An early view of the site of the Morgantown Municipal Airport during construction. Text on back reads, "Municipal Airport: Road location from U. S. 119 - along second fence line."
West Virginia Farm Bureau Warehouse, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
1922
Description:
Front left to right: John W. Smith (Member of committee), James W. Carskadon (President), Nat T. Frame (Director of Extension), J. Blaine McLaughlin (Secretary).Back left to right: Dale Curry (Member of Committee), Izetta Jewell Brown (Member of Committee), Albert Leatherman (Member of Committee)."In front of the warehouse in Clarksburg where space had just been secured for the West Virginia Farm Bureau Wool Pool of 80,000 lbs. in 1922."
"A corner of the potato grading and marketing exhibit which sought to encourage better grading, higher quality and improved sacking of potatoes. Also the needs of Charleston and vicinity as a market."
R.J. Friant, Extension agronomist, WVU, discussed the results of the 1955 contest at Vo-ag Room, Clay High School, where second place award was given to Howard Fitzwater.
Construction of the Morgantown Municipal Airport, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1936/12/14
Description:
Text on the back reads: " 'C' Runway - from south side of runway at Station 25 and 50 - to east. Fill and 'cuts' to bring runway to grade - note grade poles."
Cooper's Rock Interchange on Corridor "E", Near Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1971/11/09
Description:
Text on the back reads, "The above aerial photo from the Department of Highways shows the area of Corridor "E" which includes the Cooper's Rock interchange in Cooper's Rock State Forest. The Harry Miller Excavating Company of Suffield, Ohio, is contractor for the work. Some 23 miles of construction currently is under way on the corridor in Monongalia and Preston counties at a cost of $50 million. The construction extends from near the western boundary of the forest all the way to the Maryland State Line, and also includes a three-mile segment which connects with Interstate 79 at Morgantown. Corridor "E" will be a four-lane highway from I-79 to the Maryland line for a total length of 31 miles."
Signs read: "For the Common Defense. Six Million Farmers have united to strengthen the nation. We have food and soil reserves unequaled in the world and Double Barreled Defense through the Farm Defense Program."
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles (left to right) wait at a Washington D. C. station for President Roosevelt to discuss the Nazi invasion of Denmark and Norway.
Delauder's Home after ronovations. caption reads: "They Sodded bare spots, built walks, planted shrubs, built a fence and enclosed foundation of the house."
Louis Johnson Meets with Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand, Washington D. C.
Date:
1950
Description:
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson greets Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand at the Pentagon during discussion of Thailand's offer of 4,000 combat troops for the war in Korea.
Louis Johnson Becomes National Commander of the American Legion, Portland, Oregon
Date:
1932/09/18
Description:
Text on back reads, "Louis A. Johnson, left, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, being congratulated by his predecessor Henry L. Stevens, after his election as national commander of the American Legion at the Portland, Oregon convention."
Legion Head Addresses Convention, Chicago, Illinois
Date:
1933/10/02
Description:
Text on the back reads, "The above photo shows Commander Louis Johnson of the American Legion as he addressed the members of the organization at the Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, when the convention was opened on October 2nd."
Students at the Fort Martin School, Fort Martin, W. Va.
Date:
1930/09
Description:
Students at the Fort Martin School pose for a group photograph. Pictured are an unidentified Everly child, Vergie Johnson, Juanita Thomas, Mildred Johnson, Loretta Johnson, Philip Hunt, Chas Hennen, John Herod, John Smith, John Johnson, Frances Thomas, Glenna Gribble, Lois Parker, Earl McCord, Elmore Thomas, Lemuel John, Morton VanVoorhis, Edward Thomas, Pearl McCord, Ruth Stadlbauer, Jessie Darling, and Chas Parker.
Students at the Rosedale School pose for a group photo. Pictured are Joe Hawes, Delvis Reese, Garnet Richards, Margaret Humphreys, May Savage, Sophie Bartylla, Dorothy Savage, Julia Fraze, Ralph Mayles, William Richards, Herschel Champ, Clyde Edgell, Carlos Humphrey, Bruce Savage, Billie Fraze, Henry Hawes, Lucille Lambert, Rosa Fraze, Margaret Lambert, Beatrice Allhiser, Waunita Hawes, Pauline Reese, Charlotte Cathell, and Isabelle Fraze.
Students at the Bailey School pose for a group photograph. Pictured are Pearl McCormick, Dale Davis, Laura Dugan, Virginia Kelly, Martha Dugan, Josephine Miller, Helen Weaver, Mary Jane Davis, Gertrude Malott, Konstan Thomas, Harwood Kelley, Hayward Kelley, James Thomas, Edith Fox, Blanche McCormick, Mildred Fox, Freeda Weaver, Andy Thomas, Frank Thomas, Sanford Fox, and Frank McCormick.
Fourth and Fifth Grades, Randall School, Randall, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
Students at the Randall School in Monongalia County pose for a group photo. Pictured are Betty Jean Martin, Helen Logan, Rose Forys, Angelo Fanti, Jackie McGee, Haydn Jones, Edith Price, Betty Jones, Dorothy Dayton, Ara Stump, Johnnie Shaffer, Eldora Dayton, Pearl Marshall, Garner McGee, Myrtle Friend, Albert Dayton, Bud Pritchard, Richard Price, Phyllis Moore, Merci Hernandez, Tony Treme, Cecil Perry, Mabel Self, Jessie Brown, Ardeth Gamble, Nellie Squires, Megan Pritchard, Arval Wagner, and George Costell.
Students at the Randall School pose for a group photograph. Pictured are Julia Mayor, Amy Price, Jean DeMedici, Anna Novichenk, Pauline Fortney, Crispin Hernandez, Victor Pritchard, Charles Bond, and Louis Dallacroce.
Students at the Randall School pose for a group photograph. Pictured are Charles Dallacroce, Sally Friend, Mary Fanti, Pearl Shaffer, Dorothy Mayor, Emrys Jones, John Bronisel, Glenn Logan, John McMahon, James Friend, Jessie Gamble, and Elmer Markley.
Students at the Randall School pose for a group photo. Pictured are Paul Novichenk, Fred Novichenk, Bronwen Jones, Bertha Yedlosky, Margret Perry, Joe Nolan, Thomas Pritchard, June Gutshall, Pasqueline Perry, Victoria Yedlosky, Pauline Spiroff, Katherine Chioso, Mary McMahon, Angeline Perry, Henry Self, Junior King, Julius Bronisel, Sylvia Boring, Ed Brown, Joe Forys, and Albert Boring.
Carl B. Allen at Press Conference on National Defense, Washington, D. C.
Date:
1951
Description:
C. B. Allen is seated on the far left. He reported military and Veterans Administration news as a member of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune from 1946 until 1953. Major General William H. Tunner is conducting the briefing.
Several tobacco farmers displaying the success of root-rot resistant tobacco plants. Men are standing in front of root-rot resistance variety plants, with smaller, recently transplanted tobacco plants in foreground.
Carl B. Allen at work during the inaugural trans-Pacific passenger flight of Pan American World Airways from San Francisco to Manila. At the time Allen worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune.
Text on the back reads, "Ready to go aboard the Sikorsky 'Sky Pullman' Yorktown on a sight-seeing flight over New York City. Misses Jean Roy, Noel Pridgeon and Katherine McCoy with a World reporter "top off" the summer session at Columbia in a modern manner." C. B. Allen is pictured with the students.
A field of "Kentucky 16" tobacco in Cabell County. This crop was primed and around 500 sticks were taken from crop of 1.3 acres. Average number of leaves on stalk at time of harvest, after priming, was 16 leaves.
C. B. Allen and nine other reporters in the interior of the Sikorsky Aerial Pullman "Yorktown," piloted by Chas G. Collyer. C. B. Allen is pictured in the rear, fifth from the left.
A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.
Ex-Commanders at American Legion Pow-wow, Cleveland, Ohio
Date:
1936/09/21
Description:
Text on the back reads, "Two men who in turn ruled the destinies of the American Legion are pictured enjoying a pre-convention chat at Cleveland, where the legion opens its annual convention today, Sept. 21. At left is Hanford McNider, who was national commander in 1922, and at right, Louis A. Johnson, who held that high office in 1932. He hails from Clarksburg, W. Va., and is chairman of the Veterans' Committee in the Democratic Party."
General Omar N. Bradley, Admiral Edward C. Ewen, and Secretary of War Louis A. Johnson discuss the military crisis in Korea around a steam kettle in Guam.
