Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Publications, sound recordings, and other material documenting the career of Ann Magnuson, an actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. She worked at Club 57 in New York, a gathering place for artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

Records of the Appalachian Prison Book Project, a non-profit organization that supports and furthers educational justice throughout the Appalachian region by providing books and educational opportunities to incarcerated people, among other initiatives. These records include primarily correspondence from people in prison requesting specific books, as well as notebooks logging volunteer hours and books sent and other materials (Box 46), and incarcerated pen pal letters (Box 49).

Papers of the Rev. Bonnie Bowman Thurston, religious scholar and author of Wheeling, West Virginia, including drafts of her books; six books of her poetry; working notebooks; personal correspondence; planners and calendars; newspaper clippings; and other material.

This collection contains the papers of Bonnie L. Brown, a feminist activist and former representative in the West Virginia House of Delegates (1982-2012). The majority of materials are various collected papers from conferences and events Brown attended between 1974 and 2022.

Papers of Chris Sarandon, Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and star of numerous movies and television shows. This collection contains videos of the actor's filmography, a selection of scripts, and other papers from movies and television. To a lesser extent, the collection also includes correspondence to and from Chris Sarandon, notes and outlines authored by Chris Sarandon regarding scripts and script changes, and some photographic material.

This collection includes materials pertaining to Christine Weiss Daugherty and her work with women's economic development, rural economic development, non-profit management, and international development.

This collection contains facsimiles of historic documents gathered by the authors of the book Cass Gilbert's West Virginia State Capitol by Ann Thomas Wilkins and David G. Wilkins. The authors, both art historians, thoroughly researched both the West Virginia State Capitol from an artistic perspective, as well as the architect Cass Gilbert. The first part of the collection consists of documents in folders by year, 1923-1934, and include Cass Gilbert's correspondence regarding building of the Capitol, Gilbert's contract, reports from the Capitol Building Commission, financial details including payment to Gilbert and cost of various ornamentations, details regarding the selection of inscriptions and state animals, public opinion expressions, and completion and dedication of the building. The facsimiles of reports, entire books and journals, full archives finding aids, blueprints and more come from the archives of the New York Historic Society, the West Virginia State Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American History, the Northwest Architectural Archives, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Facsimile of David Minear's pension application/affidavit for serving in the Revolutionary War, a corrected version of C.J. Maxwell's transcription of it, and Jeffrey Felton's transcription. Also includes Felton's transcription of Nathan Goff's assessment of Minear's claim for pension.

Two scrapbooks compiled by Dennis Wainstock that include clippings of the articles/editorials he wrote for the The Daily Athenaeum, the student-run newspaper, during his time as a graduate student in history at West Virginia University, from 1974 to 1984. Wainstock was an active member of the Socialist Party U.S.A. and the Morgantown chapter of the War Resisters League, a national secular pacifist organization founded by opponents of World War I. The articles include his perspectives and options on current events, debated political issues, and the political activities of the left-wing student groups at West Virginia University.