Search Results
- IDNO:
- 033837
- Title:
- Students in front of Woodburn Female Semirany, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- The building was located where Woodburn Hall stands now.
- IDNO:
- 034551
- Title:
- Group Portrait of Students and Principal R. C. Smith
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- See original photo for names of students.
- IDNO:
- 038262
- Title:
- William Henry Potter of Monongalia County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- IDNO:
- 038398
- Title:
- Lieutenant Zadoc Morgan of Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Zadoc Morgan, son of Zackqill Morgan and an officer in the Federal Army, died in hospital at Petersburg, Virginia, December, 1865.
- IDNO:
- 039398
- Title:
- Reverend J. R. Moore, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Rev. Moore was the superintendent of the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown. Moore ran the school with his wife, Elizabeth Moore until 1866. In 1867 the new land-grant University (later known as West Virginia University) took over the building.
- IDNO:
- 039908
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Young Man, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Cased ambrotype photograph of an unidentified young man. The emulsion of this fragile image is beginning to fall off the plate. Ambrotypes were popular in the mid-1800's
- IDNO:
- 040095
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of William G. Brown Sr. and Daniel D. T. Farnsworth, Western Virginia (West Virginia)
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Ambrotype image of two prominent political leaders, active in the formation and government of West Virginia. The reverse side of the image has a political advertisement stating, "People's Ticket; For Congress, Wm G. Brown. Senate, Dan D. T. Farnsworth." Brown did serve in the United States House of Representatives before and during the Civil War. Farnsworth was never elected to the Senate, however he did served in the West Virginia Legislature for several terms and as Interim-Governor in 1869.
- IDNO:
- 040165
- Title:
- Main Street, Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (W. Va.)
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Dirt surfaced main road through town lined with saddled and hitched horses tethered to posts.
- IDNO:
- 040243
- Title:
- Cased Ambrotype Portrait of Richard Powell
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Information included with the image, " Richard Powell, U. B. Minister, Nephew - Grandmother Lewis."
- IDNO:
- 040244
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Aunt Mary McNab
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Ambrotype of Mary McNab wearing the fashion and hair style of the 1860's.
- IDNO:
- 040245
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Sarah Suter
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Information included with the image, "Sarah Suter B. Dec 8, 1793 unmarried sister of Volender Suter, wife of Alexander Suietu, parents of Eleanor Suter Brown, wife of Thomas Brown, parents of Mary Ellen Brown wife of Joseph Moreland, parents of James R. Moreland, father of William A. Moreland, father of Patricia Ann Moreland."
- IDNO:
- 040448
- Title:
- Spencer Dayton of Philippi, Barbour County, Va. (W. Va.)
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Involved in the founding of the state of West Virginia, served as delegate at the first and second Wheeling Conventions, one term in the West Virginia State Senate and State Prosecuting Attorney for Barbour, Randolph, Taylor and Tucker Counties.