Image from 'Industrial and Picturesque Clarksburg, W. Va.' published by the Press of the Clarksburg Telegram Company, Printers and Publishers, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1911.
Image from 'Industrial and Picturesque Clarksburg, W. Va.' published by the Press of the Clarksburg Telegram Company, Printers and Publishers, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1911.
State Reunion of Confederate Veterans, Beckley, W. Va.
Date:
1918/09/05
Description:
Portrait of Confederate Veterans in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. All persons are identified only as Confederate Veterans. The photograph was donated to Stephen Trail by the Hinton Daily News, 6/17/1996. The photograph was donated to the newspaper by Blanche Callaham, American History teacher at Hinton High School.
College of Pharmacy Student Group on Visit to Calco Chemical Plant, Willow Island, W. Va.
Date:
1953/04
Description:
Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling: Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.
Ancella Bickley alongside another speaker at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park convention.
'Sam Church, president of the United Mine Workers, right, sits across the bargaining table from B.R. 'Bobby' Brown, president, Consol. Coal Co. and chief negotiator for the soft coal industry as contract talks resume Monday in Washington. The negotiators are battling a midnight deadline in the search for a tentative contract settlement in hopes of averting a nationwide strike. (AP Laserphoto_ (see AP AAA wire story0 9tim21205stf/daugherty) 1981 slug : Coal Talks.'
President Taft appears to be a painting that Mr. Kelley is standing in front of. Back of postcard reads: "Mr N. Stealey. Dear Sir, I come through All O.K. I want to have a big time with Bill for a day or two. You can keep that quiet. Yours truly, I. M. Kelley."
Positions of Batteries on Cemetery Ridge. Gettysburg Military Park, PA.Dedicated on September 28, 1898.Front of monument reads: "Sons of the Mountains7th W Va VeteranRomney to Appomattox1st Brigade Carroll 3rd Division 2nd Corps.At dusk July 2nd Carroll’s Brigade was ordered by General Hancock to this point. On arriving there we found the Battery about to be taken charge of by the enemy who were in large force. Whereupon we immediately charged on the enemy and succeeded in completely routing their entire force and driving them beyond our lines."Image from 1965 thesis, "The Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865"
Left to right, men in hats: Hubert Carlin Simms, C.F. Miliar, C.I. Sharpenburg, C.D. Billingsley (All of Standard Oil Co.), Guy Lombardo, Mayor Gordon P. Fought, City Manager R. T. Kemper. Taken shortly after the Mayor welcomed Guy Lombardo to Wheeling. Lombardo's Royal Canadians played a one day engagement at the Capital Theater. The tour of the Esso Marketers was sponsored by the Standard Oil Co.
Stanley Arthur's Painting of Muhlenberg, the Preacher-Patriot, Woodstock, Va.
Date:
1776/01/28
Description:
'This reproduction of Stanley Arthur's painting depicts the stirring scene of Woodstock on January 28, 1776, when Rev. Peter Muhlenburg, at the close of a patriotic sermon, threw aside his clerical robe and revealed the uniform of a Continental colonel. His text was from Eccl. 3: 1-8, "There is a time to every purpose under heaven..time of war, and a time of peace." While holding forth his commission in the army he declared the time to fight had come. He then raised the English Virginia Regiment, famous as the German Regiment, and served conspicuously throughout the Revolutionary War.'
Print of a painting by Gilbert Stuart of John Randolph, a Virginia Congressman and Senator, 1799-1833. A strong states rights advocate, he renounced "creeping nationalism". Randolph also served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson.
Gideon Draper Camden born in Montgomery County, Md., August 31, 1805 was son of Rev. Henry Camden who moved to Harrison County W. Va. early in the 19th century. Camden was an uncle of U. S. Senator Johnson N. Camden. He was Pros. Attorney of Randolph County in 1837 and Judge of Circuit Court of Randolph County in 1851.
Sketch of Lorenzo Dow at age 39 in 1816. Dow was an eccentric itinerant American Preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was also a fierce abolitionist whose sermons were often unpopular in the southern United States, and he was frequently threatened with violence. He was also an important figure in the Second Great Awakening, as well as a successful writer.