June 21, 1890) and discusses his attempts to have the Department of Agriculture fund his research on horses in Turkey (July 12, 1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Clinton Babbitt, Charles Backman, Bailey Manufacturing Co., Spencer Baird (Smithsonian), Dr. S. Baller, James E. Bathgate, Joseph Battell, Isaac A. Baxter, the Rev. J. Baxter, A.W. Beach, General E.F. Beale, W.E. Beames, and Charles A. Benton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Charles Blackmer, J.P. Blackmer, M.H. Blackmer, Jerry Bolles, C.F. Bouthillier, John Bradburn, John T. Bramhall, \"Breeder and Sportsman\" John Cairn Simpson, editor, William A. Brodie, W.I. Buchanan, and F.M. Buzzell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaker expresses his enthusiasm for young \"Clay Pilot\" and urges the creation of a society \"devoted to the pure breeding of the Anglo-Arabian incorporated by law\" (April 22, 1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaker's letters concern making photographs of Randolph Huntington's horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one letter from him written on a printed pedigree for his horse, \"Randolph H. Clay\" (January 12, 1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: F.F. Carr, William J. Carter, J.I. Case, Chicago Horseman Newspaper Company, William N. Clark, F.D. Coburn, Leonard W. Colby, Harlow Colegrove, and A.G. Collins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Henry W. Conklin, Henry N. Copp, Ben Cooper, Erastus Corning, Parker Corning, Robert S. Critchell, J. Reid Crowell, S.A. Cruikshank, William W. Crump, D.F. Currie, and J.A.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter includes a mention of the Corning farm (August 3 and 6, 1900).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.S. Darnell, Homer Davenport, C.C. Davison, [H.W. De Forest], Richard H. Derby, J. Dewing, John S. Deye, Charles S. Dole, H.T. Dollard, A.B. Donelson, G.D. Dooer, D.W. Dox, Samuel Dunham, E.C. Dunton, and C.N. Dyson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter includes printed pedigrees for \"Joe Baird\" and \"Clay Pilot\" as enclosures (June 26, 1885).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDunton solicits material from Huntington for his publication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Walter G. Earl, Eastman Kodak Company, William Easton, Empire Furniture Company, and A.S. Estabrook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A. Failor, G.S. Fanning, William B. Fasig, Lester B. Faulkner, D.C. Feely, W.J. Fletcher, H.V. Flickinger, B.W. Ford, Charles E. Ford, O.R. Ford, W.C. France, Horace B. Fry of The Union League Club, and P.H. Fry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella, Nathaniel, and Allie, but also include cousins and other relatives, and sons-in-law, Willis Fred Gove and Frank N. Kondolf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella and Allie, and son-in-law, Frank N. Kondolf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A.B. Gauss, T.H. Geddy, Charles Goodwin, O.B. Gould, S. Edward Grant, Alex Gregory, and P. Grover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: George S. Hall, Henry J.S. Hall, C.A. Halsted, John S. Hamlin, P.A. Hargous, T.W. Harvey (with list of horses sold to him), S. Hayward, James H. Hazard, Thomas A. Hendrick, H.J. Hill, and Thomas M. Hilliard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Edward G. Holden, George W. Holdridge, William E. Holworthy, A.O. Hooker, Hooker Nurseries, A.G. Hooley, David Hopkins, Wheeler Hoppough, Horace Hotchkiss, J.M. Hough, Colonel W.A. Houghton, L.T. Howland, W.G. Hughes, Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, H.J. Drum Hunt, Archer M. Huntington, J.B. Huntington, and R.G.H. Huntington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC.P. Huntington discusses Huntington's requests for various loans to save his horse breeding operations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of his letters to: Erastus Corning, [H.S.] Kittredge, M.B. Anderson, Ira Peck, The Century Company, Miss Midy Morgan, Charles Goodwin, General E.F. Beale, and Frank O. Homer (arranged chronologically).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of his letters to: [W.T. Chester?], twelve long letters to General L.W. Colby, and William R. Kramer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of his letters to: the Reverend Baker, F.C. Warren, James W. Cox, Jr., O.H. Stevens, C.V. Hall, General L.W. Colby, Mr. Vidal (incomplete), and Mr. Patterson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of his letters to: S.W. Parlin, Colonel Spencer Borden, H.E. Huntington, Henry F. Osborne, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Hyler, and Messrs. Luther Tucker and Son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Lorenzo Ingraham, G.H. Jack, Henry C. Jewett, D.L. Kase, Peter C. Kellogg, Madison Kimball, W.R. Kimball, B.F. Kingsley, H.S. Kittredge, Animal Painter and Engraver), and C.W. Koons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: James D. Ladd, R.P. Lake, M.G. Lampkins, John Landers, F.J. Lang, Adderson L. Langdon, W.A. LaRue, Ariel Lathrop, Launder and Harter, James A. Lawrence, Edward Learned, Frank Learned, W.J. Leonard, G.W. Lefler, and S.C. Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.B. Lippincott Company per A.J. Borie (concerning estimates for the publication of his book), H.M. Littel, Francis G. Lloyd, George G. Lobdell, M.E. Longfella, W.A. Lottimer, Charles H. Loucks, Atherton Loving, Phoebe H. Lum, Luther Tucker and Son, A.M. Lyman, and Joseph M.V. Lytle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLinard was the author of articles and books about horses, using the pseudonym Dinah Sharpe.  See her letters about her work, February 17, June 9 and 15, 1892, and a letter about her son  returning alive from being a political prisoner in Chile while her daughter's husband was dead in Guatemala (March 31, 1892).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLook discusses the National Association of Breeders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John D. McCarthy, Charles P. McClelland, W.P. McCreary, S.W. McKibben, H.D. McKinney, and Henry McMillan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.W. Madara, M.D., George A. Martin, R.F. Mayhew, Jack Meara, H.C. Merwin, C.W. Mihills, J.H. Miller, Thomas K. Miller, Charles W. Mitchell, George E. Molleson, Samuel J. Morgan, Theodore M. Morgan, A. Moseley, George A. Moody, and J.P. Munn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: National Horse Show Association of America, Alexander Neave, C.A. Nelson, New York State Agricultural Society, and A.B. Norton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: S.E. Olivier and Harrison G. Otis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: C.G. Palmer, W.L. Palmer, Charles S. Parke, S.W. Parlin, Patchen Stock Farm (Dr. J.W. Day), E.S. Payson, George W. Pearce , Sanderson Pearcy, B.R. Peltz, George Penston, E.M. Phelon, Henry Phillips, Photo-Electrotype Engraving Company, J.E. Pierpont, C.S. Plumb, D.W. Prime, Porter and Coates, Stewart L. Purdy and C.F. Pynchon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence includes a printed description of a horse \"Clara P.\" (January 1, 1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: R.S. Peale and Co., J.A.P. Ramsdell, N.A. Randall, N.C.F. Randolph, H.P. Ray (editor of Whip and Spur Publishing Co.), Asa L. Reed, M.F. Reynolds, The Riding Club [of New York City], George H. Ripley, S.J. Rogers, J.I. Row, and Benjamin S. Runyan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Schaffer Bros., E.H. Schley, A.J. Schultz, S.H. Seamans, Robert Sewell, James H. Shears, Joseph Cairn Simpson, William Sinnot, F.G. Smith, H.M. Smith, L.G. Spillman, John Splan, Sarah H. Spratt, S.H. Stafford, H.G. Steele, Samuel Stewart, William H. Stith, Mrs. E. Stoddard, and L.T. Stoneburner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Joseph Tague, S.J. Tallmadge, A.R. Tatum, John J. Taylor, W.B. Thorpe, Allen W. Thomson, Emma A. Tompkins, J.D. Tompkins, Ida N. Thompson, Thompson Bros., Howard H. Tozer, C.L. Townsend, P. Traynor, Treasury Department (concerning the address of Charlemagne Tower, U.S. Ambassador to Russia), W.W. Tucker, Cameron J. Turnbull, John Tynar, and Ed Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Thomas K. Van Zandt, Nelson Varney, R.L. Veech, and William N. Vest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: W.A. Walker, C.H. [Wanger?], Fred C. Warren, William R. Watson, Fred Webster, Francis H. Weeks, L.A. Wendell, R.C. Wetmore, Robert Whaley, James E. Wheeler, Walter R. Willets, J.D. Willis, Hiram Wilson, W. Wodell, I.S. Wolfing, C.D. Worden, E.S. Wood, E.L. Woodside, and W.W. Wright (includes an article about Ely Parker and \"Captain\" Grant, August 4, 1887).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne Wilder letter includes a photograph of the sire of his horse (December 19, 1903).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: S.A. Young, Thomas F. Youngs, and an unidentified \"Y.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis consists chiefly of receipts and accounts; but also includes notes on a horse sale [1879]; a copy of a letter by Corning and a paper sent to Huntington by gentlemen of Rochester during his legal troubles (1886); note about Welling buying stock in the Arab Stock Farm Company [circa 1890-1891]; and a certificate of incorporation of the Arab, Anglo-Arab and Clay Stock Farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include two separate drafts of articles of incorporation for the \"Arab, Anglo-Arab and Clay Stock Farm\" [ca. 1891] and the Americo-Arab Horse Association (1901) and an undated list of horses sold and their buyers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe manuscripts are all incomplete (usually missing at least page one) and undated, except for one manuscript dated February 24, 1905, describing his experiences after leaving Fleetwood, Oyster Bay, Long Island, on December 2, 1904, and moving to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include an article by Dinah Sharpe, pen name of Sara Buckman Linard (January 24, 1892).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs include horses and portraits of horses from the Mrs. Harry A. 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Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. "," The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees and breeding records, some printed and some hand-written; hand-written manuscripts by Avedis G. Asdikian and Randolph Huntington on horse breeding; news clippings; and several photographs. "," Huntington became interested in using the two stallions given to former President U.S. Grant in 1877 by the Sultan of Turkey to breed a national horse for the United States. His breeding project, based on the Grant stallions and mares bred from the trotting horse \"Henry Clay,\" was not successful but it did bring the value of Arabian blood to the attention of other American horsemen, most notably Homer Davenport. This collection contains one letter from Homer Davenport to Randolph Huntington (July 15, 1902). "," The depression of 1893 forced Huntington's breeding operations into receivership and his stock was sold by Peter C. Kellogg and Company, auctioneers according to \"The New York Times\" February 18, 1894. Correspondence with Collis P. Huntington, railroad magnate, discusses his requests for loans to alleviate his financial difficulties and save his work. Huntington and several other backers had formed a company in 1891 for the breeding of \"Americo-Arab\" horses, but in 1893 the treasurer, Francis H. Weeks, embezzled most of the company's assets and fled to Costa Rica. This embezzlement also contributed to Huntington's financial troubles which plagued him the rest of his life."," This collection also contains about sixty letters or copies of letters written by Huntington himself, though about fifteen are incomplete. There are also several hand-written manuscripts by Huntington in his papers, many of them also incomplete.\n \nAn eight page letter from Randolph Huntington, August 31, 1899, to George V. Cresson, was added to the \ncollection in 2014 as MSS 15564-a.","Correspondents include: Arthur Ardagh and Armstrong, Shaw and Macauley","Asdikian, chiefly while employed by the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, writes about his work on his paper on the history of the horse for Dr. Salmon (June 21, 1890) and discusses his attempts to have the Department of Agriculture fund his research on horses in Turkey (July 12, 1890).","Correspondents include: Clinton Babbitt, Charles Backman, Bailey Manufacturing Co., Spencer Baird (Smithsonian), Dr. S. Baller, James E. Bathgate, Joseph Battell, Isaac A. Baxter, the Rev. J. Baxter, A.W. Beach, General E.F. Beale, W.E. Beames, and Charles A. Benton.","Correspondents include: Charles Blackmer, J.P. Blackmer, M.H. Blackmer, Jerry Bolles, C.F. Bouthillier, John Bradburn, John T. Bramhall, \"Breeder and Sportsman\" John Cairn Simpson, editor, William A. Brodie, W.I. Buchanan, and F.M. Buzzell.","Baker expresses his enthusiasm for young \"Clay Pilot\" and urges the creation of a society \"devoted to the pure breeding of the Anglo-Arabian incorporated by law\" (April 22, 1890).","Baker's letters concern making photographs of Randolph Huntington's horses.","Includes one letter from him written on a printed pedigree for his horse, \"Randolph H. Clay\" (January 12, 1890).","Correspondents include: F.F. Carr, William J. Carter, J.I. Case, Chicago Horseman Newspaper Company, William N. Clark, F.D. Coburn, Leonard W. Colby, Harlow Colegrove, and A.G. Collins.","Correspondents include Henry W. Conklin, Henry N. Copp, Ben Cooper, Erastus Corning, Parker Corning, Robert S. Critchell, J. Reid Crowell, S.A. Cruikshank, William W. Crump, D.F. Currie, and J.A.C.","One letter includes a mention of the Corning farm (August 3 and 6, 1900).","Correspondents include: J.S. Darnell, Homer Davenport, C.C. Davison, [H.W. De Forest], Richard H. Derby, J. Dewing, John S. Deye, Charles S. Dole, H.T. Dollard, A.B. Donelson, G.D. Dooer, D.W. Dox, Samuel Dunham, E.C. Dunton, and C.N. Dyson.","One letter includes printed pedigrees for \"Joe Baird\" and \"Clay Pilot\" as enclosures (June 26, 1885).","Dunton solicits material from Huntington for his publication.","Correspondents include: Walter G. Earl, Eastman Kodak Company, William Easton, Empire Furniture Company, and A.S. Estabrook.","Correspondents include: A. Failor, G.S. Fanning, William B. Fasig, Lester B. Faulkner, D.C. Feely, W.J. Fletcher, H.V. Flickinger, B.W. Ford, Charles E. Ford, O.R. Ford, W.C. France, Horace B. Fry of The Union League Club, and P.H. Fry.","Letters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella, Nathaniel, and Allie, but also include cousins and other relatives, and sons-in-law, Willis Fred Gove and Frank N. Kondolf.","Letters are chiefly from Randolph Huntington's children, Isabella and Allie, and son-in-law, Frank N. Kondolf.","Correspondents include: A.B. Gauss, T.H. Geddy, Charles Goodwin, O.B. Gould, S. Edward Grant, Alex Gregory, and P. Grover.","Correspondents include: George S. Hall, Henry J.S. Hall, C.A. Halsted, John S. Hamlin, P.A. Hargous, T.W. Harvey (with list of horses sold to him), S. Hayward, James H. Hazard, Thomas A. Hendrick, H.J. Hill, and Thomas M. Hilliard.","Correspondents include: Edward G. Holden, George W. Holdridge, William E. Holworthy, A.O. Hooker, Hooker Nurseries, A.G. Hooley, David Hopkins, Wheeler Hoppough, Horace Hotchkiss, J.M. Hough, Colonel W.A. Houghton, L.T. Howland, W.G. Hughes, Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, H.J. Drum Hunt, Archer M. Huntington, J.B. Huntington, and R.G.H. Huntington.","C.P. Huntington discusses Huntington's requests for various loans to save his horse breeding operations.","Includes copies of his letters to: Erastus Corning, [H.S.] Kittredge, M.B. Anderson, Ira Peck, The Century Company, Miss Midy Morgan, Charles Goodwin, General E.F. Beale, and Frank O. Homer (arranged chronologically).","Includes copies of his letters to: [W.T. Chester?], twelve long letters to General L.W. Colby, and William R. Kramer.","Includes copies of his letters to: the Reverend Baker, F.C. Warren, James W. Cox, Jr., O.H. Stevens, C.V. Hall, General L.W. Colby, Mr. Vidal (incomplete), and Mr. Patterson.","Includes copies of his letters to: S.W. Parlin, Colonel Spencer Borden, H.E. Huntington, Henry F. Osborne, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Hyler, and Messrs. Luther Tucker and Son.","Correspondents include: Lorenzo Ingraham, G.H. Jack, Henry C. Jewett, D.L. Kase, Peter C. Kellogg, Madison Kimball, W.R. Kimball, B.F. Kingsley, H.S. Kittredge, Animal Painter and Engraver), and C.W. Koons.","Correspondents include: James D. Ladd, R.P. Lake, M.G. Lampkins, John Landers, F.J. Lang, Adderson L. Langdon, W.A. LaRue, Ariel Lathrop, Launder and Harter, James A. Lawrence, Edward Learned, Frank Learned, W.J. Leonard, G.W. Lefler, and S.C. Lewis.","Correspondents include: J.B. Lippincott Company per A.J. Borie (concerning estimates for the publication of his book), H.M. Littel, Francis G. Lloyd, George G. Lobdell, M.E. Longfella, W.A. Lottimer, Charles H. Loucks, Atherton Loving, Phoebe H. Lum, Luther Tucker and Son, A.M. Lyman, and Joseph M.V. Lytle.","Linard was the author of articles and books about horses, using the pseudonym Dinah Sharpe.  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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Additions are being made to this collection on an ongoing basis.","The collection is divided into eight series by race and/or ethnicity. The series are African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, Muslim American, Cuban American, Ku Klux Klan, and Immigration and Discrimination. The contents for each series are  grouped by material type and ordered chronologically.","Acc. 2011.633, Acc. 2011.635, Acc. 2011.637 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in October 2011. Full finding aid created in March 2015 and revised in December 2017 by Special Collections staff.","Acc. 2014.194","Ingersol View Company Stereographs, Comic Series #2","Related materials, such as rare books, are recorded at the folder level. ","See also: individual titles in the Manuscript Sheet Music Collection (Mss. 1.07), Box 48, and individual items in the Manuscript Artifact Collection.","For similar material relating to race, ethnicity, and racism outside of the United States, see the Ephemera Collection, Mss. 1.02.","Foreign publications: Rund Um Afrika, a booklet written in German by Gustav Petermann. The content details travels from Germany throughout Africa, visiting sites such as Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls, and Fort Christiansburg. The booklet contains many photographs and animals, buildings, and people. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book DT12.R86 3487058-1001.  Acc.2012.207.","Three Dension's Blackface Plays. Three different play scripts to be performed by white actors wearing black face. The plays highlight the perceived stupidity and ignorance of African Americans. These items are cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37.1923, PN6120.N4.K37.1928, and PN6120.N4.K37.1931. Acc.2009.335. ","A henpecked coon: darky monologue, 1923. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37 1923. ","Old Doc Gags \"Funster\". Number Two: A collection of fun, fables, foolishness, farce, and fibs, 1925. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6161.O48 1925. ","Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition for Revivals and Congregational Singing. This item is a pamphlet of sheet music. The pamphlet also includes advertisements for home goods. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66. Acc.2009.324. ","We shall overcome! Songs of the Southern freedom movement, 1963. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.C2.W4. ","How can we keep from singing! A contemporary songbook for liberal churches, fellowships, youth groups, and communal singing generally, 1976. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.H54.1976.","Songs and spirituals of Negro composition for revivals and congregational singing, 1921. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66.","Modern Home Counseler. This book includes lessons, advice, and instructions on how to raise successful, happy, and obedient children. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books H83.M63. Acc. 2009.356. ","American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments. This book details attractions around the United States that celebrate African Americans and their history. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books E185.53A53. Acc.2009.459. ","The South Strikes Back, 1957. This booklet was written by Woodrow Boone and promotes the return of a more racially conservative society. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book PN6231.S485S68. Acc.2012.276.","The Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1979. The calendar features famous African American musicians, officers, and performers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book E185.A38. Acc.2009.389. ","Negroes in Our History Posters, undated. This collection of posters has a large sketch of famous African American musicians, politicians, and activists. The posters have a brief biographical sketch of each of the celebrated hero. The posters are  cataloged as Rare Book E185.96.R78 folio. Acc.2008.163. ","The People Versus Segregated Schools. This 1955 pamphlet promotes integration, anti-lynching laws, and equal pay for black and white workers. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.W54 1955. Acc.2011.268. ","3 Lives for Mississippi. This 1965 book is the story of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andy Goodman, three men who were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Klu Klux Klan, while fighting racial justice and the rights of African American voters. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book F347.N4H8. Acc.2011.468. ","Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. A 1965 songbook promoting freedom, racial tolerance, and heritage. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54 1976. Acc.2009.315. ","How Can We Keep From Singing Songbook. This 1965 book entitled \"We Shall Overcome!\" was compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The book contains songs relating to sit-ins, freedom rides, voter registration and other contentious issues. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54.1976. Acc.2011.469. ","\"And People All Around\" Playbill. An undated playbill for a performance written by George Sklar. The play reminds viewers on the Negro Revolution in 1964, the killings of three negro boys in Mississippi, and the civil rights march on Washington. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PS3531.E826A52. Acc.2011.268. ","The Communist Position on the Negro Question. This booklet contains excerpts from the major speeches in discussion of the \"Negro question\" at the plenary meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.C752 1947. Acc.2011.467. ","The Path of Negro Liberation. Pamphlet written by Benjamin J. Davis, who argues that the Communist Party of the United States believe in the unconditional political, social, and economic equality in all aspects of American life.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.D314 1947. Acc.2011.468. ","The Struggle Against White Chauvinism. Booklet written by Elizabeth Lawson and published by the New York State Education Department of the Communist Party. The booklet defines chauvinism and its effect on race and gender relations within the United States. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E.185.61.2376 1949. Acc.2011.467. ","Next Steps in the Struggle for Negro Freedom. This booklet, written by Hugh Bradley, was a report delivered at the National Conference of the Communist Party. Bradley discussed black military involvement, fair employment, and the corruption of the American government. This item is  cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B785 1953. Acc.2011.468. ","The Negro People on the March. This booklet, written by Benjamin J. Davis, was a report to the National Committee of the Communist Party.  Davis states that the fight for \"Negro\" freedom is at its height and that the black race must be given economic and political equality.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.6.D38 1956. Acc.2011.467. ","\"Why Join,\" The John Birch Society. This pamphlet promotes and describes the John Birch Society. The Society believes in small government and writes that most of the historic happenings within the Civil Rights Movement were Communist conspiracies. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E740.J6W45.1968. Acc.2011.467. ","Busing and the Democratic Struggle in Boston. This booklet was published by the Proletarian Unity League, a Communist organization dedicated to creating a strong Communist Party. They believe that white opportunism in the fundamental threat to the construction of a Revolutionary party. The booklet mostly focuses on the integration of public transportation. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book LC214.53.B67P76 1975. Acc.2011.467. Acc.2011.467. ","Freedom is Everybody's Job: \" The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People, 1949. This pamphlet, written by George W. Crockett, Jr., was a summation in the trail of the 11 Communist leaders.  The pamphlet argues that the Communist Party has the right to free speech and therefore cannot be outlawed.  Crockett argues that the Communist support for Civil Rights is a reason why the Communist Party is ridiculed. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HX87.C7.1949b. ","The CIO and the Negro Worker, 1942. This pamphlet argues against discrimination in the workplace.  The CIO fights for equal employment of all people, races, and religions. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.8.C56 1942. Acc.2011.467. ","\"Out of the Jungle\", 1943. The Packinghouse Workers Fight for Justice and Equality. This book is a pictorial history of the Packinghouse Workers Union, which fought for racial justice, fair pay, and equality in the meat packing industry. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD6515.P14073. Acc.2011.268","Roll the Union On, 1987. This book is a pictorial history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, told by its co-founder H.L. Mitchell. The Union fought for the end of lynching, a safe workplace, and equal rights for African American and white workers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD1511.U5M573 1987. Acc.2011.467","Blaxploitation Cinema Pressbooks and Posters, 1968-1976. Currently unprocessed material. 2014.194 and oversize material.","Indian Legends, 1994. This book includes old Native American stories and tales. Each story is also illustrated in black and white or color. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E98.F6I33.","\"The Klan Today\". This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Books HS2330.K63.K58","The Aryan Views: White Folk News. \"The Attitude of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan\" pamphlets. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.A13. ","\"The Kourier,\" a booklet of the Klan's version of the History of the United States and the Klan's opinions on \"un-American\" activities such as communism and parochial schools, and the Aryan Views and White Folk News Paper, also promoting racial intolerance. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.K69 v.11 no. 8, July 1935 copy.","Old Doc Gags, \"Funster\" Number Two:: A Collection of Fun, Fables, Foolishness, Farce and Fibs. Copyright 1925 by Charles H. Ubert. The joke book includes anti-immigration and anti-Semitic content. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PN616.O48 1925.","The racial and ethnic ephemera collection contains various materials regarding race, ethnicity, and racism in the United States. The collection includes papers and items that promote racial prejudice and propaganda. The collection also contains items and papers that exemplify the fight for civil and equal rights. African Americans are the most broadly represented group in the collection. Other ethnic groups include Native Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and Cuban Americans. Ku Klux Klan pamphlets and anti-immigration publications are also included. Through this collection, the American struggle of racism and prejudice is realized.","Included are published items like travel guides, joke books, song books, story books, programs and handbills, comic strips, a yearbook, election fliers, political publications, pamphlets and calendars.","This fFolder contains three envelopes: Union patriotic envelope depicting a black man picking cotton, titled \"One of the Rebels\", (Acc.2014.123), Union patriotic envelope of a slave dressed as the \"King of the South,\" (Acc. 2014.124), Union patriotic envelope with a map of the south (Acc. 2014.125).","A booklet of twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, and farces for the amateur stage.  The plays contain stereotypical typecasting of African Americans.","A story book entitled \"The Ten Little Niggers,\" with stereotypical illustrations. The layout of the book is similar to that of \"Ten Little Indians.\"","This songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.","This joke book features jokes that promote racism and a negative view of African Americans.  The jokes are also anti-immigration and misogynistic.","The scrapbook dates from the late 1800's.  The pictures in the book vary, from paintings of flowers to advertising cards for household items.  One page in the book features several stereotypical images of African Americans.  Pictures of monkeys are also placed on this page, therefore stating that they are one in the same.","Advertising trade cards that contain stereotypically racist images of African Americans. The cards are for a clothier. The folder also contains an advertisement for Jos. J. Foley, Tailor, Boston MA, which has a November 1908 calendar alongside an illustration of African American children swinging and climbing trees.","This folder contains multiple advertising cards. The items advertised include soaps, clothing, and household goods. The cards contain stereotypical images of African Americans.","This folder contains advertising cards that depict African Americans in a negative light.  Common features are large lips and flouncy outfits.  The sketches on the cards often have little to do with the product being advertised.","Stereotypical black representations on three advertising trade cards. The cards for pancake batter and clothes depict African Americans with large eyes and mouths along with other stereotypical features.","Advertising cards for a clothier.  The cards depict an African American man trying to command and then falling off a horse-drawn wagon.","Advertisement card for Old Virginia Cheroots from the American Tobacco Company.  The advertisement has a sketch of an African American man.","Advertising label for Old Black Joe's blackeyed peas, showing a black man with a white beard.","Sketch for \"The Connoisseurs\", a popular advertising image for Cream of Wheat. The painting features a black man in a chef's hat, teaching a child about the taste and health benefits of cream of wheat.","Print of the painting by Edward V. Brewer entitled \"The Connoisseurs\" for the Cream of Wheat Company. The painting features an African American man in a chef costume tasting Cream of Wheat along with an African American boy in an apron and chef hat. Oversize item.","Five cards that have negative, stereotypical images of African Americans. Images include a black woman being compared to a donkey and young men playing craps.","Set of 22 racist postcards. Features include large lips and big eyes. Images also include depictions of African Americans stealing goods. Other cards include cartooned drawings of African Americans in flouncy clothing.","Set of 42 cards with racist imagery. Images include cartooned sketches of African Americans with big eyes and over exaggerated lips. Images depict African Americans as lazy and inept. They are shown stealing chickens, eating watermelon, and improperly serving white people.","A postcard with an image of an African American boy with a large mouth, kneeling next to two watermelons","Set of eight postcards that have negative, stereotypical sketches of African Americans. Images include women with large behinds, boys eating watermelon, and men with large lips.","This folder contains five racist postcards. They contain images including boys eating watermelon and a cartooned black man stealing a chicken.","Set of three postcards and a pamphlet entitled \"Fun on the Run.\" The \"Fun on the Run\" pamphlet includes several racist and sexist caricatures.","Postcard containing an image of a cartooned black man and woman. The man has large lips and torn clothing. The woman's features are exaggerated.","This souvenir features common images of African Americans in the south, including picking cotton, eating watermelon, and playing the fiddle.","This folder contains three Happy Birthday and one Christmas card. The cards contain cartooned sketches of African Americans, with factors such as large lips and big eyes. One happy birthday card has a sketch of three black women riding in a large watermelon.","This folder contains numerous happy birthday cards featuring cartooned sketches of African American girls. The girls' features include large eyes and curly hair.","Cards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.","Publications from the Jim Crow era.","This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.","This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex County, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.","This travel guide of \"negro\" hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.","Two advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.","The folder contains an item promoting the Lost Cause ideology, which conveys nostalgia for the Confederacy prior to the Civil War. Confederate norms are presented in the best possible light. ","Natchez Pilgrimage Brochure, 1955 March 31, invites people to celebrate the Old South by touring Antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi. The brochure contains multiple photographs and descriptions of the old Antebellum mansion. (Acc.2012.278)","This folder contains publications celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans.","The booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.","The multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.","This brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.","This calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.","This flyer promotes the election of Arthur H. Vandenberg as senator of Michigan. It states that Vandenberg promises to outlaw the poll tax and favors an anti-lynching law. Vandenberg promises to support African American causes if elected.","These comic strips  promote racial tolerance. One comic entitled \"Stand Up For Sportsmanship,\" features Batman stopping a fight between two boys, one white and one black. When Batman asks what happened, he discovers they're fighting because the white boy doesn't want the black boy to play with them because \"he don't belong, he ain't a real American.\" Batman responds with a lesson about racial tolerance, saying \"don't believe the crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country... a nation divided by prejudice is like a football team without teamwork.\" The next one, featuring Batman, teaches the reader that a country divided by racial prejudice is the same as a football team without teamwork. The next comic encourages a baseball team to be accepting of players of different ethnicity. The last comic, featuring superman, promotes both racial and religious tolerance.","Reprint of an article from the American Legion magazine concerns the buying of Negro votes.","This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Independent Socialist Club promoting the black power movement.","This pamphlet entitled \"Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South \u0026 USA.\" argues that communist are trying to stir up trouble between white and black races, promoting racial mixing, and eventually want to control America. Pamphlet includes a map of the south, which it states Communist want to turn into a Negro Communist Soviet.","This flyier shows a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders at a supposed Communist training school. The flier states that these leaders have brought tension, disturbance, and violence while trying to promote these Communist ideals.","This booklet was published by Robert Welch. He argues that the \"negro\" population is much better off than populations around the globe. He also states that the population has made great strides in the last hundred years. Welch believes that the Communists are trying to turn black people against white people in America.","This pamphlet was printed by the Communist Party of Cleveland.  The pamphlet states that black and white people work side and side, and therefore black and white children should be able to learn and live with each other.","A pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.","An editorial from the Monroe, La. Morning World, concerns the author's fears that the United Nations is secretly a Communist plot.","A flyer created by the Bay Area Revoluntionary Union concerning streets that are still occupied by the National Guard.","A pamphlet subtitled \"a voice and vote for every member in the UAW-CIO regardless of race, color or creed.\" The pamphlet states that whites and \"negroes\" are all members of the same family and should be employed to the same end. The UAW-CIO promotes the hiring of \"negroes\" in all fields.","A Labor Education Fund pamphlet.","This pamphlet by Angelo Herndon describes the hardship of working in a southern mining town. Herndon describes how he fought the system and promoted fair pay to working class citizens.","The themes of these games range from satirizing to celebrating the progress and intellect of African Americans.","52 playing cards from the game \"In Dixie-Land\". Copyrighted 1896, L.D. Baldwin, by The Fireside Game Co.  The instructions are missing.","This folder contains a set of playing cards.  The cards have a sketch and a brief biological summary of influential African American inventors, politicians, musicians, and activists. Rules for the game are included.","This board game is a racially based Monopoly style game. White players are allowed to buy properties throughout the board while black players are restricted to center areas. The game exemplifies the difficulties of living in a racially segregated housing market. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B5 1970.","The game, which portrays public welfare and its recipients in a negative light, caused immediate controversy upon its publication. It was also perceived as racist and sexist and government agencies appealed to retailers to pull it off the shelves.","This game is a quiz and trivia style game. The game tests players' knowledge of black athletes, musicians, and activists. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.96.F67 1988","This board game tests players' knowledge of African American achievement in history, patents, inventions, sports, and entertainment. There is also a category of questions titled black awareness. Players answer questions to move along on a board, through the struggles of slavery and Jim Crow, eventually arriving back in Africa.","This game is a game of dice where players role to turn over face cards number one through twelve. The cards and box feature racist imagery, including African Americans with bulging eyes and huge lips.","This board game is a trivia style game which tests players' knowledge of African American history. Players answer questions to receive an associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate in black studies. The word \"funda\" comes from an African language and means to instruct.","Five various cards and Valentine's featuring caricatures of African Americans.  Most of the cards depict the individuals with over exaggerated features and stereotypes, such as one card showing an African American eating watermelon.","20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans.  Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans.  The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.","Three stereoviews showing African Americans picking cotton in Georgia and Mississippi cotton fields and sugar cane in Peurto Rico. The views were produced by Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone Viewing Company.","This box contains VHS tapes that are notable for the original video cases. Most of the movies are from the Blaxploitation genre, a controversial film movement. Blaxploitation films contained many common stereotypes. The black community is often portrayed as violent and drug related. However, some people believed the films were examples of black expression and power.","This film features a young man who accidently kills his brother and then becomes a preacher to seek amends.","This fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.","The film features two men who work in Harlem. They get sent on a wild goose chase looking for money hidden in a barrel of cotton.","The film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.","This film features a Harlem drug-dealer who wants to make one last sell before quitting the cocaine business.","The film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers' deadliest enemy.","The film takes Bruce Lee to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whom Bruce Lee must overcome.","This film features Dracula's bloodbrother, Blacula.","The film features black CIA recruits from Chicago who become freedom fighters after their military training.","The fFilm features Pop Boyd, a martial arts champion who opens a studio on land that the Mafia wants to use as a headquarters.","This fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.","This film features a young black man who seeks revenge when he is arrested on false charges.","The f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.","In this sequel to Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung-Fu girls battle a local gangster.","The film features a morally bankrupt man who can save his own life only if he marries the devil's ugly daughter.","The film features a man who owns a disco and declares war on the producers of Angel Dust, a drug corrupting his nephew.","This film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killer.","This fFilm features a Detroit police sergeant who is pitted against brutal thugs.","The film features friends who are hiding from the mob and hunting a gangster boss, who rigged a karate tournament.","The fFilm features a man, just recently released from prison, who uses brains and muscles to survive in the city.","The fFilm features the Black Dragon, who teams up with kung fu dynamo Dragon Lee as they take on the Korean and Japanese mafias.","The film features a man named Blade, who is the last hope for humanity, when a bloodthirsty lord declares war on the human race.","The fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.","The fFilm features a gang who goes from rags to riches, and then fights a knife-wielding, car stealing leprechaun.","This film is the third in a trilogy. It features a vampire hunter who must join forces with a clan of other hunters to find and defeat Dracula.","The Great Cataract or Waterfall of Niagara in North America, This folder contains a copperplate engraving of Niagara Falls on paper. The image depicts a group of Native Americans showing Europeans the beauty of the falls. In the background, there are several Native Americans hauling large stones.","Powhatan Applesauce Label. \nThis folder contains an advertising label for apple sauce named after the famed Native American chiefdom, the Powhatan. The advertisement includes a sketch of a Native American with a colorful head band and feather in his hair.","Iron King Cook Calendar. \nThis calendar features a scene in which white settlers shot Native Americans while hiding behind a large iron king stove.","Set of 12 postcards that feature oil paintings of Native American imagery. The cards depict a variety of different scenes, including an Indian camp, a hunted buffalo, a tepee, and an Indian carrying an American flag after Custer's Last Stand. The postcards have a short description of each portrayed scene.","Set of 28 postcards featuring images of Native Americans. The postcards represent tribes from all over the country, from the Iroquois to the Hopi. Common images are war dances and dwellings such as tepees and long houses. Many of the postcards have short descriptions of the scenes on the back.","Set of 90 postcards that portray Indian life in the south western United States. Images include  young girls and boys, Indians in traditional tribal outfits, mountains, canyons, and pueblo houses.","This folder includes a souvenir folder that contains a description and multiple illustrations of Indian chiefs.  The chiefs depicted are all from Western tribes, including the Pueblos, Navajos, Apache, Sioux, and Blackfoot.  The description states that the Pueblos are the most civilized of the nations.  The illustrations include portraits of the leaders as well as scenes of the leaders in the picturesque mountains of the west.","This folder includes a souvenir folder that describes and illustrates southwestern Native American life.  The author notes that native life is \"primitive\" with little industry and machinery.  The images contain various scenes, including a mother and child standing next to cactus brush, people gathered around a tepee, a pueblo village, and men creating wampum beads.  Also depicted are images of natives performing a variety of crafts and chores.","Set of trading cards that contain negative imagery of Native Americans.  Images include Native Americans being stabbed by white settler, a Native American man drinking too much, and misrepresentations of traditional Indian outfits.","The trading cards depict imagery of Native Americans, including totem poles, war dances, and stockades.  The cards have images on one side, and a short description of the scene on the other.","Oversized trading that that have photographs and drawing of various Native American leaders.  The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.  This trading cards are housed separately due to their large size.","The trading cards have photographs and drawings of various Native American leaders. The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.","This set of 90 cards have images on one side of famous Native American leaders and of famous battles fought by various native tribes.  The backside has a short, skewed description of historical events.","This folder contains a box of bridge tally cards.  The cards have sketches of Native American people and scenery, along with the names and locations of different tribes.","The Wild West Gum cards contains 22 cards depicting colorized illustrations of Native Americans. The collection was part of a set of 24 cards manufactured by John H. Dockman and Son in the early twentieth century.","The Paragon Beef trading cards include negative images of Chinese men with long braids and stereotypical straw hats.","Series of advertising cards that promote the Chinese immigrant population in a negative way. Advertisers include Celluloid Corset Clasps, Kendall Manufacturing Company Soaps and Soapine, Henderson's Goods, and Gent's Furnishings and Fancy Goods Houses. The images depict Chinese men with long hair embarking on ships and men with over exaggerated eye features. The images often have little to do with the product being advertised.","Series of cards that depict a scene between two white boys and a Chinese man. The children pull the man's braid, snap it off, and project the Chinese man from his perch, thus solving the \"Chinese problem\". Another card shows Chinese men being bitten by a dog.","Set of cards that depict Asian Americans in negative ways.  Images include men embarking on a boat for China, a sketch of Mun Wong, and a Chinese child holding an umbrella.","This Fourth of July postcard displays racist imagery towards Asian Americans. The card portrays an Asian woman running away from a fire cracker.","This comic strip includes stereotypical images of a Chinese man who entrapped his long braid in a rail road track.","This game includes a small box of sticks. Each player is to shake the box and the first stick that pops out is the one chosen.  Each stick has a number, and the numbers correspond to a booklet that contains fortunes.","Series of two sided trading cards. One of the sides have images of aspects of Jewish life, such as lighting candles and dancing with the torah. The other sides have short bible verses and explanations of the images.","This game is an educational trivia game that features questions regarding different aspects of the Islamic Hajj. Categories include \"How to Perform Hajj,\" \"Places of Hajj,\" and \"General Questions on Hajj.\" The game is geared toward teaching children about the Muslim pilgrimage.","The postcard displays a derogatory image of a Cuban mother feeding her two small children, one of whom nurses from a goat.","Items in this folder include pamphlets instructing men on how to be good Klan members, a pamphlet regarding the Klan's attitude toward immigration, the Klan's attitude toward the Jew and other letters of propaganda.","This folder include meeting minutes from a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan in Elkton, Maryland. The folder also includes the obituary of klansmen Raymond C. Fronk.","This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Equal Rights Congress in a national effort to outlaw the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan.  The folder also contains fliers promoting integration and racial tolerance.","This folder includes a manuscript by an unknown author on the subject of foreign immigration into the United States of America. The author argues that foreign populations should be restricted from coming to the United States. The manuscript also discusses the various races and ethnicities that should be restricted, including the Irish, the Jewish population, Italians, and the African and Asian races. The document concludes with a list of prohibitions that the author would impose to keep the immigrant populations from entering the country.","This booklet is published by the Order United American Mechanics, a secret fraternity composed entirely of citizens born in the US.American citizens born. The booklet argues against competition for jobs with foreign-born immigrants.","Cards with images and phrases that promote racial and religious equality.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","John H. 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This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book DT12.R86 3487058-1001.  Acc.2012.207.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree Dension's Blackface Plays. Three different play scripts to be performed by white actors wearing black face. The plays highlight the perceived stupidity and ignorance of African Americans. These items are cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37.1923, PN6120.N4.K37.1928, and PN6120.N4.K37.1931. Acc.2009.335. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA henpecked coon: darky monologue, 1923. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37 1923. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOld Doc Gags \"Funster\". Number Two: A collection of fun, fables, foolishness, farce, and fibs, 1925. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6161.O48 1925. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSongs and Spirituals of Negro Composition for Revivals and Congregational Singing. This item is a pamphlet of sheet music. The pamphlet also includes advertisements for home goods. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66. Acc.2009.324. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWe shall overcome! Songs of the Southern freedom movement, 1963. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.C2.W4. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHow can we keep from singing! A contemporary songbook for liberal churches, fellowships, youth groups, and communal singing generally, 1976. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.H54.1976.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSongs and spirituals of Negro composition for revivals and congregational singing, 1921. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eModern Home Counseler. This book includes lessons, advice, and instructions on how to raise successful, happy, and obedient children. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books H83.M63. Acc. 2009.356. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments. This book details attractions around the United States that celebrate African Americans and their history. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books E185.53A53. Acc.2009.459. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe South Strikes Back, 1957. This booklet was written by Woodrow Boone and promotes the return of a more racially conservative society. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book PN6231.S485S68. Acc.2012.276.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1979. The calendar features famous African American musicians, officers, and performers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book E185.A38. Acc.2009.389. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNegroes in Our History Posters, undated. This collection of posters has a large sketch of famous African American musicians, politicians, and activists. The posters have a brief biographical sketch of each of the celebrated hero. The posters are  cataloged as Rare Book E185.96.R78 folio. Acc.2008.163. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe People Versus Segregated Schools. This 1955 pamphlet promotes integration, anti-lynching laws, and equal pay for black and white workers. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.W54 1955. Acc.2011.268. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3 Lives for Mississippi. This 1965 book is the story of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andy Goodman, three men who were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Klu Klux Klan, while fighting racial justice and the rights of African American voters. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book F347.N4H8. Acc.2011.468. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSongs of the Southern Freedom Movement. A 1965 songbook promoting freedom, racial tolerance, and heritage. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54 1976. Acc.2009.315. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHow Can We Keep From Singing Songbook. This 1965 book entitled \"We Shall Overcome!\" was compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The book contains songs relating to sit-ins, freedom rides, voter registration and other contentious issues. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54.1976. Acc.2011.469. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"And People All Around\" Playbill. An undated playbill for a performance written by George Sklar. The play reminds viewers on the Negro Revolution in 1964, the killings of three negro boys in Mississippi, and the civil rights march on Washington. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PS3531.E826A52. Acc.2011.268. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Communist Position on the Negro Question. This booklet contains excerpts from the major speeches in discussion of the \"Negro question\" at the plenary meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.C752 1947. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Path of Negro Liberation. Pamphlet written by Benjamin J. Davis, who argues that the Communist Party of the United States believe in the unconditional political, social, and economic equality in all aspects of American life.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.D314 1947. Acc.2011.468. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Struggle Against White Chauvinism. Booklet written by Elizabeth Lawson and published by the New York State Education Department of the Communist Party. The booklet defines chauvinism and its effect on race and gender relations within the United States. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E.185.61.2376 1949. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNext Steps in the Struggle for Negro Freedom. This booklet, written by Hugh Bradley, was a report delivered at the National Conference of the Communist Party. Bradley discussed black military involvement, fair employment, and the corruption of the American government. This item is  cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B785 1953. Acc.2011.468. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Negro People on the March. This booklet, written by Benjamin J. Davis, was a report to the National Committee of the Communist Party.  Davis states that the fight for \"Negro\" freedom is at its height and that the black race must be given economic and political equality.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.6.D38 1956. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Why Join,\" The John Birch Society. This pamphlet promotes and describes the John Birch Society. The Society believes in small government and writes that most of the historic happenings within the Civil Rights Movement were Communist conspiracies. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E740.J6W45.1968. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusing and the Democratic Struggle in Boston. This booklet was published by the Proletarian Unity League, a Communist organization dedicated to creating a strong Communist Party. They believe that white opportunism in the fundamental threat to the construction of a Revolutionary party. The booklet mostly focuses on the integration of public transportation. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book LC214.53.B67P76 1975. Acc.2011.467. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFreedom is Everybody's Job: \" The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People, 1949. This pamphlet, written by George W. Crockett, Jr., was a summation in the trail of the 11 Communist leaders.  The pamphlet argues that the Communist Party has the right to free speech and therefore cannot be outlawed.  Crockett argues that the Communist support for Civil Rights is a reason why the Communist Party is ridiculed. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HX87.C7.1949b. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe CIO and the Negro Worker, 1942. This pamphlet argues against discrimination in the workplace.  The CIO fights for equal employment of all people, races, and religions. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.8.C56 1942. Acc.2011.467. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Out of the Jungle\", 1943. The Packinghouse Workers Fight for Justice and Equality. This book is a pictorial history of the Packinghouse Workers Union, which fought for racial justice, fair pay, and equality in the meat packing industry. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD6515.P14073. Acc.2011.268\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoll the Union On, 1987. This book is a pictorial history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, told by its co-founder H.L. Mitchell. The Union fought for the end of lynching, a safe workplace, and equal rights for African American and white workers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD1511.U5M573 1987. Acc.2011.467\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlaxploitation Cinema Pressbooks and Posters, 1968-1976. Currently unprocessed material. 2014.194 and oversize material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndian Legends, 1994. This book includes old Native American stories and tales. Each story is also illustrated in black and white or color. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E98.F6I33.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Klan Today\". This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Books HS2330.K63.K58\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Aryan Views: White Folk News. \"The Attitude of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan\" pamphlets. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.A13. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"The Kourier,\" a booklet of the Klan's version of the History of the United States and the Klan's opinions on \"un-American\" activities such as communism and parochial schools, and the Aryan Views and White Folk News Paper, also promoting racial intolerance. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.K69 v.11 no. 8, July 1935 copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOld Doc Gags, \"Funster\" Number Two:: A Collection of Fun, Fables, Foolishness, Farce and Fibs. Copyright 1925 by Charles H. Ubert. The joke book includes anti-immigration and anti-Semitic content. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PN616.O48 1925.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials","Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Ingersol View Company Stereographs, Comic Series #2","Related materials, such as rare books, are recorded at the folder level. ","See also: individual titles in the Manuscript Sheet Music Collection (Mss. 1.07), Box 48, and individual items in the Manuscript Artifact Collection.","For similar material relating to race, ethnicity, and racism outside of the United States, see the Ephemera Collection, Mss. 1.02.","Foreign publications: Rund Um Afrika, a booklet written in German by Gustav Petermann. The content details travels from Germany throughout Africa, visiting sites such as Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls, and Fort Christiansburg. The booklet contains many photographs and animals, buildings, and people. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book DT12.R86 3487058-1001.  Acc.2012.207.","Three Dension's Blackface Plays. Three different play scripts to be performed by white actors wearing black face. The plays highlight the perceived stupidity and ignorance of African Americans. These items are cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37.1923, PN6120.N4.K37.1928, and PN6120.N4.K37.1931. Acc.2009.335. ","A henpecked coon: darky monologue, 1923. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6120.N4.K37 1923. ","Old Doc Gags \"Funster\". Number Two: A collection of fun, fables, foolishness, farce, and fibs, 1925. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as PN6161.O48 1925. ","Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition for Revivals and Congregational Singing. This item is a pamphlet of sheet music. The pamphlet also includes advertisements for home goods. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66. Acc.2009.324. ","We shall overcome! Songs of the Southern freedom movement, 1963. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.C2.W4. ","How can we keep from singing! A contemporary songbook for liberal churches, fellowships, youth groups, and communal singing generally, 1976. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1629.H54.1976.","Songs and spirituals of Negro composition for revivals and congregational singing, 1921. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books M1670.S66.","Modern Home Counseler. This book includes lessons, advice, and instructions on how to raise successful, happy, and obedient children. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books H83.M63. Acc. 2009.356. ","American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments. This book details attractions around the United States that celebrate African Americans and their history. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books E185.53A53. Acc.2009.459. ","The South Strikes Back, 1957. This booklet was written by Woodrow Boone and promotes the return of a more racially conservative society. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book PN6231.S485S68. Acc.2012.276.","The Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1979. The calendar features famous African American musicians, officers, and performers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Book E185.A38. Acc.2009.389. ","Negroes in Our History Posters, undated. This collection of posters has a large sketch of famous African American musicians, politicians, and activists. The posters have a brief biographical sketch of each of the celebrated hero. The posters are  cataloged as Rare Book E185.96.R78 folio. Acc.2008.163. ","The People Versus Segregated Schools. This 1955 pamphlet promotes integration, anti-lynching laws, and equal pay for black and white workers. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.W54 1955. Acc.2011.268. ","3 Lives for Mississippi. This 1965 book is the story of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andy Goodman, three men who were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Klu Klux Klan, while fighting racial justice and the rights of African American voters. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book F347.N4H8. Acc.2011.468. ","Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. A 1965 songbook promoting freedom, racial tolerance, and heritage. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54 1976. Acc.2009.315. ","How Can We Keep From Singing Songbook. This 1965 book entitled \"We Shall Overcome!\" was compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The book contains songs relating to sit-ins, freedom rides, voter registration and other contentious issues. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book M1629.H54.1976. Acc.2011.469. ","\"And People All Around\" Playbill. An undated playbill for a performance written by George Sklar. The play reminds viewers on the Negro Revolution in 1964, the killings of three negro boys in Mississippi, and the civil rights march on Washington. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PS3531.E826A52. Acc.2011.268. ","The Communist Position on the Negro Question. This booklet contains excerpts from the major speeches in discussion of the \"Negro question\" at the plenary meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.C752 1947. Acc.2011.467. ","The Path of Negro Liberation. Pamphlet written by Benjamin J. Davis, who argues that the Communist Party of the United States believe in the unconditional political, social, and economic equality in all aspects of American life.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.D314 1947. Acc.2011.468. ","The Struggle Against White Chauvinism. Booklet written by Elizabeth Lawson and published by the New York State Education Department of the Communist Party. The booklet defines chauvinism and its effect on race and gender relations within the United States. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E.185.61.2376 1949. Acc.2011.467. ","Next Steps in the Struggle for Negro Freedom. This booklet, written by Hugh Bradley, was a report delivered at the National Conference of the Communist Party. Bradley discussed black military involvement, fair employment, and the corruption of the American government. This item is  cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B785 1953. Acc.2011.468. ","The Negro People on the March. This booklet, written by Benjamin J. Davis, was a report to the National Committee of the Communist Party.  Davis states that the fight for \"Negro\" freedom is at its height and that the black race must be given economic and political equality.  This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.6.D38 1956. Acc.2011.467. ","\"Why Join,\" The John Birch Society. This pamphlet promotes and describes the John Birch Society. The Society believes in small government and writes that most of the historic happenings within the Civil Rights Movement were Communist conspiracies. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E740.J6W45.1968. Acc.2011.467. ","Busing and the Democratic Struggle in Boston. This booklet was published by the Proletarian Unity League, a Communist organization dedicated to creating a strong Communist Party. They believe that white opportunism in the fundamental threat to the construction of a Revolutionary party. The booklet mostly focuses on the integration of public transportation. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book LC214.53.B67P76 1975. Acc.2011.467. Acc.2011.467. ","Freedom is Everybody's Job: \" The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People, 1949. This pamphlet, written by George W. Crockett, Jr., was a summation in the trail of the 11 Communist leaders.  The pamphlet argues that the Communist Party has the right to free speech and therefore cannot be outlawed.  Crockett argues that the Communist support for Civil Rights is a reason why the Communist Party is ridiculed. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HX87.C7.1949b. ","The CIO and the Negro Worker, 1942. This pamphlet argues against discrimination in the workplace.  The CIO fights for equal employment of all people, races, and religions. This item is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.8.C56 1942. Acc.2011.467. ","\"Out of the Jungle\", 1943. The Packinghouse Workers Fight for Justice and Equality. This book is a pictorial history of the Packinghouse Workers Union, which fought for racial justice, fair pay, and equality in the meat packing industry. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD6515.P14073. Acc.2011.268","Roll the Union On, 1987. This book is a pictorial history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, told by its co-founder H.L. Mitchell. The Union fought for the end of lynching, a safe workplace, and equal rights for African American and white workers. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book HD1511.U5M573 1987. Acc.2011.467","Blaxploitation Cinema Pressbooks and Posters, 1968-1976. Currently unprocessed material. 2014.194 and oversize material.","Indian Legends, 1994. This book includes old Native American stories and tales. Each story is also illustrated in black and white or color. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E98.F6I33.","\"The Klan Today\". This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Books HS2330.K63.K58","The Aryan Views: White Folk News. \"The Attitude of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan\" pamphlets. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.A13. ","\"The Kourier,\" a booklet of the Klan's version of the History of the United States and the Klan's opinions on \"un-American\" activities such as communism and parochial schools, and the Aryan Views and White Folk News Paper, also promoting racial intolerance. This item is catalogued in the Swem Library online catalog Rare Books as HS2330.K6.K69 v.11 no. 8, July 1935 copy.","Old Doc Gags, \"Funster\" Number Two:: A Collection of Fun, Fables, Foolishness, Farce and Fibs. Copyright 1925 by Charles H. Ubert. The joke book includes anti-immigration and anti-Semitic content. This item is cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book PN616.O48 1925."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe racial and ethnic ephemera collection contains various materials regarding race, ethnicity, and racism in the United States. The collection includes papers and items that promote racial prejudice and propaganda. The collection also contains items and papers that exemplify the fight for civil and equal rights. African Americans are the most broadly represented group in the collection. Other ethnic groups include Native Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and Cuban Americans. Ku Klux Klan pamphlets and anti-immigration publications are also included. Through this collection, the American struggle of racism and prejudice is realized.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are published items like travel guides, joke books, song books, story books, programs and handbills, comic strips, a yearbook, election fliers, political publications, pamphlets and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis fFolder contains three envelopes: Union patriotic envelope depicting a black man picking cotton, titled \"One of the Rebels\", (Acc.2014.123), Union patriotic envelope of a slave dressed as the \"King of the South,\" (Acc. 2014.124), Union patriotic envelope with a map of the south (Acc. 2014.125).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA booklet of twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, and farces for the amateur stage.  The plays contain stereotypical typecasting of African Americans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA story book entitled \"The Ten Little Niggers,\" with stereotypical illustrations. The layout of the book is similar to that of \"Ten Little Indians.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis joke book features jokes that promote racism and a negative view of African Americans.  The jokes are also anti-immigration and misogynistic.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe scrapbook dates from the late 1800's.  The pictures in the book vary, from paintings of flowers to advertising cards for household items.  One page in the book features several stereotypical images of African Americans.  Pictures of monkeys are also placed on this page, therefore stating that they are one in the same.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertising trade cards that contain stereotypically racist images of African Americans. The cards are for a clothier. The folder also contains an advertisement for Jos. J. Foley, Tailor, Boston MA, which has a November 1908 calendar alongside an illustration of African American children swinging and climbing trees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains multiple advertising cards. The items advertised include soaps, clothing, and household goods. The cards contain stereotypical images of African Americans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains advertising cards that depict African Americans in a negative light.  Common features are large lips and flouncy outfits.  The sketches on the cards often have little to do with the product being advertised.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStereotypical black representations on three advertising trade cards. The cards for pancake batter and clothes depict African Americans with large eyes and mouths along with other stereotypical features.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertising cards for a clothier.  The cards depict an African American man trying to command and then falling off a horse-drawn wagon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertisement card for Old Virginia Cheroots from the American Tobacco Company.  The advertisement has a sketch of an African American man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertising label for Old Black Joe's blackeyed peas, showing a black man with a white beard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSketch for \"The Connoisseurs\", a popular advertising image for Cream of Wheat. The painting features a black man in a chef's hat, teaching a child about the taste and health benefits of cream of wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint of the painting by Edward V. Brewer entitled \"The Connoisseurs\" for the Cream of Wheat Company. The painting features an African American man in a chef costume tasting Cream of Wheat along with an African American boy in an apron and chef hat. Oversize item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive cards that have negative, stereotypical images of African Americans. Images include a black woman being compared to a donkey and young men playing craps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of 22 racist postcards. Features include large lips and big eyes. Images also include depictions of African Americans stealing goods. Other cards include cartooned drawings of African Americans in flouncy clothing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of 42 cards with racist imagery. Images include cartooned sketches of African Americans with big eyes and over exaggerated lips. Images depict African Americans as lazy and inept. They are shown stealing chickens, eating watermelon, and improperly serving white people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA postcard with an image of an African American boy with a large mouth, kneeling next to two watermelons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of eight postcards that have negative, stereotypical sketches of African Americans. Images include women with large behinds, boys eating watermelon, and men with large lips.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains five racist postcards. They contain images including boys eating watermelon and a cartooned black man stealing a chicken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of three postcards and a pamphlet entitled \"Fun on the Run.\" The \"Fun on the Run\" pamphlet includes several racist and sexist caricatures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcard containing an image of a cartooned black man and woman. The man has large lips and torn clothing. The woman's features are exaggerated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis souvenir features common images of African Americans in the south, including picking cotton, eating watermelon, and playing the fiddle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains three Happy Birthday and one Christmas card. The cards contain cartooned sketches of African Americans, with factors such as large lips and big eyes. One happy birthday card has a sketch of three black women riding in a large watermelon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains numerous happy birthday cards featuring cartooned sketches of African American girls. The girls' features include large eyes and curly hair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublications from the Jim Crow era.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex County, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis travel guide of \"negro\" hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe folder contains an item promoting the Lost Cause ideology, which conveys nostalgia for the Confederacy prior to the Civil War. Confederate norms are presented in the best possible light. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNatchez Pilgrimage Brochure, 1955 March 31, invites people to celebrate the Old South by touring Antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi. The brochure contains multiple photographs and descriptions of the old Antebellum mansion. (Acc.2012.278)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains publications celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis flyer promotes the election of Arthur H. Vandenberg as senator of Michigan. It states that Vandenberg promises to outlaw the poll tax and favors an anti-lynching law. Vandenberg promises to support African American causes if elected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese comic strips  promote racial tolerance. One comic entitled \"Stand Up For Sportsmanship,\" features Batman stopping a fight between two boys, one white and one black. When Batman asks what happened, he discovers they're fighting because the white boy doesn't want the black boy to play with them because \"he don't belong, he ain't a real American.\" Batman responds with a lesson about racial tolerance, saying \"don't believe the crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country... a nation divided by prejudice is like a football team without teamwork.\" The next one, featuring Batman, teaches the reader that a country divided by racial prejudice is the same as a football team without teamwork. The next comic encourages a baseball team to be accepting of players of different ethnicity. The last comic, featuring superman, promotes both racial and religious tolerance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprint of an article from the American Legion magazine concerns the buying of Negro votes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamphlet published by the Independent Socialist Club promoting the black power movement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet entitled \"Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South \u0026amp; USA.\" argues that communist are trying to stir up trouble between white and black races, promoting racial mixing, and eventually want to control America. Pamphlet includes a map of the south, which it states Communist want to turn into a Negro Communist Soviet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis flyier shows a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders at a supposed Communist training school. The flier states that these leaders have brought tension, disturbance, and violence while trying to promote these Communist ideals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis booklet was published by Robert Welch. He argues that the \"negro\" population is much better off than populations around the globe. He also states that the population has made great strides in the last hundred years. Welch believes that the Communists are trying to turn black people against white people in America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet was printed by the Communist Party of Cleveland.  The pamphlet states that black and white people work side and side, and therefore black and white children should be able to learn and live with each other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn editorial from the Monroe, La. Morning World, concerns the author's fears that the United Nations is secretly a Communist plot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA flyer created by the Bay Area Revoluntionary Union concerning streets that are still occupied by the National Guard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA pamphlet subtitled \"a voice and vote for every member in the UAW-CIO regardless of race, color or creed.\" The pamphlet states that whites and \"negroes\" are all members of the same family and should be employed to the same end. The UAW-CIO promotes the hiring of \"negroes\" in all fields.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Labor Education Fund pamphlet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet by Angelo Herndon describes the hardship of working in a southern mining town. Herndon describes how he fought the system and promoted fair pay to working class citizens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe themes of these games range from satirizing to celebrating the progress and intellect of African Americans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 playing cards from the game \"In Dixie-Land\". Copyrighted 1896, L.D. Baldwin, by The Fireside Game Co.  The instructions are missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a set of playing cards.  The cards have a sketch and a brief biological summary of influential African American inventors, politicians, musicians, and activists. Rules for the game are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis board game is a racially based Monopoly style game. White players are allowed to buy properties throughout the board while black players are restricted to center areas. The game exemplifies the difficulties of living in a racially segregated housing market. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B5 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe game, which portrays public welfare and its recipients in a negative light, caused immediate controversy upon its publication. It was also perceived as racist and sexist and government agencies appealed to retailers to pull it off the shelves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis game is a quiz and trivia style game. The game tests players' knowledge of black athletes, musicians, and activists. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.96.F67 1988\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis board game tests players' knowledge of African American achievement in history, patents, inventions, sports, and entertainment. There is also a category of questions titled black awareness. Players answer questions to move along on a board, through the struggles of slavery and Jim Crow, eventually arriving back in Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis game is a game of dice where players role to turn over face cards number one through twelve. The cards and box feature racist imagery, including African Americans with bulging eyes and huge lips.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis board game is a trivia style game which tests players' knowledge of African American history. Players answer questions to receive an associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate in black studies. The word \"funda\" comes from an African language and means to instruct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive various cards and Valentine's featuring caricatures of African Americans.  Most of the cards depict the individuals with over exaggerated features and stereotypes, such as one card showing an African American eating watermelon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans.  Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans.  The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree stereoviews showing African Americans picking cotton in Georgia and Mississippi cotton fields and sugar cane in Peurto Rico. The views were produced by Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone Viewing Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains VHS tapes that are notable for the original video cases. Most of the movies are from the Blaxploitation genre, a controversial film movement. Blaxploitation films contained many common stereotypes. The black community is often portrayed as violent and drug related. However, some people believed the films were examples of black expression and power.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film features a young man who accidently kills his brother and then becomes a preacher to seek amends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features two men who work in Harlem. They get sent on a wild goose chase looking for money hidden in a barrel of cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film features a Harlem drug-dealer who wants to make one last sell before quitting the cocaine business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers' deadliest enemy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film takes Bruce Lee to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whom Bruce Lee must overcome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film features Dracula's bloodbrother, Blacula.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features black CIA recruits from Chicago who become freedom fighters after their military training.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fFilm features Pop Boyd, a martial arts champion who opens a studio on land that the Mafia wants to use as a headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film features a young black man who seeks revenge when he is arrested on false charges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this sequel to Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung-Fu girls battle a local gangster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features a morally bankrupt man who can save his own life only if he marries the devil's ugly daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features a man who owns a disco and declares war on the producers of Angel Dust, a drug corrupting his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis fFilm features a Detroit police sergeant who is pitted against brutal thugs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features friends who are hiding from the mob and hunting a gangster boss, who rigged a karate tournament.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fFilm features a man, just recently released from prison, who uses brains and muscles to survive in the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fFilm features the Black Dragon, who teams up with kung fu dynamo Dragon Lee as they take on the Korean and Japanese mafias.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe film features a man named Blade, who is the last hope for humanity, when a bloodthirsty lord declares war on the human race.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fFilm features a gang who goes from rags to riches, and then fights a knife-wielding, car stealing leprechaun.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis film is the third in a trilogy. It features a vampire hunter who must join forces with a clan of other hunters to find and defeat Dracula.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Great Cataract or Waterfall of Niagara in North America, This folder contains a copperplate engraving of Niagara Falls on paper. The image depicts a group of Native Americans showing Europeans the beauty of the falls. In the background, there are several Native Americans hauling large stones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePowhatan Applesauce Label. \nThis folder contains an advertising label for apple sauce named after the famed Native American chiefdom, the Powhatan. The advertisement includes a sketch of a Native American with a colorful head band and feather in his hair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIron King Cook Calendar. \nThis calendar features a scene in which white settlers shot Native Americans while hiding behind a large iron king stove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of 12 postcards that feature oil paintings of Native American imagery. The cards depict a variety of different scenes, including an Indian camp, a hunted buffalo, a tepee, and an Indian carrying an American flag after Custer's Last Stand. The postcards have a short description of each portrayed scene.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of 28 postcards featuring images of Native Americans. The postcards represent tribes from all over the country, from the Iroquois to the Hopi. Common images are war dances and dwellings such as tepees and long houses. Many of the postcards have short descriptions of the scenes on the back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of 90 postcards that portray Indian life in the south western United States. Images include  young girls and boys, Indians in traditional tribal outfits, mountains, canyons, and pueblo houses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a souvenir folder that contains a description and multiple illustrations of Indian chiefs.  The chiefs depicted are all from Western tribes, including the Pueblos, Navajos, Apache, Sioux, and Blackfoot.  The description states that the Pueblos are the most civilized of the nations.  The illustrations include portraits of the leaders as well as scenes of the leaders in the picturesque mountains of the west.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a souvenir folder that describes and illustrates southwestern Native American life.  The author notes that native life is \"primitive\" with little industry and machinery.  The images contain various scenes, including a mother and child standing next to cactus brush, people gathered around a tepee, a pueblo village, and men creating wampum beads.  Also depicted are images of natives performing a variety of crafts and chores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of trading cards that contain negative imagery of Native Americans.  Images include Native Americans being stabbed by white settler, a Native American man drinking too much, and misrepresentations of traditional Indian outfits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe trading cards depict imagery of Native Americans, including totem poles, war dances, and stockades.  The cards have images on one side, and a short description of the scene on the other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOversized trading that that have photographs and drawing of various Native American leaders.  The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.  This trading cards are housed separately due to their large size.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe trading cards have photographs and drawings of various Native American leaders. The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis set of 90 cards have images on one side of famous Native American leaders and of famous battles fought by various native tribes.  The backside has a short, skewed description of historical events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a box of bridge tally cards.  The cards have sketches of Native American people and scenery, along with the names and locations of different tribes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Wild West Gum cards contains 22 cards depicting colorized illustrations of Native Americans. The collection was part of a set of 24 cards manufactured by John H. Dockman and Son in the early twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Paragon Beef trading cards include negative images of Chinese men with long braids and stereotypical straw hats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries of advertising cards that promote the Chinese immigrant population in a negative way. Advertisers include Celluloid Corset Clasps, Kendall Manufacturing Company Soaps and Soapine, Henderson's Goods, and Gent's Furnishings and Fancy Goods Houses. The images depict Chinese men with long hair embarking on ships and men with over exaggerated eye features. The images often have little to do with the product being advertised.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries of cards that depict a scene between two white boys and a Chinese man. The children pull the man's braid, snap it off, and project the Chinese man from his perch, thus solving the \"Chinese problem\". Another card shows Chinese men being bitten by a dog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSet of cards that depict Asian Americans in negative ways.  Images include men embarking on a boat for China, a sketch of Mun Wong, and a Chinese child holding an umbrella.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis Fourth of July postcard displays racist imagery towards Asian Americans. The card portrays an Asian woman running away from a fire cracker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis comic strip includes stereotypical images of a Chinese man who entrapped his long braid in a rail road track.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis game includes a small box of sticks. Each player is to shake the box and the first stick that pops out is the one chosen.  Each stick has a number, and the numbers correspond to a booklet that contains fortunes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries of two sided trading cards. One of the sides have images of aspects of Jewish life, such as lighting candles and dancing with the torah. The other sides have short bible verses and explanations of the images.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis game is an educational trivia game that features questions regarding different aspects of the Islamic Hajj. Categories include \"How to Perform Hajj,\" \"Places of Hajj,\" and \"General Questions on Hajj.\" The game is geared toward teaching children about the Muslim pilgrimage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe postcard displays a derogatory image of a Cuban mother feeding her two small children, one of whom nurses from a goat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems in this folder include pamphlets instructing men on how to be good Klan members, a pamphlet regarding the Klan's attitude toward immigration, the Klan's attitude toward the Jew and other letters of propaganda.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder include meeting minutes from a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan in Elkton, Maryland. The folder also includes the obituary of klansmen Raymond C. Fronk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamphlet published by the Equal Rights Congress in a national effort to outlaw the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan.  The folder also contains fliers promoting integration and racial tolerance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a manuscript by an unknown author on the subject of foreign immigration into the United States of America. The author argues that foreign populations should be restricted from coming to the United States. The manuscript also discusses the various races and ethnicities that should be restricted, including the Irish, the Jewish population, Italians, and the African and Asian races. The document concludes with a list of prohibitions that the author would impose to keep the immigrant populations from entering the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis booklet is published by the Order United American Mechanics, a secret fraternity composed entirely of citizens born in the US.American citizens born. 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The collection includes papers and items that promote racial prejudice and propaganda. The collection also contains items and papers that exemplify the fight for civil and equal rights. African Americans are the most broadly represented group in the collection. Other ethnic groups include Native Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and Cuban Americans. Ku Klux Klan pamphlets and anti-immigration publications are also included. Through this collection, the American struggle of racism and prejudice is realized.","Included are published items like travel guides, joke books, song books, story books, programs and handbills, comic strips, a yearbook, election fliers, political publications, pamphlets and calendars.","This fFolder contains three envelopes: Union patriotic envelope depicting a black man picking cotton, titled \"One of the Rebels\", (Acc.2014.123), Union patriotic envelope of a slave dressed as the \"King of the South,\" (Acc. 2014.124), Union patriotic envelope with a map of the south (Acc. 2014.125).","A booklet of twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, and farces for the amateur stage.  The plays contain stereotypical typecasting of African Americans.","A story book entitled \"The Ten Little Niggers,\" with stereotypical illustrations. The layout of the book is similar to that of \"Ten Little Indians.\"","This songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.","This joke book features jokes that promote racism and a negative view of African Americans.  The jokes are also anti-immigration and misogynistic.","The scrapbook dates from the late 1800's.  The pictures in the book vary, from paintings of flowers to advertising cards for household items.  One page in the book features several stereotypical images of African Americans.  Pictures of monkeys are also placed on this page, therefore stating that they are one in the same.","Advertising trade cards that contain stereotypically racist images of African Americans. The cards are for a clothier. The folder also contains an advertisement for Jos. J. Foley, Tailor, Boston MA, which has a November 1908 calendar alongside an illustration of African American children swinging and climbing trees.","This folder contains multiple advertising cards. The items advertised include soaps, clothing, and household goods. The cards contain stereotypical images of African Americans.","This folder contains advertising cards that depict African Americans in a negative light.  Common features are large lips and flouncy outfits.  The sketches on the cards often have little to do with the product being advertised.","Stereotypical black representations on three advertising trade cards. The cards for pancake batter and clothes depict African Americans with large eyes and mouths along with other stereotypical features.","Advertising cards for a clothier.  The cards depict an African American man trying to command and then falling off a horse-drawn wagon.","Advertisement card for Old Virginia Cheroots from the American Tobacco Company.  The advertisement has a sketch of an African American man.","Advertising label for Old Black Joe's blackeyed peas, showing a black man with a white beard.","Sketch for \"The Connoisseurs\", a popular advertising image for Cream of Wheat. The painting features a black man in a chef's hat, teaching a child about the taste and health benefits of cream of wheat.","Print of the painting by Edward V. Brewer entitled \"The Connoisseurs\" for the Cream of Wheat Company. The painting features an African American man in a chef costume tasting Cream of Wheat along with an African American boy in an apron and chef hat. Oversize item.","Five cards that have negative, stereotypical images of African Americans. Images include a black woman being compared to a donkey and young men playing craps.","Set of 22 racist postcards. Features include large lips and big eyes. Images also include depictions of African Americans stealing goods. Other cards include cartooned drawings of African Americans in flouncy clothing.","Set of 42 cards with racist imagery. Images include cartooned sketches of African Americans with big eyes and over exaggerated lips. Images depict African Americans as lazy and inept. They are shown stealing chickens, eating watermelon, and improperly serving white people.","A postcard with an image of an African American boy with a large mouth, kneeling next to two watermelons","Set of eight postcards that have negative, stereotypical sketches of African Americans. Images include women with large behinds, boys eating watermelon, and men with large lips.","This folder contains five racist postcards. They contain images including boys eating watermelon and a cartooned black man stealing a chicken.","Set of three postcards and a pamphlet entitled \"Fun on the Run.\" The \"Fun on the Run\" pamphlet includes several racist and sexist caricatures.","Postcard containing an image of a cartooned black man and woman. The man has large lips and torn clothing. The woman's features are exaggerated.","This souvenir features common images of African Americans in the south, including picking cotton, eating watermelon, and playing the fiddle.","This folder contains three Happy Birthday and one Christmas card. The cards contain cartooned sketches of African Americans, with factors such as large lips and big eyes. One happy birthday card has a sketch of three black women riding in a large watermelon.","This folder contains numerous happy birthday cards featuring cartooned sketches of African American girls. The girls' features include large eyes and curly hair.","Cards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.","Publications from the Jim Crow era.","This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.","This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex County, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.","This travel guide of \"negro\" hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.","Two advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.","The folder contains an item promoting the Lost Cause ideology, which conveys nostalgia for the Confederacy prior to the Civil War. Confederate norms are presented in the best possible light. ","Natchez Pilgrimage Brochure, 1955 March 31, invites people to celebrate the Old South by touring Antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi. The brochure contains multiple photographs and descriptions of the old Antebellum mansion. (Acc.2012.278)","This folder contains publications celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans.","The booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.","The multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.","This brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.","This calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.","This flyer promotes the election of Arthur H. Vandenberg as senator of Michigan. It states that Vandenberg promises to outlaw the poll tax and favors an anti-lynching law. Vandenberg promises to support African American causes if elected.","These comic strips  promote racial tolerance. One comic entitled \"Stand Up For Sportsmanship,\" features Batman stopping a fight between two boys, one white and one black. When Batman asks what happened, he discovers they're fighting because the white boy doesn't want the black boy to play with them because \"he don't belong, he ain't a real American.\" Batman responds with a lesson about racial tolerance, saying \"don't believe the crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country... a nation divided by prejudice is like a football team without teamwork.\" The next one, featuring Batman, teaches the reader that a country divided by racial prejudice is the same as a football team without teamwork. The next comic encourages a baseball team to be accepting of players of different ethnicity. The last comic, featuring superman, promotes both racial and religious tolerance.","Reprint of an article from the American Legion magazine concerns the buying of Negro votes.","This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Independent Socialist Club promoting the black power movement.","This pamphlet entitled \"Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South \u0026 USA.\" argues that communist are trying to stir up trouble between white and black races, promoting racial mixing, and eventually want to control America. Pamphlet includes a map of the south, which it states Communist want to turn into a Negro Communist Soviet.","This flyier shows a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders at a supposed Communist training school. The flier states that these leaders have brought tension, disturbance, and violence while trying to promote these Communist ideals.","This booklet was published by Robert Welch. He argues that the \"negro\" population is much better off than populations around the globe. He also states that the population has made great strides in the last hundred years. Welch believes that the Communists are trying to turn black people against white people in America.","This pamphlet was printed by the Communist Party of Cleveland.  The pamphlet states that black and white people work side and side, and therefore black and white children should be able to learn and live with each other.","A pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.","An editorial from the Monroe, La. Morning World, concerns the author's fears that the United Nations is secretly a Communist plot.","A flyer created by the Bay Area Revoluntionary Union concerning streets that are still occupied by the National Guard.","A pamphlet subtitled \"a voice and vote for every member in the UAW-CIO regardless of race, color or creed.\" The pamphlet states that whites and \"negroes\" are all members of the same family and should be employed to the same end. The UAW-CIO promotes the hiring of \"negroes\" in all fields.","A Labor Education Fund pamphlet.","This pamphlet by Angelo Herndon describes the hardship of working in a southern mining town. Herndon describes how he fought the system and promoted fair pay to working class citizens.","The themes of these games range from satirizing to celebrating the progress and intellect of African Americans.","52 playing cards from the game \"In Dixie-Land\". Copyrighted 1896, L.D. Baldwin, by The Fireside Game Co.  The instructions are missing.","This folder contains a set of playing cards.  The cards have a sketch and a brief biological summary of influential African American inventors, politicians, musicians, and activists. Rules for the game are included.","This board game is a racially based Monopoly style game. White players are allowed to buy properties throughout the board while black players are restricted to center areas. The game exemplifies the difficulties of living in a racially segregated housing market. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B5 1970.","The game, which portrays public welfare and its recipients in a negative light, caused immediate controversy upon its publication. It was also perceived as racist and sexist and government agencies appealed to retailers to pull it off the shelves.","This game is a quiz and trivia style game. The game tests players' knowledge of black athletes, musicians, and activists. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.96.F67 1988","This board game tests players' knowledge of African American achievement in history, patents, inventions, sports, and entertainment. There is also a category of questions titled black awareness. Players answer questions to move along on a board, through the struggles of slavery and Jim Crow, eventually arriving back in Africa.","This game is a game of dice where players role to turn over face cards number one through twelve. The cards and box feature racist imagery, including African Americans with bulging eyes and huge lips.","This board game is a trivia style game which tests players' knowledge of African American history. Players answer questions to receive an associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate in black studies. The word \"funda\" comes from an African language and means to instruct.","Five various cards and Valentine's featuring caricatures of African Americans.  Most of the cards depict the individuals with over exaggerated features and stereotypes, such as one card showing an African American eating watermelon.","20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans.  Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans.  The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.","Three stereoviews showing African Americans picking cotton in Georgia and Mississippi cotton fields and sugar cane in Peurto Rico. The views were produced by Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone Viewing Company.","This box contains VHS tapes that are notable for the original video cases. Most of the movies are from the Blaxploitation genre, a controversial film movement. Blaxploitation films contained many common stereotypes. The black community is often portrayed as violent and drug related. However, some people believed the films were examples of black expression and power.","This film features a young man who accidently kills his brother and then becomes a preacher to seek amends.","This fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.","The film features two men who work in Harlem. They get sent on a wild goose chase looking for money hidden in a barrel of cotton.","The film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.","This film features a Harlem drug-dealer who wants to make one last sell before quitting the cocaine business.","The film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers' deadliest enemy.","The film takes Bruce Lee to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whom Bruce Lee must overcome.","This film features Dracula's bloodbrother, Blacula.","The film features black CIA recruits from Chicago who become freedom fighters after their military training.","The fFilm features Pop Boyd, a martial arts champion who opens a studio on land that the Mafia wants to use as a headquarters.","This fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.","This film features a young black man who seeks revenge when he is arrested on false charges.","The f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.","In this sequel to Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung-Fu girls battle a local gangster.","The film features a morally bankrupt man who can save his own life only if he marries the devil's ugly daughter.","The film features a man who owns a disco and declares war on the producers of Angel Dust, a drug corrupting his nephew.","This film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killer.","This fFilm features a Detroit police sergeant who is pitted against brutal thugs.","The film features friends who are hiding from the mob and hunting a gangster boss, who rigged a karate tournament.","The fFilm features a man, just recently released from prison, who uses brains and muscles to survive in the city.","The fFilm features the Black Dragon, who teams up with kung fu dynamo Dragon Lee as they take on the Korean and Japanese mafias.","The film features a man named Blade, who is the last hope for humanity, when a bloodthirsty lord declares war on the human race.","The fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.","The fFilm features a gang who goes from rags to riches, and then fights a knife-wielding, car stealing leprechaun.","This film is the third in a trilogy. It features a vampire hunter who must join forces with a clan of other hunters to find and defeat Dracula.","The Great Cataract or Waterfall of Niagara in North America, This folder contains a copperplate engraving of Niagara Falls on paper. The image depicts a group of Native Americans showing Europeans the beauty of the falls. In the background, there are several Native Americans hauling large stones.","Powhatan Applesauce Label. \nThis folder contains an advertising label for apple sauce named after the famed Native American chiefdom, the Powhatan. The advertisement includes a sketch of a Native American with a colorful head band and feather in his hair.","Iron King Cook Calendar. \nThis calendar features a scene in which white settlers shot Native Americans while hiding behind a large iron king stove.","Set of 12 postcards that feature oil paintings of Native American imagery. The cards depict a variety of different scenes, including an Indian camp, a hunted buffalo, a tepee, and an Indian carrying an American flag after Custer's Last Stand. The postcards have a short description of each portrayed scene.","Set of 28 postcards featuring images of Native Americans. The postcards represent tribes from all over the country, from the Iroquois to the Hopi. Common images are war dances and dwellings such as tepees and long houses. Many of the postcards have short descriptions of the scenes on the back.","Set of 90 postcards that portray Indian life in the south western United States. Images include  young girls and boys, Indians in traditional tribal outfits, mountains, canyons, and pueblo houses.","This folder includes a souvenir folder that contains a description and multiple illustrations of Indian chiefs.  The chiefs depicted are all from Western tribes, including the Pueblos, Navajos, Apache, Sioux, and Blackfoot.  The description states that the Pueblos are the most civilized of the nations.  The illustrations include portraits of the leaders as well as scenes of the leaders in the picturesque mountains of the west.","This folder includes a souvenir folder that describes and illustrates southwestern Native American life.  The author notes that native life is \"primitive\" with little industry and machinery.  The images contain various scenes, including a mother and child standing next to cactus brush, people gathered around a tepee, a pueblo village, and men creating wampum beads.  Also depicted are images of natives performing a variety of crafts and chores.","Set of trading cards that contain negative imagery of Native Americans.  Images include Native Americans being stabbed by white settler, a Native American man drinking too much, and misrepresentations of traditional Indian outfits.","The trading cards depict imagery of Native Americans, including totem poles, war dances, and stockades.  The cards have images on one side, and a short description of the scene on the other.","Oversized trading that that have photographs and drawing of various Native American leaders.  The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.  This trading cards are housed separately due to their large size.","The trading cards have photographs and drawings of various Native American leaders. The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.","This set of 90 cards have images on one side of famous Native American leaders and of famous battles fought by various native tribes.  The backside has a short, skewed description of historical events.","This folder contains a box of bridge tally cards.  The cards have sketches of Native American people and scenery, along with the names and locations of different tribes.","The Wild West Gum cards contains 22 cards depicting colorized illustrations of Native Americans. The collection was part of a set of 24 cards manufactured by John H. Dockman and Son in the early twentieth century.","The Paragon Beef trading cards include negative images of Chinese men with long braids and stereotypical straw hats.","Series of advertising cards that promote the Chinese immigrant population in a negative way. Advertisers include Celluloid Corset Clasps, Kendall Manufacturing Company Soaps and Soapine, Henderson's Goods, and Gent's Furnishings and Fancy Goods Houses. The images depict Chinese men with long hair embarking on ships and men with over exaggerated eye features. The images often have little to do with the product being advertised.","Series of cards that depict a scene between two white boys and a Chinese man. The children pull the man's braid, snap it off, and project the Chinese man from his perch, thus solving the \"Chinese problem\". Another card shows Chinese men being bitten by a dog.","Set of cards that depict Asian Americans in negative ways.  Images include men embarking on a boat for China, a sketch of Mun Wong, and a Chinese child holding an umbrella.","This Fourth of July postcard displays racist imagery towards Asian Americans. The card portrays an Asian woman running away from a fire cracker.","This comic strip includes stereotypical images of a Chinese man who entrapped his long braid in a rail road track.","This game includes a small box of sticks. Each player is to shake the box and the first stick that pops out is the one chosen.  Each stick has a number, and the numbers correspond to a booklet that contains fortunes.","Series of two sided trading cards. One of the sides have images of aspects of Jewish life, such as lighting candles and dancing with the torah. The other sides have short bible verses and explanations of the images.","This game is an educational trivia game that features questions regarding different aspects of the Islamic Hajj. Categories include \"How to Perform Hajj,\" \"Places of Hajj,\" and \"General Questions on Hajj.\" The game is geared toward teaching children about the Muslim pilgrimage.","The postcard displays a derogatory image of a Cuban mother feeding her two small children, one of whom nurses from a goat.","Items in this folder include pamphlets instructing men on how to be good Klan members, a pamphlet regarding the Klan's attitude toward immigration, the Klan's attitude toward the Jew and other letters of propaganda.","This folder include meeting minutes from a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan in Elkton, Maryland. The folder also includes the obituary of klansmen Raymond C. Fronk.","This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Equal Rights Congress in a national effort to outlaw the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan.  The folder also contains fliers promoting integration and racial tolerance.","This folder includes a manuscript by an unknown author on the subject of foreign immigration into the United States of America. The author argues that foreign populations should be restricted from coming to the United States. The manuscript also discusses the various races and ethnicities that should be restricted, including the Irish, the Jewish population, Italians, and the African and Asian races. The document concludes with a list of prohibitions that the author would impose to keep the immigrant populations from entering the country.","This booklet is published by the Order United American Mechanics, a secret fraternity composed entirely of citizens born in the US.American citizens born. 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","During the Civil War John Morgan enlisted in 1863 in Company A, 22nd Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, serving till the surrender. His brother William S. Morgan, a member of Company A., 36th Regiment, Confederate Army, was killed at Fayette Courthouse in 1862. John Morgan was a farmer who lived on bottom land opposite the mouth of the Poca River in Putnam County, West Virginia. (From West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, 1976)","Papers of John and Sarah Atkeson-Morgan documenting Atkeson-Morgan family history and the history of the Morgan home and farm in Putnam County, West Virginia for period ca. 1840-1900.","Materials include Civil War papers; personal and business correspondence; legal documents; school compositions and poetry; one photograph; and invoices and receipts.","Subjects include: personal business (such as health, travel, and courtship), farm business, hunting, education (particularly at Barboursville College), and steamboat travel (including the vessels 'Active' and 'Chesapeake'), among others.","Individuals who are prominently documented in the collection include: John Morgan, Sr., John Morgan, Jr., James 'Jim' Morgan, Semantha Atkeson-Morgan, John Beale, James Beale, Samuel Moore, Thomas Atkeson Morgan, Rembrandt Morgan, Albert Sidney Morgan, Anna Jackson, Thomas Atkeson, and Virginia Wells.","West Virginia and Virginia locations of significance to the family include: Walnut Grove, Kanawha County; Point Pleasant; Kanawha Court House; Buffalo, Putnam County; Poca or Poca Bottom; Pocatalico or Pocatalico Bottom; Mount Jackson; Gallipolis, Raymond City, Putnam County; Barboursville; Winfield; Charleston; Rio, Hardy and Hampshire Counties; Orkney Springs; Edge Hill, Virginia; Lewisburg; Letart; Huntington; and Fowlers, Brooke County. Other states of interest include: New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Washington, D.C.","This series includes several Civil War-related letters from or to members of the Atkeson-Morgan family and a copy of a poem about the Confederacy.","This series includes business correspondence from John Morgan, Sr., John Morgan, Jr., and James Beale.","This series consists of correspondence written to John Morgan, Sr. by his siblings, his sons, James Beale, and Samuel Moore.","This series includes correspondence to and from John Morgan, Jr..","This series consists of correspondence of the sons of John Morgan, Jr. and Semantha Atkeson-Morgan: John, Thomas Atkeson, Rembrandt, and Albert Sidney; and grandson, William Morgan.","These letters originate in Mt. Jackson and Orkney Springs, and reference a local flu epidemic and related fatalities, including the youngest son of Charles Moore. They also mention the death of John's son Maurice. An 1860 letter describes the family's recent move to Orkney and the smoother ride over well graded roads. Samuel Moore also discusses business, selling forty-three acres and a mill for $14,000 and his decision to sell more land in a better market.","These letters are all written from \"Home.\" In addition to reports of health and visitors, the letters primarily regard farm business, such as the selling of livestock in Ohio, crop prices, news of hay, straw, wheat, hogs, corn, and cattle. One letter (1867) is written from Portsmouth, Ohio while Jim was on a trip.","John reports an incident on the Kanawha River in which he had to save himself on a sinking skiff. Farm news includes information about the tobacco crop and the traps they are setting to catch the culprits who are poisoning the hounds. He also relates \"ma's\" cough remedy, as boiled down bourbon, sweetened with sugar or molasses. 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