A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'
African-American Elementary School Where Dr. Alex L. Wade Taught, Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Small brick schoolhouse with gabled entrance. Stansbury Hall is visible in the right side of the photograph. In the 1940s and 50s, West Virginia University used this school as a grade school for training eductaion majors. It was called the WVU Laboratory Elementary School. The building was an African-American school prior to WVU's use of the building.
'In 1859 John Brown, Kansas Abolitionist, and a part of followers seized this little engine house which was at the time serving as a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. The fort was dismanteled in 1892 and shipped to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill. It was laterreturned to Harpers Ferry, where it is now being used as a museum on the compus of Storer College. This picture is an opposite side view of John Brown's Fort.' 'From the West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission, State Capitol, Charleston 5, W. Va.'
!["W. Va. Indus. [and] Pub. Comm."](/thumb/005524.jpg "State Capitol Building, Charleston, W. Va.")
