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], Ray Stoker, Artist and Photographer, Album of Portrait Photographs, A&M 3811, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Biographical / Historical
Ray(mond) Stoker was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stoker served in the army during World War I and afterwards studied art and photography. He married Gwineviere "Gwen" Utteridge and the family moved to Fairmont, West Virginia in the early 1920s. Stoker spent the next thirty years as one of Fairmont's leading artistic figures. Stoker left Fairmont in 1957, traveling around Europe and returning to his hometown of Philadelphia, where he died in 1975.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Fairmont (W. Va.)
- Photographers
- Photographs.
- Stoker, Raymond.