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Meeting minutes of the West Virginia University Council of Administration, 1915 to 1964, and meeting minutes for the West Virginia University Academic Council for November, 1965 to May, 1966.

This collection is comprised of photograph slides created within the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Landscape Architecture department and used most recently by a WVU Landscape Architecture professor, Peter Butler. The slides primarily feature historic sites, residential areas, cultural landscapes, and natural scenery within West Virginia. They also include photographs used for mining surveys, documentation of WVU campus events, and images from WVU Landscape Architecture classes and field trips. The photos represent Morgantown, Fairmont, Logan County, and Kanawha County; a few international sites, like Greece and Egypt (spread throughout the collection); and additional unspecified locations. A box-level contents list, including a rough approximation of photograph locations and topics, is available upon request by contacting the West Virginia & Regional History Center reference department.

This collection contains records from the Dean's Office of the West Virginia University's Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, ranging from the late-1940s to the mid-2000s.

Slides from the old Agricultural Science Building. Some of the presentations came from the Dorsey Resource Center, built at the Jackson's Mill Extension in 1978. Slides include informational presentations about various topics, primarily either educational materials or College programming. Educational materials are primarily presentations on the proper use and maintenance of various equipment, agricultural techniques, and laws/protocols. Slides on College programming and groups are largely unidentified, but include Programming in the Village of P, and the FFA (Future Farmers of America). There may also be some materials from the home economics program, such as a presentation titled "Home Safety: Home Design and Decoration." Slide presentations 6, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23, and 24 have an accompanying cassette, presentations 6, 12, 14, 16, 17, 25, 26, and 32 have papers (primarily scripts, but some include other informational materials), and presentation 25 has a film.

Publications and photographs relating to West Virginian botany and geology, originating from the WVU Department of Biology and Dr. Charles H. Baer, conservationist and professor of ecology. Topics include geological and archaeological surveys, studies of various sites, and West Virginian Flora. Also includes photographs of Spruce, West Virginia (Pulp Mill and Spruce Hotel, circa 1910-1912). Places mentioned include Randolph, Nicholas, Kanawha, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties, as well as Watoga and Droop Mountain Battlefield State Parks, Dolly Sods, and Cheat Lake. This collection includes Dr. Earl Core's Outlines of the Flora of West Virginia in an Acco binder, published by the WVU Bookstore in 1954. This is one of very few copies, and appears to be related to the "Flora of West Virginia" course he taught at WVU, rather than his seminal Flora of West Virginia.