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Bone Pickers at Pocahontas coalfield tipple, 1933.

1. Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple

IDNO:
003116
Title:
Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple
Date:
1933
Description:
Bone Pickers at Pocahontas coalfield tipple, 1933.
Bone Pickers in a Pocahontas Coalfield tipple, 1933.

2. Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple

IDNO:
003145
Title:
Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple
Date:
1933
Description:
Bone Pickers in a Pocahontas Coalfield tipple, 1933.

3. Scott's Run School Boys

IDNO:
003775
Title:
Scott's Run School Boys
Date:
1933
Men dig up stumps from snowy ground.

4. Grubbing Stumps Out of Cellar Locations at Arthurdale, W. Va.

IDNO:
005088
Title:
Grubbing Stumps Out of Cellar Locations at Arthurdale, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
Men dig up stumps from snowy ground.
'Russell L. Long, Morgantown, W. Va. on high stilts, walks 3 to 4 hour periods on them. This picture taken on High and corner of Pleasant Street - My construction of my stilts and the foot pivot is my own invention and makes it possible for me to move with comparative ease being a mechanical tall-man the hours I perform on them. My leg stilts allow me to spread and stoop to go through doors from the sidewalks stilting indoors, and come out again on the sidewalk. Many business places I have done stilting inside.'

5. Russell L. Long on Stilts in Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
009833
Title:
Russell L. Long on Stilts in Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
'Russell L. Long, Morgantown, W. Va. on high stilts, walks 3 to 4 hour periods on them. This picture taken on High and corner of Pleasant Street - My construction of my stilts and the foot pivot is my own invention and makes it possible for me to move with comparative ease being a mechanical tall-man the hours I perform on them. My leg stilts allow me to spread and stoop to go through doors from the sidewalks stilting indoors, and come out again on the sidewalk. Many business places I have done stilting inside.'
'Built in 1803. Great Grandaddy Fox 'Martin Fox' went here to meeting in 1808. He was born Aug. 2, 1790 and died in 1884. Monongalia Papers, Volume 2. Photo taken by Mrs. Gilbert Straight, the first wife, on the J. P. Fox farm. Some people say enlarged for tombstones went back into late 1700's.'

6. Mt. Tabor Baptist Church at Laurel Point, Monongalia County, W. Va.

IDNO:
016468
Title:
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church at Laurel Point, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
'Built in 1803. Great Grandaddy Fox 'Martin Fox' went here to meeting in 1808. He was born Aug. 2, 1790 and died in 1884. Monongalia Papers, Volume 2. Photo taken by Mrs. Gilbert Straight, the first wife, on the J. P. Fox farm. Some people say enlarged for tombstones went back into late 1700's.'
Portrait of Joe Stydahar, a tackle on the 1933 West Virginia University Football Team.

7. WVU Football Player Joe Stydahar

IDNO:
018117
Title:
WVU Football Player Joe Stydahar
Date:
1933
Description:
Portrait of Joe Stydahar, a tackle on the 1933 West Virginia University Football Team.
'West Virginia University 1933 Football Team. Key to players: (left to right). Front row: John Kopko, Weirton; Arthur Swisher, Fairmont; Joseph Poilek, Jeannette, Pa.; Louis Fidler, Ashland, Ky.; Richard Frantz, Oak Hill; Gene Wright, Fairmont; Homer White, Wellsburg; Eck Allen, Ashland, Ky.; Herbert Stewart, Wheeling; Charles Goodwin, Wheeling. Middle row: Joseph Zaleski, Paterson, NJ.; Hosmer Cropp, Clarksburg; Samuel Mawhinney, Washington, Pa.; Joseph Stydahar, Shinnston; Gene Hester, Plymouth, Pa.; Romeo McDonald, Grantsville; Angelo Ondor, Jeannette, Pa.; Maurice Mayes, Point Pleasant; Patsy Slate, Weirton. Back row: James Scott, Williamstown; Fred Wilson, Fairview; Richard Heath, Wellsburg; Charles Anderson, Hinton; Benny Thomas, Fairmont; John Vargo, Martins Ferry, Ohio; Tom Covey, Beckley; Tom Canich, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Daniel Organt, Masontown. Not in picture: Head Coach: A.E. 'Greasy' Neale; Co-managers: George Guthrie and George Seibert.'

8. WVU Football Team

IDNO:
018130
Title:
WVU Football Team
Date:
1933
Description:
'West Virginia University 1933 Football Team. Key to players: (left to right). Front row: John Kopko, Weirton; Arthur Swisher, Fairmont; Joseph Poilek, Jeannette, Pa.; Louis Fidler, Ashland, Ky.; Richard Frantz, Oak Hill; Gene Wright, Fairmont; Homer White, Wellsburg; Eck Allen, Ashland, Ky.; Herbert Stewart, Wheeling; Charles Goodwin, Wheeling. Middle row: Joseph Zaleski, Paterson, NJ.; Hosmer Cropp, Clarksburg; Samuel Mawhinney, Washington, Pa.; Joseph Stydahar, Shinnston; Gene Hester, Plymouth, Pa.; Romeo McDonald, Grantsville; Angelo Ondor, Jeannette, Pa.; Maurice Mayes, Point Pleasant; Patsy Slate, Weirton. Back row: James Scott, Williamstown; Fred Wilson, Fairview; Richard Heath, Wellsburg; Charles Anderson, Hinton; Benny Thomas, Fairmont; John Vargo, Martins Ferry, Ohio; Tom Covey, Beckley; Tom Canich, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Daniel Organt, Masontown. Not in picture: Head Coach: A.E. 'Greasy' Neale; Co-managers: George Guthrie and George Seibert.'
Graduation portrait of African-American student Bernell Bows in cap and gown holding her diploma. Bows graduated from Storer in 1933.

9. Bernell Bows, Student, Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

IDNO:
022438
Title:
Bernell Bows, Student, Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
Graduation portrait of African-American student Bernell Bows in cap and gown holding her diploma. Bows graduated from Storer in 1933.

10. Doing Crafts at Boys 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.

IDNO:
026600
Title:
Doing Crafts at Boys 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1933

11. Lifeguards at Boys 4-H Camp, W.Va.

IDNO:
026779
Title:
Lifeguards at Boys 4-H Camp, W.Va.
Date:
1933

12. 4-H Member at Boy's Camp

IDNO:
026784
Title:
4-H Member at Boy's Camp
Date:
1933