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0460: Jeanette Pemberton Collection, 1793-1990, Marshall University Special Collections
0460: Jeanette Pemberton Collection, 1793-1990, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains materials compiled by Jeannette Pemberton in her life of collecting sheet music, ephemera, and books. The collection contains manuscript and printed sheet music ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1940s as well as fourteen books on a range of topics, mostly English grammar, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Also included are cassette and VHS tapes of interviews between Susan Pavlovic and Jeanette Pemberton as well as ephemera such as event invitations, concert programs, souvenir movie programs. Some books and sheet music have names of individuals from the Adams family as well as other names.
0453: 1860 Census Of Lewis Co., W.Va., Marshall University Special Collections
0453: 1860 Census Of Lewis Co., W.Va., Marshall University Special Collections
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Original of records presented to the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Library by Martha Metz and Linda Camp of the Blennerhasset Chapter NSDAR, Parkersburg, West Virginia
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).
0454: George Joachim Papers, 1832-1865, Marshall University Special Collections
0454: George Joachim Papers, 1832-1865, Marshall University Special Collections
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Member, 7th Ohio Battery, Light Artillery. Papers include photoreproductions of passport (German), promotion and discharge papers, a diary from the Civil War(1862-1864, includes siege of Vicksburg), and a letter to his wife in German from Camp Benton Post Hospital in St. Louis.
0457: L. Beryl Cottrill Papers, 1942-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
0457: L. Beryl Cottrill Papers, 1942-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
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Salesman for Midland Grocery Company of Portsmouth, Ohio. Papers consist of change sheets--instructions and admonitions about the sale of the products. Notable for comments and insight into rationing and pricing during the Second World War.