West Virginia Glass Plate Negatives A&M 4045

West Virginia and Regional History Center

1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Business Number: 304-293-3536
wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com
URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu

Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center

Repository

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Identification

A&M 4045

Title

West Virginia Glass Plate Negatives ca. 1890-1920

URL:

https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/197283

Quantity

36.67 Linear Feet, 36 ft. 8 in. (81 document cases, 5 in. each; 14 document cases, 2.5 in. each)

Location

West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/

Language

English .

Abstract

Collection of 77 boxes of glass plate negatives and 18 boxes of sleeves that originally contained the negatives, which have descriptive information pertaining to the negatives. Glass plate negatives were taken by various creators. Subjects include portraits of Morgantown citizens, parades, industry, businesses, buildings, churches, High Street, and bridges. Outside of Morgantown, areas depicted include Monongalia County, Morgan County, Mason County, Martinsburg, Lewis County, Jefferson County, Hampshire County, Harpers Ferry, Grant County, Hardy County, Berkeley County. Subjects depicted outside of Morgantown but of an unidentified location include logging and lumbering, industry, fairs, exhibits, congresses, coal mines and mining, caves, camps, canals, agriculture, bridges. Boxes 1-33a contain glass plate negatives
Boxes 34-52 contain sleeves Please note that transcriptions of the text on the sleeves are only available online for boxes 1-12a; the rest have yet to be transcribed.

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

Conditions Governing Access

Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia & Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.

Please note that only about 32% of the glass plates are available online in WVHOV. The rest have been digitized and files can be requested by contacting the reference department.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia Glass Plate Negatives, A&M 4045, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transfer from WVU. Libraries. West Virginia and Regional History Center, 2014/09/11