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Correspondence between the managers of company mines at Winding Gulf and Davy, W. Va. For the years 1911 and 1915. Subjects include: production levels of the various mines at Winding Gulf and Davey; available railroad car supply for the mines, New River and Pocahontas Operators Organization; financing mine development at Winding Gulf and Davy; operation difficulties at Winding Gulf mines with mention of specific failures in equipment during periods of operation; quality of Winding Gulf coal; problem of water in Mine No. 1, Winding Gulf; employment of minors in mines; Winding Gulf Association attitude toward railroad demurrage; lack of labor for mines during conditions of miners; German "Socialists" at Mabscott, West Virginia mine; Mabscott mine strike; Bottom Creek mine explosion at Vivian, W. Va.; embargoes placed on Winding Gulf mines by Virginian and C & O railroads; law suits involving Winding Gulf Company; increased and decreased requirements for coal tonnage at tidewater; Justus Collins' position toward the UMWA; 1915 agreement made by New River and Winding Gulf operators with UMWA; betterment of passenger train service by Virginian Railway on Winding Gulf branch; purchase of new coal property; possible interchange of railroad cars between Virginian and C & O railroads to insure adequate car supply at No. 2 Winding Gulf mine; increase of freight rates in 1915; good roads movement in Raleigh County, 1915. Correspondents include Justus Collins; A. M. Hendron; Geo. W. Stevens, Pres. C & O Railroad ; J. A. Renahan; Geo Wolfe; E. E. White; Geo. P. Daniels; Raymond DuPuy, Pres. Virginian Railway; P. A. Grady; and F. M. Cook.

Correspondence, minute books, financial records, photographs, broadsides, publications, and other materials of the League, and the archives of other defunct craft unions entrusted to the Window Glass Cutters League of America. Organizations other than the League whose records are included are: Local Assembly 300, Knights of Labor (ca.1876-1905); Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America (1904-08); Window Glass Cutters and Flatteners Association of America (1907-1929); Window Glass Workers Association of America (1902-1904); Window Glass Cutters and Flatteners Protective Association of America (1911-1925); and the National Window Glass Workers (1914-1924). See the scope and content note for information regarding record series found in this collection. See the control folder in the manuscripts room for a listing of contents.

Union materials collected by William J. Jones of Morgantown, West Virginia, including bylaws, constitutions, convention proceedings, and letters.

The Wise Family Collection consists of genealogical records related to the Wise family of Rockingham County, Virginia and information about the Wise family home in Bridgewater, Virginia. The family Bible, Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift dess Alten und Neuen Testaments, has been separated from the collection and cataloged as the Wise Family Bible.

Correspondence, ledger books, account and cashbooks of the Parkersburg, West Virginia, firm of Withers and VanDevender (later Wiant and VanDevender), specializing in timber cutting, but also dealing in real estate, coal, oil, and orange growing. Subjects include timber cutting methods, costs, timber shipping, floods, freezes, droughts, log jams, timberland locations, timber purchases and sales, salaries of timber workers, and fruit groves in Florida. Counties mentioned include: Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Marshall, Mercer, Nicholas, Ritchie, Roane, and Wirt. Firms and corporations mentioned include the Copen Creek Coal Company, Gilmer Fuel Company, MCCAA Coal Company, Marietta Chair Company, Nixolette Lumber Company, and the Parkersburg Mill Company.

The W. L. Dechert Corporation Records, 1890-1943, comprise two bound volumes containing historical information, financial records, meeting minutes, bylaws, and administrative information concerning Harrisonburg's W. L. Dechert Corporation.

Records of the Blacksville Chapter of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union. Includes: Secretary's Minute Books (1904-1982); program booklets (1944-1982); a proposed Constitution and ByLaws of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union (1977); THE WHITE RIBBON, Official Organ of the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union (1957-1982, scattered); and Annual Reports (1952/53-1981/82).