Search Results
- IDNO:
- 052281
- Title:
- One Room School Union No. 7 on Old Post Farm, Good Hope, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1917
- Description:
- The teacher holding the football in the middle of the photograph is Dock Post. The school was located on the Post family farm. On the right, behind the teacher, is Gay Woodson.
- IDNO:
- 052283
- Title:
- Saw Mill Crew Possibly in Jane Lew, Lewis County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1917
- Description:
- A group of men are picture beside a sawmill and furnace. The sawmill is located in the Good Hope area, which crosses over into Harrison County. Subjects unidentified.
- IDNO:
- 052289
- Title:
- Winter Scene likely in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- View of the snow-covered street which is filled with horse-drawn carriages. A group of men stand beneath an awning on the right.
- IDNO:
- 052290
- Title:
- Two Men Cutting Stone, likely in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- Two unidentified men pose beside the stone they are cutting large blocks out of. A long, chiseling tool rests against the rock.
- IDNO:
- 052291
- Title:
- Boy Covered by Opossums likely, in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- A young boy is pictured holding four opossums.
- IDNO:
- 052292
- Title:
- Junior Order of the United American Mechanics Good Hope Council Member No. 153, Good Hope, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- An unidentified man sits in front of a hanging quilt. The ribbon fastened to his jacket collar indicates he is the 153rd Good Hope Council member for the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, an American fraternal order. It began as a youth affiliation of the Order of United American Mechanics, but seceded to become its own organization and eventually absorbed its parent order. Originally, it was an Anti-Catholic, Nativist group, but eventually abandoned this position and became a general fraternal benefit society open to people regardless of creed, race or sex.
- IDNO:
- 052293
- Title:
- Cutting Stone, likely in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- A man on a horse sits on top of a hill, where below there are stonemasons cutting into the rock.
- IDNO:
- 052294
- Title:
- A Performance Group in Costume likely in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1920
- Description:
- Nine unidentified individuals pose in costume. Three of them sit on horses. Five of them stand on a carriage drawn by those horses, two of which wear large pots against their bellies. The man in the forefront, dressed in two, vertical striped colors, holds what appears to be a jousting rod.
- IDNO:
- 052296
- Title:
- Inside West Milford Methodist Church, West Milford, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1917
- Description:
- A sign hanging on the back wall reads, "School motto; 'Move forward,'" indicating that the church also serves as a school.
- IDNO:
- 052297
- Title:
- West Milford Methodist Church and Parsonage, West Milford, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1917
- Description:
- Street view of the church, pictured on the left, and the parsonage, pictured on the right.
- IDNO:
- 052298
- Title:
- Train Station, Lost Creek, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1917
- Description:
- A group of men are pictured loitering outside of the Lost Creek Station Western Union Telegraph Office. In the background is an advertisement for United States Express Company Money Orders.
- IDNO:
- 052299
- Title:
- Two Men Taking Lunch Break likely in Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Two unidentified men lean against a tree branch with their lunch pails in between them.
