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- Minutes of the 85th annual meeting of the Old Reg Baptists 1910
- religion; religious events
- This is a copy of the original minutes of 1910. It includes meeting minutes, obituaries, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum.
- University of Pikeville
- Mr. and Mrs. George McClellan Hackney
- group portraits; families; rural areas
- George McClellan Hackney (b. 1870), and wife, Loretta Ann Epling Hackney (b. 1879); children, from left to right: Gettie, b. 1907 (about age 3); Bessie, b. 1909 (on mother's lap, about age 1); and Hettie, b. 1901 (about age 9); This picture was...
- University of Pikeville
- age (talking)
- Interviews;
- I.D. Stamper jokes with a small interview group from Paideia school about his age. I.D. was born in 1904 in the Arkansas Ozarks and moved to Kentucky when he was eight.
- Warren Wilson College
- Uncle Jake Carpenter's Anthology of Death
- Death
- Selection from the notebooks of "Uncle Jake Carpenter," a resident of Avery County, North Carolina, who kept records of each death in his community from 1845 to 1920.
- Lees-McRae College
- Breakin' Up Christmas
- Fiddle music; Akers, Isaac; Breakin' Up Christmas;
- Fiddle tune played by Isaac Akers and Jake Krack at the Appalachian Stringband Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia, 08-05-06.
- Berea College
- Shortenin' Bread
- Banjo music--West Virginia; Akers, Silas;
- Banjo music played by Silas Akers at the Appalachian Stringband Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia, 08-03-06.
- Berea College
- Liza Jane
- Banjo music--West Virginia; Akers, Silas;
- Banjo music played by Silas Akers at the Appalachian Stringband Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia, 08-03-06.
- Berea College
- [Satchel or Medicine Bag]
- The satchel is black in color with a hard coated fabric that was made to weather protect the bag. The bag was used as a medicine bag by Lydia Whaley. The bag has reddish painted appendages and handle for closing and carrying. The bag is in stable...
- Berea College
- Veteran's Cane
- Methodist churches; Clergy;
- History of WV Methodists who have received the Conference Cane, "awarded to men of age and long years of service ... almost always awarded to the oldest man who has given his life for a worthy cause."
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Talbott Community (Barbour County, W. Va.)
- Early history of a West Virginia community. Content appears to have been written in early 20th century.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Roanoke Community
- Early history of a West Virginia community.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Jean Lee Latham
- Literature
- Jean Lee Latham was born in Buckhannon and graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1925. She went on to become an accomplished playwright and author. She is particularly well-known for her children's books. One of her children's...
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Walkersville Community: Lewis County W. Va.
- Description of early settlement of Walkersville, West Virginia.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Woman's Edition of The New Dominion - Volume 30, Number 37 - Dec. 30, 1896
- Women; Newspapers
- Dec. 30, 1896 magazine. Includes articles on area church histories, society news, school histories, and local news, as well as advertisements from area businesses.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Autobiography of John C. Shaw
- Education
- A self-published autobiography of John C. Shaw, educator and former president of West Liberty Normal School (now West Liberty State College) from 1908-1919.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Buckle Up the Backstrap (talking-after)
- Fiddle music;
- Jim Shumate talks about his age during a concert with Wayne Erbsen at Warren Wilson College's Sage Cafe. This concert is one in a series organized by Phil Jamison. Jim played with Bill Monroe's bluegrass band from 1941-1945 and then with Lester...
- Warren Wilson College
- moving to Kentucky (talking)
- Interviews; Dulcimer Music--North Carolina;
- I.D. Stamper talks with a small interview group from Paideia school about his age. I.D. was born in 1904 in the Arkansas Ozarks and moved to Kentucky when he was eight.
- Warren Wilson College
- Practice School - Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Education; Classrooms; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- 8" x 10" black and white photograph of elementary school age children in a classroom at the "Practice School." A student teacher from the college is being observed by a professor.
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Ex-slave, 87, dies at home here
- Scrapbooks; Civil War; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- In a scrapbook, this newspaper clipping dated April 12, 1940 is the obituary notice for Jane Spriggs of Athens, Tenn. She is described as having been 8 or 10 years old when slaves gained their freedom at the close of the Civil War. She was the...
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Obituary of Ex-Slave
- Newspapers; Athens, Tennessee
- Obituary of Jane Spriggs, a former slave who died at the age of 87. Clipping from the Lockmiller scrapbook.
- Tennessee Wesleyan College