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1. Home Canning Demonstration, Extension Department, West Virginia University

IDNO:
017370
Title:
Home Canning Demonstration, Extension Department, West Virginia University
Date:
1916/06
'A Japanese Garden? No, it's a West Virginia hillside and has the best landscape gardner in the world--mother nature. Most gardeners would reject every species of plant in this two-acre exposure of Pocono sandstone but nature has work for all of them. The area is located a few miles from WVU's Terra Alta Biological station in Preston County. It is used as a natural labratory for the study of plant succession, the process where by nature in time clothes all bare areas with a covering of vegetation.'

2. Trees near the West Virginia University Terra Alta Biological Station, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
017613
Title:
Trees near the West Virginia University Terra Alta Biological Station, Preston County, W. Va.
Description:
'A Japanese Garden? No, it's a West Virginia hillside and has the best landscape gardner in the world--mother nature. Most gardeners would reject every species of plant in this two-acre exposure of Pocono sandstone but nature has work for all of them. The area is located a few miles from WVU's Terra Alta Biological station in Preston County. It is used as a natural labratory for the study of plant succession, the process where by nature in time clothes all bare areas with a covering of vegetation.'

3. West Virginia University Experiment Farm, Kearneysville, Jefferson County, W. Va.

IDNO:
017625
Title:
West Virginia University Experiment Farm, Kearneysville, Jefferson County, W. Va.
Date:
1930/06
Portrait of the MacDonald Family from Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements.

4. MacDonald Family Portrait

IDNO:
052662
Title:
MacDonald Family Portrait
Date:
1939/06
Description:
Portrait of the MacDonald Family from Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements.
Members of the MacDonald family from Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for WVU Extension Service advertisements.

5. Members of MacDonald Family, Berkeley County, W. Va.

IDNO:
052663
Title:
Members of MacDonald Family, Berkeley County, W. Va.
Date:
1939/06
Description:
Members of the MacDonald family from Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for WVU Extension Service advertisements.
Members of the MacDonald family of Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements. Here, two of the sons water or spray trees with pesticide while their father looks on.

6. MacDonald Family Spraying Trees

IDNO:
052664
Title:
MacDonald Family Spraying Trees
Date:
1939/06
Description:
Members of the MacDonald family of Berkeley County, W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements. Here, two of the sons water or spray trees with pesticide while their father looks on.
Three members of the MacDonald family tend to their farm in Berkeley County W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements.

7. MacDonald Family Tending Farm

IDNO:
052665
Title:
MacDonald Family Tending Farm
Date:
1939/06
Description:
Three members of the MacDonald family tend to their farm in Berkeley County W. Va. The MacDonald family likely acted as a model family for Extension Service advertisements.
"A corner of the potato grading and marketing exhibit which sought to encourage better grading, higher quality and improved sacking of potatoes. Also the needs of Charleston and vicinity as a market."

8. Potato Grading and Marketing Exhibit in Train Car

IDNO:
053113
Title:
Potato Grading and Marketing Exhibit in Train Car
Date:
ca. 1913-1925
Description:
"A corner of the potato grading and marketing exhibit which sought to encourage better grading, higher quality and improved sacking of potatoes. Also the needs of Charleston and vicinity as a market."