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Exterior of Victor Elevator and Mills Company, Morgantown.

1. Victor Elevator and Mills Company in Morgantown, W. Va.

Picture was taken in Napier.

2. Lockard Blacksmiths, Bulltown, W. Va.

Christmas in the Robinson Home on West Main Street in Grafton, W. Va.  Fannie E. and W.R. Loar, Madue, Grace, and Leslie gathered around the Christmas tree.

3. Christmas in the Robinson Home on West Main Street, Grafton, W. Va.

'The Limestone German Band, Posing at the Old Wetzel County Court House before 1900.  John Henry Gorby second from left with clarinet, Charles Thomas Gorby and George Ira Gorby with baritones in front of John Kaufman in light suit.  Other identified persons: John Kaufman in light suit in back.  Ed Frei seated right on ground.  'Limestone' is the ridge top at the head of Doolin Run about five miles east of New Martinsville.  Schools and churches attended by Doolin residents were located on 'Limestone' or the adjacent American Ridge.  Charles T. Gorby taught in the Limestone School.  William Gorby, grandfather of the Gorby brothers, was among the original members of the Limestone Church.  This Wetzel County Courthouse in this photograph faced south.  The present one built in 1900 is located on the same lots, but faces east and is made of stone. Photo from the collection of Pearl Frei.'

4. Limestone German Band, New Martinsville, W. Va.

'Looking West on Third Street.'  Men in uniform walking in formation on Third Street.

5. Marching Down Third Street in Parkersburg, W. Va.

A view of Parkersburg, West Virginia and Belpre, Ohio in the 1890s.

6. Parkersburg, W. Va. and Belpre, Ohio

A horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the Wallace House Stables, 'facing the Junior High site on Spruce Street; Wiles Block, Stable End.'

7. Wallace House Stables, Morgantown, W. Va.

From the Centennial Edition of Dominion News.

8. Posten's Sanitary Market in Morgantown, W. Va.

People seen walking down a hill in front of a fire caused by a gas tank explosion on South Park Hill.

9. South Park Hill Gas Tank Explosion and Fire, Morgantown, W. Va.

10. Passengers Waiting for a Train in Wheeling, W. Va.

View from the west of the town and the bridge which spans the Monongahela River.

11. Suspension Bridge Across the Monongahela at Morgantown, W. Va.

View of Morgantown looking over wintery fields.

12. Winter View of West Virginia University and Morgantown, W. Va.

'View looking across Spruce Street down Walnut Street to High Street, on 'wool day' when farmers were bringing their wool to town to sell. Note shipping stores across Walnut Street and town scale next to present location of Junior High School. Property of Jas. R. Moreland.'

13. Walnut Street and Spruce Street on Wool Market Day, Morgantown, W. Va.

14. Horse and Carriage in Front of Stone House on Abrams Creek Northwest Turnpike, Grant County, W. Va.

'Destroyed by State Road Commission.'

15. Lelia Keiter in Front of Rock House Below Petersburg, W. Va.

View of two girls standing on the steps of the Cabell House located on Main Street in White Sulphur Springs. 'The house was once used as a rooming house and small hotel. It was torn down in the late 1960s. Datsun automobile sales lot now on the site.'

16. Cabell House on Main Street, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

View of monuments and headstones at the Confederate Cemetery in Jefferson County. The cemetery was established in 1867.

17. Confederate Cemetery, Shepherdstown, W. Va.

Olie, second from left, stands behind a counter sharpening a knife at Matoaka. An African American man stands to his right, and to his left are two other young men who also work at the store.

18. Olie at Matoaka, Mercer County, W. Va.

19. Mercer County Courthouse, Mercer County, W. Va.

Men work with horses to harvest a field.

20. Harvest Scene at Parish Farm, Pendleton County, W. Va.

From left to right: 'Don, Elsie, Ernest, and Phoebe Meadows Byrd.'

21. John W. Byrd's Home in Pendleton County, W. Va.

22. Methodist Episcopal Church, Harrisville, Ritchie County, W. Va.

23. Ritchie County Fairgrounds and Race Track at Pennsboro, W. Va.

'Burning off the gas from an oil well in Ritchie County.  This is a wood derrick. The flaming torches are to remove the gas out of the oil; a waste that isn't occurring today; it is too precious.'

24. Oil Derrick and Crew, Ritchie County, W. Va.

25. Dr. Rymer and Son with Fish from Little Kanawha River, Ritchie County, W. Va.

From left to right: Bill Mutsby, Jay Bayne, Jim Conaway, Harriet Cain Conaway, Mrs. Bayne, and Bell Maulsby, two unknown.

26. Bayne Family and Homestead, Ritchie County, W. Va.

27. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

28. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

View of railroad bridge in Taylor County.  Three men on cart on railroad tracks.

29. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

30. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

31. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

View of railroad bridge in Taylor County.

32. Railroad Bridge near Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.

Dunlevie is named for Ernest V. Dunlevie, who started the operation in 1905.  He sold out in 1906.  The mill operated under several names until 1919-1920.  The name of the town was changed to Thornwood in 1911/

33. Shay No. 3 and Crew, Dunlevie, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

'Back row, left: W.E. Rumsey, Theodore Watson, Charles Howard?, Front row, left: A.D. Hopkins, Woollery ?, B.H. Hite, Lee Cleveland Corbett.'

34. Faculty of Agricultural Experimental Station, West Virginia University

The picture shows a group of female students in front of a ivy covered building with a front arched entrance.

35. Turn of the Century Co-Eds in front of an Ivy Covered Building, West Virginia University

36. Portrait of Miss Betty Alderson, School Teacher at Alderson, W.Va.

Pictured are: Burt C. Alphant; Ed C. Gerwig, Jr.; Geo H. Atkinson, Jr.

37. WVU Students - 'The Three Graces'

'm. 1/18/1894 to Charles Edwin Ward.'

38. Gypsy Fleming

From left to right, top row: Gypsy Fleming Ward, Ida Fleming Miller, Virginia Fleming and Bottom row: Brooks Fleming, Jr. at Oak Hall, A. B. Fleming's summer home in Oakland Maryland.

39. Flemings Family Portrait

40. Charles Ward, Nell and Harold Ward

Charles Edwin Ward (9/5/1867-8/11/1941).

41. Charles Edwin Ward

Harold MacKrille Ward (1883-), son of Charles and Margaret MacKrille Ward.

42. Harold MacKrille Ward

John Norris is a son of Thomas and Minnie Carr Norris.

43. John Norris

44. View of Morgantown from Chancery Hill

45. WVU Football Player

46. Normal and Classical Academy Faculty and Students, Upshur, W. Va.

Hughes (b.1860-d.1926), left, sits in front of his wife, Ida F. Hughes (b.1870-d.1951). Kidwell (b.2/7/1871-5/20/1896), right, sits in front of his wife Sarah Alice (b.4/22/1876-d.11/16/1946). Kidwell worked for both the Babcock Lumber Company and the Blackwater Coal Company.

47. James William Kidwell and Henry "Mac" Hughes with Wives in Parsons, W. Va.