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Materials include: general series of historical documents such as letters, deeds, and county court cases pertaining to a diverse range of subjects (1717, 1754-1988, undated [includes facsimiles]); letters of Lucy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 \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c/em\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]). 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Va.)","Fairmont (W. Va.)","Marshall County (W. Va.)","Pennsylvania","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Wheeling (W. Va.)","Banks and banking","General stores","Glass manufacture","Mexican War, 1846-1848","Newspapers.","Political campaigns","Propaganda, Soviet","Whiskey decanters","No special access restriction applies.","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. ","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.","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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"],"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]). 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."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_41b33a00fb61928ece3953eb9c83a996\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["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. 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(Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978","Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900","Maynor, Larry.","Monroe, James, 1758-1831","Norona, Delf, 1895-1974","Prichard, Lucy, 1876-1964.","Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998","Reed, Louis","Shock, J.C.","Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984","Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915","Weaver, James M.","Zidn, Anthony."],"names_ssim":["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.  (William Gay), 1800-1884","Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973","Byrd, Robert C.","Chapline, Moses.","Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910","Cushwa, Barnet.","Eagle, Henry F.","Gans, George C.","Gans, Mrs. Samuel C.","Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806","Gehr, Daniel.","Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998","Hornbrook, Jacob.","Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978","Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900","Maynor, Larry.","Monroe, James, 1758-1831","Norona, Delf, 1895-1974","Prichard, Lucy, 1876-1964.","Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998","Reed, Louis","Shock, J.C.","Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984","Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915","Weaver, James M.","Zidn, Anthony."],"corpname_ssim":["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. 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(Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978","Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900","Maynor, Larry.","Monroe, James, 1758-1831","Norona, Delf, 1895-1974","Prichard, Lucy, 1876-1964.","Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998","Reed, Louis","Shock, J.C.","Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984","Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915","Weaver, James M.","Zidn, Anthony."],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":514,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:36:22.310Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_5370","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_5370","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_5370","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_5370","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_5370.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198658","title_ssm":["Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers"],"title_tesim":["Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated","ca. 1850-1995"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["ca. 1850-1995"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 2600","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5370"],"text":["A\u0026M 2600","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5370","Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers","Berkeley County (W. Va.)","Fairmont (W. Va.)","Marshall County (W. Va.)","Pennsylvania","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Wheeling (W. Va.)","Banks and banking","General stores","Glass manufacture","Mexican War, 1846-1848","Newspapers.","Political campaigns","Propaganda, Soviet","Whiskey decanters","No special access restriction applies.","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. ","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.","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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"],"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]). 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."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_41b33a00fb61928ece3953eb9c83a996\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["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. 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FamilySearch. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7WH-V8W/maj-thomas-haines-griest-1884-1947.","The Philadelphia Inquirer . 1947. \"Obituary for T. H. Griest (Aged 62),\" January 10, 1947.","\"Thomas Haines Griest (1884-1947).\" n.d. Find a Grave. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49193607/thomas_haines-griest.","\"U.S. Enters the War.\" n.d. National WWI Museum and Memorial. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/us-enters-war.","Thomas H. Griest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 20, 1884 to Joseph Pownall and Mabel Haines Griest, the second of four children. Griest joined the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1906 as a building inspector and would eventually be named general commercial manager in 1933. During World War I he served with the 406th Telegraph Battalion, starting as a Lieutenant and ultimately attaining the rank of Major. After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.","The United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled  The First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army , with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing.","Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025.","The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the  Gustav Klemp World War I collection ,  Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs , and  Diary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop .","The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919, with additional materials created between 1899, 1910-1921, and 1940-1944. The collection contains 3 series.","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","A 1921 edition of the  The First Battalion  was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link:  The First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army .","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Two copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.","Folder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.","Two postcards, one in English and one in French","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Includes detailed account of his trip to Mexico","Thomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.","Thomas' mother","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.","Includes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.","Includes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Newspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Was removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.","Was removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.","Thomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.","Letters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French","Thomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary","Thomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary","Thomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Mary's aunt, her father's sister","Vice President of Bell Telephone Company","Mixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".","Letter regarding sun glasses order","Western Union Cablegram","Mixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. ","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. ","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. ","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.","\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Mounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","Larger signs in Box 18, Folder 2","Smaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","U.S.A.T. Antilles","\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Official copy and typed letter copy","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Three copies, one has notes for history book","Mixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Cover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.","Items are in French","Mounted official memo of radio communication","In French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte","Regarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.","This event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.","Sergeant, First Class, Company D","Company D","Private, 1st Class","Two accounts","Sergeant, 1st Class, Company E","Company E","Private, 1st Class","Corporal, Company D","Company E. Date recorded as written.","Sergeant, First Class, Company E","Corporal, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Sergeant, 1st Class","Corporal, possibly spelled Hannan","Private","Sergeant, Company D","Identification unconfirmed","Sergeant, Company E","Private, Company D","Company D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.","Private, Company D","Account starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"","Private, Company D","Company E","Corporal, Company E","Sergeant, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Company D","Sergeant","Sergeant, Company D","Company D","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","5x7 \u0026 8x10 prints","Photographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","No signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2","Item is in French, folder title is translation","Item is in French","Envelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1","Most for Division of Pictures photo orders","Published by  The Bystander","Published by  The Bystander . A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.","Published by  The Bystander","Items are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.","Some items in French","Two copies with signatures","Tile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.","Item is in French","Item is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability","Folder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. Both items are in French.","Item is in French","Most poems without authors, some attributed to Guy Nearing","Item has extensive damage to cover and binding, placed in small envelope in folder for stability, care should be taken when handling.","Item is in French","All materials created up to 1928 are in the public domain.","The following statement applies to materials created from 1929 onward: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)","The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919.","R 73, C 3, S 5-7\n\nMap Case 16.1\n\nOS R 2, C 2, S 4","George Mason University. Libraries. 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Griest (Aged 62),\" January 10, 1947.","\"Thomas Haines Griest (1884-1947).\" n.d. Find a Grave. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49193607/thomas_haines-griest.","\"U.S. Enters the War.\" n.d. National WWI Museum and Memorial. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/us-enters-war."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThomas H. Griest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 20, 1884 to Joseph Pownall and Mabel Haines Griest, the second of four children. Griest joined the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1906 as a building inspector and would eventually be named general commercial manager in 1933. During World War I he served with the 406th Telegraph Battalion, starting as a Lieutenant and ultimately attaining the rank of Major. After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army\u003c/title\u003e, with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical and Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Thomas H. Griest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 20, 1884 to Joseph Pownall and Mabel Haines Griest, the second of four children. Griest joined the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1906 as a building inspector and would eventually be named general commercial manager in 1933. During World War I he served with the 406th Telegraph Battalion, starting as a Lieutenant and ultimately attaining the rank of Major. After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.","The United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled  The First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army , with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThomas Griest World War I collection, C0515, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Thomas Griest World War I collection, C0515, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0250\"\u003eGustav Klemp World War I collection\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0502\"\u003eUnderwood and Underwood World War I press photographs\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0393\"\u003eDiary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the  Gustav Klemp World War I collection ,  Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs , and  Diary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop ."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919, with additional materials created between 1899, 1910-1921, and 1940-1944. The collection contains 3 series.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection \u003ctitle\u003eFragments from France\u003c/title\u003e and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA 1921 edition of the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link: \u003ca href=\"https://wrlc-gm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GML/1prj2t5/alma9947754547404105\"\u003eThe First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo postcards, one in English and one in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's uncle (her mother's brother)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's uncle (her mother's brother)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes detailed account of his trip to Mexico\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's aunt, her father's sister\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVice President of Bell Telephone Company\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding sun glasses order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWestern Union Cablegram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarger signs in Box 18, Folder 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU.S.A.T. Antilles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy and typed letter copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree copies, one has notes for history book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems are in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMounted official memo of radio communication\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, First Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, 1st Class, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E. Date recorded as written.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, First Class, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, possibly spelled Hannan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentification unconfirmed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5x7 \u0026amp; 8x10 prints\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection \u003ctitle\u003eFragments from France\u003c/title\u003e and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French, folder title is translation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnvelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost for Division of Pictures photo orders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e. A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome items in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies with signatures\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. Both items are in French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost poems without authors, some attributed to Guy Nearing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem has extensive damage to cover and binding, placed in small envelope in folder for stability, care should be taken when handling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","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","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 Content","Scope and Content","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 Content","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 Content","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Content","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":["The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919, with additional materials created between 1899, 1910-1921, and 1940-1944. The collection contains 3 series.","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","A 1921 edition of the  The First Battalion  was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link:  The First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army .","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Two copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.","Folder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.","Two postcards, one in English and one in French","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Includes detailed account of his trip to Mexico","Thomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.","Thomas' mother","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.","Includes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.","Includes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Newspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Was removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.","Was removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.","Thomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.","Letters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French","Thomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary","Thomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary","Thomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Mary's aunt, her father's sister","Vice President of Bell Telephone Company","Mixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".","Letter regarding sun glasses order","Western Union Cablegram","Mixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. ","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. ","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. ","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.","\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Mounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","Larger signs in Box 18, Folder 2","Smaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","U.S.A.T. Antilles","\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Official copy and typed letter copy","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Three copies, one has notes for history book","Mixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Cover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.","Items are in French","Mounted official memo of radio communication","In French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte","Regarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.","This event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.","Sergeant, First Class, Company D","Company D","Private, 1st Class","Two accounts","Sergeant, 1st Class, Company E","Company E","Private, 1st Class","Corporal, Company D","Company E. Date recorded as written.","Sergeant, First Class, Company E","Corporal, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Sergeant, 1st Class","Corporal, possibly spelled Hannan","Private","Sergeant, Company D","Identification unconfirmed","Sergeant, Company E","Private, Company D","Company D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.","Private, Company D","Account starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"","Private, Company D","Company E","Corporal, Company E","Sergeant, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Company D","Sergeant","Sergeant, Company D","Company D","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","5x7 \u0026 8x10 prints","Photographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","No signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2","Item is in French, folder title is translation","Item is in French","Envelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1","Most for Division of Pictures photo orders","Published by  The Bystander","Published by  The Bystander . A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.","Published by  The Bystander","Items are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.","Some items in French","Two copies with signatures","Tile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.","Item is in French","Item is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability","Folder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. Both items are in French.","Item is in French","Most poems without authors, some attributed to Guy Nearing","Item has extensive damage to cover and binding, placed in small envelope in folder for stability, care should be taken when handling.","Item is in French"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAll materials created up to 1928 are in the public domain.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe following statement applies to materials created from 1929 onward: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["All materials created up to 1928 are in the public domain.","The following statement applies to materials created from 1929 onward: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_863b70cbccae9bb38ec1303e6de76cc3\"\u003eThe Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_d054fa2544ad1b20227f8eb11801c658\"\u003eR 73, C 3, S 5-7\n\nMap Case 16.1\n\nOS R 2, C 2, S 4\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["R 73, C 3, S 5-7\n\nMap Case 16.1\n\nOS R 2, C 2, S 4"],"names_coll_ssim":["Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania","United States. 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FamilySearch. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7WH-V8W/maj-thomas-haines-griest-1884-1947.","The Philadelphia Inquirer . 1947. \"Obituary for T. H. Griest (Aged 62),\" January 10, 1947.","\"Thomas Haines Griest (1884-1947).\" n.d. Find a Grave. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49193607/thomas_haines-griest.","\"U.S. Enters the War.\" n.d. National WWI Museum and Memorial. Accessed January 23, 2025. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/us-enters-war.","Thomas H. Griest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 20, 1884 to Joseph Pownall and Mabel Haines Griest, the second of four children. Griest joined the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1906 as a building inspector and would eventually be named general commercial manager in 1933. During World War I he served with the 406th Telegraph Battalion, starting as a Lieutenant and ultimately attaining the rank of Major. After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.","The United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled  The First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army , with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing.","Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025.","The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the  Gustav Klemp World War I collection ,  Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs , and  Diary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop .","The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919, with additional materials created between 1899, 1910-1921, and 1940-1944. The collection contains 3 series.","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","A 1921 edition of the  The First Battalion  was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link:  The First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army .","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Two copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.","Folder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.","Two postcards, one in English and one in French","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Includes detailed account of his trip to Mexico","Thomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.","Thomas' mother","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.","Includes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.","Includes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Newspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Was removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.","Was removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.","Thomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.","Letters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French","Thomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary","Thomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary","Thomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Mary's aunt, her father's sister","Vice President of Bell Telephone Company","Mixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".","Letter regarding sun glasses order","Western Union Cablegram","Mixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. ","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. ","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. ","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.","\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Mounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","Larger signs in Box 18, Folder 2","Smaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","U.S.A.T. Antilles","\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Official copy and typed letter copy","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Three copies, one has notes for history book","Mixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Cover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.","Items are in French","Mounted official memo of radio communication","In French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte","Regarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.","This event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.","Sergeant, First Class, Company D","Company D","Private, 1st Class","Two accounts","Sergeant, 1st Class, Company E","Company E","Private, 1st Class","Corporal, Company D","Company E. Date recorded as written.","Sergeant, First Class, Company E","Corporal, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Sergeant, 1st Class","Corporal, possibly spelled Hannan","Private","Sergeant, Company D","Identification unconfirmed","Sergeant, Company E","Private, Company D","Company D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.","Private, Company D","Account starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"","Private, Company D","Company E","Corporal, Company E","Sergeant, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Company D","Sergeant","Sergeant, Company D","Company D","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","5x7 \u0026 8x10 prints","Photographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","No signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2","Item is in French, folder title is translation","Item is in French","Envelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1","Most for Division of Pictures photo orders","Published by  The Bystander","Published by  The Bystander . A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.","Published by  The Bystander","Items are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.","Some items in French","Two copies with signatures","Tile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.","Item is in French","Item is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability","Folder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. Both items are in French.","Item is in French","Most poems without authors, some attributed to Guy Nearing","Item has extensive damage to cover and binding, placed in small envelope in folder for stability, care should be taken when handling.","Item is in French","All materials created up to 1928 are in the public domain.","The following statement applies to materials created from 1929 onward: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)","The Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919.","R 73, C 3, S 5-7\n\nMap Case 16.1\n\nOS R 2, C 2, S 4","George Mason University. Libraries. 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After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army\u003c/title\u003e, with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical and Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Thomas H. Griest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 20, 1884 to Joseph Pownall and Mabel Haines Griest, the second of four children. Griest joined the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1906 as a building inspector and would eventually be named general commercial manager in 1933. During World War I he served with the 406th Telegraph Battalion, starting as a Lieutenant and ultimately attaining the rank of Major. After spending approximately two months, from June - August 1917, in training at the Army Signal Corps camp in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Griest headed overseas and spent the majority of the war in France. A devout Quaker, he was one of a small number of the typically anti-war members of the Society of Friends to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. He returned home in early April 1919 and spent the rest of his life living and working in and around Philadelphia with his wife Mary and their two children. He passed away on January 9, 1947 at the age of 62 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.","The United States formally entered the conflict now known as World War I nearly three years after fighting began in Europe, declaring war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Only a few short months later, in August 1917, the 406th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps became one of the first two telegraph battalions sent to France to join the fighting, later proudly referring to itself as \"The First Battalion\". Composed entirely of employees of the Bell Telephone Company in Eastern Pennsylvania, the 406th was part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for maintaining all military communications, or signals. Despite the men's lack of prior military experience, the Battalion was able to mobilize quickly, after only four months of military training, due to their existing communications experience and knowledge as Bell Telephone employees. The Battalion served primarily in France for the duration of the war, taking part in several major American offensives, such as the Second Battle of the Marne. A written history of the unit was published in 1921 titled  The First Battalion. The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army , with Major Thomas H. Griest gathering and organizing much of the material used in its writing."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThomas Griest World War I collection, C0515, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Thomas Griest World War I collection, C0515, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from March - December 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner from December 2024 - January 2025."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0250\"\u003eGustav Klemp World War I collection\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0502\"\u003eUnderwood and Underwood World War I press photographs\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https://aspace.gmu.edu/resources/c0393\"\u003eDiary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to World War I including the  Gustav Klemp World War I collection ,  Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs , and  Diary of World War I Red Cross Canteen worker Florence Bishop ."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Thomas Griest World War I collection contains correspondence, photographs, military field orders, and ephemera created and collected by American soldier Thomas Griest primarily during and immediately after his time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion during World War I, 1917-1919, with additional materials created between 1899, 1910-1921, and 1940-1944. The collection contains 3 series.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection \u003ctitle\u003eFragments from France\u003c/title\u003e and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA 1921 edition of the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link: \u003ca href=\"https://wrlc-gm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GML/1prj2t5/alma9947754547404105\"\u003eThe First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo postcards, one in English and one in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's uncle (her mother's brother)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's uncle (her mother's brother)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes detailed account of his trip to Mexico\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed Mary Cooper Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pressed flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's aunt, her father's sister\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVice President of Bell Telephone Company\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding sun glasses order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWestern Union Cablegram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e, the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarger signs in Box 18, Folder 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU.S.A.T. Antilles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy and typed letter copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree copies, one has notes for history book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems are in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMounted official memo of radio communication\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, First Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, 1st Class, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E. Date recorded as written.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, First Class, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, 1st Class\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, possibly spelled Hannan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentification unconfirmed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorporal, Company E\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate, 1st Class, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSergeant, Company D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany D\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the \u003ctitle\u003eThe First Battalion\u003c/title\u003e. Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5x7 \u0026amp; 8x10 prints\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection \u003ctitle\u003eFragments from France\u003c/title\u003e and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French, folder title is translation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnvelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost for Division of Pictures photo orders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e. A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ctitle\u003eThe Bystander\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome items in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies with signatures\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. 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The collection contains 3 series.","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","A 1921 edition of the  The First Battalion  was cataloged and available for researchers as part of our rare books collection. Full title information available at this link:  The First battalion : the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal Corps, U.S. Army .","Series 1: Personal correspondence (1910-1944) includes sent and received personal correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and postcards. The bulk of the correspondence covers Griest's time serving with the 406th Telegraph Battalion from June 1917 – March 1919 and are between Griest and his wife Mary Cooper Griest. Many of these letters also contain pressed flowers which have been rehoused but retained in context and noted at the folder level. Additional correspondence includes letters from Mary prior to her marriage to Thomas, as well as correspondence with family, friends, and various businesses and military officials related to personal matters. Several contain newspaper clippings or forwarded letters from others and a number of letters are written in French. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent last name, organization title, or type of correspondence.","Two copies of Februrary letter, one in French and one in English. March letter only in French. Folder includes a handwritten poem in English and a magazine clipping in French.","Folder includes a letter from Thomas Bruder with contact information for his son H.J.","Two postcards, one in English and one in French","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Mary's uncle (her mother's brother)","Includes detailed account of his trip to Mexico","Thomas' sister. Includes pressed flower.","Thomas' mother","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letters signed Mary Cooper Johnson","Letter is a \"postscript\" to previous letter, but context has been lost","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes an exchange of letters between Thomas from his sister Katharine that he forwarded to Mary on November 1.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes Christmas Greeting letter and card from University of Pennsylvania forwarded to Thomas by Mary.","Includes Application for Insurance dated February 5 and pressed flowers. Newspaper removed from February 11 envelope and stored in Box 19, Folder 7.","Includes pressed flowers and booklet for \"The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia\" Annual Exhibition which featured art by Mary.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Newspaper removed from envelope containing Armistice official army notices and stored in Box 19, Folder 6.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers, December 21 letter originally had pine needles and stem included, these were removed for storage concerns.","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Includes pressed flowers","Was removed from envelope sent by Thomas to Mary containing Armistice official army notices, see Box 8, Folder 5.","Was removed from February 11 envelope sent by Mary to Thomas, see Box 4, Folder 3.","Thomas' cousin, son of his his uncle Ellwood Griest, member of the House of Representatives, 9th District, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.","Letters sent to Mary and Thomas, in French","Thomas' father-in-law, folder includes some correspondence sent to Mary","Thomas's brother-in-law, some telegrams possibly intended for Mary","Thomas' nephew, son of his brother-in-law Howard Cooper Johnson, in French","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes correspondence sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Thomas' mother-in-law, includes corresponden sent to Mary. Includes pressed flowers.","Mary's aunt, her father's sister","Vice President of Bell Telephone Company","Mixed senders, most letters addressed to Thomas.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\". Folder includes one unaddressed letter from Mary Griest also written in French. Includes pressed flowers.","Letters in French from two or three friends in Vosages and Paris, France. Signatures are unclear, one last name appears to be \"Garcin\".","Letter regarding sun glasses order","Western Union Cablegram","Mixed senders, most appear to be from fellow soliders","Series 2: 406th Telegraph Battalion (circa 1900s-1920s) includes materials created by and related to members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces. It is further divided into three subseries. ","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type. ","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given. ","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","Sub-series 1: Official materials (1917-1920) includes reports, bulletins, field orders, rosters, and other materials and ephemera created by the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps and the First Army Corps American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as well as draft materials for the  The First Battalion , the history of the 406th Telegraph Battalion. Items are arranged alphabetically by document title or material type.","\"Signed\" by James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" by George T. Bartlett, Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Wood\"","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By Command of General Pershing\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Mounted official memo and includes small snapshot photograph of train derailment","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","Larger signs in Box 18, Folder 2","Smaller signs in Box 11, Folder 21","Orginally stored together in black binder. Folder includes handwritten binder cover notes.","U.S.A.T. Antilles","\"Signed\" H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; one \"Signed\" W.M. Fassett, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Wright\". Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Official copy and typed letter copy","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By command of Major General Liggett\"","Three copies, one has notes for history book","Mixed senders and recepients, includes some possible personal correspondece regarding finances","\"Signed\" by Malin Craig, Chief of Staff \"By Command of Major General Liggett\" except October which is \"By Command of Major General Dickman\"; one \"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, G.S. Some have handwritten notes or annotations.","Cover memo \"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff \"By command of General Pershing\"","\"Signed\" Jens Bugge, Colonel, \"By command of Major General Liggett\" ; \"Signed\" Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, \"By command of Major General Dickman\" ; \"Signed\" J.C. Montgomery, Colonel, General Staff, \"By Command of Major General Dickman\". No. 1 not dated.","Items are in French","Mounted official memo of radio communication","In French, \"Signed\" by General Degoutte","Regarding death of 1st Class Private John J. Hollowel. Signed by Joseph Smith, 1st Lieutenanat, S.C., U.S.R. Adjutant, \"By order of Captain Wattles\".","\"Signed\" by H.A. Drum, Chief of Staff, \"By command of General Pershing\"","Sub-series 2: Soldier personal accounts (circa 1918-1921) includes handwritten and typed first-person accounts from members of the Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps gathered by Griest for use in the 406th Telegraph Battalion history  The First Battalion . Folder dates reflect when the account was written and items are arranged alphabetically by soldier last name or by description of the content where no name is given.","This event happened on September 6, 1918, account was written on November 14, 1918. Possibly written by Colonel.","Sergeant, First Class, Company D","Company D","Private, 1st Class","Two accounts","Sergeant, 1st Class, Company E","Company E","Private, 1st Class","Corporal, Company D","Company E. Date recorded as written.","Sergeant, First Class, Company E","Corporal, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Sergeant, 1st Class","Corporal, possibly spelled Hannan","Private","Sergeant, Company D","Identification unconfirmed","Sergeant, Company E","Private, Company D","Company D, name does not appear to be listed in 406th Telegraph Battalion rosters.","Private, Company D","Account starts with page labeled \"Page 4\"","Private, Company D","Company E","Corporal, Company E","Sergeant, Company D","Private, 1st Class, Company D","Company D","Sergeant","Sergeant, Company D","Company D","Sub-series 3: Photographs and negatives (circa 1900s-1919) includes official press and personal photographs and negatives related to the 406th Telegraph Battalion and the United States military during World War I, as well as proof pages for the  The First Battalion . Some photographs include inscriptions or identifying information, including photographer stamps. This sub-series also includes a small number of personal portraits depicting members of the Griest family, Division of Picture photograph order forms, and official lists of photograph titles and identification numbers. The bulk of the materials cover 1917-1919 and items are arranged based on print size, topic, or material type.","5x7 \u0026 8x10 prints","Photographs on page 78 removed from wallet enclosure and originally stored with pressed leaves. Leaves have been placed in envelopes.","Series 3: Periodicals and ephemera (1899, circa 1911-1944) includes magazines, newspaper clippings, poems, souvenir postcards, programs, and general World War I and personal ephemera collected by Griest, as well as a personal daily diary for 1899. Several volumes of Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon collection  Fragments from France  and the Bell Telephone Company's employee magazine \"The Telephone News\" can be found in this sub-series. Items are arranged alphabetically by title or material type.","No signature, possibly referenced in letter in Series 1 or Series 2.2","Item is in French, folder title is translation","Item is in French","Envelopes were found loose, possibly match existing correspondence in Series 1","Most for Division of Pictures photo orders","Published by  The Bystander","Published by  The Bystander . A single newspaper clipping was removed from the inside back cover with cartoons and article about Corp. Powers and placed in Box 19, Folder 11.","Published by  The Bystander","Items are in French. Some postcards have notes written on back, but none were sent as part of correspondence.","Some items in French","Two copies with signatures","Tile and brickwork catalog in French. Item has extensive damage to spine, stored in folded paper for stability.","Item is in French","Item is in French and is very brittle, care should be taken when handling and paper used when moving for stability","Folder includes St. Genevieve prayer card that was stored inside booklet. 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