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0855: Carlos Bozzoli Architectural Guides Drafts, Marshall University Special Collections
0855: Carlos Bozzoli Architectural Guides Drafts, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of various editions of architectural guides to buildings and homes in Cabell County, WV, with special attention paid to the Marshall University Campus. These guides offer walking or driving tours of the areas, and are divided by sections in Huntington and by city/area (Barboursville, Milton, Guyandotte & Greenbottom). The guides are intended to acquaint visitors to the area with its architectural history and to inspire those who live in the area to more fully appreciate their surroundings. These are all rough, uncompleted drafts of the guides, and edits and corrections can be found on many pages. Digital …
0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
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Personal writing, class notes, photograph, professional works, correspondences, professional materials, and mementos of Katharine Rodier during her collegiate career and career in the English Department of Marshall University.
0849: Guyandotte Poetry Society Papers, 1989-2018, Marshall University Special Collections
0849: Guyandotte Poetry Society Papers, 1989-2018, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collections contains the professional documents of the Guyandotte Poetry Society. The contents in this collection span from 1989 to 2018. The collection includes correspondence, directions to meetings, directories of poets who participated in the Society, and poems that were submitted and workshopped. The materials in this collection document the various writers who either served as reviewers or submitted poetry for review. This list of writers is included following the list of folders and their contents.
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
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The John McKernan Collection contains mostly published materials that John McKernan collected related to his own poetry. There are a limited number of non-McKernan publications that he saved.
0808: Katharine Marie Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
0808: Katharine Marie Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
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Personal writing, class notes, photographs, financial records, dissertation, professional works, correspondence, travel information, magazines, cooking recipes, professional materials, and mementos of Katharine Rodier during her collegiate career and career in the English Department of Marshall University.
0795: Dr. Robert P. Alexander Collection, 1880-2000, Marshall University Special Collections
0795: Dr. Robert P. Alexander Collection, 1880-2000, Marshall University Special Collections
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Dr. Robert P. Alexander graduated from Marshall University in 1959. After graduating, Dr. Alexander was hired by Marshall University and traveled to the eastern panhandle of West Virginia to recruit prospective students. It was here he became interested in the town of Cass, WV. In 1969, Dr. Alexander completed his doctorate and became a professor of management and marketing. Dr. Alexander was also the Dean of Marshall University’s College of Business and also served sixteen years on Huntington, WV’s city council. In 1975 Dr. Alexander returned to Cass and created a living history of both the town and timbering industry …
0735: Marion Vest Fors Papers, 1937-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
0735: Marion Vest Fors Papers, 1937-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, clippings, and ephemera related to Marion Vest Fors' murals which were painted in the James E. Morrow Library as part of the centennial celebration of Marshall College. The murals were removed for remodeling circa 1966 and remounted in 2005. The scrapbook was created by Fors about her creation of the mural to justify its emergence from storage and reuse in the Morrow Library. Also included in the collection are paintbrushes used in the painting of the murals.
0653: Frances S. Hensley Papers, 1979-1983, Marshall University Special Collections
0653: Frances S. Hensley Papers, 1979-1983, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains materials related to the West Virginia White House Conference on Families held in 1980 and the Women’s Work Conference held in Huntington, West Virginia in 1983. WVWHC materials include conference schedules, rules, and planning materials for West Virginia’s participation in this initiative as well as materials related to publicity, testimony from scholars, newspaper and magazine articles about the conference and about families in American life, the history, goals, and suggested themes as supplied by the White House, as well as expectations for state activities. A large part of these materials are letters and documentation sent from the …
0590: Maurice Harmon Papers, 1993-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
0590: Maurice Harmon Papers, 1993-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains materials related to Maurice Harmon’s work during his time at Marshall University and slightly after. The bulk of the collection consists of works in progress by Harmon and others at Marshall. The works in progress included in this collection are “Sean O'Faolain”, Constable (London, England), 1994 and “Preserving the Word: Descriptive Catalogue of Maurice Harmon’s Library of Anglo-Irish Literature and Criticism” compiled by Barbara R. Brown and edited by Lisle G. Brown, John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture, 1996. These works consist of both proofs and files on floppy disks. Other materials …
0517: A. Mervin Tyson, 1959-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
0517: A. Mervin Tyson, 1959-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
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Marshall University administrator and professor of English. Papers include Phi Beta Kappa and Kiwanis Club material as well as speeches and drafts of the 1986 Marshall University Institutional Self-Study.
0504: Cabell County Medical Society Records, 1891-1978, Marshall University Special Collections
0504: Cabell County Medical Society Records, 1891-1978, Marshall University Special Collections
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The records of the Cabell County Medical Society (CCMS) span the years of 1891 to 1972 and primarily comprise of correspondence relating to various organizational and professional aspects of the society. This includes meeting notes, memoranda, professional journals, pamphlets, constitutions, and by-laws. The collection also contains the Dr. Charles H. Moffat’s (former professor of history at Marshall University) research materials concerning his book "A History of the Cabell County Medical Society in West Virginia, 1890-1985."
0456: William Denman Papers, 1974-1986, Marshall University Special Collections
0456: William Denman Papers, 1974-1986, Marshall University Special Collections
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Marshall University speech professor; director of Yeager Scholars program. Papers consist of newspaper clippings and other materials related to the Kanawha County textbook controversy in 1974. Includes correspondence from the American Civil Liberties Union, for which Dr. Denman served as West Virginia state coordinator; also notes for an article for Free Speech Yearbook (1976).
0406: Harvey Family Papers, 1897-1958, Marshall University Special Collections
0406: Harvey Family Papers, 1897-1958, Marshall University Special Collections
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Huntington, West Virginia, family. Includes material related to business interests of Thomas Harvey, correspondence, school papers, teaching materials of Marshall College English professor Helen Brandebury Harvey, and photographs, as well as extensive letters to their daughter Ida during WWII.
0408: James Tull And Lela White Richardson Papers, 1919-1972, Marshall University Special Collections
0408: James Tull And Lela White Richardson Papers, 1919-1972, Marshall University Special Collections
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Certificates and photographs of Marshall University sociology professor and wife. Several grade books; scrapbook of clippings and photo album. Oversized Items.
0316: R. Lloyd Beck Papers, 1934-1960, Marshall University Special Collections
0316: R. Lloyd Beck Papers, 1934-1960, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings about Robert Lloyd Beck and his wife Ruth Myers Beck while they were living in Huntington, West Virginia. Newspaper clippings about Robert relate to his work as a philosophy professor while newspaper clippings about Ruth primarily relate to her work in the Faculty Wives Club. Also present in the collection is a 1939 commencement program, a program for a 1965 Marshall University Theatre production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and a November 10, 1950 letter to Robert Beck from fellow professor James B. Shouse regarding a philosophy paper or project in progress by …
0244: John F. Hill Letter, 1947, Marshall University Special Collections
0244: John F. Hill Letter, 1947, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of a single letter to Miss Bernice Wright, mathematics professor at Marshall College, from a student expressing his appreciation of her skill and patience and wishing that Marshall was a university so that he could continue to study there. This letter was found in Edwin S. Crawley's " Analytic geometry", rev. ed. Crofts, 1929. The name, "Hackney" was on the front endpaper.