Collection of photocopies of West Virginia University building planning documents and research notes regarding Woodburn Hall, Library, Science Hall, University Hall, Armory, Mechanical Hall, Martin Hall.
Call Number:
P11570
Date:
1870-1952
Description:
Collection. Includes photocopies of planning documents, newspaper articles, and research notes for: Woodburn Hall, Library, Science Hall, University Hall, Armory, Mechanical Hall, and Martin Hall.
Subject Corporate Names:
West Virginia University. Woodburn Hall., West Virginia University. Library., West Virginia University. Science Hall., West Virginia University. Armory., West Virginia University. Martin Hall., West Virginia University. Mechanical Hall., West Virginia University. University Hall.
All:
West Virginia University. Woodburn Hall., West Virginia University. Library., West Virginia University. Science Hall., West Virginia University. Armory., West Virginia University. Martin Hall., West Virginia University. Mechanical Hall., West Virginia University. University Hall.
Premium list of the South Carolina Institute, incorporated in 1850, for the promotion and encouragement of the arts, agriculture, ingenuity, mechanics, manufactures, and a general development of industry.
Call Number:
P6185
Date:
1870
Description:
Monograph.
Subject Geographic:
South Carolina--Fairs., Charleston (S. C.)--Guidebooks.
All:
South Carolina--Fairs., Charleston (S. C.)--Guidebooks.
Sturm's theory of creation, being some researches of a philosophical character into the origin and structure of the Earth, the early peopling of the American continent, the cause of earthquakes, &c.
Call Number:
P447
Date:
1870
Description:
Pamphlet. Includes the author's theory about the creation of the world and subsequent events, such as the growth and migration of the Earth's population, and the causes of natural phenomena. Also describes the physical evidence he has amassed, which support his claims.
Subject Corporate Names:
Society of the Army of West Virginia.
Subject Geographic:
America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian.
Society of the Army of West Virginia., Natural history., America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian., Mound-builders., Population--History., Earthquakes.
Memorial of the General Assembly of Virginia to the Congress of the United States relative to water communication between the Atlantic and Mississippi.
Call Number:
P4417
Date:
1870
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Topical:
Inland water transportation--United States., Inland navigation--United States.
All:
Inland water transportation--United States., Inland navigation--United States.
Interesting letter relating to Michigan wool read at the late annual meeting of the "Wool Buyers' Association," of the State of Michigan, held in Detroit, June 2, 1868.
Communication of John W. Garrett, President, to the House of Delegates of Maryland, in reference to a resolution submitted to annul the charter of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Call Number:
P17205
Date:
1870
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Topical:
Articles of incorporation--Maryland., Railroads and state--Maryland.
All:
Articles of incorporation--Maryland., Railroads and state--Maryland.
Memorial of the delegates to the National Board of Trade on the subject of the James River & Kanawha Canal reported in the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and approved March 1870.
Call Number:
P4898
Date:
1870
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Corporate Names:
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)
Subject Geographic:
James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)
All:
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.), James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)
Remarks of John W. Garrett, President, made on January 12th, 1870, at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, in relation to the statements regarding the Baltimore and Ohio Company in the message of the Governor of Maryland, communicated to the General Assembly of Maryland on the 6th of January, 1870.
Call Number:
P17212
Date:
1870
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Maryland. Governor (1869-1873 : Bowie), Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Topical:
Railroads and state--Maryland.
All:
Maryland. Governor (1869-1873 : Bowie), Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Railroads and state--Maryland.
Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
Title:
Catalogue of premiums of the … annual fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society to be held by Morgantown, W. Va. …
Call Number:
P585
Date:
1869-1878
Description:
Serial. Printed Ephemera Collection has: 1st (1869), 7th (1875)-10th (1878). Title varies: < 1869 > - , Regulations and list of premiums of the … annual fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society... Bound with one issue of earlier variant title.
Remarks of John W. Garrett, President, made on September 8th, 1869, at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio R.R. Co.
Remarks of John W. Garrett, President, made on April 14th, 1869, at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio R.R. Co.
Call Number:
P17210
Date:
1869
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company., Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad Company., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Serial. Printed Ephemera Collection has: 1869:no.1. "Cultivated and for sale at the Belpre Nursery, Geo. Dana, Proprietor, Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio."
Remarks of Thomas M. Monroe, of Dubuque, Iowa, before the National Board of Trade, at its meeting in December, 1868, in the City of Cincinnati, on the subject of continuous water communication between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic seaboard.
Call Number:
P4899
Date:
1869
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Topical:
Inland water transportation--Communication systems.
All:
Inland water transportation--Communication systems.
Address of John W. Garrett, President, made on the 12th of February, 1868, at the monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Co.
Memorial of the twelfth General Assembly of the state of Iowa to the United States Congress relative to water communication between the Atlantic and Mississippi.
Call Number:
P4900
Date:
1868
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Corporate Names:
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)
Subject Topical:
Inland navigation--United States.
All:
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.), Inland navigation--United States.
Address of John W. Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company upon his re-election as president of that company, December, 1868.
Nova Britannia. Offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia. Exciting all such as be well affected to further the same.
Call Number:
P3212
Date:
1867
Description:
Pamphlet. "New York, Printed for J. Sabin, 1867." Prefatory note signed: F. L. Hawks. "Two hundred and fifty copies printed, of which fifty are on large paper." Facsimile reprint of 1609 London edition with title: Nova Britannia. Offring most excellent fruites [etc.] "Within the knowledge of the Editor there are but two tracts earlier than this, concerning what was called "Virginia" in 1609. The one is Waymonth's voyage to North Virginia, in which he does not appear to have been on what is now the Virginia coast at all. This was published in 1605. The other is a "Relation of what hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony:" this was written by Capt. John Smith, in the form of a letter to a friend in English, and published in 1608; and this, so far as we know is now called Virginia." cf. Prefatory note.
Subject Geographic:
Virginia--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800., Virginia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
All:
Virginia--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800., Virginia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
North West Virginia Agricultural Society of Wheeling.
Title:
Regulations and list of premiums, of the … annual fair of the North West Virginia Agricultural Society, of Wheeling, to be held on Wheeling Island, W. Va. ...
Resolutions of the legislature of West Virginia, in favor of an appropriation for the payment of military claims created by that State during the late war.
Call Number:
P34
Date:
1866
Description:
Government document. Reprint of "joint resolutions to secure an appropriation by Congress for the payment of certain military claims created in this State during the late war." Adopted February 17, 1866. Transcript of record certified by William P. Hubbard, Clerk House Delegates and Keeper of the Rolls; Hubbard certified as clerk of the House of Delegates and Keeper of the Rolls by Granville Hall, Secretary of the State. At head of title: United States. Congress. Senate. Miscellaneous Document. 39th Congress, 1st session, no. 78.
Subject Geographic:
West Virginia--Politics and government., United States--Claims., United States--Politics and government--1861-1865., West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
All:
West Virginia--Politics and government., United States--Claims., United States--Politics and government--1861-1865., West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Address of John W. Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company upon his re-election as president of that company, December, 1866.
Remarks of John W. Garrett, President, made on the 14th of February, 1866, at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., in relation to the Annual Message of the Mayor of Baltimore, of January 15th, 1866.
Government document. At head of title: 39th Congress, 1st session, House of Representative, Report no. 6. "[To accompany H. Res. No. 17.]"
Subject Geographic:
Jefferson County (W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., Berkeley County (W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
All:
Jefferson County (W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865., Berkeley County (W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Address of John W. Garrett, on his re-election as President of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Co., on the 23d November, 1864, sketching the policy and prospects of the company, together with the Remarks of the President on the annual message of the Mayor of Baltimore, on the 11th January, 1865.
Call Number:
P17214
Date:
1865
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
Subject Topical:
Railroads and state--Maryland., Railroads--Pennsylvania.
All:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Railroads and state--Maryland., Railroads--Pennsylvania., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Maryland. Comptroller's Office.
Title:
Letter and accompanying documents from John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to the Comptroller of Maryland, in relation to the obligation of the state, to provide for remitting to England the interest due on certain sterling bonds of the state.
Call Number:
P17215
Date:
1865
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Topical:
Railroads and state--Maryland.
All:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Railroads and state--Maryland.
Address of John W. Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company upon his re-election as president of that company, December 1865.
Call Number:
P17208
Date:
1865
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
Subject Topical:
Steamboat lines--Maryland--Baltimore.
All:
Steamboat lines--Maryland--Baltimore., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
Message of the governor of Virginia, laid before the General Assembly, at the called session, convened on the nineteenth of June, 1865, at the city of Richmond.
Letter of John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, relative to House Bill no. 768, entitled "An act to facilitate railway communication with the Capital of the United States."
Call Number:
P17204
Date:
1865
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Topical:
Railroads--Washington (D. C.)
All:
Railroads--Washington (D. C.), Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Regulations and list of premiums, of the … annual fair of the West Virginia Agricultural Society, of Wheeling, to be held on Wheeling Island, W. Va. ...
Thanksgiving in Wheeling : synopsis of the Thanksgiving sermon by Rev. Alex. Martin, D.D., pastor of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Nov. 24th, 1864.
Call Number:
P10096
Date:
1864
Description:
Photocopy of newspaper article. "Supplied by Archives of DePauw University and Indiana Methodism, Greencastle, Indiana."
Correspondence between S. Teackle Wallis, esq., of Baltimore, and the Hon. John Sherman, of the U.S. Senate, concerning the arrest of members of the Maryland legislature, and the mayor and police commissioners of Baltimore, in 1861.
Call Number:
P10102
Date:
1863
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Geographic:
Baltimore (Md.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence., United States--Politics and government--1861-1865., Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence.
All:
Baltimore (Md.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence., United States--Politics and government--1861-1865., Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence.
Photocopy of pamphlet. "By Southern statesmen. Philadelphia: Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863." Digital copy available through the Internet Archive.
Subject Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subject Topical:
Secession.
All:
Secession., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., United States. War Department.
Title:
Correspondence between the Secretary of War and the President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. in relation to additional routes between Washington and New York, and improvements of the established railway line.
Call Number:
P10053
Date:
1862
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
Subject Topical:
Transportation--United States.
All:
Transportation--United States., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Title:
Statement of John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, made before the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, on the 25th of April, 1862, in opposition to the "proposition" of the Metropolitan Railroad Company to "Build a road making direct communication between Washington City and New York."
Call Number:
P17203
Date:
1862
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Corporate Names:
Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D. C.)
Subject Topical:
Competition--Northeastern States.
All:
Competition--Northeastern States., Metropolitan Railroad Company (Georgetown, Washington, D. C.)
The following quotas of Militia and volunteers are required from the counties named, being ten per cent, of the white population of each...
Call Number:
P7594
Date:
1861
Description:
Photostat of 2 leaves. Leaf 2: "Quotas of volunteers and militia required under the Governor's Proclamation of July 19th, under which Troops previously contributed are to be counted..." Issued by the Adjutant General's Office, Richmond, July 25, 1861 by Command. Wm. H. Richardson, Adjutant General.
Subject Corporate Names:
Confederate States of America. Army--Recruitment, enlistment, etc.
Subject Geographic:
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
All:
Confederate States of America. Army--Recruitment, enlistment, etc., Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Letter of the President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Call Number:
P17201
Date:
1861
Description:
Tearout from ? "To the Hon. Luther C. Carter, chairman of the House Committee of the District of Columbia." Letter regarding a bill authorizing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to extend the Washington Branch of their road to and across the Potomac River.
Remarks of John W. Garrett, Esq., President, to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Co. regarding a line of steamships from Baltimore to Europe.
Call Number:
P17202
Date:
1860
Description:
Tearout from ?
Subject Topical:
Steamboat lines--Maryland--Baltimore., Railroads--United States.
All:
Steamboat lines--Maryland--Baltimore., Railroads--United States.
Valley news echo : serving the Shenandoah and Potomac river valleys.
Call Number:
P5415
Date:
1859-1865
Description:
Serial. Printed Ephemera Collection has: v.1:no.1 (1859)-v.1:no.2 (1859:Dec.), v.2:no.1 (1861:Apr.)-v.2:no.9 (1861:Dec.), v.3:no.1 (1862:Jan.)-v.6:no.4 (1865:Apr.). "The Valley News Echo is published periodically by the Potomac Edision Company to arouse interest in the many historic events that occurred prior to and during the Civil War in the area now served by PE. Authentic material for this paper was secured through the courtesy of the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the National Park Service."
Subject Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Centennial celebrations, etc., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Periodicals.
All:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Centennial celebrations, etc., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Periodicals.
Pamphlet. "Doc. No. 17." "Alex T. Laideley, Sec. To the Board of Public Works." Includes the Elk River Bridge Company 1859 annual report and the Estillville Turnpike Company 1859 annual report.
Subject Corporate Names:
Elk River Bridge Company., Estillville Turnpike Company.
All:
Elk River Bridge Company., Estillville Turnpike Company.
Serial issue. Issued as: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v.19:no.109 (1859:June). "Illustrated by Porte Crayon" (pseudonym of David Hunter Strother).
Subject Corporate Names:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Subject Geographic:
Maryland--Descripton and travel--19th century., Berkeley County (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., Wheeling (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., Jefferson County (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., West Virginia--Description and travel--19th century.
All:
Maryland--Descripton and travel--19th century., Berkeley County (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., Wheeling (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Jefferson County (W. Va.)--Description and travel--19th century., West Virginia--Description and travel--19th century.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty : speech of Hon. Albert G. Jenkins of Virginia, on Foreign Relations, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1859.
Call Number:
P12984
Date:
1859
Description:
Pamphlet.
Subject Uniform Title:
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850 April 19)
Subject Geographic:
Central America--Foreign relations--United States., United States--Foreign relations--Central America.
All:
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850 April 19), Central America--Foreign relations--United States., United States--Foreign relations--Central America.
Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire Railroad Company. Board of Directors.
Title:
... Annual report of the Board of Directors of the Alexandria Loudon and Hampshire Railroad Company, with the accompanying documents presented to the annual general meeting ...
An Address by Hon. John L. Dawson, before the Washington and Union L. Societies of Washington College : delivered on Wednesday evening, June 18th, 1856.
Call Number:
P6316
Date:
1856
Description:
Pamphlet. Digital copy available in: Historic Pittsburgh General Text Collection.
Subject Geographic:
United States--Civilization., United States--History.
All:
United States--Civilization., United States--History.
Exhibit of the debt and resources of the state of Virginia : and provisions for payment of interest and redemption of principal.
Call Number:
P3765
Date:
1855
Description:
Pamphlet. Includes: Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts to the Governor of Virginia, Sept. 30, 1854; Report of the Second Auditor to the Governor of Virginia, Sept. 30, 1854; and: Report of the Treasurer of the State to the Governor of Virginia, Sept. 30, 1854.
Pruntytown Baptist Church (Pruntytown, W. Va.). Committee on Finances.
Title:
Report of the Committee on Finances of the Pruntytown Baptist Church.
Call Number:
P9448
Date:
1855
Description:
Photocopy of pamphlet. "Your Committee on Finances have endeavored, as far as possible, to ascertain the liability of the Church for the year ending on the 31st day of May, 1855 …"
Subject Corporate Names:
Pruntytown Baptist Church (Pruntytown, W. Va.)--Finance.
All:
Pruntytown Baptist Church (Pruntytown, W. Va.)--Finance.