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.
Painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
Date:
1829-39
Description:
'Alexander Campbell in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830: Photograph of George Catlin's painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Campbell is the seventh person from the right in the back row. Though Campbell had strong reservations about entering politics, he was prevailed upon to do so to speak out regarding slavery, democratizing the government, and public school education for all children.'
Drawing of a Religious Encampment in the Mountains
Date:
1845
Description:
'Copied from: Facing p. 50. Rucker, Maude A. 'West Virginia: Her Land, Her People, Her Traditions, Her Resources.' Walter Neale, pub. New York. 1930."'
This picture is from a drawing produced by J. H. Dis DeBar, 1846, Western Virginia [West Virginia] For more information, see Roy B. Cook note book on Andrew Jackson.
Cased Portrait of Nathaniel Bailee [Baillie] of Hansford, Va. (W. Va.)
Date:
1849/03/12
Description:
Daguerreotype portrait of Nathaniel Alcock Bailee [Baillie], married Mary Matilda Biglow in 1852. After the Civil War he was a chief civil engineer during the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through the Kanawha Valley.
'Hildreth, Dr. S. P..: One of the first members of the Ohio Geological Survey, published in 1936, with Dr. S. G. Morton, the first important paper on the geology and paleobotany of what is now W. Va. Most of the fossil collecting and studying of these two Marietta men took place around Charleston.' (WV Encyclopedia)
United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)
Date:
1851
Description:
Jackson resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and accepted a teaching position at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He would earn the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and the sobriquet, "Stonewall".
Upper left one of a series of C.S.A. cards sold in the North. Showing a fraudulent 'collar'. Center is a sample of the Brady print showing same fraudulent uniform. Brady probably never saw Jackson, but sold thousands of these pictures, which is an 1851 portrait.
'1852 photo of old St. Joseph Cathedral (an earlier name of the church here was St. James, it became St. Joseph when diocese formed in 1850.) This is where the first Visitandines in Wheeling worshipped. It was being built in 1848. They lived next door and walked over. A little enclosure gull was built in santctuary for them to see Mass.'
View on Cheat River Grade at the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Date:
1857
Description:
'An illustration depicting a scenery on Cheat River copied from William Prescott Smith's The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 (n.x. 1858), facing p. 162. View on 'Cheat River Grade At the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, 25.7 Miles from Baltimore.'
Greenbrier (Old White) White Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, W. Va.
Date:
1858
Description:
An ink etching of the Greenbrier (Old White Sulphur Springs) in Lewisburg, West Virginia as it appeared in 1858. Men and women are shown mingling in the front lawn of the Greenbrier while a horse drawn carriage driver is dropping off several people.
Minister to France under James Buchanan in 1860 and arrested by Federal authorities for treason in August 1861 while negotiating arm sales with France for the Confederacy. He was exchanged six months later and subsequently serve on Stonewall Jackson's staff during the Civil War. After the war Faulkner was elected to the United States Congress, representating the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, 1875-1877 and served on West Virginia University's Board of Regents.