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Start Over Creator Fleming, Dolores A., 1933-2015 Level Collection

Dolores Fleming, Collector, Miscellaneous Morgantown Items 0.9 Linear Feet Summary: 10 3/4 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 film canister, 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1/4 in.)

Fleming, Dolores A., 1933-2015
Miscellaneous Morgantown items: two Geological Survey maps including the Point Marion-Morgantown area; stationery and two postcards for Jamison Cattle Dealers (ca. 1920s?); three photos of auto parts store (ca. 1940s?); sales contract for motor trucks (1918); Morgantown High School commencement programs (1891,1898); two maps for "Suncrest Park" (1927) and "Suncrest Lake Addition" (undated); oral history transcript of Walter L. Hart, editor of Dominion News, by JFK Library regarding DC politics (1964); history of Westover Church, with photos (ca. 1930s); prospectus material including project photos of Baker and Coombs, General Contractors (ca. 1939-51); patterns and photos of glassware by Seneca Glass (ca. 1950s-60s); motion picture of Weirton, WV (ca. 1953).
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Dolores Fleming, Compiler, Typescript Manual for Interpreting the Nineteenth Century Parkersburg Home of the Cook and Barker Families 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 items

Fleming, Dolores A., 1933-2015
Typescript manual titled "The Cook House: A Manual for the Interpretation of the Nineteenth Century Home of Tillinghast Almy and Betsey Cook" prepared by Dolores Fleming in 1984. The volume discusses the genealogy of the Cook and Barker familes of Parkersburg, West Virginia and surrounding areas during the late 18th and 19th centuries. It also includes an extensive discussion of the architecture and furnishings of the Cook House, built in the late 1820's, as well as copies of original census records, photographs, legal records, and maps. There is also a brochure (2 copies) about the Cook House with a brief history of the Cook family and The Junior League of Parkersburg.
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Dolores Fleming, Research Papers regarding the Glass Industry, South Park Homes, and Other Topics 1.91 Linear Feet 3 document cases, 5 in. each; 2 document cases, 2.5 in. each; 1 flat storage box, 3 in. 0.29 Gigabytes 3 files, formats include .doc, .docx, and .ppt

Fleming, Dolores A., 1933-2015
Research papers of Dolores Fleming, a West Virginia historian. The collection includes research regarding the local glass industry (particularly Seneca Glass in Morgantown), the South Park neighborhood in Morgantown (including national register of historic places documents), the historic Cook House in Parkersburg, and Friendship Hill.
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Seneca Glass Company Records 31.63 Linear Feet 11 document cases, 5 in. each; 15 records cartons, 15 in. each; 5 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each; 1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.; 2 rolled storage tubes, 6 in.; 16 ledgers, 6 ft. 5 in.

Seneca Crystal

Catalogs, reports, contracts, correspondence, blueprints, drawings, certificates, deeds, and photographs of Seneca Glass Company, a Morgantown glass manufacturer noted for its production of handmade lead crystal glassware. The materials of this collection give insight into some of the daily activities of the company and its union such as determination of wages, settling of labor grievances, plans for expansion and modernization, productivity statistics, and stock inventories. Specifically noteworthy are the earliest certificate of incorporation in West Virginia, original construction blueprints by Elmer F. Jacobs, and early catalogs of the company's product line. There are also extensive addenda of Seneca Glass records that were acquired in 2005, 2019, and 2021; a contents list for the 2005 addendum can be found in the control folder onsite.

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West Virginia University, Medical Center, Research Materials 6.5 Linear Feet 6 ft. 6 in. (5 records cartons, 15 in.); (1 flat storage box, 3 in.)

Fleming, Dolores A., 1933-2015

Research materials regarding the history of the West Virginia University Medical Center (now the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center) compiled between 1960 and 1989 by Dolores A. Fleming, Jeanne Grimm, and Patricia Schumann, authors of Generation of Growth: A Contemporary View of the West Virginia School of Medicine, published in 1990. Materials include subject files related to administration, continuing education, curriculum, endowments, financing, University Hospital, medical corporation, the nursing school, research, residency programs, special conferences, faculty, students, technology, and departments within the center. Also includes two boxes of photographs and negatives chiefly from the 1960s and 1970s from the former office of the Medical Center News and Information Service and from various publications of the hospital and school.

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West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records 19.67 Linear Feet 19 ft. 7 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each; 10 record cartons, 15 in. each; 5 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each; 4 flat storage boxes, 4 in. each; 3 flat storage box, 6 in.; 1 oversized record carton, 17 in.)

West Virginia University. Center for Women's Studies

The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women's Studies Center, now called the Center for Women's and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include papers used by the West Virginia Women's Studies Center in their outreach and activity groups in 2002. The collection was divided into fifteen series based upon legacy titles provided with the original transfer of materials as well as addendums and restricted materials:

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