Collections

Records of the WVU Department of History, consisting of applications for positions, invoices, purchase records, material on the Army Special Training Program, and faculty material such as grade books, exams, lecture notes, and course outlines.

Includes records created and used by the West Virginia University Extension Service's Mining Extension program. This collection reflects a broad range of the program's activities, like material from classes offered on topics such as mine gas metering, fire and emergency prevention, mine engineering, industrial machinery, welding, and mine protection. It also features administrative records, like instructor travel expense logs, budget information and supply requests, departmental correspondence, correspondence with mining industry governing agencies, documentation of certificates conferred by the program, and more. Additionally, it includes material related to the practical mining work that the Mining Extension oversaw and had students participate in at locations like Rush Run and with entities like the Scotia Coal and Coke Company. These records include things like coal return receipts, weekly coal reports, and documentation of injuries, deaths, and related compensation. Lastly, there is a small quantity of material relating to the Fire Service Extension's programming, which looks to have shared some overlapping faculty with the Mining Extension at the time these records were created. These items mainly include correspondence, both within and outside of the department, and material from classes taught by the program. The majority of the collection, Mining Extension records, comprises Series 1. The smaller portion of the collection, the Fire Service Extension records, comprises Series 2.

Collection of photographs and printed material from the West Virginia University Extension Service. The photographs include 4-H camps, Farm Women's Clubs and other various activities. Many are unidentified or undated. The printed material includes some annual reports, Extension Service publications regarding wildlife and tourism, and books on regional colleges and extension programs. Also included are photographs and reports from Oglebay Institute in Wheeling, WV.

Records of the WVU Extension Service. Collection includes instructional booklets on cooking, decorating, and sewing from the 1910s to the 1960s, materials on rural electrification in West Virginia in the 1930s, annual conference programs, and materials on incomes and family budgets. Also includes materials relating to the Farm Woman's Club in West Virginia, studies of school children during the 1940s, and studies of cost of living in rural areas during World War II. There are historical sketches of various county extension programs in the state of West Virginia, most of which describe their establishment and growth.

This collection contains the administrative records of the West Virginia University Extension Service. Subjects include West Virginia agriculture, forestry, 4-H and other youth and community outreach programs. Formats include correspondence, reports, publications, curriculum files, photographs, slides, sound recordings and films.

Records of the Extension Service of West Virginia University. The records relate to the work of the Extension Service with the tourist home program, 1930-1933, and West Virginia women's efforts on the home front during World War II effort. War efforts include food preservation and conservation education and training including measures and programs such as annual food conservation schools for home economists with companies and agencies; the coordination of the Neighborhood Leaders program for farm families; women's farming including the Women's Farm Army through the Farm Women's Bureau and Farm Women's Clubs; and a mattress making program to use excess cotton. A few miscellaneous documents briefly touch on the history of the Extension Service as well as its wide range of activities.