Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Scrapbook of Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001), West Virginia University (WVU) student, class of 1934, and social worker at "The Shack" in Pursglove. Scrapbook includes: WVU Student Fee Card; WVU Freshman Handbook published by the Women's Student Government Association (1931-1932); advertisement for Non-Fraternity Student Body President; unidentified cyanotype; programs from the Nixon Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; WVU commencment program, 1934; WVU commencement invitation, 1932; autographs of Morgantown and Pursglove residents; dance cards; year booklet of the Delta Chapter of Phi Chi Delta, 1933-1934; WVU freshman week programs; WVU May Festival program, 1932; program for Kiwanis Midnight Minstrels Charity Show at the Warner Theatre; WVU ephemera (sports schedule card, 1933, varsity football schedule, 1931, student activity book, 1930-1931); two photographs of group portraits of fellow students; candid photographs of Mary Behner with others; Fairmont College student directory, 1930; Sigrid Onegin recital program, signed "Onegin," 1934; clippings regarding the YWCA; and other items. Anna DeLancy was a Sunday School teacher at The Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood house still operating in Pursglove. She founded the Beautiful Homes Club there, and was the recreation director after the founder Mary Behner Christopher left in 1938. She spent most of her life as a librarian in New York City.

Scrapbook by Betty Lou Allcock, resident of Elm Grove, Wheeling, WV. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, programs, greeting cards, etc. regarding World War II, Girl Scouts, Girl Reserves, Triadelphia High School, musical performances, and local news. Highlights include letters from soldiers before and during their deployment.

Collection includes an illustrated autograph book of May Ellen Smith of Pruntytown, (West) Virginia, with entries from 1849-1856; a manuscript newspaper, 1879; and an empty scrapbook.

Scrapbook titled LOOK TO THE WEALTH OF WEST VIRGINIA, containing layouts for ads prepared by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia.

In 1931 Graham compiled this scrapbook as a class project at East Fairmont High School. Includes ten letters from West Virginia authors which narrate experiences in their lives. Correspondents are: Robert A. Armstrong, J.M. Callahan, John Harrington Cox, J. Frank Marsh, Elizabeth Davis Richards, Frank S. Townsend, Ella May Turner, Grace Yoke White, and Bettie Bush Winter. Also includes original copy of sheet music for the song "Farewell W.V.U. Farewell" with autographed photograph of composer Elizabeth Davis Richards.

An 18 in. x 14.5 in. scrapbook of lyrics to American folksongs copied from turn of the century newspapers and magazines. Among the more than 1000 titles included are "Kentucky Belle", "Bonny Black Bess", "Life's Railway to Heaven", "The Blackberry Girl", "Robin Redbreast", and "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder".

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings regarding the Greener Hills program of the West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Service. The Greener Hills program stressed balanced grasslands farming and its importance for livestock raising in the state. The clippings provide information on various activities and programs of the Greener Hills program, including regional meetings, lectures, farm demonstrations, and publications.

Two scrapbooks kept by Congressman John M. Wolverton's Washington office, documenting his activities as West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1925-30. Subjects covered include the Republican Party and Congressional elections.