Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Manuscript and galley proofs of THE OLD SOUTH ILLUSTRATED, by Porte Crayon, edited with an introduction by Cecil D. Eby, Jr. (1959); a manuscript draft of Eby's PORTE CRAYON; manuscript of a VIRGINIA YANKEE IN THE CIVIL WAR: THE DIARIES OF DAVID HUNTER STROTHER (1961); THE LIFE OF DAVID HUNTER STROTHER (1960); and photocopies of Strother's VIRGINIA ILLUSTRATED and his articles in HARPER'S MAGAZINE. Also contains Eby's curriculum vitae (1995) and a copy of his obituary (2015).

Papers and other materials of C. Edwin Baker (1947–2009) of Madisonville, Kentucky, an internationally prominent and prolific legal scholar, author of over 75 publications, and holder of the Nicholas Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania at the time of his passing. Baker authored four books: Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (1989), Advertising and a Democratic Press (1994), Media, Markets, and Democracy (2002), and Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters (2007). Baker's area of scholarship focused on the subjects of Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Media Policy. Baker held a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Yale University. His academic career included positions at the University of Oregon, University of Toledo, University of Pennsylvania, and the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was staff attorney. Baker held three fellowships at Harvard. He was also appointed to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Baker held visiting faculty status at New York University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, the University of Texas, and Harvard. Correspondence, course materials, book and article drafts, and subject files document the academic career and scholarship of C. Edwin Baker.