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Young people stand on the edge of the Little Kanawha River.
"Miss Pearl Buck dances with Theodore F. Harris, executive director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation."
Back of photo reads: Nathan Stealey was an undertaker in Clarksburg, W. Va. Had one daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
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.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, her husband Richard Walsh and Buck's Danish publisher Halfdan Jespersen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
'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.'
An engraving of Fort Henry in Wheeling, West Virginia.
James Rumsey was the inventor of the first steamboat.