Pep Society, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1922
Description:
Banner on the door advertises a basketball game between Morgantown and Shinnston. Thirty one out of forty students are identified. See original for identification.
Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:
1936/04/01
Description:
Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.