Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048685
- Title:
- Walter Schane, Member of 'Singing Millmen', at Microphone on 'It's Wheeling Steel'
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Walter Schane was the baritone voice of the Singing Millmen and also worked in the office of the Benwood Works. Like all who participated on the radio broadcast, you needed to be an employee or immediate family member of Wheeling Steel.
- IDNO:
- 048686
- Title:
- Croatian Tambouritza Orchestra Playing on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "The Croatian Tambouritza Orchestra numbers six youthful members, two of whom work for the corporation, the remaining four being children of mill employees." Like all who worked for the broadcast, it was required to be an employee of Wheeling Steel or an immediate family member of an employee.
- IDNO:
- 048687
- Title:
- Hilldale Telegraph Office, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910
- Description:
- View of the office from across the railroad tracks. And unidentified woman is pictured looking over the staircase.
- IDNO:
- 048688
- Title:
- Old Telegraph Office at Hilldale, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1894
- Description:
- A group of six unidentified men are pictured outside the building.
- IDNO:
- 048689
- Title:
- New and Old Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad M. W. Cabins, Hilldale, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1931
- Description:
- The new and old structures sit next to each other beside the C. & O. railroad tracks.
- IDNO:
- 048690
- Title:
- Mallet Locomotive Pulling Coal Train through Southeastern West Virginia to Western Virginia
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Photo description reads, "2-8-8-2 H-7 Mallet used on coal train between Hinton (Summers County, W. Va.) and Handley (Kanawha County, W. Va.), and between Hinton and Clifton Forge (Alleghany County, Va.) from 1924 until replace by the 2-66-6 H 8's during 1940."
- IDNO:
- 048691
- Title:
- Verdi Gwynn Howell, Machinist in Wheeling's Tin Mill, and Saxophonist in Steelmaker's Orchestra
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Verdi Gwynn Howell, machinist in Wheeling's tin mill at Yorkville, Ohio. Howell, born in Wales came to the U.S. in 1926. He was the first saxophonist in the Steelmaker's Orchestra. Howell played a solo on one "It's Wheeling Steel" broadcast which his mother in Wales listened to over a U.S. station."
- IDNO:
- 048692
- Title:
- Locomotive No. 175 on Hinton Round House Turntable, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905
- Description:
- Stoddard family pictured beside the turntable, which was 900 feet in circumference.
- IDNO:
- 048693
- Title:
- Verdi Howells Operating Machinery in Yorkville, OH
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Verdi Howells is a machinist at Yorkville, is first saxophonist of The Musical Steelmakers Orchestra, has saved the money made while broadcasting for the corporation, and will go home to visit his mother in Wales this summer." He was an orchestra member since 1936 to November 1943. All participants on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast were required to be employees of Wheeling Steel Corporation or immediate family members.
- IDNO:
- 048694
- Title:
- Union Liquor Co. Building on Third Avenue, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Sign above the bar reads, "Union Liquor Co., J. A. Watkins, proprietor." The store was located on the lower portion of 3rd Avenue. Seven unidentified man pose in front of the entrance.
- IDNO:
- 048695
- Title:
- City of Hinton on New River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Description:
- View of the city across the river.
- IDNO:
- 048696
- Title:
- Group Pictured on Footbridge in Forest near Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Three unidentified women, accompanied by two unidentified men, are pictured sitting on the railing of the wooden bridge.
