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Family members pose outside of their log home with a horse. Subjects unidentified.

1. Family Outside of Home on New River Flood Plain, Forest Hill, W. Va.

Portrait of Anthony Lightner, who was a private in the 31st Virginia during the Civil War.

2. Private Anthony Lightner, 31st Virginia

Portrait of Cox at the age of 19. He later moved to Baltimore, Maryland.

3. Portrait of Alex Cox

Knotts is pictured sitting in a rocking chair.

4. Portrait of a Young Ollie Knotts

An aged Cox is pictured.

5. Portrait of an Older Ollie Knotts Cox

6. Portrait of Olive Knotts Cox

7. Fuzzy Rankin, Morgantown, W. Va.

Four fashionably dressed Zinn family members are pictured together.

8. Relatives of Mrs. Earl R. Zinn

Portrait of an unidentified Zinn family member.

9. Relative of Mrs. Earl R. Zinn

Four women and one man identified as Zinn family members pose together in front of a fence.

10. Zinn Relatives Outside an Unidentified Location

11. Studio Portrait of Young Boy

Portrait of Loretta Daniels Harper.

12. Portrait of Loretta Harper

13. Portrait of Sampson Snyder, Harman, W. Va.

Dr. Noah Harper Judy died 8/15/1933 at 87 years old.

14. Portrait of Dr. Noah Harper Judy

Portrait of an elderly Dayton. He was involved in the founding of the state of West Virginia, served as a delegate at the first and second Wheeling Conventions, one term in the West Virginia State Senate and State Prosecuting Attorney for Barbour, Randolph, Taylor and Tucker Counties.

15. Spencer Dayton of Philippi, Barbour County, Va. (W. Va.)

This item was found in Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, West Virginia.

16. Portrait of an Unidentified Female

17. Portrait of Cornelius Carhart Lazzell, Father of Blanche Lazzell

Four unidentified women and one man pose for this tintype as one woman strums a banjo.

18. Group Portrait of Ellison-Dunlap Family Members from Monroe County, W. Va.

Frank Holme (right) from Preston County, West Virginia, was a nationally known artist and newspaper illustrator. In this staged photograph he pretends to share soup with an unidentified friend.

19. Frank Holme and Friend Share Meal

Frank Holme (standing, far left) from Preston County, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with unidentified friends, one woman maybe his wife, Ida Van Dyke Holme.

20. Frank Home and Friends

Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with an unidentified friend in a staged photograph.

21. Frank Holme and Friend

Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia, was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he clowns with an unidentified friend in staged photograph.

22. Frank Holme and Friend

Daisy Flemming and Grace Hogne, students of a Morgantown school, pose for a portrait

23. Morgantown School Girls

Large tintype image of a young woman named Rosa.

24. Portrait of 'Rosa'

25. Three Women, 'Mother, Frankie and Gibbie'

William and Mary were married on June 13, 1878.  Written inside the paper enclosure are the words "While these you keep remember us."  The Corrothers family is likely related to the Zinn, Steele-Arnett, or Sanders family.

26. William A. C. Corrothers and Mary F. Miller

27. Unidentified Couple and Child

Kidwell (b.1876-d.1946) is about 6 years old in the photograph.

28. Portrait of a Young Sarah Alice Harsh Kidwell

Portrait of Sadie West and Nancy Lauck from a from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

29. Portrait of Sadie West and Nancy Lauck from Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Hal Reynold, James Barrick, and Jim [Leks] from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

30. Portrait of Hal Reynold, James Barrick, and Jim [Leks] from Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Uncle Will from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

31. Portrait of Uncle Will, Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Sadie West and an unidentified female from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

32. Portrait of Sadie West, Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Uncle Cy from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

33. Portrait of 'Uncle Cy,' Keyser, W. Va.

Group portrait of Braxton Davenport Gibson (sitting, left) of Charles Town, West Virginia with three men and a woman.

34. Braxton Davenport Gibson and Friends

35. Two Men, 'Henry and Drake'

Unidentified young girl poses wearing a large outer garment, held at the waist with ornat belt, and a bonnet tied with a huge ribbon.

36. Tintype Portrait of Elaborately Dressed Young Girl

Cased image, possibly a tintype, of an unidentified boy.

37. Portrait of Well Dressed Teenage Boy

Probably a tintype photograph of an unidentified boy.

38. Cased Portrait of Teenage Boy

Probably a tintype photograph of an unidentified, well dressed young man wearing a military style kepi.

39. Cased Portrait of Young Man

Likely a member of the Moreland family.

40. Portrait of Woman With Initials L.A.M.

41. Lightner Family Member

Female member of the Lightner family with elaborately curled hair, possibly a wig.

42. Lightner Family Member, Clarksburg, W. Va.

Portrait of a male Lightner family member.

43. Lightner Family Member

Adams (Washington, D. C.) and Christy (Charleston, W. Va.)

44. S. S . Adams and S. E. Christy, West Virginia University

45. Unidentified Male Student, West Virginia University

46. Three Male Students, West Virginia University

47. Unidentified Male Student, West Virginia University

48. Group of Three Male Students, West Virginia University

49. Student Getzor, West Virginia University

Students are identified: Edminston, Spates, Knox, Border, Woods, and Haymond.

50. Group Portrait of West Virginia University Students

Probably a tintype photograph of a unidentified girl wearing mid-19th style dress and hair, holding an object.

51. Cased Portrait of Young Girl

Son of Spencer and Sarah Dayton.

52. Alston G. Dayton of Philippi, W. Va.

Daughter of West Virginia statehood adovcate, Spencer Dayton and his wife Sarah Bush Barrett Dayton.

53. Imogene Dayton of Philippi, W. Va.

Bearded man wearing a dress uniform with dark trim, of a Confederate officer, and holding a sword.

54. Portrait of Unidentified Confederate Officer

55. Jollife Relative in Unidentified Location

Mrs. Samuel F. Harsh (b. 1839-d. 1922) is pictured holding an unidentified child.

56. Louisa Harsh and Baby in Unidentified Location

Sarah Alice Harsh (b.1876-d.1946) is standing in the back. In the front is Minnie Hoffman, left, and Waitmen Harsh (b.1861-d.1888).

57. Harsh Family Members

Jacob Harsh (b.1801/01/02-d.1888) and Sarah Harsh (b.1799/12/23-d.1878) are pictured.

58. Parents of Samuel F. Harsh

Harsh, left, and Hoffman, right, are relatives of Samuel F. Harsh.

59. Waitmen T. Harsh and Cousin Minnie Hoffman

A man puts his face through a cutout, giving the perception that his head is attached to the cartoon.

60. Man Puts Face in Cutout for Funny Picture

Information included with the image, "Sarah Suter B. Dec 8, 1793 unmarried sister of Volender Suter, wife of Alexander Suietu, parents of Eleanor Suter Brown, wife of Thomas Brown, parents of Mary Ellen Brown wife of Joseph Moreland, parents of James R. Moreland, father of William A. Moreland, father of Patricia Ann Moreland."

61. Cased Portrait of Sarah Suter

Couple on the left identified as Caroline B. Goff and Percy Goff, couple on the right is unidentified.  All appear in swimwear.

62. Caroline B. Goff, Percy Goff, and Unidentified Couple Pose in Studio

A young New England widow who moved to French Creek, Upshur County, Va. (W.Va.) and married attorney Spencer Dayton of Philippi in 1849.

63. Sarah Bush Barrett Dayton, Wife of Spencer Dayton of Philippi, W. Va.

Unidentified man wearing a large hat, vest, goatee and mustache. The tintype is encased in a small glass frame.

64. 'Tu Amigo'

Print number 1636.

65. Unidentified Group of Females

Print number 1635.

66. Unidentified Man and Woman

At one time likely cased.

67. Unidentified Woman in Bordered Tintype

68. Unidentified Bordered Tintype Portrait of Man and Two Women

69. Unidentified Portrait of Three Girls

Print number 1628.

70. Two World War I Soldiers in Military Uniforms

71. Folk Musicians with Fiddle and Guitar

Swiger was a photographer and jeweler and is known for the several photographs he took of the Shinnston area.

72. Muta Swiger, Shinnston, W. Va.

Portrait of Edith Woodcock (on the right) and an unidentified girl from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

73. Portrait of Edith Woodcock, Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Howard Wells and Frank Reynolds from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents of Keyser, W. Va.

74. Portrait of Howard Wells and Frank Reynolds, Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Sadie West and Nancy Lauck from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents of Keyser, W. Va.

75. Portrait of Sadie West and Nancy Lauck, Keyser, W. Va.

A portrait of a seated couple taken outdoor in Helvetia, W. Va.

76. Helvetia Couple, Helvetia, W. Va.

Portrait of James Barrick, Sadie West, Nancy Lauck. and Nat Reynolds from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents of Keyser, W. Va.

77. Portrait of James Barrick, Sadie West, Nancy Lauck, and Nat Reynolds, Keyser, W. Va.

'Howdy do here I am.'

78. Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of Frank and Nina Reynolds taken during the Summer of 1888 from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.

79. Portrait of Frank and Nina Reynolds, Keyser, W. Va.

Portrait of Nancy Lauck and Katie Fitzer from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents of Keyser, W. Va.

80. Portrait of Nancy Lauck and Katie Fitzer, Keyser, W. Va.

81. Portrait of a Man

82. James Rogers Moreland About Two Years Old, Morgantown, W. Va.

On back of portrait: "Extreme right Oscar Kubach." On front: "Sunday August, 8th, 1880."

83. Oscar C. Kubach Posed with Four Team Mates

Tintype portrait of George Berry. Inscribed on the back, "Compliments of Geo. O. Berry to his friend J. Z. Ellison [John Zachariah Ellison of Monroe County, W. Va.].

84. George O. Berry, Columbus, Georgia

85. R. A. Kincaid, Summersville, W. Va.

Portrait of young boy, possible the son of Nathaniel and Matilda Bailee. The album holding this tintype has the name card of Charles R. Bailee attached on the inside cover.

86. Charles R. Bailee

A tintype portrait of G.C. Updegraff, from the Ellison-Dunlap families collection, Monroe County.

87. G. C. Updegraff of West Tarrfield, Westmoreland County, Pa.

Tintype portrait of E.W. Strain of Brooke County, W. Va. Also inscribed on the back; "J. Z. Ellison . . .Yours Truly". J. Z. Ellison was a member of the Ellison-Dunlap family.

88. E.W. Strain, Brooke County, W. Va.

Mrs. S. F. Harsh is pictured.

89. Portrait of Louisa Harsh

Nathan Ballard clinches a pipe in his mouth and holds a collie while posing with a little girl, Helen Ballard-Clark, sister of Margaret Ballard.

90. Ballard, Nathan and Helen Ballard-Clark, Monroe County, W. Va.

91. Frank Ball, West Virginia University

A portrait of student, Dille, Thomas R. riding a bicycle appears to be taken at studio.

92. Student Thomas R. Dille Riding A Bicycle, West Virginia University

93. Thomas R. Dille and Fellow Student, West Virginia University

94. Locomotive

This item was found in Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, West Virginia.

95. Portrait of a Young African American Woman

This item was found in Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, West Virginia.

96. Portrait of African-American Infant