Search Results
- IDNO:
- 039097
- Title:
- Interior of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1912
- Description:
- Unidentified guard stands on the second level of cells inside the state prison.
- IDNO:
- 039098
- Title:
- Former Slave William Stewart and Linnie May Slaughter, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1932
- Description:
- William Stewart, from Petersburg, Virginia was a slave during the Antebellum and Civil War Era. He moved to Morgantown after 1900 and worked for the Moreland family. He died in 1934.
- IDNO:
- 039099
- Title:
- Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1912
- Description:
- Exterior of the state prison in Marshall County.
- IDNO:
- 039100
- Title:
- Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Exterior of state prison, including the five foot thick prison walls.
- IDNO:
- 039101
- Title:
- Main Building of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- The Gothic style, stone structure main building of the state prison in Marshall County.
- IDNO:
- 039102
- Title:
- Grounds of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Fountain outside of the state prison's main building.
- IDNO:
- 039103
- Title:
- Garden on Grounds of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Main building of the state prison can be seen on the left.
- IDNO:
- 039104
- Title:
- Martin Luther Brown Posed in Doorway of Citzens National Bank, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900
- Description:
- Employment at this bank was Brown's first position in the banking business. In 1911, Brown was appointed Warden of the Moundsville Penitentiary.
- IDNO:
- 039105
- Title:
- Louis Snyder and M. L. Brown, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1906
- Description:
- Louis Snyder (left) and Martin Luther Brown (right) standing in the doorway of the Bank of Morgantown. Brown would be appointed Warden of the state prison in Moundsville in 1911.
- IDNO:
- 039106
- Title:
- Union General George McClellan
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- McClellan commanded Federal troops in Western Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. After an initial victory at Rich Mountain and the Union's embarrassing defeat at Manassas, McClellan was given command of the Union Army of the Potomac.
- IDNO:
- 039107
- Title:
- West Virginia Governor Howard Gore, 1925-1929, and Friend
- Description:
- Inscribed on the back of the photograph, " Former Governor Howard M. Gore, (the one with the hat on)".
- IDNO:
- 039108
- Title:
- Possibly Trapp Springs, Pruntytown, Taylor County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1930
