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0840: Bertram (Bert) A. Dressler Papers, 1924-1998, Marshall University Special Collections
0840: Bertram (Bert) A. Dressler Papers, 1924-1998, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains football-related materials, professional possessions, educational materials, and personal memorabilia of Bertram (Bert) A. Dressler. The collection includes photographs, professional programs developed, trucking log books and certificates, as well as genealogical materials. These materials document Dressler's life as a Marshall University graduate in West Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, and beyond.
0665: Ellen Dorcas Harn Papers, 1871-1977, Marshall University Special Collections
0665: Ellen Dorcas Harn Papers, 1871-1977, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of letters from friends and contemporaries of Ellen Dorcas Harn during her time in teaching in West Virginia and New York in 1871 and 1872. These primarily consist of letters from former students and friends at Marshall keeping her apprised of personal and school activities. Writers include Clayton Barton and Lucy Thompson.
0645: Beecher R. Burnett Letters, 1943, Marshall University Special Collections
0645: Beecher R. Burnett Letters, 1943, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of letters written daily, sometimes multiple times a day, from Beecher Ray Burnett to his wife Anita between September 3 and October 5, 1943 from Burnett while he was being trained as part of the 47th Army Air Force Training Detachment in Huntington and other cities in West Virginia. Topics mentioned in the letter include what he was learning and doing in training, social events, and personal matters.
0391: Eli Camden Henderson Papers, 1906-1956, Marshall University Special Collections
0391: Eli Camden Henderson Papers, 1906-1956, Marshall University Special Collections
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The Cam Henderson papers consist primarily of papers related to his career as a football and basketball coach at Muskingum, Davis and Elkins and Marshall Colleges. A significant part of the collection relates to his wife Roxie Bell Henderson and includes many personal and family items as well as material related to her career as a public school teacher. Included also is material gathered by Dr. Sam Clagg for his biography of Henderson and afterward. Printed materials comprise most of the collection: yearbooks, newspaper clippings, textbooks, and books related to coaching basketball and football. The bulk of the correspondence is …
0375: Lenna Lowe Yost Papers, 1921-1972, Marshall University Special Collections
0375: Lenna Lowe Yost Papers, 1921-1972, Marshall University Special Collections
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Civic leader, native of Marion County, West Virginia. Includes correspondence between Mrs. Yost and Morris Shawkey, president of Marshall College, 1923-1935.
0350: Grady And Elizabeth Mytinger Risen Papers, Marshall University Special Collections
0350: Grady And Elizabeth Mytinger Risen Papers, Marshall University Special Collections
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Collection consists primarily of scrapbooks maintained by Mr. and Mrs. Risen concerning Marshall College class of 1919, Huntington businessmen and businesses, and an obituary collection dating from 1950's. Also included is a ledger from an Alexandra, Virginia Pharmacy, 1854.
0312: Frances Conner Papers, 1927-1928, Marshall University Special Collections
0312: Frances Conner Papers, 1927-1928, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings related to Marshall College and Huntington High School events in 1927-1928, but also includes several calling cards/graduation cards, a Christmas note, an invitation to a Harlequin Club semi-formal dance, and three photographs, one of a marching band and two others of a woman holding flowers at a sporting event.
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 …
0257: Martha Elizabeth Carpenter Miller Collection, 1898-1962, Marshall University Special Collections
0257: Martha Elizabeth Carpenter Miller Collection, 1898-1962, Marshall University Special Collections
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The majority of this collection consists of the handwritten and typed poetry of Martha Carpenter Miller. Many of the poems underwent multiple edits and rewrites, and her notes and corrections to her poems are included in this collection. The collection spans the years 1898-1962, with the bulk of the material from the 1930s-1950s. Miller wrote extensively, and the collection includes poems and partial poems, ideas, and short verses written on scrap paper, envelopes, paper towels, carboard, postcards, and various other types of paper. At the time of processing, original order was largely unknown. In organizing the materials, there were occasionally …
0219: Walter S. Mccutchen Papers, 1878, Marshall University Special Collections
0219: Walter S. Mccutchen Papers, 1878, Marshall University Special Collections
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The original accession record states that the collection contains a diploma from Marshall College State Normal School and holograph copy of speech delivered at commencement on July 5, 1878. The speech copy is present, but the diploma was unable to be located at the time of finding aid creation.
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.
0202: Virgie Smith Letter, 1896, Marshall University Special Collections
0202: Virgie Smith Letter, 1896, Marshall University Special Collections
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Letter from Marshall College student to W. Zack Stewart, urging him to come for a visit, wishing that he were a school boy so that he could `come to school and have a good time like the rest of us.'
0023: Theeta Searcy Lyon Papers, 1923-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
0023: Theeta Searcy Lyon Papers, 1923-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
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Marshall College home economics professor. Papers consist of prints and original drawings of costumes and dress from Grecian times to 1941. Includes student drawings executed for classes in applied arts at Marshall and a typescript copy of 'History of American Dress as Affected by Politcial, Social, and Economic Conditions,' by Anna C. Wilson.