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IDNO:
000474
Title:
Shay No. 4 with Loader in Woods, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945
Description:
Shay No. 4 train engine pushing/pulling a lumber loading cart.
IDNO:
001489
Title:
Guns of the U.S.S. West Virginia
Date:
1945
Description:
Picture of the guns of the U.S.S. West Virginia 'BB-48'. Credit Line, Navy Department, photo no. 80-G-3 39585.
IDNO:
001843
Title:
Piles of Coal at Windsor Dock, Empire Hanna Coal Company; Detroit Edison Plant in Background
Date:
1945
IDNO:
005165
Title:
Employees Building Radio and Telephone Field Sets at Silman Manufacturing Company, at Arthurdale, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Employees of the Silman Mfg. Co. in Arthurdale, West Virginia, are working with radio and telephone field sets.
IDNO:
005166
Title:
Employees Building Radio and Telephone Field Sets at Silman Manufacturing Company, at Arthurdale, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Employees of Silman Mfg. Co. in Arthurdale, West Virginia, are working with radio and telephone sets.
IDNO:
005186
Title:
Workers at the Silman Manufacturing Company, Arthurdale, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Men and women at work in the Silman Manufacturing Company factory at Arthurdale, W. Va.
IDNO:
008053
Title:
Monongahela River and West Virginia University Main Campus, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A view of the river and West Virginia University's main campus from Lorentz Avenue. The Morgantown/Westover Bridge is in the distance.
IDNO:
008950
Title:
Architect's Drawing of Wheeling Hospital School of Nursing, Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Drawing of the Wheeling Hospital School of Nursing. Architect L. D. Schmidt, Fairmont, W. Va. Rev. Michael McInerney, O.S.B, Architect Associate, Belmont, N. C.
IDNO:
012880
Title:
Hagerstown Trolley. Hardy County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
View of an Old Hagerstown trolley in Hardy County, W. Va.
IDNO:
032098
Title:
Inmates at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032099
Title:
Inmates at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Male prisoners of Buchenwald standing by a rock pile.
IDNO:
032100
Title:
Inmates at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032101
Title:
Group of People in Front of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032102
Title:
Inmates at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Male prisoners standing on the steps of a building at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
IDNO:
032103
Title:
Mass Grave at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032104
Title:
Group of Boys at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032105
Title:
Inmates at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032106
Title:
Crematorium at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032107
Title:
Dead Bodies at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032108
Title:
Dead Bodies at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032109
Title:
Crematorium at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032110
Title:
Inmate at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032111
Title:
Prisoners Leaving Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032112
Title:
Inmate Holding Art at Buchenwald Concentration, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032114
Title:
Inmate of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032116
Title:
Three Inmates of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032119
Title:
Crematorium at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032122
Title:
Truck Loaded with Dead Bodies at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032123
Title:
Gallows in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032124
Title:
Gallows in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032125
Title:
Hitler Effigy Hanging from a Gallows at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032126
Title:
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Monument
Date:
1945
IDNO:
032128
Title:
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Flagpost
Date:
1945
Description:
Located near Weimer,Germany.
IDNO:
032132
Title:
Art from Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Picture of a female fairy.
IDNO:
032137
Title:
Collection of Art from Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimer, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Various pieces of art created on scrap material.
IDNO:
037265
Title:
Cornelia Ladwig
Date:
1945
Description:
Suhl, Germany
IDNO:
038815
Title:
Four Young Okinawans Enjoy Prank, Okinawa, Japan
Date:
1945
Description:
Leo Bocage included this photograph in a paper he wrote as student at West Virginia University in 1946. The assignment was for veteran's to write about their experiences while in the military during World War II. The boys in the photograph are not identified.
IDNO:
038816
Title:
Destroyed Sake Plant After Battle of Okinawa
Date:
1945
Description:
West Virginia University student, Leo Bocage included this photograph in a paper he wrote in 1946 regarding his experiences while in the military during World War II. Fermenting sake was the Okinawa's largest industry.
IDNO:
038877
Title:
World War II United States Military Encampment at Okinawa, Japan
Date:
1945
Description:
Note the ships off the coast, on the horizon.
IDNO:
038884
Title:
Memorial for World War II Correspondent Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima Island, Okinawa, Japan
Date:
1945
Description:
Ernie Pyle was an "embedded" reporter who wrote from the trenches, during world War II. His columns were popular because he focused on the GIs fighting the war. He was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Ie Shima, Okinawa. The inscription on the memorial reads, " At This Spot The 77th Division Lost A Buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945".
IDNO:
039488
Title:
West Virginia University Varsity Football Team, Mountaineer Field, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Two players are labeled "TEKE's" in the photo which refers to their membership in the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
IDNO:
040370
Title:
Fanny Hurshman and Denver White
Date:
1945
Description:
Taaken when Fannie was 83 years old.
IDNO:
040794
Title:
Hershel H. Rose Class of 1932, Fall Reunion 1945, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
For names of people pictured: see original.
IDNO:
041126
Title:
Residence Theatre in Ruins, Munich, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of the destroyed theater after the Allied attacks during World War II
IDNO:
041138
Title:
Dead Prisoners in Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Dachau opened in March 1933, and was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis in Germany. It served as a prototype and model for other Nazi concentration camps that followed. The prisoners in the photograph were mostly likely killed before the camp was liberated.
IDNO:
041139
Title:
Pile of Dead Prisoners in Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
On April 29, 1945 Dachau was surrendered to the American Army by SS- Sturmscharfuhrer Heinrich Wicker. As U.S. troops neared the camp, they found more than 30 railroad cars filled with additional bodies brought to Dachau. Note the word "POLAK' is written on the chest of a dead Polish prisoner. Poles constituted the largest ethnic group in the Dachau camp during the war.
IDNO:
041142
Title:
Dachau In Ruins Around Time of Liberation of Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
The town of Dachau dates back to the Middle Ages and at one time was home to many of Germany's artists.
IDNO:
041145
Title:
German Citizens After U.S. Occupation of City, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Building in back cente and right, is still burning as people carry what belongings they have left with them in the streets.
IDNO:
041148
Title:
Deutsche Dunlop A.G. Tire and Rubber Factory In Ruins, Hanau, Germany
Date:
1945
Description:
Information included with the photograph,"Overall view showing the damage done by the RAF and the U.S. Eighth Air Force to the Deutsche Dunlop A.G. Tire and rubber factory at Hanau. The widespread destruction in this plant severely cut part of the German tire production for motor vehicles. This part of the plant ceased to produce after the last air attack that left it the mass of twisted girders and rubble shown." See the back of the original photograph for more information.
IDNO:
041255
Title:
Elevated View of Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
1945
IDNO:
042185
Title:
Portrait of Evelyn Villers, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1945
IDNO:
046321
Title:
James Thomas, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Print number 1330.
IDNO:
046340
Title:
Morgantown Ordnance Works Personnel
Date:
1945
Description:
Print number 1506. See original for complete listing of personnel.
IDNO:
047650
Title:
Hinton High School Football Co-Captains with Coach Stanley Huffman, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Jack Dillon, left, and Al Morgan,right, pose with their coach in front of the bleachers.
IDNO:
048618
Title:
Allegheny Conductor and Daughter, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
F. G. "Happy" Elmore, pensioned in 1945 and later died in 1954, is pictured holding his little girl.
IDNO:
048768
Title:
Cook Brothers on Surveyor's Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Denver and Benny Cook are pictured together in front of a wire fence.
IDNO:
048769
Title:
Members of Lilly and Cook Family at Surveyor's Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Front row is Murvel and Juanita Lilly. Back row, from left to right, is Nancy Lilly, Virgie Lilly, Denver Cook and Lula Cook.
IDNO:
048771
Title:
Lilly Children at Surveyor Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Murvel "Jack" Lilly, Juanita E. Lilly, and Nancy L. Lilly pose together for a picture. To the right, in the background, is their grandmother, Lula M. Cook.
IDNO:
049112
Title:
Woman on Old Toll Bridge, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Tommy Smith Trail poses on the bridge's pedestrian walkway.
IDNO:
049207
Title:
Women Sipping Drinks on Temple Street, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Tommy Smith Trail and Edith Jeffries Adkins stand outside a building drinking from straws.
IDNO:
049290
Title:
William S. Norris and Ruth Smith Norris on Summers Street, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
The couple is pictured in front of a stone wall that borders a shaded home.
IDNO:
049324
Title:
Spectators at Veterans Day Parade, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A crowd lines along the sidewalk as they eagerly await the procession.
IDNO:
049325
Title:
Veterans Day Parade, Avis, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A marching band makes their way down a street lined with spectators.
IDNO:
049326
Title:
Maypole Ceremony at Veterans Day Celebration, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Young girls run around the maypole decorated in streamers. Subjects unidentified.
IDNO:
049328
Title:
An Empty Temple Street during Veterans Day Celebration, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A small dog rests his head out the window of an automobile.
IDNO:
049329
Title:
Boy Scouts in Veterans Day Parade, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Jeeps filled with boy scouts head down Ballengee Street to participate in the parade. To the left is Carnagie Library.
IDNO:
049331
Title:
Veterans Day Parade, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Marching band gets in position on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Ballengee Street. Ann Harvey Gore's parents home pictured on the far right.
IDNO:
049332
Title:
Streets Emptied for Veterans Day Celebration, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A woman walks alone passing empty stores on Temple Street.
IDNO:
049333
Title:
Veterans Day Parade Moving through Streets of Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A marching band and parade spectators move past the courthouse and Memorial Building, pictured on the left of the photo.
IDNO:
049358
Title:
Thomas W. Lilly and Family, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Thomas Lilly (born June 11, 1885) stands next to Grace Blanche Lilly Meador Hatcher (born in 1919) and a young Robert Cecil Meador (born 1942).
IDNO:
049541
Title:
Mann Siblings in Jumping Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Pictured is Minnie, Stella (Charles P. Wood's mother), Grace, Elsie, and Lola. The mann brothers are Cyrus W., Arvel, and Henry "Oather".
IDNO:
049542
Title:
Mann Family Reunion in Jumping Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Family members prepare plates from a buffet.
IDNO:
049543
Title:
Preparing Plates at Mann Family Reunion, Jumping Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Family members gather around the buffet table.
IDNO:
049544
Title:
Mann Family Portrait, Jumping Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Family members gathered for a family reunion at Alfred Henderson Mann's home. Ezra Lilly is pictured in the center wearing a white shirt and tie. His wife is beside him in the print dress holding a child.
IDNO:
051325
Title:
Winter Scene at the Jackson's Mill Gate, Lewis County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
The photo's description reads, "Christmas Cart." An unidentified man stands by the gate, perhaps to close it. Fresh cart tracks are seen in the snow on the road.
IDNO:
051327
Title:
View of Jackson's Mill and Camp Grounds, Lewis County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
A view from the hilltop overlooks the grounds of the historic site.
IDNO:
051882
Title:
Morgantown Flour and Feed Co.
Date:
1945
Description:
Front of the Morgantown Flour and Feed Co. building on Clay Street. Large mural for Gold Medal Flour is also on the front of the building. Photographs taken for the West Virginia Geological Survey.
IDNO:
051883
Title:
Morgantown Flour & Feed Co.
Date:
1945
Description:
Rear of the Morgantown Flour & Feed Co., which is alongside the railroad tracks.
IDNO:
053182
Title:
Tobacco Farm, Mason County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
"Hanging primed leaves on stick in Mason County. This grower primed about 600 sticks from 1 1/2 acres in 1945."
IDNO:
053189
Title:
Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
Primed leaves hanging in barn for curing. This grower in Cabell County primed 500 sticks from 1.3 acres of crop.
