A picture of nine out of the twelve children of James and Mary Johnson.Standing, left to right: Anna, Harvey, Odelle ("Del").Seated, L to R: Florence, Garland, William, Homer, Lucy, Bertie.Not pictured: Jacob, Mary, Emma.
USN Captain Mervyn S. Bennion, U.S.S. West Virginia
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
Captain Bennion was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. As he laid mortally wounded on the West Virginia's command bridge, Bennion refused to be removed from his burning ship. He continued to give orders, directing his crew's actions. Bennion's last order to his men before he died was to leave him and "abandon ship." Captain Bennion was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Ralph John lived with his parents just north of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania state line. He spend much of his leisure time visiting Morgantown and hunting in the West Virginia mountains. John joined the Army just before the United States entered the war and was in the second wave of the invasion of France, following D-Day June 6th, 1944. Ralph John was killed in action near St Lo, France on August 15, 1944. He was 30 years old.
Quarry for Route 20 Construction, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
A C. & O. train passes on the right as trucks make travel up the dirt path to aid construction. Workers are pictured in the distance at the top of the dirt ramp. Site located near Sandstone, W. Va.
Students holding instruments and signs in protest. One sign reads, "We need a new superintendent". Another reads, "Miss Nicely Killed Our Band". A sign on the top left reads, "Down With Our Female Hitler", and below that sign, "Are Our Citizens Afraid?". Miller Hotel pictured in the background.
Women are pictured crossing the parking lot from the building, which is pictured on the far left. Subjects unidentified. A sign depicts the direction and distance of Alderson, Lewsiburg, Shady Springs, and Beckley.
Front row, left to right: Betty Lou Buckland, Joann Grimmett, Leona Grimmett, Jolene Dick, Phyllis Adkins, Billy Paul Fleshman, Chub Bennett, Cora Bell Adkins, Billy Joe Buckland, and Gary Dick. Second row, left to right: Wilda Grimmett, Marie Heron, Orville Adkins, Kermit Dick, Pete Garten, Sonny Grimmett, Gerald Adkins, Junior Fox, Jack Fox, Bobby Grimmett, and Lewis Adkins.
A group poses with their caught fish. Front row: "Black Bottom"; Orb Farley; Jack Sweeney. Back row, left to right: Ap Terry; Dempsey Keaton; Bob Payne; Fred McDaniels; unidentified; Paul Butler
Mineral Industries Building, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
Postcard reads, "This building, when completed, will be one of the best equipped mineral industries building in the United States. It will house the School of Mines, West Virginia Geological Survey, Chemical Engineering and Geological Departments. It will be 310 feet long and 72 feet wide and contain six stories." See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system--subject.)
West Virginia University Journalism Student Donovan Bond in Photo Lab, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
Bond would serve in the Pacific during World War ll, returning to WVU as a graduate student after the war, and subsequently becoming a Professor of Journalism at the University.
Donovan Bond, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
Bond sits at a typewriter with a pipe clinched in his teeth, at the Daily Athenaeum Office, the University's newspaper. Bond subsequently became a Professor of Journalism at WVU.