First row: Bill Scherr, Davis, Arlett Hartman, Wayne Paker, Red Sturges. Second row: Chadwick, Irwin Stone, Guy Jamison, Bill Madera, Hersey Eckert, Eldon Tucker. Third row: Maderia, Frank Stubbs, Hall, Thomas, and unidentified.
Back row farthest left: John Seckman, Back row farthest right: Bob Harrison, Front row farthest left: Chas Adams, Front row second from left: Bill Lively
Portrait of Ada Enid Haldeman Ford , Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1912
Description:
A West Virginia state leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving the women the right to vote. Mrs. Ford was also president and founder of the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County.
Colored postcard photograph of the "Trough", a six mile stretch of the South Branch of the Potomac River. See back of the original image for correspondence.
Mother Jones Speaking to Gathering, Montgomery, W. Va.
Date:
1912
Description:
Photograph postcard of labor organizer Mother Jones on August 4th speaking at the Montgomery ballpark to a well dressed group of people including, blacks, whites, adults and children.
Portrait of William Ashley (Billy) Sunday, Evangelist
Date:
1912
Description:
Sunday was a professional baseball player turned evangelist in 1886. He preached to Wheeling crowds in 1912 inside a specially built, 1,500 foot long structure, three times a day for six weeks. 20,000 attended the first day and thousands more followed in the coming weeks.
The photo is taken from a hill behind Ace Hardware Store on Rt. 50, looking toward North East; B&O Railroad tracks in Simpson Creek & Water St. are at lower left corner; the Darndum & Baily sign is at the lower bottom corner; the photo is turned correctly although the words are in reversed.
Top row from left to right: Sidna Allen; Floyd Allen; Claud Allen and Friel Allen, Bottom row from left to right: Wesley Edwards; Sidna Edwards; Victor Allen and Bird Marion. Possibly Randolph County, W. Va.
Woodburn Circle and Other Buildings, West Virginia University
Date:
1912
Description:
Looking down on Woodburn Circle on WVU Downtown campus: from further left Commencement Hall, Agricultural Experiment Station, Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall and Chitwood Hall.
Tools for Cutting Out Collar Blight, Martinsburg, W. Va.
Date:
1912
Description:
'Tools used for treating collar blight. Jar contains bi-chloride, pail, paint. The tool next to trowel is a farrieis. The tool between knife and gauge is a home-made scraper.'