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1. Train Wreck in Nicholas County Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

"Baker House $1.00 per day" on sign.  Cass, W.V.

2. Hotel (Baker House), Cass, W. Va.

Front view of Shay No. 11 train engine at the water tank with six crew members in front.

3. Shay No. 11 at Spruce Water Tank With Crew

Loggers pose atop a large pile of logs.

4. Logging Scene in Nicholas County

Junction of the Anthony's Creek Road and the James River and Kanawha Turnpike 'now route 60' where Averell's force met Patton's brigade in a head on collision. This was the scene of the fiercest fighting; the road in the center was filled with the dead and wounded.  Photo taken about 1912 is from Mac Corkle's 'White Sulphur Springs. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'West Virginia in the Civil War.'

5. Junction Where Battle Between Averell and Patton Took Place

6. Fan House Fire at Gaston Mine in Fairmont, W. Va.

Caption on back reads, 'Fire in the ventilation system or fan house of the Gaston Mine, 1912.  This mine was opened by James Otis Watson in 1874. Located at Watson and closed in 1925. It was located in what is now the present boundary of the friendly city of Fairmont.'

7. Fan House Fire at Gaston Mine in Fairmont, W. Va.

8. Fan House Fire at Gaston Mine in Fairmont, W. Va.

9. Fan House Fire at Gaston Mine in Fairmont, W. Va.

10. Fan House Fire at Gaston Mine in Fairmont, W. Va.

State troops are standing behind the stacks of guns and ammunition that they seized during the First Martial Law Proclamation.

11. Guns and Ammunition Seized During First Martial Law Proclamation

'Arms and ammunition surrendered to or captured by state troops immediately after first declaration of martial law on Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, September 2, 1912. See book, page 32, etc. Picture used on page 32 of book by H. B. Lee. Rifles, machine guns, pistols, and ammunition seized by the militia in the strike zone. Boxes on the left contain 225,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition.'

12. Guns and Ammunition Seized During First Martial Law Proclamation

State troops stand behind the huge piles of guns and ammunition that was captured or surrendered during the first martial law proclamation.

13. Guns and Ammunition Seized During First Martial Law Proclamation

14. Fairmont State Normal School Baseball Team

Group portrait of the Fairmont Normal School Basketball Team.

15. Fairmont State Normal School Basketball Team

Property of G.S. Wallace in Huntington, West Virginia.

16. Wallace Home, Huntington, W. Va.

Large crowd of people gathered on the sidewalk of High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

17. High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

View of the Hardy County Bank and surrounding buildings on Main Street in Moorefield.

18. Hardy County Bank, Hardy County, W. Va.

View of Hackney's Drug Store at the Northeast corner of Main and Washington Streets occupied this location from 1910 to 1950. This building was built in 1910 by Dr. R. E. L. Hackney of Washington, D. C. who was a Dentist, and made his home in Moorefield from 1910 until his death. He operated a Drug Store and Soda Fountain on the first floor and had his Dental Offices on the second floor front rooms. The back rooms on the second floor were occupied for some years by Club Do-Easy. Dr. Hackney sold out in (date unkown) and Chambers and Williams operated a garage here, building a shop farther back on the lot, which is now the Moose Home. The Loyal Order of Moose bought the property in (date unknown) having rented it for several years from another owner. In (date unknown) they tore down the Drug Store Building. A Bakery was operated in this building at one time by a man by the name or Ours.

19. Hackney's Drug Store, Moorefield, W. Va.

20. Passengers Arriving at a Special Reunion for Old Civil War Veterans, Hardy County, W. Va.

Four men are seen in front of the building while a horse grazes nearby. It was Established in 1910.

21. Public School Building Near Clarksburg, W. Va.

Group portrait of students and flags at Franklin's First High School, opened in 1912.

22. First High School, Franklin, Pendleton County, W. Va.

A picture postcard of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

23. Farmer's and Merchant's Bank, Cairo, Ritchie County, W. Va.

24. Central Baptist Church Members, Hinton, Summers County, W. Va.

25. Baseball Team at the Ball Park on Little Wolf Creek, Hinton, W. Va.

26. Maple Avenue, New Martinsville, Wetzel County, W. Va.

27. Bridge Over Cheat River, Mouth Big Sandy Creek, Preston County, W. Va.

28. Pisgah Methodist Episcopal Church Quarterly Conference Announcement, Preston County, W. Va.

29. Mary Gibson's Harmony Grove Sunday School Class, Valley Point, Preston County, W. Va.

30. Campbell's Creek Coal Company's Steamboats Passing Point Pleasant W. Va.

"Campbell's Creek Coal Company's Steamers 'E.R. Andrews', and 'D.T. Lane, (and their coal harbor,) Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during Ice Run Out."

31. Campbell's Creek Coal Company's Steamboats on the Icy River at Point Pleasant, W. Va.

32. Grand Army of the Republic Soldiers Decoration Day, Bruceton Mills, Preston County, W. Va.

33. Horse Show in Wheeling, Ohio County, W. Va.

34. Livestock Show, Wheeling, W. Va.

Buggies with horses are parked outside of the small station.

35. Agriculture Train at New Haven, W. Va.

36. Agriculture Train on the K and M at Montgomery, W. Va.

37. E. M. Brook Farm at French Creek

38. Protecting Hogs from Cholera, West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station

39. Participants in a Farmers' Course on Grafting and Budding, West Virginia University, Agricultural Experiment Station

Group portrait  taken at Keller Presbyterian Church.

40. Farmers' Institute, Lowell, W. Va.

41. Passengers on the Agriculture Train, West Virginia University, Agricultural Experiment Station

42. WVU Baseball Team Captain Hutchinson

43. WVU Baseball Coach McClure

44. WVU Football Team

45. WVU Men's Gymnastic Team

'Old Drawing Room, now Electronics Lab.'

46. Students Studying in Mechanical Hall, West Virginia University

47. West Virginia University President Thomas Edward Hodges

Dr. Callahan seated at his desk.

48. Dr. James Morton Callahan, West Virginia University

49. Woman with Child Milking a Cow at Mr. Clone's Farm, Daybrook, Monongalia County, W. Va.

50. Hanging Tobacco Leaves

'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.'

51. Tools for Cutting Out Collar Blight, Martinsburg, W. Va.

52. Perry Cox, Floss Brown, Rose Cox and Army Hardman on a Hunting Trip

Campaign information on back - see original.

53. Candidate for Governor of West Virginia, Charles W. Dillon of Fayette County

54. Colonel S. W. N. Feamster and Former Slave Sam Wood

Looking down on Woodburn Circle on WVU Downtown campus: from further left Commencement Hall, Agricultural Experiment Station, Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall and Chitwood Hall.

55. Woodburn Circle and Other Buildings, West Virginia University

56. Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

57. Hotel D'Bolt, Boothsville, W. Va.

58. Bird's Eye View of Elm Grove, W. Va.

59. Five Boys, Clarksburg, W. Va.

60. Reconstruction After the Trader's Hotel Fire, Clarksburg, W. Va.

61. Duke the Dog, Clarksburg, W. Va.

62. M. Hall, Clarksburg, W. Va.

A surveyor with a transom.

63. Surveyor, Clarksburg, W. Va.

64. Meadow Near Camp on Middle Fork River

It is located along State Route 58, the building currently has become a restaurant, Via Veneto.

65. Otho Place, Bridgeport, W. Va.

The bird's eye view of Bridgeport, looking East.

66. Bird's Eye View of Bridgeport, W. Va.

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.

67. Men Who Shot Up the Court House

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.

68. View of Bridgeport, W. Va.

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.

69. Portrait of William Ashley (Billy) Sunday, Evangelist

70. Morgantown's Hunting Club, W. Va.

71. Class Photo Evenwood School, Evenwood, W. Va.

72. Broom Factory, William, W. Va.

A group portrait of dressed up men and women posed in front of a white house.

73. Mine Inspectors at White Sulphur Springs, Island Creek Coal Company

Kings Mountain Student Conference of Young Men's Christian Associations; Colored Men's Department.

74. Group Portrait of Kings Mountain Student Conference at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

Left to right: Hedwig, Paul, Robert Sr., Alwin, Robert, Pauline Zwicker, Herman, Max.

75. Schneider Family Photograph, Helvetia, W. Va.

76. Center Avenue, Weston, W. Va.

77. Main Entrance to the Hospital for the Insane, Weston, W. Va.

78. Hospital for the Insane, Weston, W. Va.

79. Hospital for the Insane, Weston, W. Va.

80. Bird's Eye View of Weston, W. Va.

81. First Street, Weston, W. Va.

82. Second Street, Weston, W. Va.

83. High School Building, Weston, W. Va.

84. Court House, Weston, W. Va.

85. High School Building, Weston, W. Va.

86. Burnsville Exchange Bank, Braxton County, W. Va.

Stewart Hall was the Library at that time.

87. West Virginia University Commencement Hall and the Library, Morgantown, W. Va.

Rejetos Jichancas formed in 1908. It's origins are unclear, but membership was highly prized. The group did not appear in WVU yearbooks after 1928.

88. Women's Student Group, Rejetos Jichancas, West Virginia University

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.

89. Mother Jones Speaking to Gathering, Montgomery, W. Va.

Erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution on the Court House lawn in Morgantown, West Virginia.

90. Memorial Rock Dedicated to Patriots of American Revolution, Morgantown, W. Va.

Postcard photograph. See back of the original image for correspondence.

91. Methodist Church Hamilton, Va.

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.

92. In the Trough, Moorefield, W. Va.

Postcard photograph. See back of the original image for correspondence.

93. Looking West From 'Somervilla', Hamilton, Va.

Colored postcard photograph. See back of the original image for correspondence.

94. Narrows Park, Cumberland, Md.

Colored postcard photograph. See back of the original image for correspondence.

95. Turley Hotel, Moorefield, W. Va.

Post card photograph with information on the back, "Published by Pike News Company, Clarksburg, W. Va.".

96. Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Rear View, Clarksburg, W. Va.