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'Alexander Campbell in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830: Photograph of George Catlin's painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Campbell is the seventh person from the right in the back row. Though Campbell had strong reservations about entering politics, he was prevailed upon to do so to speak out regarding slavery, democratizing the government, and public school education for all children.'

49. Painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention

IDNO:
027688
Title:
Painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
Date:
1829-39
Description:
'Alexander Campbell in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830: Photograph of George Catlin's painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Campbell is the seventh person from the right in the back row. Though Campbell had strong reservations about entering politics, he was prevailed upon to do so to speak out regarding slavery, democratizing the government, and public school education for all children.'

50. Portrait of Deborah Vana Thompson

IDNO:
033743
Title:
Portrait of Deborah Vana Thompson
Date:
1830

51. Robert E. Lee as a Lieutenant

IDNO:
032688
Title:
Robert E. Lee as a Lieutenant
Date:
1831
Color engraving of people standing and looking out over the Shenandoah River from Jefferson's Rock at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

52. Valley of the Shenandoah from Jefferson's Rock, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

IDNO:
006554
Title:
Valley of the Shenandoah from Jefferson's Rock, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
1838
Description:
Color engraving of people standing and looking out over the Shenandoah River from Jefferson's Rock at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Color engraving of Harpers Ferry from the Blue Ridge.

53. Harpers Ferry, W. Va. from the Blue Ridge

IDNO:
006555
Title:
Harpers Ferry, W. Va. from the Blue Ridge
Date:
1839
Description:
Color engraving of Harpers Ferry from the Blue Ridge.
'Copied from: Facing p. 50. Rucker, Maude A. 'West Virginia: Her Land, Her People, Her Traditions, Her Resources.' Walter Neale, pub. New York. 1930."'

54. Drawing of a Religious Encampment in the Mountains

IDNO:
017003
Title:
Drawing of a Religious Encampment in the Mountains
Date:
1845
Description:
'Copied from: Facing p. 50. Rucker, Maude A. 'West Virginia: Her Land, Her People, Her Traditions, Her Resources.' Walter Neale, pub. New York. 1930."'
Painting of a steamboat docking at the Ohio River at Wheeling. Photographed by G.W.'Jerry' Sutphin. Permanent Collection, Huntington Galleries.

55. Painting of a Steamboat on the Ohio River at Wheeling, W.Va.

IDNO:
008885
Title:
Painting of a Steamboat on the Ohio River at Wheeling, W.Va.
Date:
1845/06
Description:
Painting of a steamboat docking at the Ohio River at Wheeling. Photographed by G.W.'Jerry' Sutphin. Permanent Collection, Huntington Galleries.
Sketch of a stagecoach in front of a house.

56. Stagecoach on Jeems and Kanawha Pike, Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
007184
Title:
Stagecoach on Jeems and Kanawha Pike, Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
1846
Description:
Sketch of a stagecoach in front of a house.
This picture is from a drawing produced by J. H. Dis DeBar, 1846, Western Virginia [West Virginia] For more information, see Roy B. Cook note book on Andrew Jackson.

57. Drawing of Stage Coach in 1846

IDNO:
033108
Title:
Drawing of Stage Coach in 1846
Date:
1846
Description:
This picture is from a drawing produced by J. H. Dis DeBar, 1846, Western Virginia [West Virginia] For more information, see Roy B. Cook note book on Andrew Jackson.
'Photo copy from original daguerreotype - owned by Thomas J. Arnold, Elkins, - 1920. Original made in Mexico City, 1847. Prints reversed.'

58. Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson

IDNO:
029273
Title:
Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
Date:
1847
Description:
'Photo copy from original daguerreotype - owned by Thomas J. Arnold, Elkins, - 1920. Original made in Mexico City, 1847. Prints reversed.'
Earliest portrait of Thomas J. Jackson. The photograph was made in Mexico City, during the Mexican War.

59. Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'

IDNO:
001087
Title:
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'
Date:
1847/08
Description:
Earliest portrait of Thomas J. Jackson. The photograph was made in Mexico City, during the Mexican War.
Ambrotype owned by his niece Alice E. Underwood.

60. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson as First Lieutenant of Artillery from an Ambrotype Taken August 20, 1847

IDNO:
029245
Title:
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson as First Lieutenant of Artillery from an Ambrotype Taken August 20, 1847
Date:
1847/08/20
Description:
Ambrotype owned by his niece Alice E. Underwood.

61. Depot, Belington, W. Va.

IDNO:
053811
Title:
Depot, Belington, W. Va.
Date:
1849
Daguerreotype portrait of Nathaniel Alcock Bailee [Baillie], married Mary Matilda Biglow in 1852. After the Civil War he was a chief civil engineer during the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through the Kanawha Valley.

62. Cased Portrait of Nathaniel Bailee [Baillie] of Hansford, Va. (W. Va.)

IDNO:
039372
Title:
Cased Portrait of Nathaniel Bailee [Baillie] of Hansford, Va. (W. Va.)
Date:
1849/03/12
Description:
Daguerreotype portrait of Nathaniel Alcock Bailee [Baillie], married Mary Matilda Biglow in 1852. After the Civil War he was a chief civil engineer during the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through the Kanawha Valley.
'Hildreth, Dr. S. P..: One of the first members of the Ohio Geological Survey, published in 1936, with Dr. S. G. Morton, the first important paper on the geology and paleobotany of what is now W. Va. Most of the fossil collecting and studying of these two Marietta men took place around Charleston.' (WV Encyclopedia)

63. Dr. S. P. Hildreth

IDNO:
029396
Title:
Dr. S. P. Hildreth
Date:
1850-1863
Description:
'Hildreth, Dr. S. P..: One of the first members of the Ohio Geological Survey, published in 1936, with Dr. S. G. Morton, the first important paper on the geology and paleobotany of what is now W. Va. Most of the fossil collecting and studying of these two Marietta men took place around Charleston.' (WV Encyclopedia)
Upper left one of a series of C.S.A. cards sold in the North. Showing a fraudulent 'collar'. Center is a sample of the Brady print showing same fraudulent uniform. Brady probably never saw Jackson, but sold thousands of these pictures, which is an 1851 portrait.

64. Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'

IDNO:
001151
Title:
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'
Date:
1851
Description:
Upper left one of a series of C.S.A. cards sold in the North. Showing a fraudulent 'collar'. Center is a sample of the Brady print showing same fraudulent uniform. Brady probably never saw Jackson, but sold thousands of these pictures, which is an 1851 portrait.
Jackson resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and accepted a teaching position at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He would earn the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and the sobriquet, "Stonewall".

65. United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)

IDNO:
001125
Title:
United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)
Date:
1851
Description:
Jackson resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and accepted a teaching position at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He would earn the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and the sobriquet, "Stonewall".
Portrait of General T.J. Jackson. In confederate odes and ballads in Rare book room N.Y. Public Library.

66. Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'

IDNO:
001134
Title:
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'
Date:
1851
Description:
Portrait of General T.J. Jackson. In confederate odes and ballads in Rare book room N.Y. Public Library.
Portrait of Thomas J. Jackson

67. Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'

IDNO:
001133
Title:
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall'
Date:
1851
Description:
Portrait of Thomas J. Jackson
'1852 photo of old St. Joseph Cathedral (an earlier name of the church here was St. James, it became St. Joseph when diocese formed in 1850.) This is where the first Visitandines in Wheeling worshipped. It was being built in 1848. They lived next door and walked over. A little enclosure gull was built in santctuary for them to see Mass.'

68. Interior of St. Joseph Cathedral, Wheeling, W.Va.

IDNO:
008892
Title:
Interior of St. Joseph Cathedral, Wheeling, W.Va.
Date:
1852
Description:
'1852 photo of old St. Joseph Cathedral (an earlier name of the church here was St. James, it became St. Joseph when diocese formed in 1850.) This is where the first Visitandines in Wheeling worshipped. It was being built in 1848. They lived next door and walked over. A little enclosure gull was built in santctuary for them to see Mass.'
Owner of Woodbridge and Company in Marietta, ca. 1799.

69. Dudley Woodbridge, Jr. of Marietta, Ohio

IDNO:
030364
Title:
Dudley Woodbridge, Jr. of Marietta, Ohio
Date:
1853
Description:
Owner of Woodbridge and Company in Marietta, ca. 1799.
Drawing of Ohio river waterscape with workers and boats titled 'Horse Ferry Ohio River Thick Mist, November 27, 1853, 4 P.M.'

70. Horse Ferry in Thick Mist on the Ohio River

IDNO:
025597
Title:
Horse Ferry in Thick Mist on the Ohio River
Date:
1853/11/27
Description:
Drawing of Ohio river waterscape with workers and boats titled 'Horse Ferry Ohio River Thick Mist, November 27, 1853, 4 P.M.'
'Ohio River, Nov. 28th, 1853, 1P.M.'.

71. Drawing of Ohio River Boats

IDNO:
025598
Title:
Drawing of Ohio River Boats
Date:
1853/11/28
Description:
'Ohio River, Nov. 28th, 1853, 1P.M.'.
Shows boats and 'Limestone Rocks Ohio River, Nov. 30. 1853, 4 P.M.'

72. Limestone Rocks, Ohio River

IDNO:
025599
Title:
Limestone Rocks, Ohio River
Date:
1853/11/30
Description:
Shows boats and 'Limestone Rocks Ohio River, Nov. 30. 1853, 4 P.M.'
View of Charleston, West Virginia in 1854.

73. Drawing of Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
005451
Title:
Drawing of Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1854
Description:
View of Charleston, West Virginia in 1854.
"From Gleanson's Pictorial, 1854 Volume 6, page 216. Library of Congress, Negative Number: LC.-USZ62-18035.'

74. Drawing of Wheeling, Virginia, from the Railroad

IDNO:
008999
Title:
Drawing of Wheeling, Virginia, from the Railroad
Date:
1854
Description:
"From Gleanson's Pictorial, 1854 Volume 6, page 216. Library of Congress, Negative Number: LC.-USZ62-18035.'

75. Birds Eye View of Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
041267
Title:
Birds Eye View of Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1854

76. Boarding House in Dobbin, W. Va.

IDNO:
034639
Title:
Boarding House in Dobbin, W. Va.
Date:
1855
Engraving of a group of people standing on a hill overlooking Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

77. Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

IDNO:
006612
Title:
Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
1856
Description:
Engraving of a group of people standing on a hill overlooking Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

78. Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.

IDNO:
034249
Title:
Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.
Date:
1856

79. Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.

IDNO:
034250
Title:
Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.
Date:
1856

80. Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.

IDNO:
034258
Title:
Old Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.
Date:
1856

81. View of Church in Dobbin, W. Va.

IDNO:
034638
Title:
View of Church in Dobbin, W. Va.
Date:
1856
The church was organized in 1853. The current building was completed in 1856.

82. St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Proctor, Marshall County, W. Va.

IDNO:
051028
Title:
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Proctor, Marshall County, W. Va.
Date:
1856
Description:
The church was organized in 1853. The current building was completed in 1856.
The Grafton Hotel next to the Baltimore and Ohio Depot in Grafton, W. Va.

83. Grafton Hotel and Baltimore and Ohio Depot, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
006068
Title:
Grafton Hotel and Baltimore and Ohio Depot, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1857
Description:
The Grafton Hotel next to the Baltimore and Ohio Depot in Grafton, W. Va.

84. Sketch of White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W. Va.

IDNO:
013014
Title:
Sketch of White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W. Va.
Date:
1857
'An illustration depicting a scenery on Cheat River copied from William Prescott Smith's The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 (n.x. 1858), facing p. 162. View on 'Cheat River Grade At the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, 25.7 Miles from Baltimore.'

85. View on Cheat River Grade at the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, Rowlesburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
025779
Title:
View on Cheat River Grade at the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Date:
1857
Description:
'An illustration depicting a scenery on Cheat River copied from William Prescott Smith's The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 (n.x. 1858), facing p. 162. View on 'Cheat River Grade At the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, 25.7 Miles from Baltimore.'
'Bottom-Major Jackson, at V.M.I. in 1857. Photo furnished by Mrs. Jackson to Hearsts Magazine, in September 1913.'

86. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

IDNO:
029260
Title:
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
Date:
1857
Description:
'Bottom-Major Jackson, at V.M.I. in 1857. Photo furnished by Mrs. Jackson to Hearsts Magazine, in September 1913.'

87. View of the R. R. Station in Dobbin, W. Va.

IDNO:
034640
Title:
View of the R. R. Station in Dobbin, W. Va.
Date:
1857
An ink etching of the Greenbrier (Old White Sulphur Springs) in Lewisburg, West Virginia as it appeared in 1858. Men and women are shown mingling in the front lawn of the Greenbrier while a horse drawn carriage driver is dropping off several people.

88. Greenbrier (Old White) White Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
007329
Title:
Greenbrier (Old White) White Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, W. Va.
Date:
1858
Description:
An ink etching of the Greenbrier (Old White Sulphur Springs) in Lewisburg, West Virginia as it appeared in 1858. Men and women are shown mingling in the front lawn of the Greenbrier while a horse drawn carriage driver is dropping off several people.

89. Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.

IDNO:
034251
Title:
Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.
Date:
1858

90. Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.

IDNO:
034256
Title:
Suspension Bridge Between Morgantown and Westover, W. Va.
Date:
1858

91. Kanawha Fall

IDNO:
037691
Title:
Kanawha Fall
Date:
1858
Minister to France under James Buchanan in 1860 and arrested by Federal authorities for treason in August 1861 while negotiating arm sales with France for the Confederacy. He was exchanged six months later and subsequently serve on Stonewall Jackson's staff during the Civil War. After the war Faulkner was elected to the United States Congress, representating the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, 1875-1877 and served on West Virginia University's Board of Regents.

92. Charles James Faulkner of Martinsburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
040443
Title:
Charles James Faulkner of Martinsburg, W. Va.
Date:
1858
Description:
Minister to France under James Buchanan in 1860 and arrested by Federal authorities for treason in August 1861 while negotiating arm sales with France for the Confederacy. He was exchanged six months later and subsequently serve on Stonewall Jackson's staff during the Civil War. After the war Faulkner was elected to the United States Congress, representating the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, 1875-1877 and served on West Virginia University's Board of Regents.
View of houses in Grafton, W. Va.

93. Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
006072
Title:
Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1859
Description:
View of houses in Grafton, W. Va.
Houses at base of hillside.

94. Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
006088
Title:
Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1859
Description:
Houses at base of hillside.
View of houses at the base of a hillside in Grafton, W. Va.

95. Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
006090
Title:
Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1859
Description:
View of houses at the base of a hillside in Grafton, W. Va.

96. Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
006087
Title:
Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1859