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Sketched by David Hunter Strother for Harper's Weekly; issue published May 11, 1861.

1. Rendezvous of Virginians at Halltown, Virginia, 5 P.M. on April 18, 1861, to March on Harper's Ferry.

IDNO:
000823
Title:
Rendezvous of Virginians at Halltown, Virginia, 5 P.M. on April 18, 1861, to March on Harper's Ferry.
Date:
undated
Description:
Sketched by David Hunter Strother for Harper's Weekly; issue published May 11, 1861.
Drawing of the hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, approximately 12 miles from the site of his raid at Harpers Ferry.

2. Hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, W. Va.

IDNO:
006571
Title:
Hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, W. Va.
Description:
Drawing of the hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, approximately 12 miles from the site of his raid at Harpers Ferry.
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

3. Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023899
Title:
Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

4. Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023900
Title:
Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

5. Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023901
Title:
Viewing David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

6. Examining a Photograph, Part of the David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023902
Title:
Examining a Photograph, Part of the David Hunter Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
Strother family members are in the background. This is the David Hunter Strother Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

7. Stokely Gribble, Interim Dean of Libraries, Speaking at Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023903
Title:
Stokely Gribble, Interim Dean of Libraries, Speaking at Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Strother family members are in the background. This is the David Hunter Strother Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
The exhibit was located in E. Moore Hall and was created for the first W. Va. Day. The celebration took place in June of 1987. The David Hunter Strother Collection is now housed in the West Virginia and Regional History Center in Wise Library.

8. John Stealey Speaking at the Dedication of the David Hunter Strother Collection at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023904
Title:
John Stealey Speaking at the Dedication of the David Hunter Strother Collection at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The exhibit was located in E. Moore Hall and was created for the first W. Va. Day. The celebration took place in June of 1987. The David Hunter Strother Collection is now housed in the West Virginia and Regional History Center in Wise Library.
The dedication was an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, displayed in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.

9. Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University

IDNO:
023905
Title:
Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The dedication was an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, displayed in E. Moore Hall, for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
The celebration contained an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's work in E. Moore Hall.

10. Strother Family Member Speaking at the First West Virginia Day Celebration at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023906
Title:
Strother Family Member Speaking at the First West Virginia Day Celebration at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The celebration contained an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's work in E. Moore Hall.
The dedication was for the first W. Va. Day Celebration and contained an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, located in E. Moore Hall.

11. Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University

IDNO:
023907
Title:
Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The dedication was for the first W. Va. Day Celebration and contained an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, located in E. Moore Hall.
The celebration included an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, located in E. Moore Hall.

12. Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University

IDNO:
023908
Title:
Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The celebration included an exhibit of David Hunter Strother's works, located in E. Moore Hall.
Franz and Strother are displaying some of David Hunter Stother's works, which where set up in an exhibit in E. Moore Hall as part of the celebration.

13. Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University

IDNO:
023909
Title:
Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Franz and Strother are displaying some of David Hunter Stother's works, which where set up in an exhibit in E. Moore Hall as part of the celebration.
The exhibit was part of the celebration for the first W. Va. Day, and was located in E. Moore Hall.

14. David Hunter Strother (Porte Crayon) Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023910
Title:
David Hunter Strother (Porte Crayon) Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The exhibit was part of the celebration for the first W. Va. Day, and was located in E. Moore Hall.
The David Hunter Strother exhibit was located in E. Moore Hall and was a part of the celebration for the first W. Va. Day.

15. John Cuthhert Speaking to a Group Viewing the Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University

IDNO:
023911
Title:
John Cuthhert Speaking to a Group Viewing the Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The David Hunter Strother exhibit was located in E. Moore Hall and was a part of the celebration for the first W. Va. Day.
David Hunter Strother's works displayed in E. Moore Hall as part of the first West Virginia Day celebration.

16. Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University

IDNO:
023912
Title:
Frank Franz Honors David Hunter Strother Family Members at the Dedication of the Strother Collection, West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
David Hunter Strother's works displayed in E. Moore Hall as part of the first West Virginia Day celebration.
'Cecil D. Eby, Jr., the biographer of Porte Crayon, is a native of Charles Town. He is a graduate of Shepherd College and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Eby's specialty has been American literary history. His biography of David Hunter Strother appeared in 1960 under the title "Porte Crayon": the Life of David Hunter Strother. The journals of General Strother were edited and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1961 under the title, A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War. Selections from Strother's Virginia Illustrated, North Carolina Illustrated, A Winter in the South and the Dismal Swamp, along with "Porte Crayon's" inimitable illustrations appeared under the collective title, The Old South Illustrated, also published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1959. The author is presently on the faculty of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va., where he is assistant professor of English.'

17. Cecil D. Eby, Jr.

IDNO:
027880
Title:
Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Description:
'Cecil D. Eby, Jr., the biographer of Porte Crayon, is a native of Charles Town. He is a graduate of Shepherd College and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Eby's specialty has been American literary history. His biography of David Hunter Strother appeared in 1960 under the title "Porte Crayon": the Life of David Hunter Strother. The journals of General Strother were edited and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1961 under the title, A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War. Selections from Strother's Virginia Illustrated, North Carolina Illustrated, A Winter in the South and the Dismal Swamp, along with "Porte Crayon's" inimitable illustrations appeared under the collective title, The Old South Illustrated, also published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1959. The author is presently on the faculty of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va., where he is assistant professor of English.'
Home was razed in 1977.

18. Brigadier General David Hunter Strother at Home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

IDNO:
035070
Title:
Brigadier General David Hunter Strother at Home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va.
Description:
Home was razed in 1977.
Print of a painted or sketched portrait of David Hunter Strother.

19. David Hunter Strother

IDNO:
037678
Title:
David Hunter Strother
Description:
Print of a painted or sketched portrait of David Hunter Strother.
The artist and writer, also known as Porte Crayon from Martinsburg, W. Va.

20. David Hunter Strother

IDNO:
037913
Title:
David Hunter Strother
Date:
undated
Description:
The artist and writer, also known as Porte Crayon from Martinsburg, W. Va.
The artist, also known as Porte Crayon.

21. David Hunter Strother of Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

IDNO:
037914
Title:
David Hunter Strother of Berkeley Springs, W. Va.
Description:
The artist, also known as Porte Crayon.
The artist, also known as Porte Crayon.

22. David Hunter Strother

IDNO:
037915
Title:
David Hunter Strother
Description:
The artist, also known as Porte Crayon.
The artist and writer, also known as Porte Crayon, served in the Union Army.

23. Lieutenant Colonel David Hunter Strother during Civil War

IDNO:
037916
Title:
Lieutenant Colonel David Hunter Strother during Civil War
Date:
ca. 1863
Description:
The artist and writer, also known as Porte Crayon, served in the Union Army.
House owned at one time by David Hunter Strother, "Porte Crayon", 1851-1852.

24. Norbourne Hall, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, W. Va.

IDNO:
038192
Title:
Norbourne Hall, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, W. Va.
Description:
House owned at one time by David Hunter Strother, "Porte Crayon", 1851-1852.
Martinsburg, West Virginia native David Hunter Strother was appointed Consul to Mexico by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. The photograph was taken in the gardens called Tivoli De San Cosme at Espiritu Santo, Mexico. Strother is front and center with the white, flowing beard.

25. United States Consul to Mexico, David Hunter Strother in Group Portrait at Tivoli De San Cosme, Mexico

IDNO:
038713
Title:
United States Consul to Mexico, David Hunter Strother in Group Portrait at Tivoli De San Cosme, Mexico
Date:
1885/07/04
Description:
Martinsburg, West Virginia native David Hunter Strother was appointed Consul to Mexico by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. The photograph was taken in the gardens called Tivoli De San Cosme at Espiritu Santo, Mexico. Strother is front and center with the white, flowing beard.