Search Results
- IDNO:
- 038497
- Title:
- Mary E. Clark, Niece of Max and Anna Mathers of Morgantown, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 038498
- Title:
- Sheila DeGant and Unidentified Young Man
- Description:
- Sister of Anna Mathers of Morgantown, West Virginia.
- IDNO:
- 038499
- Title:
- Anna Mathers of Morgantown W. Va. on Horseback, Shaded by Huge Hat
- Description:
- Anna Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, enjoying a ride.
- IDNO:
- 038500
- Title:
- Siss Hunter of Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1870
- Description:
- Siss Hunter was the wife of John Hunter of Wheeling, West Virginia. Hunter made the brick for Martin Hall, the first West Virginia University building.
- IDNO:
- 038501
- Title:
- Women Searching For News, Walking Railroad Tracks Between Mines 6 and 8 After Explosion, Monongah, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1907/12/06
- Description:
- In Monongah, West Virginia, December 6, 1907, an explosion destroyed Mines #6 and #8, killing most of the miners inside. The women in the foreground of the photograph, along with other families walked back and forth on the railroad tracks from one mine entrance to the other searching for news of loved ones. An eyewitness reports many women walked for more than 20 hours without food or sleep and some "were about to become mothers". The official death toll was 361 mine workers killed.
- IDNO:
- 038502
- Title:
- Wreck of Bridge at Monongah Mine # 6, Monongah, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1906
- Description:
- Information inscribed on the back of the photograph, "Caused by 13 loaded cars breaking loose and jumping over the side of the steel span causing it to "upset"and igniting the coal dust and gas. The photograph was taken after the clean up had begun. The building to the right is the new power house and boiler room, only a small portion of the power house is visible".
- IDNO:
- 038503
- Title:
- Union Army Corporal James F. Ellis of Weston, Lewis County, W. Va., Company B, 15th West Virginia Infantry
- Date:
- ca.1864
- Description:
- James F. Ellis enlisted in the army in August, 1862. He fought in several Civil War battles including Union General Phil Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign and was wounded three times during his service. Ellis was captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 and imprisoned at Salisbury, North Carolina. Ellis died in Salisbury Prison, February 13, 1865.
- IDNO:
- 038504
- Title:
- Portrait of Unidentified Woman Taken During Civil War Era
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- The young woman is wearing a dress with garibaldi sleeves, a popular fashion in the mid 1860s. Her a hair is also styled in the fashion of that period.
- IDNO:
- 038505
- Title:
- Uffington Hermit and His Home, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1885
- Description:
- Caption with photograph: "No one knows Of Bounaparte Allsupe. He appeared at Uffington near Morgantown, W. Va. years ago and got possession of the island just above Uffington which is still locally known as "Allsupe Island" . . . He got into a quarrel with a neighbor and shot him. He served a only few years of a 12 year sentence. He gave his lawyer the island and when he was released he was a mental wreck. He built a "lean to" against a rock and has since lived there."
- IDNO:
- 038506
- Title:
- Jim McCoy of Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1890
- Description:
- According to an 1897 obituary, Jim McCoy was a dentist. He died while in Alliance, Ohio. The cause of death was alcohol poisoning after he drank a "quantity of wood alcohol as a substitute for whiskey". He was 50 years old and left a wife and four children.
- IDNO:
- 038507
- Title:
- Adam Staggers of Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1875
- Description:
- Adam Staggers was an educator in Monongalia County. He taught at the Monongalia Academy and was principal of the first Morgantown Graded School.
- IDNO:
- 038508
- Title:
- West Virginia University Campus, Morgantown, W. Va,
- Date:
- 1893
- Description:
- Elevated view of the campus including a cemetery (on the left) next to Reynolds Hall (Commencement Hall) where Stewart Hall now stands.
