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IDNO:: 014173
Title:: Partial View, Men's Wing, Spencer State Hospital, Roane County, W. Va.
Date:: 1930/06
Description:: Partial view of the men's wing at Spencer State Hospital. D. D. Chapman, M. D., Superintendent. This institution is located at Spencer, Roane County, and is reached by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, or by bus line or auto on State Routes No. 14, No. 5 and No. 36. Number of Patients June 30, 1930 was 805.

IDNO:: 014174
Title:: Coal Tipple at Glen White, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1910
Description:: A picture postcard of a coal tipple in Glen White, Raleigh County, West Virginia.

IDNO:: 014175
Title:: Store and Office Building, Glen White, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1910
Description:: A picture postcard of Store and Office Building in Glen White, Raleigh County, West Virginia.

IDNO:: 014177
Title:: Members of the Old Baptist Church, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1910
Description:: A group portrait of members of the Old Baptist Church, Crab Orchard in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

IDNO:: 014179
Title:: Sprague Mine, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Description:: Three men are standing on the railroad tracks at the Sprague Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

IDNO:: 014181
Title:: Along the Old Crow Road, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Date:: 1906
Description:: 'Cubby Bair says: first home of Dr. A.S. Abshire, Crow, where Charles Jordan now lives. He first came from Roanoke, then from Hinton, went out to Crow as company doctor for J.R. Beaty Lumber Company. In picture is Dr. and Mrs. Abshire (she was Cubby's aunt, a sister of Fred Bair). This railroad shown is a part of the company built-owned, first rails to be laid in Raleigh county. The track stretched from the New River up Glade Creek, through new tunnel at top of Crow Ridge, down to Beaver, Raleigh, up. Happy Hollow to the little station below Beckley Seminary.'