Vance Harvey was the son of W. F. Harvey. Information with the photograph includes "Taken when a member of football team at Ellicot City College, Maryland, killed in mine not long after through school. Slate Fall. He was trained as a mine executive but was in the mine and was killed."
Helen Holt Volunteering for Red Cross at Senate Office Building
Date:
undated
Description:
Holt was the first woman to serve as Secretary of State in West Virginia. She was also an active volunteer for the Red Cross. She is most well known for her work in improving the housing and healthcare for the elderly of America.
Secretary of State Helen F. Holt Holding Up West Virginia State Flag
Date:
undated
Description:
Helen F. Holt was the first woman to serve as Secretary of State in the state of West Virginia from February 17, 1957 to December 1, 1958. She is also the widow of Senate Rush D. Holt.
Helen Holt Swearing Into Office of Elderly, Washington, D.C.
Date:
undated
Description:
Pictured with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Lynn. Holt was the first woman Secretary of State in West Virginia in 1955-1956. She continued active political participation long after her term and is most well known for her work in improving the housing and health care for the elderly.
A duty of Secretary of State. Helen Holt served as the first woman Secretary of State from 1955-1956. She is also well known for her later career work with HUD in greatly improving the housing conditions and long term health care of the elderly.
Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Date:
undated
Description:
Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.
Ken Hechler of Summers County, W. Va. Pictured with Scenic Background
Date:
ca. 1970
Description:
The former congressman pictured in front of a picturesque West Virginia scene. Representative Hechler was also West Virginia Secretary of State and an author.
Helen Holt served as the first woman Secretary of State of West Virginia. She also led the most important program in housing and health care for the elderly through her work with the Federal Housing Administration. She established nationally high standards of care and oversaw the construction of 1,000 health care facilities. The photograph was most likely taken when Richard Nixon was Vice President of the United States.
Howard Hartford Playing His Fiddle, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1935
Description:
Hartford pictured playing his instrument at the 1717 Temple St. residence. Hartford made fiddles and clocks, and was known for his mastery in woodcraft.
Frank Holme (right) from Preston County, West Virginia, was a nationally known artist and newspaper illustrator. In this staged photograph he pretends to share soup with an unidentified friend.
Frank Holme (standing, far left) from Preston County, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with unidentified friends, one woman maybe his wife, Ida Van Dyke Holme.
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with an unidentified friend in a staged photograph.
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia, was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he clowns with an unidentified friend in staged photograph.
Included in the photograph taken outside the family home: Mr and Mrs William Hibbs; Arizona Hibbs; Effie Hibbs; Carrie Hibbs; Mattie Hibbs; Millie Hibbs; Ida Hibbs; and Samuel Roderick, grandfather.
Siss Hunter was the wife of John Hunter of Wheeling, West Virginia. Hunter made the brick for Martin Hall, the first West Virginia University building.
Representative in the United States Congress (1865-1868) for West Virginia, a member of the 1st and 2nd Wheeling Conventions and was actively involved in the formation of the state of West Virginia.
Helen Holt was the first woman Secretary of State of West Virginia (1957-1958. She is also known for her work in greatly improving the housing and long term health care for the elderly.
Helen Holt was the first woman to serve as Secretary of State of West Virginia (1957-1958). She also led the most important program in housing and long term healthcare for the elderly of America in her late political work with the FHA and HUD.
Ken Hechler with Ben Gazzara on the Set of The Bridge at Remagen, Davle, Czechoslovakia
Date:
1968
Description:
Ken Hechler, author of the book "The Bridge at Remagen" on set for the same titled movie with Ben Gazzara and other actors in 1968 in Davle, Czechoslovakia. Hechler served as a combat historian in the European Theater of Operations during World War II and was attached to the 9th Armored Division when one of its infantry-tank task forces captured the Ludendorff Bridge spanning the Rhine river at Remagen, Germany. Ken Hechler served as technical adviser for the film adaptation which premiered in 1969. Ken Hechler pictured in the front right with Ben Gazzara to his left.
West Virginia University President James G. Harlow at the Dedication of the Bell of the U.S.S. West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1967/12/07
Description:
WVU President James G. Harlow speaks at dedication ceremony of the bell from the armored cruiser and battleship U.S.S. West Virginia. Oglebay Hall is pictured in the background.
Edward Dee, a member of the Federal Housing Administration at it's Forth Worth Office came to Washington D.C. to help start Section 232 (nursing homes) with Helen Holt. Holt was the first Secretary of State of West Virginia and led the most important program in housing and long-term healthcare for the elderly of America and is the widow of WV Senator Rush Holt.
Helen F. Holt served as the first woman Secretary of State of West Virginia. She had a major influence on the living conditions and long term health care of the elderly of America.
Helen Holt and Cecil Underwood at West Virginia House of Delegates, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1955
Description:
Helen Holt was the first female Secretary of State in the state of West Virginia and led the most important program in housing and long term health care for the elderly of America in the 20th century.
Rush Holt served as West Virginia state senator from 1936-1941. His wife, Helen Holt served as the first female Secretary of State of West Virginia. In 1960 President Eisenhower appointed Helen to create a program to improve the housing situation for the elderly. Through her mortgage insurance program at the Federal Housing Administration she was able to create nationally high standards for the care of the elderly. 1,000 modern health care facilities were constructed under her at no cost to the American taxpayer. The six subsequent presidents appointed her to the same position after her immense success.