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Curry Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-009
Abstract

Eleven letters received by members of the Curry family of Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia, written by relatives, mostly in Missouri and Illinois, relating to news of family members and mutual acquaintances, farm crops (particularly wheat), the weather, and church activities.

Dates: 1851 - 1881

Esaw Worrell Franklin Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2018-040
Abstract

The collection contains a letter written by Esaw Worrell Franklin, February 26, 1862, from the camp of the 29th Virginia Infantry, to his parents in Carroll County, Virginia.

Dates: 1862

Gary Restaurant and Railroad Crossing Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-008
Abstract

The collection contains a photograph of Gary restaurant and railroad crossing in McDowell Company-run Gary Township, West Virginia, circa 1990.

Dates: ca. 1990

Geological Map of a Portion of the Flat-Top Coal Field Showing the Approximate Outcrop of the Pocahontas or No. 3 Coal Bed in McDowell County, West Virginia

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0366
Abstract

Map shows the coal beds at Flat-Top Coal Fields in McDowell County, West Virginia. It contains an index of openings in the coal bed, and a scale of sections, as well as a key to limestone and shale locations.

Dates: November 1887

Hanawha Fall

 Collection — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art-068

Viola James Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-032
Abstract

The Viola James Collection contains membership cards for James as a member of the Clarksburg, West Virginia chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, which are in a wallet marked with the initials "KKK". The collection also has a blank application form and printed Christian literature related to the organization. It also includes a small framed tintype of two unidentified little girls.

Dates: c. 1920s

Samuel Bolitho Jeffries Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-016
Abstract

The collection contains Samuel Bolitho Jeffries (1884-1953) diaries from 1912-1951 (minus several individual years). These diaries depict both Jeffries' personal life, as well as his career as a civil engineer.

Dates: 1912 - 1951

Kenova, West Virginia (1890)

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0454
Abstract

This is a richly colored and detailed map of Kenova, W. Va., but with considerable damge from age.

Dates: 1890

J. D. Kingsbury Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-054
Abstract

Papers of J. D. Kingsbury, a missionary of the American Sunday-School Union of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working in Monongalia and Marion counties, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1854. Includes letters from American Sunday-School Union officers, a missionary working in counties adjacent to Kingsbury's, and J. S. McKinney of Palatine; and a form letter appointing Kingsbury as missionary.

Dates: 1854

Map and Street Guide , Bluefield, W. Va., (1929)

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0452
Abstract

This is a very clearly executed street map of Bluefield, West Virginia, published in 1929 by the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce.

Dates: 1929

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