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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.

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 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 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).

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 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).