Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048687
- Title:
- Hilldale Telegraph Office, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910
- Description:
- View of the office from across the railroad tracks. And unidentified woman is pictured looking over the staircase.
- IDNO:
- 048688
- Title:
- Old Telegraph Office at Hilldale, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1894
- Description:
- A group of six unidentified men are pictured outside the building.
- IDNO:
- 048689
- Title:
- New and Old Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad M. W. Cabins, Hilldale, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1931
- Description:
- The new and old structures sit next to each other beside the C. & O. railroad tracks.
- IDNO:
- 048690
- Title:
- Mallet Locomotive Pulling Coal Train through Southeastern West Virginia to Western Virginia
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Photo description reads, "2-8-8-2 H-7 Mallet used on coal train between Hinton (Summers County, W. Va.) and Handley (Kanawha County, W. Va.), and between Hinton and Clifton Forge (Alleghany County, Va.) from 1924 until replace by the 2-66-6 H 8's during 1940."
- IDNO:
- 048691
- Title:
- Verdi Gwynn Howell, Machinist in Wheeling's Tin Mill, and Saxophonist in Steelmaker's Orchestra
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Verdi Gwynn Howell, machinist in Wheeling's tin mill at Yorkville, Ohio. Howell, born in Wales came to the U.S. in 1926. He was the first saxophonist in the Steelmaker's Orchestra. Howell played a solo on one "It's Wheeling Steel" broadcast which his mother in Wales listened to over a U.S. station."
- IDNO:
- 048692
- Title:
- Locomotive No. 175 on Hinton Round House Turntable, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905
- Description:
- Stoddard family pictured beside the turntable, which was 900 feet in circumference.
- IDNO:
- 048693
- Title:
- Verdi Howells Operating Machinery in Yorkville, OH
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Verdi Howells is a machinist at Yorkville, is first saxophonist of The Musical Steelmakers Orchestra, has saved the money made while broadcasting for the corporation, and will go home to visit his mother in Wales this summer." He was an orchestra member since 1936 to November 1943. All participants on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast were required to be employees of Wheeling Steel Corporation or immediate family members.
- IDNO:
- 048694
- Title:
- Union Liquor Co. Building on Third Avenue, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Sign above the bar reads, "Union Liquor Co., J. A. Watkins, proprietor." The store was located on the lower portion of 3rd Avenue. Seven unidentified man pose in front of the entrance.
- IDNO:
- 048695
- Title:
- City of Hinton on New River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Description:
- View of the city across the river.
- IDNO:
- 048697
- Title:
- Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1907
- Description:
- View overlooking New River and the bridge that leads into the old city.
- IDNO:
- 048699
- Title:
- West End of Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1940
- Description:
- View from across the river looking at the west side of the city.
- IDNO:
- 048700
- Title:
- Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.
