Series 1. Initial Acquisition, Letters, Clippings, Photographs (Box 1), 1941/1968
- Containers:
- Box 1, Folder 1-3
- Scope and content:
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Includes letters, clippings, and photographs regarding the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon sponsored by the Porte Crayon Memorial Society (1941); clippings regarding John Brisben Walker, David Hunter Strother's son-in-law, and the Mobile Company of America in Tarrytown, New York, an early automobile manufacturer started by JB Walker around 1898 (1958); photograph of Blackwater Falls with Louise Strother Shepard in left corner of picture (ca. 1950s); photocopies of portrait of John Esten Cooke by David Strother and the magazine article that the portrait appeared in (1968); clipping regarding capture of Confederate Colonel Angus McDonald by Colonel David Hunter Strother in 1864 (1949).
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia UniversityP.O. Box 60691549 University AvenueMorgantown, WV 26506
- Contact for questions and access:
- POC: Lori HostuttlerEmail: lori.hostuttler@mail.wvu.eduPhone: (304) 293-3536Web: wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu
- Parent restrictions:
- No special access restriction applies.
- Parent terms of access:
- 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.