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This addendum includes photographs and negatives, such as negatives of the 1978 Fourth of July and the 1979 Helvetia Fair (1978-1979); oral history releases (1979); a deed pertaining to Upshur and Randolph Counties (1874); Helvetia Farm Women's Club records, record book, and correspondence (1950-2004); Margrit Schneider, nee Steiger, Swiss and American legal papers, including naturalization certificate (1928-1961); Favri correspondence and a typescript Favri family history (1998, undated); and Helvetia: The History of a Swiss Village in the Mountains of West Virginia by David H. Sutton, with two CDs of images used in the book (2010).

Includes 120 numbered photographs of the Aegerter family and other families of the Helvetia community. The numbers are referenced in a 198 page topical index which provides identification of people and other subject matter in the photographs. There are also images documenting activities such as farming, hunting, clearing timber, playing music, and traveling by horse drawn carriage, among other topics. Photographs numbered 8, 43, 46, 47, 54, 61, 62, 72, 80-84, 89, 100, and 109-114 are missing from this series.

Includes 120 numbered photographs of the Aegerter family and other families of the Helvetia community. The numbers are referenced in a 198 page topical index which provides identification of people and other subject matter in the photographs. There are also images documenting activities such as farming, hunting, clearing timber, playing music, and traveling by horse drawn carriage, among other topics. Photographs numbered 8, 43, 46, 47, 54, 61, 62, 72, 80-84, 89, 100, and 109-114 are missing from this series.

Includes unidentified photographs of Aegerter family members (originally filed together in a box) similar to those of Series 11 and 12. The Aegerter photographs in this series were originally filed with the Aegerter glass plates in Series 17; there is no apparent connection between this series and Series 17.

Includes 35 photos of the Hofer family. Most individuals are identified; identifications are recorded to the back of each print. Family members identified within this series include: John Sr., John, Susie, Ruth, Ernest, Caroline, Gottlieb, Ida, Carrie, Katherina, and Mary Isch. There is no apparent connection between this series and Series 18.

Includes a greeting card book belonging to Paul Aegerter, the diary of Ruth Ramsey Marti (1961), a photograph of Mary Ramsey Marti, a photograph of the Ramsey family in Webster County, West Virginia (1896), the Confirmation Certificate of Herman Schneider (1889), a broadside from the Annual Helvetia Ramp Supper (1988), pictures of Helvetia (1890-1910), and a published illustration of Helvetia (1876), and a few more items.

Includes 24 glass plate negatives of Helvetia families. Plates of images of the Aegerter and Burkey families in folder 1 are identified; other plates of family images, however, are not identified. Other glass plates depict recreational and outdoor scenes of Helvetia. Folders 2-13 of this series were originally filed with the Aegerter photographs in Series 13. There is no apparent connection between this series and Series 11, 12, and 13.

Includes 12 glass plate negatives of members of the Hofer family and Helvetia community participating in recreational activities such as horseback riding and reading on a creek bank. The glass plates also depict a statue of a horse, a scarecrow in a field, a man holding a Pentecostal hymn song book, as well as other individuals and scenes of Helvetia, West Virginia. There is no apparent connection between this series and Series 14.