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A group portrait of the 1907 WVU Football club.
Crowds of men and women, with horse-drawn carriages, stand in the streets of Monongah. A sign for Coliseum Restaurant is visible in the background. Front of the card reads: ""Sightseeing after the explosion in S Monongah, W.Va."
The caskets are pulled in a cart with the name "W. S. Thomas" on it, drawn by several horses. Many onlookers stand outside a church in the background.
Men in coats stand outside a mine entrance.
A crowd stands outside one of the Monongah mines.
A coal miner stands with his pickaxe, shovel, and canister.
The Italian and Polish Cemetery for the Monongah Mine Disaster.
Mourners view rows of caskets from the mine disaster.
Wives waiting for their husbands at Monongah Mine No.8.
Young orphans awaiting news at the Monongah Mine No. 8.
Caskets from the Monongah Mine Disaster being carried off to the cemetery. Back of postcard reads: "Mine explosion at Monongah, W.Va. A Merry Christ and Happy New Year."
Hearses taking caskets from the streets of Monongah to Monongah Mine No.6.
A survivor looking toward the remains of the Monongah Mines.
Crowds gathering on train tracks to view the remains of the Monongah Mines after the explosion.
A view of a mine at Monongah.
Caskets from the Monongah Mine Disaster being taken to the cemetery by W. S. Thomas. An excerpt of text from the front states, "Between 400 and 600 killed."Back reads: "Where is that post card picture of your school you were going to send me? How are you? One of my cousins (Becca Clinton) was buried yesterday. 3 of her sisters and her brother Luke are not expected to live. You remember him. You had his knife. They have Spinal Meningitis. I am not teaching this week. [Maurie?] Alice. To Ada Ballentine, Waverly, West Virginia."
Victims of the disaster at Monongah Mine in their caskets.
People trying to identify the dead of the disaster at Monongah Mine No.6.
A postcard showing mine inspectors at Mine No.8 at Monongah.
A postcard showing the scene at Monongah after the mine explosion.
A postcard showing the extent of the destruction inflicted by the explosion of Monongah Mine No.8. Back reads: "The worst damage was done at this mine, over 225 bodies have been taken out to date and about twice that amount in there yet, exact number [illegible] never be known [illegible] reach near 700."
A postcard of workers at the remains of Monongah Mine No.8 after the explosion.
A postcard of the fan at Monongah Mine No.8 after the recent explosion.
A postcard of Monongah Mine No.8 after the recent explosion.
Crowds at Fairmont were mailing their way to Monongah to see the remains of the recent mine explosions.
Citizens of towns neighboring towns come to see the scene of the Monongah Mine Disaster.
Postcard of the entrance to Monongah Mine No.6
A picture of Main Street in Monongah, West Virginia.
Postcard of homes in Monongah, WV.
Postcard of Monongah Mine No.8.
Remains of a decimated coal cart recovered from the No. 8 Monongah Mine.
People look upon the remains of Monongah Mine collapse.
Fan house at Monongah Mine No.8 after the explosion. Back: "This is the most terrible explosion of its kind that ever happened in the U.S. We were up yesterday. Will write in a few days. It shook here considerably. [illegible]" To Mr. Okey May in Terra Haute, Indiana.
People gathering to look at where the only living man was found from the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster.
Front: "Fan after the Explosion Monongah, W.Va" Back: "See if you can find grandpa on this card. To Fred from Aunt Lessie."
This column of coal was designed by Neil Robinson of Charleston, W. Va. for the 1907 Jamestown Ter-centennial Exhibition, held in Norfolk, Virginia.
Shields was the body servant of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, Company H, 27th Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall Brigade" during the Civil War. Shields, shown here wearing several medals awarded to him by Confederate Veterans Groups, claimed to have also cooked for General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Shields was the body servant of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, Company H, 27th Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall Brigade" during the Civil War. Shields, shown here wearing several medals awarded to him by Confederate Veterans Groups, claimed to have also cooked for General Thomas "Stonewall " Jackson.
Photo of students at desks in classroom, likely taken in March, 1907.
View of what is likely the River Stone Estate near Foxburg, Pa.
View overlooking the mine facilities and miners' village.
Studio portrait of John Koon
Reverse lists names of family members. "Mrs. J. W. Whitt. Mr. J. W. Whitt. Earnest Whitt. Frank Whitt, 15? Hattie Whitt, 11. Stella Whitt, 8. Tracie Whitt, 5."
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.Scenic view of the Keyser Curve along the Western Maryland Railroad.
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community."Church from Baltimore St., Cumberland Md. near W.M.R.R. [Western Maryland Railroad]"
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.View of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.A caption on the back of the image reads: "Our yard at Davis, June or July [of 1907].Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Thompson and two daughters, A. Thompson, Mrs. S.W. Thompson, Geo B Thompson and Wife, Maude Wakefield, Leigh Wilson, Ben, Hilda, Albert, and Ruth, Wade Wilson, left of Mrs. J.F. Thompson."
Women of the Niagara Movement at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, W. Va.  Left to right are Mrs. O. M. Waller, Mrs. H. F. M. Murray, Mrs. Mollie Lewis Kelan, Mrs. IdaD. Bailey, Miss Sadie Shorter, and Mrs. Charlotte Hershaw.  Mrs. Gertrude Wright Morgan is seated.
Miller is pictured in an oval-shaped portrait.
View overlooking New River and the bridge that leads into the old city.
View from Summers Street. People line the sidewalks while a horse-drawn carriage makes its way across the road. Subjects unidentified.
James Richard Farley of the 60th Virginia Infantry and James Lilly's group of home guards are pictured by the Forest Hill Primitive Baptist Church.
A look inside the presumed school house. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln hangs on the wall.
View of the train wreck from above, overlooking the river.
Group of boys gather to form a human pyramid.
Postcard photograph of a dirt paved road to the bridge over Cheat River. A house and a structure with a storefront fascade is situation at the near side of the bridge. Also inscribed on the image, "Published by Dawson and Co. Morgantown, West Virginia".
Identified subjects: Captain Ellsworth E. Eisenbarth. lower deck, 5th from the left; daughter Ignace, age 7, upper deck 3rd from the left; small child in nurse's arms, son Eugene H. Eisenbarth. Mrs. Eisenbarth died in 1906. An older daughter (later Mrs. R. C. Manhall) was ill and not in photograph. Infant daughter, Julia Pauline also not in photograph, she was raised in Sistersville,W. Va.
Wide-angle view of probably a West Virginia National Guard camp, commanded by General W. W. Scott.
Printed on the back of this postcard, "The flag was made up of children from the schools of Richmond, the occasion being the unveiling of a monument to [Confederate] President Jefferson Davis". There is also correspondence and a postmark dated October 28, 1912.
Group of Confederate Veterans at Forest Hill Primitive Baptist Church. None are identified. Inscribed on the back: "Given to Stephen Trail by Mary Shumate Feb. 1984." Mike Foster belonged to the Monroe Guards, 27th Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall" Brigade.
Compiler of the scrapbook containing this photograph and the father of Max Mathers.
Post card print
Post card print
Tree under which Union Army Quartermaster William McKinley (later President of the United States) and General McClellan camped during the Battle Summer of 1861 in Western (West) Virginia.
Post card print
The Battle of Cedar Creek was fought here on October 19, 1864. Confederate forces under General Jubal Early were throw back and crushed by the Union Army after General Phil Sheridan rallied his troops in a counter attack. The Rebels were never able to mount another threat in the Valley.
Postcard print.
Postcard print of large homes with several turrets, window dormers and chimneys.
Postcard print of East Covington, Allegheny County, Virginia, bordering Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
Post card print of wooded area in the Grafton Park.
Post card print of South Grafton and the Tygart River.
Post card print showing bridge crossing the New River.
Post card print
Post card illustration of the buildings on Woodburn Circle on the West Virginia University campus including: Martin Hall (with clock in the cupola), Woodburn Hall and Chitwood Hall, and Experiment Station in the foreground.
Information included on the back of the photograph: "Picture made in 1907 at Goshen, W. Va. where he drove these lovely horses - uncle Charles Thomas".
1907 Storer College baseball team sitting on the steps of a building. First Row: Mr. McDonald, Paige, Dennis, McGill, Moody. Second Row: Simpson, Wims, McNeal, Hakins, Young, Elsie Howard. Third Row: Johnson, Taylor, Frazier, Proctor.
'This is where D. D. Brown spent part of his first vacation after coming to West Virginia on March 1, 1905, working at Montes, W. Va. most of the time 12 to 18 hours per day.'
He was the millwright and foreman of the Lumber Mill in Montes, Randolph County.
'This picture was taken 1907 and shows a family group of Dorsey's going to Sunday School at Morgantown'
'Left to right: Ott Garrison, Harry Leeson, Sidney H. Treat and Roy Jaimson.'