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.
All of the persons in the photograph are unidentified, including the hotel. Possibly a Chesapeake & Ohio (C & O) industrial style architecture in the background in Hinton. Inscribed on the back is "Purchased by Stephen Trail in Hinton West Virginia."
Inscribed on back: "Believed to be early hotel (on the corner of 5th Avenue and Front = conjecture) in Hinton. Possibly Rudisell 2nd from L, standing [All other persons are unidentified]. Hotel staff is posed in front of the entrance steps,leading to a wide wrap-around porch with double door entrance.Tall multi-story masonry bldgs appear in R beyond porch. Purchased by Stephen Trail in Hinton West Virginia."
All persons in the picture are unidentified and believed to be the staff of a hotel dining room. The woman in the bow-tie and the man in the lapel jacket are also pictured another portrait of the staff (id # 039226). Inscribed on the back "Possibly C & O architecture in background; Purchased by Stephen Trail in Hinton, West Virginia."