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Deb Green, Collector, Battleship USS West Virginia Memorabilia, 1936/1940 2.5 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder, 8 items)

Material regarding the battleship USS West Virginia (commissioned 1923, decommissioned 1947), including photographs, memoranda, "orders of the day," radio messages, press summaries, menus ("bill of fare"), programs for holiday and recreational events, wing fabric from a USS West Virginia plane, and newspapers with articles regarding the ship. Material mainly regards the day-to-day operations of the ship and its crew, as well as special events such as holidays, sports competitions, and film showings. Material within this collection dates from before the entry of the United States into World War II.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Deborah Logan Papers, 1938 0.01 Linear Foot

The collection is typescripts, most of which are letters, 1829- 1837, from Deborah Norris Logan at "Stenton," Germantown, Pa. to her grand-niece Deborah Norris Woodson of Goochland Court House, Va.

  1. College of William and Mary

Deborah Turbeville Photoshoot of Cy Twombly, 1982 26 Gigabytes 173 digitized items

Turbeville, Deborah, 1932-2013
In 2016, the Deborah Turbeville Foundation gifted the museum two photographs of Cy Twombly in his studio in Bossano in Teverina, Italy. In addition, the Foundation loaned slides and contact sheets that document the entire photoshoot and allowed the museum to digitize them as supporting contextual material. The digital files are available for research on-site at the Freeman Library.
  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Debra Harr, Collector, Hopemont Hospital Photographs and Papers, 1926/1930 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each)

Harr, Hester Luetta
Photographs (166 items) featuring Hester Luetta Harr, a West Virginia University student and patient at the West Virginia State Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Preston County, West Virginia, during the late 1920s, including candid portraits of patients and staff. Also includes pictures of her brother Guy Harr and others who appear to be friends and fellow students from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. There are also several views of the Cheat River, a photographic group portrait of the Terra-Alta Fire Department, and a 1926-1927 WVU Student Handbook owned by Guy Harr. Includes a total of 166 photographs. [Includes 76 photographs that are scanned to be made available online (53 items 2.75' x 4.5', 9 items 3.5' x 5.75', 8 items 2.5' x 3.5', 5 items 3' x 5', 1 item 1' x 3.5'); the other 90 photographs are unscanned. For photographs related to this collection, go to wvhistoryonview.org and search for this collection's four digit call number (otherwise known as an A&M number).
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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