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- IDNO:
- 048157
- Title:
- Annual Hog Butchering in Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1907/01/16
- Description:
- The hog pictured weight 550 lbs. The butchers were L. A. Meadows, John Shumate, Henry Miller, and Alfred Ballard. The young boy is Hobart Shumate.
- IDNO:
- 048233
- Title:
- John F. Kennedy with a Coal Miner in Mullins, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1960/04/27
- Description:
- Then senator Kennedy campaigning in the presidential election in 1960 against Richard Nixon. Kennedy's speeches reflected a strong awareness of a significant decline in coal-mining jobs. The coal miner to his left is unidentified.
- IDNO:
- 048568
- Title:
- Most Likely the Presidential Campaign for Democratic Party Candidate John W. Davis in Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1924
- Description:
- Davis, from Clarksburg, W. Va., is pictured front and center standing on a train car and addressing the large crowd gathered before him. On the far left, also on the train with Davis, is James Rushford. Remaining subjects are unidentified.
- IDNO:
- 048712
- Title:
- Rozelda Meador with Her Father at River Ridge near Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1938
- Description:
- Rozelda with father, Oral Meador, holding instruments.
- IDNO:
- 048863
- Title:
- First Train to Cross New Railroad Bridge in Lowell, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1949/05/10
- Description:
- The crew on board is Phil Grove (engineer), Ralph "Gabe" Bostic (brakeman) and Clarence Mason (fireman). The train passed the bridge at approximately 12:25 p.m. that day.
- IDNO:
- 049164
- Title:
- Parade on Ballengee Street, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1960
- Description:
- Marching band members make their way down the street from Second Avenue to First Avenue.
- IDNO:
- 049222
- Title:
- Bragg Funeral, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910
- Description:
- Joyce Bragg Jarrell's family and friends carry the casket to the grave site.
- IDNO:
- 049236
- Title:
- Louis Burdette of Summers County, W. Va. Decorated by Governor Marland
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Seventy-five year-old Burdette, the 1912 Olympic Rifle Champion of Sandstone, W. Va. is honored by the governor with the Distinguished Service Medal of West Virginia, the stat'es highest military honor, after compiling an "outstanding military record."
- IDNO:
- 049348
- Title:
- Governor Meadows Speaks at Nimitz Post Office Dedication Ceremony, Nimitz, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1946/12/16
- Description:
- Right to left is speaker Cleve Haynes; Governor Clarence Meadows (speaking); Admiral Nimitz; Earl Helems; Carl Hinton; Elizabeth Key; unidentified; and Miller Murrell, who is 4 years-old in this photograph.
- IDNO:
- 049482
- Title:
- Serial Traveling Movie Theatre, Talcott, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1948/07/10
- Description:
- Two men, a woman and a child stand outside the large tent set up for movie watching. Subjects unidentified.
- IDNO:
- 049497
- Title:
- Section Crew at Moore's Tunnel Construction Site, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- The foreman stratling the rail is C. E. Long. Track workers Jim Adams is at the far left. "M. J." is inscribed on the photograph above the cluster of workers. The rest of the men pictured are unidentified.
- IDNO:
- 049512
- Title:
- Revenuers Uncover Illegal Still, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Agents from the U. S. Treasury Department, also known as "revenooers", pose around an illegal distillery.