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- IDNO:
- 039145
- Title:
- Ringling's Circus Elephants Walk Across Steel Bridge at Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1907/05/10
- Description:
- Circus elephants are lead across the Ohio River as several spectators watch including a delighted little boy on the left. None of the subjects are identified.
- IDNO:
- 039146
- Title:
- 1900 Graduating Class of Fairmont High School, Fairmont, W. Va.
- Description:
- Information included with the photograph: "The school was located within the "Normal School", which later became Fairmont State. The building was located at the top of Adams Street. Because of the size of this class, the Board of Education built the first free standing Fairmont High School at 5th Street". Chesney Ramage was the only boy in the class. The girls are not identified.
- IDNO:
- 039147
- Title:
- Men's Glee Club, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1906
- Description:
- Members identified: Roy Marcum, Clyde Watson, Septimus Kell, Leon Spragg, Earle Townshend, Tom Foulk, Wayne Miller, Earle Reiley, Chesney Ramage, John Keely, Ross Spence, Clyde Carney, Arthur Arnold, Arthur Post, Paul Mahone. After graduating from WVU, Chesney Ramage attend Johns Hopkins Medical School and served as superintendent and chief surgeon of the Miners' Hospital in Fairmont.
- IDNO:
- 039148
- Title:
- Samuel F. Harsh of Barbour County (W. Va.) Home Guard
- Date:
- ca. 1861
- Description:
- Harsh stood strongly with the Union during the Civil War in the midst of a Confederate stronghold in Barbour County. He served under Captain Michael T. Haller. This cased image of Harsh is possibly a ambrotype.
- IDNO:
- 039149
- Title:
- Rural Life in West Virginia
- Date:
- ca. 1937
- Description:
- Unidentified girl with a bucket on her arm, looks toward the open fields. The print at the bottom of the photograph includes, "Made with Anthony's 2 B Equipment." and "Printed with N. P. A. Extra brilliant Albumen Paper".
- IDNO:
- 039150
- Title:
- Greenbrier Golf & Tennis Clubhouse, White Sulpur Springs, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1936
- Description:
- The clubhouse adjoins the first tee and last hole of all three golf courses on the grounds of "The Greenbrier".
- IDNO:
- 039151
- Title:
- Fourteenth Hole of 'Old White' Course at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1936
- Description:
- A golfer lifts his ball out of a bunker as two others watch. None of the men are identified.
- IDNO:
- 039152
- Title:
- President's Cottage at White Sulphur Springs Resort, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1936
- Description:
- Built in 1816, this dwelling served as a summer home for many United States Presidents such as John Tyler and Martin Van Buren. It later housed the "Old White Museum".
- IDNO:
- 039153
- Title:
- William Corrothers, Fetterman, W. Va.
- Description:
- Husband of Mary Adaline King Corrothers and founder of the White Day Glades Tannery (ca. 1846) in the Fetterman District, Taylor County, Virginia (later West Virginia).
- IDNO:
- 039154
- Title:
- Mary Adaline King Corrothers, Fetterman, Taylor County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Wife of William Corrothers and mother of William Andrew Christian Corrothers.
- IDNO:
- 039155
- Title:
- W. A. C. and Mary Frances Corrothers, Taylor County, W. Va.
- Description:
- William Andrew Christian Corrothers and his wife Mary Frances. W. A. C. is the son of William and Adaline Corrothers.
- IDNO:
- 039156
- Title:
- Central Grade School of Morgantown, Monongalia County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900
- Description:
- Built at a cost of $30,988 to replace the old school destroyed by fire, the new building opened in September, 1899. The length of the school year was increased to nine months.
