Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048919
- Title:
- Ernest Bleau on a Railroad Bicycle by New River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1918
- Description:
- Bleau, a telegrapher and cousin to W.J.B. Gwinn of Meadow Creek, is pictured on top of a railroad bicycle, or "velosipede", in order to get him to the different telegraph offices that he had to work at on the New River Division.
- IDNO:
- 049253
- Title:
- Mrs. Diefenbach on Horse, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Mrs. Diefenbach pictured with the horse she rode to and from the cabin.
- IDNO:
- 049254
- Title:
- Mrs. Diefenbach and Horse by C. W. Cabin, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Diefenbach, a telegraph operator for the C. & O. Railroad, rode this horse to and from the cabin.
- IDNO:
- 049255
- Title:
- Grace Mills Diefenbach of Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Daughter of Jeremiah Mills and Louisa Elva Cassell (Mills). Grace had one brother, Jeremiah IV, and four sisters, Mabel, Elizabeth, Susie, and Louisa Elva.Grace was born December 3, 1871. She was employed by the C. & O. Railroad as a telegraph operator from July 1, 1893 to August 11, 1942. She died July 8, 1958.
- IDNO:
- 049459
- Title:
- Telegraph Operator Carl Sieber, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1955
- Description:
- Sieber sits behind a desk at the telegraph office.
