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The Spinster (1981), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)

0326: Lorenza Edgar Shanholtzer Papers, 1895-1947, Marshall University Special Collections

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School teacher, Hampshire County, West Virginia. Primarily teachers' attendance records from several rural schools in Hampshire County, 1895-1930. Some correspondence, bank statements, ephemera, and printed material.

H. L. Loucks And The Dakota Ruralist: Voices Of Reform, Thom Guarnieri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From Ch. 1:
It is the purpose of this paper, then, to study the impact that H. L. Loucks may have had on three major issues of South Dakota populism already stated: the populist position in the state, the formation of a third party and fusion with the Democrats. Neither major state historian of the period--George Kingsbury nor Doane Robinson--has been kind in his assessment of Loucks and the state's populists. Kingsbury, according to Yale historian Howard R. Lamar, hinted they were "a combination of cranks and demagogues." Robinson has even admitted insinuating that Loucks was a crook--a mistake he …

0331: The Woman’S Club Of Kenova Scrapbook, 1908-1971, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of one scrapbook containing pasted in yearbooks containing the yearly theme, member directories, and events for the Woman’s Club of Kenova, West Virginia from its start in 1908 until 1971.

0332: Jane Boedeker Shepherd Papers, 1937-1982, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Jane Shepherd Papers consist of letters, contracts, printed programs, newspaper clippings, school papers and photographs, all related to her career as a mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. Printed programs of her performances between 1935 and 1979 comprise the bulk of the collection.

Other items relating to her professional singing career include a scrapbook and newspaper clippings of reviews, publicity material and photographs. Notes from classes, certificates and a transcript reflect her years as a student, from 1935 until 1946, at William Woods College, Fulton, Missouri; the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; and the Juilliard School of Music. The papers also contain …

The Octofoil, January/February 1981, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

0330: Ruth Katherine Jones Papers, 1927-1937, Marshall University Special Collections

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Scrapbooks and personal papers of Marshall alumna Ruth Katherine Jones, a 1924 Marshall College graduate who was active as a makeup artist for the Community Players and other Marshall theatre productions in the 1930s. Some items related to plastic surgery.

0343: Peaco Family Scrapbook, C. 1880 - 1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes one scrapbook that is mostly composed of newspaper clippings about firemen, firefighting, other local events and local history in Huntington, WV. Less represented in the scrapbook are postcards of fire stations and state capitols from around the United States, a cloth reading “U.S. Registered June 5th, 1917” to signify that Lyle Peaco registered for the draft, two unidentified tintypes, photographs of members of the fire department, other photographs of unidentified people, ephemera such as licenses related to Lyle Peaco, business cards, a court document requesting Peaco to attend, a Barnum Club ribbon, a warrant for the arrest …

0338: Jake Bomar Papers, 1978-1982, Marshall University Special Collections

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Bomar was a former resident of Huntington, W.Va. Papers consist of photographic reproductions of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials, some annotated by Bomar, related to his volunteer work.

0325: Huntington, West Virginia Woman's Club Records, 1900-1986, Marshall University Special Collections

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Women's civic and cultural organization. Includes minutes of the Music Department (1922-1964) and historian's reports to 1986 as well as photographs, newspaper clippings and yearbooks.

0346: Depositions Of Survivors Of Buffalo Creek Flood, Dennis Prince Et Al., Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection consists of the depositions of the 552 survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood in 1972, plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Pittston Coal Company, filed in the U. S. District Court, Southern West Virginia, Huntington, West Virginia.

0327: William B. Newcomb Papers, 1865-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of materials compiled by William B. Newcomb for family and local history research. All of the materials are copies of original materials or manuscripts written by or about Newcomb regarding family and local history. Notable items in this collection include a microfilm copy of an 1865 diary kept by Margaret Emily Cox, a copy of an autograph album kept by Cox, publications by William B. Newcomb about his family, research about Newcomb’s grandfather William Barkla, copies of photographs, ephemera, and research about the C & O Railroad (including a copy of the periodical “Headlight”), Margaret Neuhaus, and …

0336: Henry Bott Journal, 1825-1908, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a unique mixed used scrapbook, journal, and commonplace book. The base book is a published volume about school systems in Pennsylvania in 1881. The author, Henry Bott, pasted in ten multi-page reminiscences on the following topics: “School in York County [PA] in Country Schools ¾ of a Century Ago [Circa 1825]”, “Turnpikes in Olden Times [before railroads]”, “The Old Homestead”, “Seven Valley: Among the Graves of the Departed”, “Progress in Church Work”, “When the Writer Saw the Meteors Fall [1833]”, “A Wanderer”, “A Short History of the Borough of Seven Valley”, “Before the Days of Postage …