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Compressor Station Facilities-Symbolic of the Oil and Gas Industry in West Virginia.

1. Gas Compressor Station

IDNO:
000796
Title:
Gas Compressor Station
Date:
undated
Description:
Compressor Station Facilities-Symbolic of the Oil and Gas Industry in West Virginia.
A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'

2. Coal Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004334
Title:
Coal Mine Tipple
Description:
A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'
View of the West Virginia State Capitol Building in Charleston, West Virginia.

3. State Capitol Building, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
005429
Title:
State Capitol Building, Charleston, W. Va.
Description:
View of the West Virginia State Capitol Building in Charleston, West Virginia.
"W. Va. Indus. [and] Pub. Comm."

4. State Capitol Building, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
005524
Title:
State Capitol Building, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
"W. Va. Indus. [and] Pub. Comm."
Small brick schoolhouse with gabled entrance. Stansbury Hall is visible in the right side of the photograph. In the 1940s and 50s, West Virginia University used this school as a grade school for training eductaion majors. It was called the WVU Laboratory Elementary School. The building was an African-American school prior to WVU's use of the building.

5. African-American Elementary School Where Dr. Alex L. Wade Taught, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
005599
Title:
African-American Elementary School Where Dr. Alex L. Wade Taught, Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Small brick schoolhouse with gabled entrance. Stansbury Hall is visible in the right side of the photograph. In the 1940s and 50s, West Virginia University used this school as a grade school for training eductaion majors. It was called the WVU Laboratory Elementary School. The building was an African-American school prior to WVU's use of the building.
'In 1859 John Brown, Kansas Abolitionist, and a part of followers seized this little engine house which was at the time serving as a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. The fort was dismanteled in 1892 and shipped to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill. It was laterreturned to Harpers Ferry, where it is now being used as a museum on the compus of Storer College. This picture is an opposite side view of John Brown's Fort.' 'From the West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission, State Capitol, Charleston 5, W. Va.'

6. John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

IDNO:
006604
Title:
John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
'In 1859 John Brown, Kansas Abolitionist, and a part of followers seized this little engine house which was at the time serving as a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. The fort was dismanteled in 1892 and shipped to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill. It was laterreturned to Harpers Ferry, where it is now being used as a museum on the compus of Storer College. This picture is an opposite side view of John Brown's Fort.' 'From the West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission, State Capitol, Charleston 5, W. Va.'
'From Al Knight, Weirton.'

7. Blooming Mill, Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

IDNO:
007888
Title:
Blooming Mill, Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.
Description:
'From Al Knight, Weirton.'

8. Pouring Molten Steel in the Bessemer Building at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

IDNO:
007889
Title:
Pouring Molten Steel in the Bessemer Building at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

9. Tapping an Open Hearth Furnace at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

IDNO:
007890
Title:
Tapping an Open Hearth Furnace at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

10. Airplane flying over Weirton Steel Company, Weirton, W. Va.

IDNO:
007891
Title:
Airplane flying over Weirton Steel Company, Weirton, W. Va.

11. Bessemer Blowing at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.

IDNO:
007892
Title:
Bessemer Blowing at Weirton Steel, Weirton, W. Va.
Cadets in uniform in formation in front of Old Main at the Linsly Institute in Wheeling, W. Va.

12. Cadets in Front of Old Main at Linsly Institute, Wheeling, W. Va.

IDNO:
008923
Title:
Cadets in Front of Old Main at Linsly Institute, Wheeling, W. Va.
Description:
Cadets in uniform in formation in front of Old Main at the Linsly Institute in Wheeling, W. Va.