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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roderick Wilson, Science Teacher, National Youth Science Camp Records and Other Material, A&M 4048, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Records regarding the National Youth Science Camp created by Roderick Wilson, a retired Physics teacher of West Virginia University Institute of Technology.

Includes delegate selection records, 1990-1996 (box 1, in three folders); visitor autograph books, 1973-1985, that include signatures by Senators Bob Dole, Strom Thurmond, etc. (box 1, in three books); two group portrait photographs, 1963 (box 1, in one folder); and four reels of motion picture film, including footage of the Science Camp, undated (box 2).

Also includes copies of glass collecting and genealogy related publications.

Glass collecting publications include many copies of "All About Glass" published by the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, 2003-2013 (box 1), and a few copies of "Blowpipe" published by The Blenko Collectors Society, 2004-2006 (box 1).

Genealogy publications include many copies of "Genealogical Gleanings" published by the Marion County Genealogy Club, 2003-2011 (box 1), and "1790 Berks County, Pennsylvania Census" by Mountain Press, undated (box 1).

There are also black and white illustrations, 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. each, of
St. Clairsville [OH], 1846,
County Building, Cadiz [OH], 1846,
Portrait and Birthplace of General Custer, 1886,
Martin's Ferry, 1887,
Bellaire, 1887,
West Virginia Institute of Technology, two items, 1971, 1989,
and the Pioneer Railroad of the West, undated (box 1).

There are several large posters advertising tourism in West Virginia, including both cultural and outdoors activities (ca. 1970s (rolled storage tube).

Separated Material

To printed ephemera collection:

1. "1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners, Randolph County" by Roger G. Ward, undated.

2. "A Gazetteer of Communities in Harrison County, WV With Extinct Towns" by Carrie Eldridge, 1992.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• National Youth Science Camp
• Pare and Son