Search Constraints

You searched for: Date ca. 1900-1920 Remove constraint Date: ca. 1900-1920
Number of results to display per page

Search Results

Scene on Collinsville grounds shows early residents.
The town of Horton, W. Va.
First built 1804.
Site Now Occupied by Main Street Business Block and Theatre.
Pottery workers of Bowers Pottery at their work stations.  The Bowers Pottery is formerly Homewood Pottery Company.
The Homewood Pottery Company changed its name to Bowers Pottery.
Pottery workers at their work station along with products on drying rack.  The Bowers Pottery is formerly Homewood Pottery Company.
The Bowers Pottery is formerly Homewood Pottery Company.
Group portrait of workers at the Bowers Pottery.  (The Bowers Pottery is formerly Homewood Pottery Company.)
The Bowers Pottery is formerly Homewood Pottery Company.
Three men stand in front of Tetrick General Store of Emory Tetrick, the store owner, Emory is the center figure.
'Pres. C. & O. R.R.'
(From postcard collection legacy system.)
The women are identified as Bessie, Martha, Chassie and Rita. They are family members of the Forbes, Lewis, and Grose (or Groves) families.
Minnie Sparks, Osie Grose, Hulda Todd, Naomi Grose, and Willie Fritz Waler are pictured.
Grose is pictured with a group of unidentified school children.
A group of men and women balance on large logs. Behind them are stacks of lumber. In the center of the photograph is saw mill, with a pipe that leads out into the forest and has created a mountain of sawdust.
Three men each stand on their cart of logs which are being pulled by horses on wooden rail tracks.
A group of mean are scattered across the rail tracks. On the left is a train engine. On the right appears to be a long rail cart designed to transport logs.
Two unidentified men pose beside the stone they are cutting large blocks out of. A long, chiseling tool rests against the rock.
A young boy is pictured holding four opossums.
The Grand Army of the Republic, or G.A.R., was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army, Union Navy, Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War for the Northern/Federal forces. Its peak membership, at more than 490,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative and monument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, composed of male descendants of Union Army and Union Navy veterans.The G.A.R. was organized into "departments" at the state level and "posts" at the community level. This old artillery gun monument was dedicated by the G.A.R. Department of West Virginia, Custer Post No. 8.The plaque beneath the gun reads, "This gun was cast at Sevilla Spain, May 9th 1795, is 12 ft. in length, Caliber 6 3/8 inches weighs 6283 lbs. It was captured from the Spanish by Admiral Dewey, at Cavite Arsenal, near Manila, P.I. [Philippines] in May 1898, brought to N. Y. Navy Yard in the U. S., S. Buffalo [South Buffalo, New York]. Loaned by the Navy Department to Custer Post No. 8 G.A.R. was Mounted on Platform June 23rd, 1899. On July 4th, 1899, the Gun was unveiled by members of Custer Post with suitable ceremonies."
Nine unidentified individuals pose in costume. Three of them sit on horses. Five of them  stand on a carriage drawn by those horses, two of which wear large pots against their bellies. The man in the forefront, dressed in two, vertical striped colors, holds what appears to be a jousting rod.
Three unidentified coal miners are pictured inside a mine with shovels and an oil lamp.
A young man prepares to strike the wooden froe, which is lodged into the log, with a maul.
C. C. Graham and family are pictured on the home's porch. C. C. Graham is likely Cyrus C. Graham, born about 1862 in West Virginia.
Street view of a Victorian style home.
A man and a woman sit in the carriage while a horse pulls it across a field.
Four men stand and seven men sit outside of a building. A spigot with a communal drinking cup is pictured on the left.
An unidentified boy pushes a young girl in a wheelchair across a lawn.
Two unidentified girls lean back in a lawn chair.  A hammock is visible to the right.
An unidentified man holds onto what appears to be a liquor bottle as he sits in a horse-drawn carriage.
A man and his wife sit in what it possibly the cellar of their newly built home.
A multi-generational family poses in front of a picket fence. Subjects unidentified.