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1. Natural Cement Kilns, Cedar Cliffs, W. Va.

IDNO:
053592
Title:
Natural Cement Kilns, Cedar Cliffs, W. Va.
Date:
1891
Legendary engineer, Richardson, pictured in white coveralls, poses next to new American engine No. 70 after a run from Hinton.

2. Billy Richardson with C. & O. Class-A Locomotive in Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
048906
Title:
Billy Richardson with C. & O. Class-A Locomotive in Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
1891
Description:
Legendary engineer, Richardson, pictured in white coveralls, poses next to new American engine No. 70 after a run from Hinton.
Group portrait of a fraternity at West Virginia University. None of the memebers are identified. [No. 12]

3. Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Founders, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
040905
Title:
Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Founders, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1891
Description:
Group portrait of a fraternity at West Virginia University. None of the memebers are identified. [No. 12]
Charles Ward Steam Generators being transported by train on a railroad spur from the plant in Charleston, West Virginia.

4. Charles Ward Steam Generators Leaving Plant, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
038827
Title:
Charles Ward Steam Generators Leaving Plant, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1891
Description:
Charles Ward Steam Generators being transported by train on a railroad spur from the plant in Charleston, West Virginia.
The "Ben Hur" tied up on Water Street during the flood of 1891. The steamboat packet sank in 1916 on the Mississippi river.

5. Packet 'Ben Hur' at Water Street, Wheeling, W. Va.

IDNO:
037934
Title:
Packet 'Ben Hur' at Water Street, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1891
Description:
The "Ben Hur" tied up on Water Street during the flood of 1891. The steamboat packet sank in 1916 on the Mississippi river.
Twelve miles below Marietta

6. Blennerhassett Mansion, Blennerhassett Island

IDNO:
037689
Title:
Blennerhassett Mansion, Blennerhassett Island
Date:
1891
Description:
Twelve miles below Marietta
From April 1936 Alumni Magazine. Harriet Eliza Lyon, a transfer student from Vassar College was WVU's first woman graduate. The only woman in the fourteen member Class of 1891, she won the honor of being valedictorian. Born in Fedonia, New York, she moved to Morgantown with her family in 1867 when her father, Franklin Smith Lyon, accepted a position as one of WVU's first professors. After graduating from the University, Harriet Lyon returned to Fredonia and married Franklin Jewett, a professor of science at the Fredonia Normal school. She raised four children and was active as a musician, singer, composer, and community leader. Harriet Lyon was a grandniece of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.

7. Portrait of Harriet Lyon

IDNO:
037169
Title:
Portrait of Harriet Lyon
Date:
1891
Description:
From April 1936 Alumni Magazine. Harriet Eliza Lyon, a transfer student from Vassar College was WVU's first woman graduate. The only woman in the fourteen member Class of 1891, she won the honor of being valedictorian. Born in Fedonia, New York, she moved to Morgantown with her family in 1867 when her father, Franklin Smith Lyon, accepted a position as one of WVU's first professors. After graduating from the University, Harriet Lyon returned to Fredonia and married Franklin Jewett, a professor of science at the Fredonia Normal school. She raised four children and was active as a musician, singer, composer, and community leader. Harriet Lyon was a grandniece of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.
The very first WVU Football Team ready for action.

8. First Football Team, West Virginia University

IDNO:
033841
Title:
First Football Team, West Virginia University
Date:
1891
Description:
The very first WVU Football Team ready for action.

9. Rudolph DeRoode, Chemist, West Virginia University

IDNO:
025269
Title:
Rudolph DeRoode, Chemist, West Virginia University
Date:
1891
'The first University Football Team, 1891. left to right on ground: N.B. Blake and George M. Ford; lower step (south side Martin Hall) George H.A Kunst, Andrew Price, J.W. Hughes, R.F. Bivens, J.T. Holbert; upper row: William C. Meyer (manager), A. Brown Smith, William G. Swaney, Gory Hogg, A.E. Boyd, and S.R. Jenkins.'

10. WVU Football Team

IDNO:
018033
Title:
WVU Football Team
Date:
1891
Description:
'The first University Football Team, 1891. left to right on ground: N.B. Blake and George M. Ford; lower step (south side Martin Hall) George H.A Kunst, Andrew Price, J.W. Hughes, R.F. Bivens, J.T. Holbert; upper row: William C. Meyer (manager), A. Brown Smith, William G. Swaney, Gory Hogg, A.E. Boyd, and S.R. Jenkins.'

11. WVU Football Team

IDNO:
018032
Title:
WVU Football Team
Date:
1891
Group portrait of the first intercollegiate football team of West Virginia University. Members include: 'fullback-Dr. Gory Hogg, quarterback-Bivens, line-Smith, Kunst, Price, Blake, Ford, Hughes, Jenkins, Holbert, and Boyd. The first football team to represent West Virginia. It played W & J in 1891. Score W & J (Washington and Jefferson-72, W.V.U.-0. Presented by James M. Orr-1827.'

12. WVU's First Football Team

IDNO:
018028
Title:
WVU's First Football Team
Date:
1891
Description:
Group portrait of the first intercollegiate football team of West Virginia University. Members include: 'fullback-Dr. Gory Hogg, quarterback-Bivens, line-Smith, Kunst, Price, Blake, Ford, Hughes, Jenkins, Holbert, and Boyd. The first football team to represent West Virginia. It played W & J in 1891. Score W & J (Washington and Jefferson-72, W.V.U.-0. Presented by James M. Orr-1827.'