West Virginia
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Charleston, West Virginia Account Book,
Collection consists of a ledger listing accounting information for an unidentified business located in the Charleston, West Virginia area.
County Map of Virginia and West Virginia
Map is among the earliest to distinguish West Virginia from Virginia.
Bettie D. Cramer Manuscript Book,
The collection consists of a manuscript receipt book created by/belonging to Bettie D. Cramer of Wheeling, West Virginia, c. 1883. The notebook contains recipes, housekeeping tips, and elocution exercises.
Curry Family Letters
Family in Atchison County, Missouri, writing to family and friends in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Nine letters in which they write about the beauty of the country, Grange and revival meetings, crops, weather, sickness, and deaths.
Esaw Worrell Franklin Letter
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.
Samuel Bolitho Jeffries Diaries
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.
J. D. Kingsbury Papers
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.
Map of the Twelve-Pole and Part of the Guyandot Basins, Showing the location of Coal, Oil, Gas, Iron and Timber Lands, In Wayne, Cabell, Lincoln, and Logan Counties, West Virginia
Map shows land owned by the Guyandot Coal Land Association in the Guyandot basin, in West Virginia. It displays some railroads and openings in coal beds.
Thomas R. Martin Letters,
The collection contains two letters written by Pvt Thomas R. Martin, Company F, 10th Virginia Cavalry (1st Cavalry Regiment, Wise Legion) to his parents. One is dated September 22, 1861 and written from Sewell, VA (now WV), the second is from Gordonsville in May 1863.