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IDNO:
000816
Title:
Civil War Map of West Virginia
Date:
1936
Description:
Civil War Map of West Virginia. Showing present counties and county seats 1936. Includes railroads, turnpikes, lateral roads, county lines, states lines, and rivers.
IDNO:
002818
Title:
Mine Safety Day at Jackson's Mill
Date:
1936
Description:
Men in field at Jacksons Mill for Mine Safety Day.
IDNO:
003817
Title:
High Water at Jimtown, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Car trapped in flood waters.
IDNO:
003863
Title:
Head House at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
003865
Title:
Home of Rennie Meeks West of Tipple at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
House with picket fence separating it from the railroad tracks.
IDNO:
003978
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store Stock
Date:
1936
Description:
Shelves with stocked store merchandise. Mr. Guinn is standing in the background of the picture.
IDNO:
003979
Title:
Coke Yard at Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company
Date:
1936
Description:
Piles in between coke ovens and railroad.
IDNO:
003981
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Train No. 14
Date:
1936
Description:
Houston Ware getting ready to board the 11:20 a.m. C&O train No. 14.
IDNO:
003982
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
Smoke rises from the coke ovens at Fire Creek.
IDNO:
003984
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Tipple
Date:
1936
Description:
Tipple with railroad cars underneath.
IDNO:
003990
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
Coke ovens, tipple and white school house shown. Jr. Barker is on the bike.
IDNO:
003992
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store and Office Building
Date:
1936
Description:
There is a house in the background behind the store. 'Charlie Smith'
IDNO:
003995
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
View of coke ovens and surrounding buildings.
IDNO:
003996
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store and Office Building
Date:
1936
Description:
There is a house sitting behind the store. Man standing in front of store is Charlie Smith.
IDNO:
004004
Title:
Colored Church, School House and other Buildings at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
'Colored Church and school house. Corner of coke ovens and icehouse at Fire Creek.'
IDNO:
004008
Title:
Charlie Smith's Shanty at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
004011
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
Smoke rises from the coke ovens at Fire Creek.
IDNO:
004012
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens, White School and Tipple
Date:
1936
Description:
Buildings on both sides of the tracks.
IDNO:
004018
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
Smoke rises from the coke ovens. Filled coal cars are next to them.
IDNO:
004022
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens
Date:
1936
Description:
Smoke rises from the coke ovens at Fire Creek.
IDNO:
005349
Title:
Flood in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood water flowing through a city area with trees, a park bench, and an entrance with two globe lights.
IDNO:
006221
Title:
Flood Waters on Main Street in Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Main Street in Downtown Wheeling, West Virginia is underwater because of the damaging flood of 1936.
IDNO:
006222
Title:
Navigating the Flood Waters on Main Street in Downtown Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
People are paddling boats in order to travel down Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia during the flood of 1936.
IDNO:
006223
Title:
Flood Waters near Downtown Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
006631
Title:
Old Market House After Flood, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
The Old Market House in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, damaged after the flood of March 18, 1936.
IDNO:
007704
Title:
Grocery Delivery During Flood, New Martinsville, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
'Charles T. Gorby on porch above Gorby Brothers store fills a grocery order by lowering a bucket which has been added to the photograph. Jesse K. Gorby lived his last years in the apartment to the left of the upper porch; From a photograph in the Wetzel County Historical Museum.'
IDNO:
008831
Title:
Flood Water in Wheeling W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
008832
Title:
Flood Cleanup, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Water is receding as people try to clean up the mess. Mud seen on the side walks and on people's clothes. Road is visible now, no longer covered with water.
IDNO:
008837
Title:
Flood, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters seen in Wheeling, W. Va. The water is seen at the top of some buildings and part way up other buildings.
IDNO:
008839
Title:
Flood, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Damage to buildings, caused by the flood waters, seen here. Waters left mud behind.
IDNO:
008842
Title:
Flood, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters engulf the Chevrolet Company building in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008845
Title:
Flood Damage, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Debris left the flood waters in Wheeling, W. Va. People rummage through debris and walk through the neighborhood.
IDNO:
008849
Title:
Flood Damage, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Damage seen on buildings caused by the flood waters in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008851
Title:
Flood Waters, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters of the 1936 flood in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008854
Title:
Flood Damage, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Damage to the buildings and electric poles apparent. Poeple stand on the sidewalks and walk down the street in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008860
Title:
Flood, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters seen rising up the buildings in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008861
Title:
Flood Aftermath, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Mud and debris seen left after the flood waters receded in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
008864
Title:
Flood Waters in Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flooded buildings in Wheeling, W. Va.
IDNO:
014142
Title:
Flood in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
014143
Title:
Flood in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Two people walk across a bridge with flood waters flowing over it.
IDNO:
014144
Title:
Flood in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Car parked along a flooded street in Berkeley Springs, W. Va.
IDNO:
014145
Title:
Flood in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters engulf a house.
IDNO:
014299
Title:
Civil War Veteran Visiting Graveyard, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
This old civil war vet was the last of his family as well as the last of his regiment.
IDNO:
014333
Title:
Fort Seybert Flood, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Flood waters sit in between two houses.
IDNO:
016842
Title:
Monongahela River Flood at Jimtown, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Two cars are trapped in the flood waters while a crowd looks on from a railroad bridge.
IDNO:
016906
Title:
High Water on Monongahela River, Jimtown, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
People are watching a car being towed because of high water on the Monongahela River at Jimtown (Randell), junction U.S. Route 19, state route 7-100.
IDNO:
018122
Title:
WVU Football Coach Ira 'Rat' Rodgers
Date:
1936
Description:
Print number 203c.
IDNO:
018128
Title:
WVU Football Team
Date:
1936
Description:
Group portrait of the 1936 West Virginia University Football Team. 'First row (left to right) are Hedrick, Ronai, Nebera, Sorenz, Neilson, Cropp, Atty, Barma, Wendell, Hodges. Second row (left to right) are Baker, Isaac, Eller, Keyle, Schwartzwalder, Gilmore, and unidentified. Third row (left to right) are Phares, McCue, Audria, Moan, DeAngelic, Dickenson, Frantz, Vockin, Faley, and unidentified.'
IDNO:
022148
Title:
Guy O. Farmer, Rhodes Scholar, 1934, West Virginia University
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026593
Title:
Ironing Demonstration at Boy's State 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026601
Title:
Manicuring Nails at State Boy's 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026602
Title:
Learning Better Grooming and Shampooing at Boy's State 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026620
Title:
Refinishing Furniture at Women's 4-H Camp, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026877
Title:
Boys Manicuring Nails, Learning Better Grooming at 4-H Camp
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026950
Title:
Five Best Dressed Boys at 4-H Camp No. 2
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026951
Title:
Five Best Dressed Boys at 4-H Camp No. 2
Date:
1936
IDNO:
026985
Title:
Helen Regina and her Family Orchestra, Sprouse Winning Orchestra at 4-H Jubilee
Date:
1936
IDNO:
030743
Title:
Ceremony Honoring S. P. Hullihen , M.D. , D. D. S., Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
The photo was taken at Mt. Wood Cemetery in Wheeling honoring S. P. Hullihen, M.D., D.D.S. (father of Oral Surgery in U. S. ): some attendees in the picture are identified as follows 1) C. Baxter Morris, D.D.S. President W. Va. State Dental Society 2) G. B. Writes, D.D.S., Pres. American Dental Assoc. 3)Edward P. Armbrecht, D.D.S. Chairman Hullihen Day Celebration, City of Wheeling 4)F. N. Carroll, D.D.S., Pres. Wheeling district Dental Society 5)W. D. Giesler, D.D.S., Member of Wheeling District Dental Society.
IDNO:
031869
Title:
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Group, Union, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Camp friends and others in the classroom.
IDNO:
037170
Title:
Portrait of Harriet Lyon, West Virginia University
Date:
1936
Description:
Harriet Lyon Jewett from a photo accompanying her April 1936 WVU Alumni reminiscence of life as one of WVU's first female students. Enlarged from Sallie Norris Showalter's copy of the WVU Alumni. Donor: Norris' grandaughter Sallie Showater Barnes.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.
IDNO:
037285
Title:
Radio Performer, Cowboy Loye Pack and His Family
Date:
1936
Description:
"Cowboy" Loye Pack and family, including his 2 year old son, Gerald Malcolm Pack. Performed at WWVA Wheeling or WMMN Fairmont.
IDNO:
037509
Title:
Davis & Elkins Campus, Elkins, Randolph County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
037654
Title:
Virginian Railway Stock at Mullens, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
"The Virginian 102" was part of the Virginian Railway spur line that transported bituminous coal from southern West Virginia, 1909 to 1959.
IDNO:
038225
Title:
Mt. View, Monongalia County
Date:
1936
Description:
This is the school building that was built to combine Cool Spring and Mt. View schools. No longer standing.
IDNO:
039949
Title:
Mike Trulos-Assistant Chef at Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in W. Va,
Date:
1936
IDNO:
040957
Title:
Mine Safety Day, Jackson's Mill, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Participants march in file though a crowd of onlookers.
IDNO:
041084
Title:
Monument Place, Elm Grove in Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Interior of the house, west end of north wall of room to right of "?". Also known as Shepard Hall, the structure was built in 1798 by Moses Shepard.
IDNO:
041091
Title:
Effie McIntyre Home, Kearneysville, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
View from the southwest.
IDNO:
041093
Title:
Level Green Slave Quarters Outbuilding, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
041094
Title:
Traveler's Rest Slave Quarters, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
View of outbuilding from south-east.
IDNO:
041095
Title:
Nathan Haines House, Summit Point, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Also known as the Fairfax Grant Stock Farm, built ca. 1775.
IDNO:
041096
Title:
Meathouse, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Outbuilding which is probably a meat house on a large farm, viewed from the south-west.
IDNO:
041100
Title:
Traveler's Rest, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
View of the Horatio Gates home from the north-east.
IDNO:
041101
Title:
Osborn House, Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
041104
Title:
Jacob Morgan Steptoe House, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Named Falling Spring and located near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The structure was built by Jacob Morgan in 1841. Viewed from the south-east.
IDNO:
041105
Title:
Harewood Near Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Built by Samuel Washington, younger brother of George Washington in 1770. Viewed from the north-west.
IDNO:
041106
Title:
Harewood Near Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Built by Samuel Washington, younger brother of George Washington, in 1770. View from the south-east.
IDNO:
041107
Title:
Cedar Lawn, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Built by John Thornton Augustine Washington, grand-nephew of George Washington, in 1825. View from the south-east.
IDNO:
041108
Title:
Woodbury, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Located near Leetown and built in 1835 by Federal Judge Henry St. George Tucker. View from the south-east.
IDNO:
041110
Title:
Peter Burr House Near Bardane, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Handhewn clapboard house was built ca. 1751. Peter Burr was first cousin to United States Vice President Aaron Burr.
IDNO:
041111
Title:
Peter Burr House Near Bardane, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Handhewn clapboard house was built ca. 1751. Peter Burr was first cousin to United States Vice President Aaron Burr.
IDNO:
041112
Title:
Piedmont Near Charles Town, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
John Worthington built the original structure in 1735. Dr. John Briscoe remodeled the house to it's present day appearance in 1780. View from the south-west.
IDNO:
041115
Title:
Rosebrake, Dandridge House, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
The "back House' shown in the is photograph was built in ca. 1737 by Richard Morgan, and grandson, Daniel Morgan built the "Great House" ca. 1800.
IDNO:
041116
Title:
Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
West side and (north) back end. John Brown tried and convicted here in 1859. The building was badly damaged during the Civil War and eventually restored.
IDNO:
041117
Title:
Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
East side and north end. John Brown tried and convicted here in 1859. The building was badly damaged during the Civil War and eventually restored.
IDNO:
041118
Title:
Intrerior of Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
North wall of the court room on the second floor. The building badly damaged during the Civil War and eventually restored.
IDNO:
041119
Title:
Interior of Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
North and West walls of main courtroom on second floor. John Brown tried and convicted here in 1859. The building badly damaged during the Civil War and eventually restored.
IDNO:
041120
Title:
Elmwood Slave Quarters, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Slave quarters and outbuilding viewed from the South East. Also known as the R. Lucas House.
IDNO:
041133
Title:
Stadion of Olympiade, Berlin, Germany
Date:
1936
Description:
A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of the Stadion of Olympiade. This area was not badly damaged during the war, and was taken over in 1945 as the headquarters of the British military contingent in Berlin. Returned to German control in the mid-1990s, much of this area remains today as it did in 1936, still a sports center.
IDNO:
041134
Title:
Stadion of Olympiade, Hous of German Sports, Berlin, Germany
Date:
1936
Description:
A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of the Stadion of Olympiade, Hous of German sports. This area was not badly damaged during the war, and was taken over in 1945 as the headquarters of the British military contingent in Berlin. Returned to German control in the mid-1990s, much of this area remains today as it did in 1936, still a sports center.
IDNO:
041218
Title:
Beverley Out Building, Rt. 340, Jefferson County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Marshall Burns outbuilding viewed from S.W.
IDNO:
041219
Title:
'Beverley' on Berryville Rd., Jefferson County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Originally built in 1750, Beverley has been remodeled several times. Near Rippon, West Virginia.
IDNO:
041220
Title:
Henry Henderson House, Jefferson County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
View from the N.W. of the log house.
IDNO:
041221
Title:
Jack Manning House, Berryville Rd., Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1936
Description:
Also known as the Vinton Farm, the house was built in 1840.
IDNO:
041222
Title:
Old Stone Tavern, New Creek, Mineral Co., W. Va.
Date:
1936
IDNO:
041223
Title:
Old Stone Tavern, New Creek, Mineral County, W. Va.
Date:
1936
