Search Results
- IDNO:
- 040402
- Title:
- Mountain Crack-Up, Newburg Curve, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1947
- Description:
- Massive train wreck which killed an engineer. This photograph won the A. P. News Picture Contest.
- IDNO:
- 040409
- Title:
- Gibson Brothers Department Store, Tunnelton, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1901
- Description:
- A hitched wagon is parked outside on a dirt paved road with several unidentified men and boys standing in front of the store. One man (left) sits on a bicycle.
- IDNO:
- 040420
- Title:
- Kingwood Tunnel, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Two unidentified men stand on each side of the tracks at the tunnel entrance.
- IDNO:
- 040428
- Title:
- Memorial Ceremony, Kingwood, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1920
- Description:
- Possibly a Memorial Day Event.
- IDNO:
- 040472
- Title:
- Frank Holme and Friend Share Meal
- Date:
- ca. 1890
- Description:
- Frank Holme (right) from Preston County, West Virginia, was a nationally known artist and newspaper illustrator. In this staged photograph he pretends to share soup with an unidentified friend.
- IDNO:
- 040473
- Title:
- Frank Home and Friends
- Date:
- ca. 1890
- Description:
- Frank Holme (standing, far left) from Preston County, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with unidentified friends, one woman maybe his wife, Ida Van Dyke Holme.
- IDNO:
- 040479
- Title:
- Old Homestead of Joseph Summers, Marquess, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Painted photograph of the Summers home. The structure was built ca. 1800 by Thomas Armstrong and his father. Joseph Summers and his wife Julia began living here in 1853. Identified in the photograph left to right: William Caleb Summers; Sarah Summers Wolf Bower; Elmira Francis Knapp Summers Hurshman; Maud Bower Huffman; Iva Burke Summers; William Bower
- IDNO:
- 041248
- Title:
- View of Tunnelton, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 041251
- Title:
- Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Station, Reedsville, W. Va.
- Description:
- A Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad train rolls pass the station located near what is now Route 7.
- IDNO:
- 041259
- Title:
- Elevated View of Neighborhoods in Newburg, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1910
- IDNO:
- 041262
- Title:
- Coke Ovens at Work, Bretz, Preston County, West Virginia
- Date:
- 1974
- Description:
- Loaded Baltimore & Ohio Rail Cars stand across from the unidentified workers and the ovens operated by Elkins Coal and Coke Company.
- IDNO:
- 041277
- Title:
- Bark Cottage and Casino, Brookside, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1908
