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      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)</extent>
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    <physloc id="aspace_68ef000e361123bf0fc797b681600836">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: <a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/">West Virginia &amp; Regional History Center</a></physloc>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Bowman Collection Papers, A&amp;M 2700, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>This collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, a ledger, scrapbooks, advertising cards, brochures and photographs of the Preston County, West Virginia, area. The letters in the collection are between members of the Brown and Morgan families of Kingwood, Albright, and Reedsville and of New Interest, Randolph County. The principal correspondents are J. Slidell Brown, Ben L. Brown, Etta Brown, Daisy May Morgan, and Harriet Y.C. Morgan and a friend of the families, John A.F. Martin.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032203" source="lcsh">Preston County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber=" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000413" source="lcsh">Account books</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001086" source="lcsh">Advertising</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Brown, Ben L.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Brown, Etta.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Brown, J. Slidell.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Martin, John A. F.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Martin, John A. F.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Morgan, Daisy May.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Morgan, Harriet Y.C.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017250" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Brown family</famname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087256" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Morgan family</famname>
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