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<ead><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-WvMtURHC" url="https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/266092">A&amp;M 4698</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper><title><part>Richwood News Leader</part></title> Photographic Negatives and Other Material <num>A&amp;M 4698</num></titleproper><author>Grace Musgrave</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>West Virginia and Regional History Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref actuate="onLoad" href="https://host.lib.wvu.edu/images/logos/wvrhc.jpg" show="embed" type="simple"/></p><p><date>2025 September 23</date></p><address><addressline>1549 University Ave. </addressline><addressline> P.O. Box 6069 </addressline><addressline>Morgantown, WV 26506-6069</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 304-293-3536</addressline><addressline>wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" show="new" title="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-06-22 23:00:28 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle><title><part>Richwood News Leader</part></title> Photographic Negatives and Other Material</unittitle>
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      <corpname role="cre" source="ingest">Richwood News Leader</corpname>
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    <unitid>A&amp;M 4698</unitid>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">10.63 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">2 record cartons, 15 in. each; 19 document cases, 5 in. each; 1 document case, 2.5 in.; 1 oversize folder, 0.01 in.</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1940/2019" type="inclusive">circa 1940s-1960s, 2010s, and undated</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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<p>Assorted photographic negatives, lithographic film positives, and other material from the <title><part>Richwood News Leader</part></title>, a newspaper founded by Jim Comstock in Richwood, WV (1947). Also includes several prints, contact sheets, and other material generated as part of the publishing of "Jim Comstock: Collection IV -- Hillbillies, Coal, and Mountain Lions" by Mark Romano and Anne Johnson.</p>  </scopecontent>
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