Photo of Mrs. Nell Graham's home economics class at Hinton High School. Pictures id Blanch Carden, Bessie Curtis, Mabel Meador, Layton Ellison, Mamie Krise, Daisy Marsh, Cynthia Ann, Letha Harris, and Vernette Berger.
Hinton High School Graduating Class, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1937
Description:
Members from the Class of 1937 pose for a group portriats. Within this photo is Sam McLean, Charles Saunders, Bill Ailstock, Donald Honaker, Dave Harman, Jr., Dempsey Fox, and Ethel Edwards.
Piedmont Tobacco card of American League hurler Jack Warhop. He pitched 8 years for the New York Highlanders/Yankees against some of baseball's all time legends during the dead ball era. The Summers County native is best known for throwing to Babe Ruth, the Babe's first and second major league career home runs.
Wauhop, also known as Jack Warhop, is sitting on the left with Bartgis (right). Bartgsi was Wauhop's uncle and died in 1919 at the age of 21. Wauhop was a pitcher for the Highlanders, a team that would later be known as the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth's first two major league home runs were hit off of Wauhop's pitch.
Chesapeake & Ohio Baseball Team, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
A team portrait of the C. & O. baseball team.In the back from, from left to right, is Ervin Maxwell (center field); Joe McCarthey (pitcher); John Warhop (Wauhop) (pitcher); Ocar Whitlock (1st base); Will Turner (3rd base); and Bob Turner (pitcher).In the front is Arthur Sydnor (left field); Elvin Wise (2nd base); Harry Starbuck (catcher); George Secrest (short stop); and John Hobbs (right field). Warhop (Wauhop) pitched the ball that Babe Ruth hit for his first professional homer run.
Inscription on reverse indicates area is the alley between 3rd & 4th Ave behind the Hinton Hospital. Pictured is a woman and child, one of whom is identified as "Miller's Mother".
Miller Murrell and two other children sit in front of a house, likely on or near Ballengee Street in Hinton, W. Va. The children are in a wooden jeep. A large toy gun is mounted on the rear of the vehicle.
Two men sitting on a rail outside The Big 4 Drug Store, located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Temple Street, in Hinton, W. Va. A membership card identifies K. D. Foster, on the right, as the Vice President of The Rail Club.
A man sitting on a rail outside The Big 4 Drug Store, located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Temple Street, in Hinton, W. Va. A membership card identifies B. O. Pettrie, Jr. as President of The Rail Club.