Roosevelt Inspects Armor Plant, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1940/09/03
Description:
"President Roosevelt as he inspected the armor plant, Sept. 3rd. Left to right:- J. W. Kinnear, Ass't Mgr., of operations of the plant, Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.; Pres. Roosevelt, Gov. Homer A. Holt, of West Virginia and Senator Matthew Neely, of West Virginia."
Photo of a miniature painted portrait of James Wilson, 1783-1831. The portrait was painted in Scotland prior to 1799 and in 2018 was owned by the Blennerhassett Historical Foundation, Inc. See A&M 880 for the diary of James Wilson.
Portrait of Elizabeth Irwin Moore. Moore, who was married to James Robertson Moore, was the principal of Woodburn Female Seminary before the building and land were incorporated into the campus of West Virginia University. She later opened Morgantown Female Seminary on High Street.Elizabeth Moore Hall on the Morgantown campus of West Virginia University was named in her honor shortly before her death in 1930.
West Virgnia University Cadet Band Members, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1915-1916
Description:
Photograph of four Cadet Band members on the steps of Purinton House, which was then home to the university president. Pictured are, left to right, Herbert Lynn McLaughlin, Edgar Frank Heiskell, O. D. Gill, and M. H. Thorn.
A view of the Beverly Avenue Viaduct, also known as the Falling Run Bridge, looking toward the WVU campus. Beverly Avenue is now known as University Avenue.
Boy pictured in center inside heart with quotes surrounding: "All Happiness to you," "Far from thee be every care," "Hope sustain thee ever," and "Have kindly thoughts of me."
Impersonator Russell L. Long, High Street, Morgantown, W.Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
"Charlie Chaplin's double on 4 hour stiltwalking ... period. The sidewalks, also indoors and outside stilting." Long poses outside Oppenheimer's Kuppenheimer Good Cloth store on High Street.
Men sit and talk in front of the courthouse on High Street. J. G. McCrory Co. can be seen in the background, now the site of Reeder and Shuman Attorneys at Law.