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Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting  Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling:  Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.

1. College of Pharmacy Student Group on Visit to Calco Chemical Plant, Willow Island, W. Va.

"WVU cadets stand for inspection beside the new $4000 Armory built in 1873. University Ave had not been built yet so the white fence delineates Woodburn Circle. Martin Hall includes an entrance porch with a balcony.", as described in  "West Virginia University, Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State".

2. Cadet Cannoneers in Battery Formation in Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University

3. Graduating Class of 1878, West Virginia University

A portrait of Class of 1878. Top row: Enoc J. Marsh, J.R. Thompson; Ben Morgan; Bottom row: A.G. Dayton, A.F. Courtney; J.M. Lee and Dan Rich.

4. Graduating Class of 1878, West Virginia University

Leaning against a fence, made with unhewn logs.

5. Students Edminston and Haymond, West Virginia University

Major James M. Lee commandant on far right poses with his cadets officers. Standing next to the Major is Robert Hall Armstrong, Adjutant.

6. Commandant Major James M. Lee and Cadet Officers, West Virginia University

7. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

Riverview, Kanawha County, W. Va.

8. Robert E. L. Blackwood, West Virginia University

Dr. Hartigan, the instructor, is in the front row, second from the left; and Wayne Willey is in the front row, on the extreme right.  The other students are not identified.

9. Physiology Class, West Virginia University

From Left to Right: John Wiley Francis, A.B. 1892; William Charles Meyer, A.B. 1893; A. Brown Smith, A.B. 1893.

10. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

From April 1936 Alumni Magazine. Harriet Eliza Lyon, a transfer student from Vassar College was WVU's first woman graduate. The only woman in the fourteen member Class of 1891, she won the honor of being valedictorian. Born in Fedonia, New York, she moved to Morgantown with her family in 1867 when her father, Franklin Smith Lyon, accepted a position as one of WVU's first professors. After graduating from the University, Harriet Lyon returned to Fredonia and married Franklin Jewett, a professor of science at the Fredonia Normal school. She raised four children and was active as a musician, singer, composer, and community leader. Harriet Lyon was a grandniece of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.

11. Portrait of Harriet Lyon

Group portrait of all male cast in costume for a student production of Shakespeare's 'Richard III.'  The play raised funds for WVU's first football team.  Proceeds bought, 'uniforms, football, and a rule book.'  Pictured, left to right, A. Brown Smith; Ed. Mayer; Claude Gore; Melville Davisson Post, Director; Richard Stine; Frederick Minshall, Doresey Stine; C. Earl Vance; Kemble White; Harry Smith.

12. Students in Cast of 'Richard III,' West Virginia University