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    <abstract id="aspace_bae54ae29768e9d7b3202ef30013f85e">Twenty portrait photographs of prominent nineteenth-century West Virginia politicians, many of whom played a part in the movement for statehood. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information, including a list of names.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Partridge and Critcherson, Photography Studio, Portraits of West Virginia Politicians, A&amp;M 4354, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>For an additional portrait in this series, see item with identifier 027952 (Daniel D.T. Farnsworth) in the photograph catalog "West Virginia History OnView".</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Twenty "carte de visite" (CDV) portrait photographs of prominent nineteenth-century West Virginia politicians, many of whom played a part in the statehood movement. The logo of the photography studio, Partridge and Critcherson Photographic Artists of Wheeling, is printed on the reverse side of the photographs. Each politician depicted is identified in pencil on the reverse side. Many of these men served in the West Virginia state senate during the fifth session (1867).</p><p>Politicians depicted are Isaac H. Duvall; William B. Zinn; Reuben Martin; Andrew Wilson; John Burdett; James Burley; Joseph T. Hoke; Charles A. Thatcher; Samuel Young; Emmett J. O'Brien; Daniel Haymond; A. C. Werninger; Greenbury Slack; D. H. K. Dix; Edward D. Wright; Robert Hagar; James Carskadon; Abijah Dolly; Ellery R. Hall; and E. W. S. Moore.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the <a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright" target="_blank">Permissions and Copyright page</a> on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101240" source="lcsh">Portrait photography</subject>
    <occupation authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104461" source="lcsh">Politicians</occupation>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - politics.</subject>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Burdett, John S.</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Burley, James.</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">O'Brien, Emmett J.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88127958" role="dpc" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Duval, Isaac Harding, 1824-1902</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Young, Samuel</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Werninger, A.C.</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Slack, Greenbury.</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" source="ingest">Wright, Edward.</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Zinn, William B., 1795-1875</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Martin, Reuben, 1802-1890</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Wilson, Andrew, 1810-1883</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Hoke, Joseph T. (Joseph Thatcher), 1835-1910</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Thatcher, Charles A., ca.1808-1893</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Haymond, Daniel, 1787-1874</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Dix, D. H. K., 1828-1911</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Hager, Robert (Robert W.), 1810-1878</persname>
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    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Dolly, Abijah, 1817-1898</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Hall, Ellery R. (Ellery Robinson), 1834-1868</persname>
    <persname role="dpc" rules="local" source="local">Moore, E.W.S. (Edwin W. S.), 1845-ca.1900</persname>
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