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West Virginia and Regional History Center
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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William D. Barns, History Professor, Family History Files, Photographs, and Other Material, A&M 3748, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Includes family history files, photographs, and other material collected and compiled by William D. Barns. Family history files include extensive notes encompassing the Pennsylvania branch of the Barns family, including notes of interviews with his mother and father, and from secondary sources. There are also notes regarding the Williams family. The few photographs in this collection mostly regard the Barns family, and the history of education in Uniontown and Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Related Material
3152, 3748
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Barnes family
- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Fayette County
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.)
- Williams family
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Exercises in Spelling, Grammar, Math, and Other Subjectsundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Exercises in Spelling, Grammar, Math, and Other Subjectsundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Report Card (1934-1935) and Reunion Program (1954)1934, 1954
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Barns Family (includes extensive notes encompassing Pennsylvania branch of family; includes notes of interview with father and from secondary sources)undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Barns Family (includes clippings regarding Baily family, Shin family of Marion County, and early Fairmont history)1962-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Barns Family (obituaries for Lida Barns, 1959; and for William Post Barns, 1968; they were the parents of William D. Barns)1959, 1968
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Williams Family (includes notes for interview with Lida Barns in 1955, among notes regarding other family members)1955, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Miscellaneousundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Uniontown, Pennsylvania Subjects (8 items; includes: 4 photos of children from "Williams Addition School", on or near Derrick Avenue, Uniontown, PA; 2 photos of Old Hatfield School, South Union Township; 1 photo of barn and buggy at Chalk Hill on National Pike, U.S. 40, east of Uniontown; and 1 photo of house at 240 Derrick Ave., Uniontown, PA, childhood home of Lida Williams (Barns))ca. 1900-1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
State Center, Feb. 15, 1936 (1 item; was in envelope with labeling for two photos; labeling for this photo reads "W.D.B. in Parthenon"; the other photo was a reunion photo which was filed with other reunion photos in this collection)1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Group Portraits of Young College-Aged Men (2 items; perhaps this is a fraternity?)ca. 1930-1950
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
South Union High School, Uniontown, Pennsylvania (5 items: includes 4 group portraits of reunions of class of 1935 from 1960, 1970, 1975, and 1980; also includes candid shot of William D. Barns visiting a class room at same school on 26 October 1949)1949, 1960-1980
- Mixed Materials Box: 1
Group Portrait of students of Hatfield School in South Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (1 item; three students are identified, including William Post Barns, Jessie V. Barns, and Jessie Nixon) [unfoldered item]ca. 1885-1895