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217. Students on Wall in front of Woodburn Circle, WVU

'Stadium under construction.'

218. View of Downtown Campus from Westover, WVU

219. Corner of Campus Below Woodburn Hall, WVU

Leila Jesse Frazier, of Upper Norword in Surrey, England and an 1899 graduate of the WVU Law School, rides 'man fashion' or astride,  near Woodburn Hall. A contemporaneous newspaper account depicts Frazier’s journey to Morgantown to begin her law studies, indicating that she put her husband, James C. Frazier, on the train in Martinsburg, and set off unaccompanied on horseback across the mountains.  She arrived several days later,wearing a black riding habit with a divided skirt, riding ';man fashion', carrying a brace of revolvers, and 'armed with a most remarkable amount of courage and daring'. Frazier was president of the Woman’s League of WVU, the first women’s organization on campus. Information from Becky Lofstead, 'Trailblazers at the College of Law' in WVU Alumni Magazine, Winter 2000, p.18.

220. Leila Jesse Frazier Rides Horse near Woodburn Hall, West Virginia University

221. Entrance to Stadium, West Virginia University

The photograph includes the first Mechanical Hall along the river. It was destroyed by fire in 1899.

222. View of West Virginia University from Westover, Morgantown, W. Va.

223. Aerial View of Downtown Campus, West Virginia University

224. Aerial View of Downtown Campus, West Virginia University

'West Virginia University, taken in late eighties, from present site of Women's Hall, showing Reynolds Hall or old Commencement Hall under construction, and front section only added to original Armory to make the Experiment Station.'

225. Downtown Campus, West Virginia University

Mountainlair under construction dates the photograph to the summer of 1966.

226. Aerial View of Downtown Campus, West Virginia University

227. Aerial View of Mountaineer Field and Surrounding Buildings, West Virginia University

228. Aerial View of Downtown Campus, West Virginia University