'Patron D. Mark Gaston, of Harrisville, identified this photo as the covered bridge outside Cairo, West Virginia, which spans the North Fork at the Hughes River. C and K Railroad tracks are in the foreground.'
George Newman, Professor, Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
1923
Description:
Portrait of African-American professor and coach, George Newman. He graduated from Lincoln University with a degree in Pharmacy, and was a Professor of Chemistry and Biology at Storer College. He was also the head football coach.
Teacher on right is Mattie Bragg who married Ivid Graham.Front row, from left to right, is unidentified, unidentified, Clytie Cox, Don Cooper, unidentified, Ernest Neely (who married Alice Hedrick), and Edna Wills (who married Joe Lemons).In the back row, the boy in the middle wearing a tie on a white shirt is Carl Meadows. The Boy to the far right, next to the teacher, is Dean Cooper.
Captain Thomas J. Senn of the U. S. S. West Virginia
Date:
1923
Description:
Caption reads, "Captain Thomas J. Senn, U. S. N., who has been placed in command of the new battleship U. S. S. West Virginia, the largest ship of itS kind in the U. S. or any other navy. The ship was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, December 1."
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"1. D. M. Cuthbertson, Woods Superintendent, and J.W. Fischer, Mill Superintendent, both of whom ought to know better than to try to PUSH over one of Hazel Creek's finest. "
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"2. Here they are again, no doubts resting from their excursions, and sitting on a nice stick along Dillard Hall, Cutting Foreman. "
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"3. Dillard Hall on top of the log, with Jim Nicholas and Bill Proctor riding the saw."
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"4.Hazel Creek skidder in action, with A. Crowder in charge."
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"5. No, this is not the location of a still. It is an abandoned copper mine where we are now logging, with D.M. Cuthbertson in the foreground."