Search Results
- IDNO:
- 041043
- Title:
- Guyandotte River View From Bridge South, Huntington, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- Floating cut timber on the Guyandotte.
- IDNO:
- 041044
- Title:
- Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Station; Charleston, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- Postcard photograph.
- IDNO:
- 041045
- Title:
- Court House and Residence Section, Marlinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of an elevated view of Marlinton.
- IDNO:
- 041428
- Title:
- City Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041434
- Title:
- Scottish Rite Cathedral, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041442
- Title:
- Flood of 1907, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041457
- Title:
- Fort Henry, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- The fort was subject to two major sieges, two notable feats (McColloch's Leap and Betty Zane's trek through the battle), and other skirmishes.
- IDNO:
- 041458
- Title:
- City Water Works, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041459
- Title:
- Ebenezer Zane's Old Log Cabin, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- Caption on postcard reads: "Ebenezer Zane's Old Log Cabin. The first building erected in Wheeling built in 1769, torn down 1908. This is the cabin to which Elizabeth Zane made her heroic dash for powder during the siege of Ft. Henry by the British and Indians."
- IDNO:
- 041464
- Title:
- Mill In Action During the Night, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041491
- Title:
- Entrance to Wheeling Park, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- IDNO:
- 041653
- Title:
- Members of Black Hand Arrested, Fairmont, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1909
- Description:
- The Black Hand was an underworld society of Italians that thrived in Sicily in the late 19th century. After the great migration, immigrants of the group settled in West Virginia and sought to extort money from other Italian immigrants to the area. Several members of the Black Hand were successfully prosecuted for murder and extortion in the early 20th century.