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0758: Ernest G. Tweel Scrapbook, 1937, Marshall University Special Collections
0758: Ernest G. Tweel Scrapbook, 1937, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of one scrapbook entitled "History of the Great 1937 Flood as compiled from newspaper clippings by Ernest Tweel". The scrapbook is unique in that it is a wallpaper sample book that has clippings pasted into the first forty pages.
0721: Roy Loomis Scrapbook, 1923-1949, Marshall University Special Collections
0721: Roy Loomis Scrapbook, 1923-1949, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of copies of Frank Sibley’s columns about waterways, namely the Ohio River, and steamboat and river history published in the Gallipolis [OH] Tribune and the Waterways Journal. There are two sets of copies—one in a binder, and the other in a manuscript box.
0713: Marceline White Platania Collection, 1929-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
0713: Marceline White Platania Collection, 1929-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists of one scrapbook of clippings and photos and one folder of ephemera. The scrapbook includes extensive clippings and a limited number of photos of the 1937 flood in Huntington, West Virginia. Ephemera includes a copy of “The Belle of Barcelona: A Musical Comedy in Three Acts”, a 1929 program for said comedy at Huntington High School, and a ticket, pamphlet, clipping, and envelope about the 1976 American Freedom Train in Huntington.
0625: Mark Freeman Papers, 1934-1969, Marshall University Special Collections
0625: Mark Freeman Papers, 1934-1969, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains two scrapbooks and several loose photographs documenting Mark Freeman’s personal life and time in the United States Navy in the 1950s. The green scrapbook is composed entirely of unidentified and unlabeled photographs of Freeman’s navy service, mostly of photos taken from his ship. Other notable groups of photographs in the scrapbook include photographs of women and sights in Japan. The brown scrapbook is composed of family photographs (most labelled), photographs of Freeman in Spencer, West Virginia, in the 1960s working with the West Virginia Department of Employment Security, and additional photographs of Freeman’s time in the Navy, …
0541: Huntington Jaycees Scrapbook, 1945-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
0541: Huntington Jaycees Scrapbook, 1945-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of a scrapbook created by the Huntington, West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce, or Jaycees, in application for the Geissenbier Award, an award of excellence distributed for exemplary community works. The scrapbook features the work conducted by the Jaycees on behalf of the war effort during World War II in Huntington, and includes photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, and some hand drawn illustrations for the various areas in which the Jaycees did work.
0294: Thelma Pittard And Anna Williams Scrapbook, 1936-1937, Marshall University
0294: Thelma Pittard And Anna Williams Scrapbook, 1936-1937, Marshall University
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This collection is composed of a scrapbook by Thelma Pittard and Anna Williams on the topic of “Elementary School Publicity”. It is a scrapbook essay on methods of communication within schools featuring extensive ephemera, including publications, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and charts, from Milton Elementary School. This scrapbook was prepared under the direction of Dr. Roy C. Woods.