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Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.

1. Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.

Banner on the door advertises a basketball game between Morgantown and Shinnston. Thirty one out of forty students are identified. See original for identification.

2. Pep Society, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, W. Va.

Teamsters pose while in a field.

3. Teaming in Oil Field No. 24, Shinnston, W. Va.

4. Teaming in Oil Field No. 12, Shinnston, W. Va.

5. Teaming in Oil Field No. 30, Shinnston, W. Va.

6. Teaming in Oil Field No. 6, Shinnston, W. Va.

7. Teaming in Oil Field No. 36, Shinnston, W. Va.

8. Teaming In Oil Field No. 32, Shinnston, W. Va.

9. Teaming In Oil Field No. 34, Shinnston, W. Va.

10. Teaming In Oil Field, No. 15, Shinnston, W. Va.

11. Teaming In Oil Field, No. 16, Shinnston, W. Va.

12. Teaming In Oil Field No. 33, Shinnston, W. Va.

13. Teaming in Oil Field No. 9, Shinnston, W. Va.

14. Teaming in Oil Field No. 8, Shinnston, W. Va.

15. Teaming In Oil Field No. 29, Shinnston, W. Va.

16. Teaming In Oil Field No. 35, Shinnston, W. Va.

"Philad Co. S.P. Offset, Shinnston, W. Va."

17. Oil Workers Building Oil Rig, Shinnston, W. Va.

Group of unidentified men, a child, four horses, and a dog pose for a group portrait in front of Barrack & Son General Black-Smithing Store near Shinnston, W. Va.

18. Unidentified Men Pose for Group Portrait in Adamsville, W. Va.

19. Wm. Janes Well No.1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W.Va.

Men load a boiler towed by horses in an oil field.

20. Loading Boiler in Oil Field, Shinnston, W. Va.

Men likely working on an oil pipeline construction in a body of water.

21. Unidentified Men Working, Shinnston, W. Va.

22. Church, Shinnston, W. Va.

23. Doah's Dining Tent, Mudlick, Oil Field, Shinnston, W. Va.

Two men and a little girl pose for a portrait with horses.

24. Two Men and a Little Girl with Horses in Shinnston, W. Va.

Family portrait in oil field in Shinnston, W. Va.

25. Family at Door of Tent, Shinnston, W. Va.

A group poses for a portrait in front of a bath house.

26. Horner Run Bath House, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

A group of men working on an oil pipeline.

27. Pipe Line Gang, Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified group of people on porch of boarding house.

28. Tennant Boarding House, Adamsville, Shinnston, W. Va.

Group of unidentified men and two dogs are in front of Lambert Store and Restaurant in Adamsville, Shinnston, W. Va.

29. Unidentified Group of Men, Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified men stand on oil tanks

30. Roustabouts, Phila. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified men pose for a portrait.

31. Horner Run Roustabouts, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified men pose for a portrait while working on a road.

32. Road Men, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

A restaurant near the oil fields in Shinnston, W. Va.

33. Rooney's Restaurant, Adamsville, Shinnston, W. Va.

34. E. P. L. Co. Gang, Shinnston, W. Va.

35. Ehelfent Well, Shinnston, W. Va.

36. Traction wall, Shinnston, W. Va.

37. Adamsville Offsets: Bradley-attender; Dufore-Donlin; end, South Pen Cos. Shinnston, W. Va.

38. Working on Pipe Line, Shinnston, W. Va.

39. Oak Hotel, Shinnston, W. Va.

A group of people sit at a table for dinner.

40. Lambert Dining Room No.2, Shinnston, W. Va.

A restaurant in Adamsville, near the oil fields in Shinnston, W. Va.

41. Lambert Store and Restaurant No.2, Adamsville, W. Va.

42. Hawker's Well, Shinnston, W. Va.

An unidentified groups sits down for dinner at the Lambert Restaurant in Adamsville, Shinnston, W. Va.

43. Lambert Restaurant, Adamsville, Shinnston, W. Va

Horses and oil field workers in front of an oil well

44. Horses, Shinnston, W. Va

Workers and teamsters pose for a portrait while transporting machinery

45. Transporting Engine Bed Plate for Peora Gas Pumping Station, H. N. G. Co., Shinnston, W. Va

Workers and teamsters transport machinery for an oil rig

46. Transporting Engine Bed-Plate for Peora Gas Pumping Station, Shinnston, W. Va

Workers and teamsters transport machinery for an oil rig

47. Transporting Engine Bed-Plate for Peora Gas Pumping Station, H. & G. Co. Well No. 2, Shinnston, W. Va

48. Thomas Swiger Well No. 1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va

49. G. W. Swiger Well No. 3, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

Workers pose for a portrait while building an oil rig.

50. G. W. Swiger Heirs Well No. 2, Phila. Co. Building Rig, Shinnston, W. Va

51. Philad. Boiler House on G. W. Swiger Farm, Shinnston, W. Va

52. T. L. Swiger Well No. 6, Fisher Co., Shinnston, W. Va

53. Thomas Swiger Well No. 3, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va

54. E. J. Whiteman Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

55. A. Williamson Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

56. S. L. Vincent, Well No. 6, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va

Workers building a rig pose for a portrait.

57. Rig Builders, S. L. Vincent Well No. 3, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

58. Sallie Thompson, Well No. 2, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

59. Thompson Heirs, Well No. 5, Groves and Parish Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

60. E. W. Thompson, Well No. 1, E. F. Thompson Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

61. Tetrick Heirs, Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

62. H. M. Tetrick, Well No. 1, Hope Nat. Gas Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

63. G. F. Tetrick Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

64. Whiteman, Fisher Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

65. Interior: M. A. Whiteman Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

66. Interior, J. B. Whiteman Well No. 1, Donlan, O. & G. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

67. J. S. Whiteman Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Lowering Baler, Oil Flowing, Shinnston, W. Va.

68. E. J. Whiteman, Well no. 3, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified women and one child stand on two oil tanks in an oil field in Shinnston, W. Va.

69. Oil tanks to M. A. Whiteman Well no.1, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

A well with oil flowing out from it in Shinnston, W. Va.

70. T. B. Martin Well no.1 Flowing, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

71. Adamsville, on Coon's Run, no. 1, Shinnston, W. Va.

72. R.R. Hardesty Well No. 2, Shinnston, W. Va.

73. T.L. Swiger Well No. 10, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

74. Interior, T. L. Swiger Well No. 2, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

75. Henry Swiger Well No. 1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

76. H.H. Swiger Well No. 3, B. A. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

A well shooting oil in Shinnston, W. Va.

77. Oil Shooting, H.H. Swiger Well No. 1, B.A. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

78. G.W. Swiger Heirs, Well No. 6, Phila. Co., Shinnston. W. Va.

79. G.W. Swiger's Heirs, Well No. 2, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

80. G.W. Swiger Heirs, Well No. 1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

81. G.W. Swiger Well No. 3, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

Shinnston oil well and field covered in snow.

82. E.E. Swiger Well No. 3, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

Two men on horses pose next to an oil tank.

83. Tank to E. E. Swiger Well No. 1, Phila. Co., 12000 B bls/day, Shinnston, W. Va.

84. Tanks to E.E. Swiger Well No. 1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

85. Rushing Temporary Reservoirs to E.E. Swiger Well No. 1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

86. E.E. Swiger Well No. 1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

87. A.P. Swan Well No. 1, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

88. S.S. Southern Well No. 1, Tygart Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

89. J.E. Shreves Well No. 3, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

90. J.E. Shreves Well No. 2, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

Two men stand in the interior of the well.

91. Interior, J. E. Shreves Well No. 2., S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

92. Lucas Brothers Well no.2, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

93. H. K. McCoy Well no.1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

94. Lucas Brothers Well no.1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

"Ruins of oil fields, Lowe Station."

95. Ruins of Oil Tanks at Lowe Station, Shinnston, W. Va.

96. Interior, W. L. Lowe Well no.2, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.