Senators Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph with Julia Davis Adams
Date:
1963
Description:
Senators Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph with Julia Davis Adams, West Virginia Daughter of the Year, 1963. Byrd papers duplicate. Original at the R. C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University.
Senators Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph with Julia Davis Adams
Date:
1963
Description:
Senators Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph with Julia Davis Adams, West Virginia Daughter of the year, 1963. Byrd papers duplicate. Original at the R. C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University.
Gathering for the first production of "Anvil" in Charles Town, W. Va. for the West Virginia Centennial. Identified in the photograph: left Seated, Erma Ora Byrd and Robert C. Byrd; far right seated, Julia Davis Adams. "The Anvil" was a play written by Julia Davis about the John Brown Raid for the Civil War Centennial. Her grandparents were from Charles Town where Brown was tried and hanged. Her grandfather witnessed the execution.
