Search Results
- IDNO:
- 001309
- Title:
- Johnson, Col. Adam R.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Portrait of Col. Adam R. Johnson, later Brig. Gen., who led Morgans Raiders across W. Va. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 001310
- Title:
- Thompson, Lt. Col. W. P.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Portrait of Lt. Col. W.P. Thompson of Wheeling and Fairmont, who commanded the 19th Va. Cavalry , CSA, at the Battle of Bulltown. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 001311
- Title:
- Curtis, Lt. Josiah M.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Portrait of Lt. Josiah M. Curtis, Co. I, 12th W. Va. Infantry, of West Liberty, Ohio County, who won the Medal of Honor in attack on Fort Gregg, the last defense before Petersburg, Virginia. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 001312
- Title:
- Thoburn, Colonel Joseph
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Portrait of Col. Jos. Thoburn, 1st W. Va. Infantry. Commanded a brigade at 2nd Bull Run. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 001313
- Title:
- Pinkerton Spy Pyree Lewis at Supper with Confederate Captain
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Pinkerton Spy Pryee Lewis sups with Confederate Captain George S. Patton at Camp Tompkins. Sketch from Allan Pinkerton's 'Spy of the Rebellion. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 001314
- Title:
- World War I Airplane Landing Gear Stored in a Hangar
- Date:
- ca. 1918
- Description:
- World War I era airplane landing gear lined up in a hangar.
- IDNO:
- 001315
- Title:
- Mortelecque, Henri
- Date:
- 1919/08/24
- Description:
- Portrait of Henri Montelecque, the young boy who saw the fall of Lt. Louis Bennett on August 24, 1918. Accompanied letter from Marie-Louis Plancy to Mrs. Louis Bennett, 22 July 1919 in the Bennett Collection Box 3, Folder 3.
- IDNO:
- 001316
- Title:
- Bennett, Lt. Louis with Small Child
- Date:
- ca. 1918
- Description:
- Candid portrait of Lt. Louis Bennett in uniform posing with a small child on a sled.
- IDNO:
- 001317
- Title:
- Bennett, Lt. Louis and Captain Kelly (On Crutches) at Sheepshead Bay
- Date:
- 1917/05/24
- Description:
- Captain Kelly, British Flying Corps, on crutches and Louis Bennett, Jr., West Virginia Flying Corps, holding bottle, pose for a portrait at Sheepshead Bay, May 24, 1917.
- IDNO:
- 001318
- Title:
- Memorial for Lt. Louis Bennett, Jr.
- Date:
- 1926/05/30
- Description:
- Memorial for Louis Bennett, Jr. placed by his mother, Mrs. Bennett. Photograph found in a letter dated June 5, 1926.
- IDNO:
- 001319
- Title:
- West Virginia Flying Corps Hangar and Planes at Beech Bottom, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1917/06
- Description:
- Aircraft in foreground is a "grass cutter" or "penguin," a non flying training machine designed to teach student pilots of the day start up and taxi procedures. Rear aircraft is Curtiss JN-4, aircraft #1 of WV Flying Corps. See Louis Bennett letter to Gov. John J. Cornwell, 22 June 1917, WV State Archives, Charleston, Box 302. Note: Aircraft #1 was destroyed in a crash on 3 August 1917. See Wheeling Register, 4 August 1917, front page.
- IDNO:
- 001320
- Title:
- Bennett, Lt. Louis and Fellow Pilot with World War I Airplane
- Date:
- ca. 1918
- Description:
- The aircraft in the picture is a Curtiss Jenny. Records show that the tail number (#1) corresponds to an aircraft that had a mishap enroute to West Virginia, and was destroyed in a crash on August 4, 1917. In this crash Cadet C.B. Lambert (of Welch, West Virginia) was killed, and Lieutenant William Frey was injured. (See newspaper Wheeling Register, August 4, 1917.)
