Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048726
- Title:
- Jargo Martin at Carlene Keaton's Farm on River Ridge near Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1946
- Description:
- Martin pictured in front of the farm house.
- IDNO:
- 048727
- Title:
- Hughes Family of Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Mr. and Mrs. Hughes pictured with their two children outside their home located on the river.
- IDNO:
- 048728
- Title:
- Meador Brothers and Friend Pose as Cowboys in Photo Studio, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Allen and Ernest Meador with Bill Blue take photo in costume at Dodd Studios.
- IDNO:
- 048729
- Title:
- Murvel L. Lilly School Portrait, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1947
- Description:
- Lilly poses for school photo as a student of Cave Ridge School.
- IDNO:
- 048730
- Title:
- Brothers and Daughters of "Groundhog" Sam Lilly, Bluestone River, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1906
- Description:
- Pictured from left to right is Thomas Wellington Lilly, Everett Jackson Lilly, Lucinda Lilly Wills, and Sally Lilly.
- IDNO:
- 048731
- Title:
- Thomas Wellington Lilly and Lila Lilly at Home in Bluestone River near Pipestem Park Tramway, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1908
- Description:
- The Lilly's are pictured with furniture between them.
- IDNO:
- 048732
- Title:
- Harvey and Rachel Cook Inside House on New River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1955
- Description:
- The two are pictured inside their home which is located across from Tom's Run.
- IDNO:
- 048733
- Title:
- Jack Cook and Sally Margrett Cook Pettrey on Lou Pettrey Farm in River Ridge near Hinton, W. va.
- Date:
- ca. 1948
- Description:
- Jack, raised by Harvey and Rachael Mize Cook, pictured with Sally on the farm which is now owned by Cecil Meador family.
- IDNO:
- 048734
- Title:
- George Madison Cook with Horses on Erastus Neely Farm at Surveyor's Branch, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1917
- Description:
- Cook pictured with horses, named Dan and Doc, on the farm.
- IDNO:
- 048735
- Title:
- 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast Performer, Regina Colbert, Singing at the Microphone
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "Regina Colbert is the program's "Singing Secretary", and she lives up to both halves of the title. Featured soloist on Sundays, she is part of the company's secretarial staff weekdays." It was a requirement set by Wheeling Steel Corporation advertising executive John L. Grimes, that the radio broadcast stay an exclusively all employee program. Therefore, Colbert who was not at the time an employee or immediate family member, was hired to work as secretary in the advertising department to maintain this rule.
- IDNO:
- 048736
- Title:
- Evans Household, a Wheeling Steel Family
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "Typical Wheeling family, the Evans household has an extra incentive to keep war production rolling. Brother Bill is in the Navy, serving in the South Pacific, and the arrival of a letter from him is a big event in the Evans home. The father, has been a steel roller for 29 years."
- IDNO:
- 048737
- Title:
- Lew Davies, Conductor and Composer of the Musical Steelmarkers Orchestra
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "Lew Davies, conductor of the "Musical Steelmakers" orchestra and chorus, writes most of the musical arrangements himself. Helping him in this department are John Hahle, guitarist; Maury Longfellow of the production staff; and Gene Ahlers, trumpeter." The Musical Steelmakers were the orchestra who performed on Wheeling Steel Co.'s radio broadcast "It's Wheeling Steel", an all employee broadcast used to advertise both Wheeling Steel's product offerings as well as their large staff.
