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Uniformed military men carrying guns across their shoulders walk down the streets of Morgantown, W. Va.

61. Navy Soldiers March Down the Street in Formation

IDNO:
045184
Title:
Navy Soldiers March Down the Street in Formation
Date:
1918
Description:
Uniformed military men carrying guns across their shoulders walk down the streets of Morgantown, W. Va.
Uniformed men walk in formation across unoccupied streets.

62. Soldiers March Across Streets in Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
045185
Title:
Soldiers March Across Streets in Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Uniformed men walk in formation across unoccupied streets.
Uniformed men stand in line with their guns to their sides awaiting orders from their commanding officer.

63. Navy Soldiers Stand Attention, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
045186
Title:
Navy Soldiers Stand Attention, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Uniformed men stand in line with their guns to their sides awaiting orders from their commanding officer.
Print number 397.

64. World War I Trainees in Front of Barracks on Beechurst Avenue, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
045630
Title:
World War I Trainees in Front of Barracks on Beechurst Avenue, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Print number 397.
Print number 397a.

65. World War I Trainees in Front of Barracks on Beechurst Avenue, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
045633
Title:
World War I Trainees in Front of Barracks on Beechurst Avenue, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Print number 397a.
Print number 397b. Barracks located in Morgantown, West Virginia. The AEF consisted of the U.S. Armed Forces that were sent to Europe during World War I.

66. Interior View of American Expeditionary Forces Barracks

IDNO:
045655
Title:
Interior View of American Expeditionary Forces Barracks
Date:
1918
Description:
Print number 397b. Barracks located in Morgantown, West Virginia. The AEF consisted of the U.S. Armed Forces that were sent to Europe during World War I.
Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson has been cited as the "Father of Black History". He entered Douglass High School in Huntington, W. Va. in 1895, earning his diploma in two years. He taught in Winona, Fayette County, W. Va. and served as principal of Douglass High in 1900. Woodson subsequently completed his PhD in History at Harvard and published several works regarding African-American history, education and culture. After a year as Dean of Liberal Arts at Howard University in Washington, Woodson was appointed Academic Dean at West Virginia Collegiate Institute in 1920. He returned to Washington in 1922.

67. Carter G. Woodson, Piney Grove, W. Va.

IDNO:
045709
Title:
Carter G. Woodson, Piney Grove, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson has been cited as the "Father of Black History". He entered Douglass High School in Huntington, W. Va. in 1895, earning his diploma in two years. He taught in Winona, Fayette County, W. Va. and served as principal of Douglass High in 1900. Woodson subsequently completed his PhD in History at Harvard and published several works regarding African-American history, education and culture. After a year as Dean of Liberal Arts at Howard University in Washington, Woodson was appointed Academic Dean at West Virginia Collegiate Institute in 1920. He returned to Washington in 1922.
Engineer identified as ED Fredeking. Fireman identified as Dewey Keaton Spring.

68. Engineer & Fireman at Hinton Station, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
045750
Title:
Engineer & Fireman at Hinton Station, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Engineer identified as ED Fredeking. Fireman identified as Dewey Keaton Spring.
View looking up Possum Hollow. Avis City Hall on the right from Clem Ellison.

69. Avis Crossing, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
045863
Title:
Avis Crossing, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
View looking up Possum Hollow. Avis City Hall on the right from Clem Ellison.
Bleau, a telegrapher and cousin to W.J.B. Gwinn of Meadow Creek, is pictured on top of a railroad bicycle, or "velosipede", in order to get him to the different telegraph offices that he had to work at on the New River Division.

70. Ernest Bleau on a Railroad Bicycle by New River, Summers County, W. Va.

IDNO:
048919
Title:
Ernest Bleau on a Railroad Bicycle by New River, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Bleau, a telegrapher and cousin to W.J.B. Gwinn of Meadow Creek, is pictured on top of a railroad bicycle, or "velosipede", in order to get him to the different telegraph offices that he had to work at on the New River Division.
Two banners are visible promoting Virgil L. Highland as Republican Candidate for United States Senator.

71. West Virginia State Senate Election, Likely Clarksburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
052115
Title:
West Virginia State Senate Election, Likely Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
1918
Description:
Two banners are visible promoting Virgil L. Highland as Republican Candidate for United States Senator.
A view of the dam and locks on the Allegheny River at Parnassus, now a suburb of New Kensington, P. A. The dam and locks were engineered by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

72. Dam and Locks, Parnassus, P. A.

IDNO:
053602
Title:
Dam and Locks, Parnassus, P. A.
Date:
1918
Description:
A view of the dam and locks on the Allegheny River at Parnassus, now a suburb of New Kensington, P. A. The dam and locks were engineered by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.