West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia Glass Plate Negatives
A&M 4045
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36.67 Linear Feet
36 ft. 8 in. (81 document cases, 5 in. each; 14 document cases, 2.5 in. each)
ca. 1890-1920
Collection of 77 boxes of glass plate negatives and 18 boxes of sleeves that originally contained the negatives, which have descriptive information pertaining to the negatives. Glass plate negatives were taken by various creators. Subjects include portraits of Morgantown citizens, parades, industry, businesses, buildings, churches, High Street, and bridges. Outside of Morgantown, areas depicted include Monongalia County, Morgan County, Mason County, Martinsburg, Lewis County, Jefferson County, Hampshire County, Harpers Ferry, Grant County, Hardy County, Berkeley County. Subjects depicted outside of Morgantown but of an unidentified location include logging and lumbering, industry, fairs, exhibits, congresses, coal mines and mining, caves, camps, canals, agriculture, bridges.
Boxes 1-33a contain glass plate negatives
Boxes 34-52 contain sleeves
Please note that transcriptions of the text on the sleeves are only available online for boxes 1-12a; the rest have yet to be transcribed.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Conditions Governing Access
Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia & Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.
Please note that only about 32% of the glass plates are available online in WVHOV. The rest have been digitized and files can be requested by contacting the reference department.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from WVU. Libraries. West Virginia and Regional History Center, 2014/09/11
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia Glass Plate Negatives, A&M 4045, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.