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Several tobacco farmers displaying the success of root-rot resistant tobacco plants. Men are standing in front of root-rot resistance variety plants, with smaller, recently transplanted tobacco plants in foreground.

25. Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053187
Title:
Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
Several tobacco farmers displaying the success of root-rot resistant tobacco plants. Men are standing in front of root-rot resistance variety plants, with smaller, recently transplanted tobacco plants in foreground.
Carl B. Allen at work during the inaugural trans-Pacific passenger flight of Pan American World Airways from San Francisco to Manila. At the time Allen worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune.

26. Carl B. Allen During Trans-Pacific Flight

IDNO:
053188
Title:
Carl B. Allen During Trans-Pacific Flight
Date:
1936/10
Description:
Carl B. Allen at work during the inaugural trans-Pacific passenger flight of Pan American World Airways from San Francisco to Manila. At the time Allen worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune.
Primed leaves hanging in barn for curing. This grower in Cabell County primed 500 sticks from 1.3 acres of crop.

27. Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053189
Title:
Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Primed leaves hanging in barn for curing. This grower in Cabell County primed 500 sticks from 1.3 acres of crop.
Text on the back reads, "Ready to go aboard the Sikorsky 'Sky Pullman' Yorktown on a sight-seeing flight over New York City. Misses Jean Roy, Noel Pridgeon and Katherine McCoy with a World reporter "top off" the summer session at Columbia in a modern manner." C. B. Allen is pictured with the students.

28. Carl B. Allen with Students, New York, N. Y.

IDNO:
053190
Title:
Carl B. Allen with Students, New York, N. Y.
Date:
1925
Description:
Text on the back reads, "Ready to go aboard the Sikorsky 'Sky Pullman' Yorktown on a sight-seeing flight over New York City. Misses Jean Roy, Noel Pridgeon and Katherine McCoy with a World reporter "top off" the summer session at Columbia in a modern manner." C. B. Allen is pictured with the students.
A field of "Kentucky 16" tobacco in Cabell County. This crop was primed and around 500 sticks were taken from crop of 1.3 acres. Average number of leaves on stalk at time of harvest, after priming, was 16 leaves.

29. Tobacco Farm in Cabell County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053191
Title:
Tobacco Farm in Cabell County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
A field of "Kentucky 16" tobacco in Cabell County. This crop was primed and around 500 sticks were taken from crop of 1.3 acres. Average number of leaves on stalk at time of harvest, after priming, was 16 leaves.
Curing barn in Cabell County, W. Va.

30. Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053192
Title:
Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
Curing barn in Cabell County, W. Va.
C. B. Allen and nine other reporters in the interior of the Sikorsky Aerial Pullman "Yorktown," piloted by Chas G. Collyer. C. B. Allen is pictured in the rear, fifth from the left.

31. C. B. Allen with Other Reporters

IDNO:
053193
Title:
C. B. Allen with Other Reporters
Date:
ca. 1925
Description:
C. B. Allen and nine other reporters in the interior of the Sikorsky Aerial Pullman "Yorktown," piloted by Chas G. Collyer. C. B. Allen is pictured in the rear, fifth from the left.
A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.

32. Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053194
Title:
Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.
Williams family having dinner in their Doddridge County, W. Va. home.

33. Doddridge County Family Dinner

IDNO:
053195
Title:
Doddridge County Family Dinner
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
Williams family having dinner in their Doddridge County, W. Va. home.
"Looks as if we would have nice weather this afternoon. Not feeling so well today."

34. View of White Rocks, Near Uniontown, Pa.

IDNO:
053196
Title:
View of White Rocks, Near Uniontown, Pa.
Date:
1910/12/02
Description:
"Looks as if we would have nice weather this afternoon. Not feeling so well today."
A view of the interior of a grocery store. The clerk may be Rush Holt Sr., an alumnus of WVU and later a senator.

35. Grocery Store, W. Va.

IDNO:
053197
Title:
Grocery Store, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1926
Description:
A view of the interior of a grocery store. The clerk may be Rush Holt Sr., an alumnus of WVU and later a senator.
Text on the back reads, "Two men who in turn ruled the destinies of the American Legion are pictured enjoying a pre-convention chat at Cleveland, where the legion opens its annual convention today, Sept. 21. At left is Hanford McNider, who was national commander in 1922, and at right, Louis A. Johnson, who held that high office in 1932. He hails from Clarksburg, W. Va., and is chairman of the Veterans' Committee in the Democratic Party."

36. Ex-Commanders at American Legion Pow-wow, Cleveland, Ohio

IDNO:
053198
Title:
Ex-Commanders at American Legion Pow-wow, Cleveland, Ohio
Date:
1936/09/21
Description:
Text on the back reads, "Two men who in turn ruled the destinies of the American Legion are pictured enjoying a pre-convention chat at Cleveland, where the legion opens its annual convention today, Sept. 21. At left is Hanford McNider, who was national commander in 1922, and at right, Louis A. Johnson, who held that high office in 1932. He hails from Clarksburg, W. Va., and is chairman of the Veterans' Committee in the Democratic Party."