Search Results
- IDNO:
- 038873
- Title:
- Engineer Fred B. Secrest Fills Up Engine No. 566 With Flood Water, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1902
- Description:
- Fred Secrest, an engineer for the Kanawha and Michigan Railway was not to be stopped by the flooded Wagner Railroad Yard in Point Pleasant, along the Ohio River. He backed the engine into the flooded yard, pulled down the hose into the water and filled up the boiler. Secrest is seen standing in back of the locomotive. (Engine 51-2511-566; Bald. 0-6-0 '87)
- IDNO:
- 038874
- Title:
- Employees of Kanawha and Michigan Railroad in Southern W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of workers posing on Engine #302; Identified workers are Engineer Fred B. Secrest, in white and Brakeman Arthur Ratliff, sitting right of Secrest.
- IDNO:
- 038875
- Title:
- Portrait of Young Couple in Forest, Randolph County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1915
- Description:
- Dressed in their best attire, the young couple pose while holding hands and sitting on a rock.
- IDNO:
- 038876
- Title:
- Group Portrait of Employees With Engine No. 518, Southern W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1909
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of probably a Kanawha and Michigan Railroad train and workers with Engine No. 518. Identified are Brakeman Arthur Ratliff, 2nd from the left and Engineer Fred B. Secrest, 4th from the left.
- IDNO:
- 038877
- Title:
- World War II United States Military Encampment at Okinawa, Japan
- Date:
- 1945
- Description:
- Note the ships off the coast, on the horizon.
- IDNO:
- 038878
- Title:
- Three Buddies at CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Camp No. 518, Parsons, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1936
- Description:
- Cecil Teeter is in the middle, the others are not identified.
- IDNO:
- 038879
- Title:
- Horseshoe Run Near Lead Mine Camp, Tucker County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1936
- IDNO:
- 038880
- Title:
- International Allied Armistice Day Rodeo, Meiji Stadium, Tokyo, Occupied Japan
- Date:
- 1945 / Fall
- Description:
- Post World War II rodeo, the first held in the far east, included an air show, a parade of horses, bands, floats and carriages. The entertainment was provided by the United States Military.
- IDNO:
- 038881
- Title:
- International Allied Armistice Day Rodeo, Meiji Staduim, Tokyo, Occupied Japan
- Date:
- 1945 / Fall
- Description:
- Post World War II rodeo, the first held in the far east. The photograph shows a white horse with "cowboy" rider. The horse is identified on the back as "Togo's horse". It could possibly be Hideki Tojo's horse, the Japanese Minister of War, who owned and rode a beautiful white horse.
- IDNO:
- 038882
- Title:
- Hotel Howard Under Water in Flooded St. Marys, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1913/03/29
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of the Hotel Howard half submerged in flood waters and several rowboats being used to navigate through town during a major flood in St. Marys, West Virginia. See the original for the correspondence written on the back.
- IDNO:
- 038883
- Title:
- West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, Randolph County, West Virginia.
- IDNO:
- 038884
- Title:
- Memorial for World War II Correspondent Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima Island, Okinawa, Japan
- Date:
- 1945
- Description:
- Ernie Pyle was an "embedded" reporter who wrote from the trenches, during world War II. His columns were popular because he focused on the GIs fighting the war. He was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Ie Shima, Okinawa. The inscription on the memorial reads, " At This Spot The 77th Division Lost A Buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945".
