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Lewis Haymond, Photograph Album of Students and Friends at West Virginia University, 1870/1880 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (22 items in 1 album)

Findley, Flora

One photo album (2 3/4 in. x 5 in.) dated 1 April 1870, owned by Lewis Haymond (date and name inscribed), including twenty-one portrait photographs of friends and West Virginia University students. Seven of the photographs are tintypes, and the other fourteen are carte de visite or CDV sized images. Twelve CDVs were produced by Morgantown photographer J.P. Shafer. Some of the subjects in the photographs are identified.

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Linda Blake, Collector, Class Notebooks of West Virginia University Student Isaac L. Van Voorhis, 1898/1916 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 1/4 in. (2 folders)

Two school notebooks kept by Isaac L. Van Voorhis and a pamphlet regarding penmanship and book-keeping. The notebooks were kept while Van Voorhis was a sophomore at West Virginia University and living in the Sigma Chi House. One of the notebooks was used for the second semester of History 23 and the other for Zoology I.
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Lucy Shuttleworth Dunlap, West Virginia University Student, Diary and Scrapbook, 1913/1921 0.3 Linear Feet 3 1/2 in. (1 flat storage box)

Dunlap, Lucy Shuttleworth
Diary and scrapbook kept by Lucy Shuttleworth Dunlap (31 Mar 1898 - 7 Aug 1983), a student at Morgantown High School and at West Virginia University. Dunlap kept the diary between 1918 and 1921. Diary entries mainly regard Dunlap's social life (including dances, dates, movies, and travel) and personal feelings (including friendships, family, and romantic relationships). Entries of note regard an outbreak of Spanish Influenza in Morgantown (5 October 1918), the end of World War I (November 1918), and seeing Geraldine Ferrar in concert (1 November 1919). The scrapbook contains material from 1913-1921, with most of the material dating from 1916-1921. Like the diary, the scrapbook mainly regards Dunlap's social life, containing invitations; dance cards; programs for plays, concerts, and school commencements; bridge tallies; party favors; placecards; and news clippings regarding social events. The scrapbook also contains two black and white photographs of groups of young women, likely including Dunlap (1917), as well as pressed flowers. Dunlap was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma women's fraternity and the diary and scrapbook frequently mention Greek Life events.
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Mary J. Tarowsky, Compiler, West Virginia University Photographs and Ephemera, 1898/1966 0.83 Linear Feet 1 document case, 5 in.; 2 document cases, 2.5 in. each

Tarowsky, Mary Judith Young

Collection includes mostly West Virginia University ephemera, publications, photographs, and negatives, collected by the Young family. Much of the WVU ephemera was likely collected by Guy Bell Young (1874-1962) during his time at the university. Also includes photographs and negatives produced by his son, Guy Bayard Young (1908-1999). Many of these images are from 1936-1937 and pertain to WVU; subjects include Esther Benford (the first woman to receive a civil engineering degree from WVU, and about whom Bayard Young wrote a news article), WVU football games (especially WVU vs. University of Pittsburgh), WVU's Corps of Cadets and their band, and various other student activities. Also includes a few photos of Jackson's Mill, and images of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jennings Randolph speaking from the back of a train.

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Max Mathers Collection Papers, 1821/1957 6.6 Linear Feet Summary: 6 ft. 6 1/2 in. (13 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (2 large flat storage boxes, 5 in. each); (1 oversize folder, 1/2 in.)

Mathers, Max
Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical and local history interests, and his participation in civil defense planning for Morgantown, as well as his service on the local selective service board. There are letters and financial records of earlier members of the Morgan family, mostly of the Civil War period and later, but including two early 19th century account books and some early letters. Some of the names of Morgan ancestors are Elijah Morgan, Elizabeth Morgan, H.M. Morgan, H.D. McGeorge, N.H. McGeorge, and John R. Morgan. Photographs are largely of the Mathers family, but there are a few of the 175th anniversary of Monongalia County, and the dedication of a monument to Col. Zackquill Morgan, ancestor of Mathers and founder of Morgantown. The newspaper clippings cover personal mentions of Max Mathers and his family as well as local history articles, local events, and the family's involvement in the search for missing soldiers after the Korean conflict. The scrapbook was put together by Eugene L. Mathers, Max Mathers' father, and documents Monongalia County events, 1838-1951. In addition, there is a collection of greeting cards covering the first half of the 20th century and a collection of broadsides going back to the 1850s.
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Mountainlair Action Coalition, Miscellaneous Items, 1976 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 folder

Mountainlair Action Coalition
A group of West Virginia University students formed the Mountainlair Action Coalition in Jan. 1976 to persuade university administrators not to lease food services in the student union (Mountainlair) to a fast food franchise. This collection consists primarily of publicity material: leaflets, newspaper clippings, xeroxed magazine and newspaper articles, and similar items. There are also handwritten notes, a skit about the food franchise issue, transcribed interviews with nutritionists and with member of Local 814 of the Laborers International Union.
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Rosalie Stewart Detch, Papers and Ephemera, 1907/1982 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Detch, Rosalie Stewart.
Papers and ephemera of Rosalie Stewart Detch, West Virginia University alumna and school teacher and administrator in Greenbrier County. Includes material regarding Detch's father John L. Stewart, her time as a student at WVU, and her career in education. Includes programs, news clippings, tickets, schedules, postcards, and photographs, among other material. See "Scope and Content Note" for further information.
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"The Texaco Star Theater Broadcast" of Student Competition, 1942 .1 Linear Feet 1/2 in. (1 cassette in 1 folder)

Broadcast of 14 June 1942 of student talent competition on "The Texaco Star Theater" starring comedian Fred Allen. A West Virginia University student won during this particular broadcast. It was part of a series of shows during the 1941-1942 season where students, selected by student bodies at colleges and universities, would compete in a talent show. They would travel to New York as Fred Allen's guest, perform, and be paid a salary for the week. [From information provided by the donor.]

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