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West Virginia and Regional History Center
1549 University Ave.P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Rosalie Stewart Detch, Papers and Ephemera, A&M 3968, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Papers and ephemera of Rosalie Stewart Detch, West Virginia University alumna and school teacher and administrator in Greenbrier County. Includes material regarding Detch's father John L. Stewart, her time as a student at WVU, and her career in education. Includes programs, news clippings, advertisements, tickets, schedules, postcards, and photographs, among other material.
This collection is organized into fifteen series:
Series 1. John L. Stewart; 1916-1922; box 1, folder 1
Series 2. Rosalie Stewart Detch; 1933-1966, undated; box 1, folders 2-3
Series 3. Advertisements; 1912-1933, undated; box 1, folder 4
Series 4. Dances; 1934-1935; box 1, folder 5
Series 5. Elections and Politics; 1920-1950, undated; box 1, folders 6-7
Series 6. First Presbyterian Church of Huntington; 1930-1982; box 1, folders 8-9
Series 7. Football; 1918-1934; box 1, folder 10
Series 8. Fraternal Orders; 1917-1932, undated; box 1, folder 11 through box 2, folder 1
Series 9. High School Commencement Programs; 1916-1956; box 2, folder 2
Series 10. Photographs; 1907-1920, undated; box 2, folder 3
Series 11. Postcards; 1913, undated; box 2, folder 4
Series 12. Railroad Schedules; 1922-1932, undated; box 2, folder 5
Series 13. School-related Ephemera; 1925-1971; box 2, folders 6-9
Series 14. Theater, Music, and Dance; 1916-1935, undated; box 2, folder 10
Series 15. Miscellaneous Ephemera; 1914-1955, undated; box 2, folders 11-12
Separated Material
Separated to book collection:
Historical Pageant (October 1925).
Huntington High School, The Huntingtonian . 1932.
Parkersburg High School, The Pilgrim . 1914.
Parkersburg High School, The Quill . 1922.
Parkersburg High School, The Quill . January 1923.
Parkersburg High School, The Quill . June 1923.
The West Virginia Review 2, no. 10 (July 1925).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Advertising
- Detch, Rosalie Stewart.
- Education -- West Virginia
- Fraternal organizations - West Virginia.
- Greek letter societies
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
- High Schools -- West Virginia
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Parkersburg (W. Va.)
- Presbyterian Church.
- Railroad -- Timetables
- Segregation in education
- Stewart, John L.
- Teachers
- Teachers' letters and papers.
- West Virginia University -- Students
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Detch, Rosalie Stewart.
- Stewart, John L.
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Parkersburg (W. Va.)
Container List
Contains material regarding John L. Stewart (father of Rosalie Stewart Detch) and his career as a teacher and administrator at Parkersburg High School, including contracts, correspondence, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Teacher's contracts1920-1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Correspondence1918-1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Programs and other material regarding Parkersburg High School1918-1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Typescript of speech by Stewart regarding Parkersburg High Schoolca. 1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Voter's registration, tax assessment and tax receipt, loan certificate, other material1913-1917
Contains material regarding Rosalie Stewart Detch, her time as a student and sorority sister at West Virginia University, and her career as a school teacher and administrator in Greenbrier County.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
News clippings regarding Stewart, sororities and fraternities, and other WVU related subjects1933-1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Phi Chi Delta directory, programs, and other material1934-1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Sorority and fraternity related programs and other material1934-1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Dance cards, bridge tallies and miscellaneous ephemera1934-1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"A New Plan for the Allocation of State Aid for Schools"1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Typescript copy of legal complaint against Greenbrier County School regarding desegregation1955
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
News clippings (4) regarding election of Detch to school board and other subjects1956, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Certificate of Recognition from West Virginia School Boards Association1966
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Envelopeundated
Contains advertisements, mainly for companies located in Huntington, WV.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Tourist information booklets (2) presented by the Hotel Frederick, Huntington, WV1912
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Christmas Club advertising American Bank and Trust, Huntington, WV1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Invitation to opening of Loving Furniture Company store1933
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Advertisement for Knopf Clothesundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Advertisement for Jerome Park Grocery Companyundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Ticket for Smoot Theatre "Movie Cooking Party"undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
American Dairy Lunch and Restaurant meal ticketundated
Contains programs and dance cards.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Men's First Pan-Hellenic" dance cards (2 copies)1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Advertisement for "Women's Pan-Hellenic" Dance (with "Delta Gamma" written on back)1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Tau Kappa Epsilon Winter Formal program1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Men's Second Pan-Hellenic Dance"; dance card1935
Contains election advertising, sample ballots, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Letter from Morgantown Republican Executive Committee1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Sample ballot for General Election, November 7th1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Monongalia County Capitation Tax Ticket Book, 3rd Ward1924
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Sample ballot - Republican party1924
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Sample ballot - Democratic Party1924
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Political flyer for Arthur B. Koontz1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Greenbrier County, WV Board of Education election results1950
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Handbill for speech by Jennings Randolphundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Election cards from Monongalia and WV political candidates1920s through 1930s
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Election card from Grant County, WV1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Election advertising for Chauncey M. Price1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Huntington Mayoral Election Scratch pad1940
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Election advertising for Lafe B. Chafinundated
Contains material regarding the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, including programs, a sermon, yearbooks of the Mother's Class, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
The Woman's Auxiliary, First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1930-1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Program for Easter Service at First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Program for Easter Service at First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1939
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Department of Religious Education, First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1939-1940
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Programs (5) of First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Sermon by Andrew Bird, Jr. at First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Mothers' Class yearbook, First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV1930-1982 (scattered)
Contains tickets, programs, and schedules for football games played by Huntington High School, West Virginia University, and other teams.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Students Serial Football Ticket (with Christmas shopping list on reverse)1918
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Parkersburg High School vs. Athens High School1923
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Football program Wheeling High School vs. Morgantown High School1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Marshall College football schedule1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Huntington High School football schedule1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
West Virginia University football schedule1927
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Huntington High School football game ticket1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Football program Huntington High School vs. Parkersburg High School1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
WVU football schedule1934
Contains material regarding fraternal orders, including the Order of the Eastern Star, Masons, and the Ku Klux Klan. Includes programs, membership cards, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Book of Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Roster of Masons, Morgantown, WV (2 copies)1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Bylaws of Masonic Bodies1921
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Mason program Special Communication1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Mason program Special Communication1923
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Order of the Eastern Star Banquet Program1928
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Membership cards (Masons, American Legion, et al.)1929-1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Ku Klux Klan letter of inquiry and pamphletundated
Contains commencement programs and related material for Huntington High School, Morgantown High School, and other schools.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Morgantown High School Commencement program1916
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Morgantown High School graduation announcement1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Invitation to the Wichita Falls High School commencement exercises1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Morgantown High School Commencement Order of Service1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Morgantown High School Commencement program1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Morgantown High School Commencement program1933
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Huntington High School Commencement Sermon1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Lewisburg High School Graduation Program1956
Contains photographs, mainly of locations in Morgantown and Parkersburg.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
J.W. Whitt family of Beaver, WV (with identifications)1907
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photographs (2) of Morgantown, WV1913
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photographs (3) of National Guard marching drills, Parkersburg, WV1916
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of oldest house in Wood County1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of Parkersburg High Schoolca. 1920
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of unidentified young manundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of Dorsey Knob, Morgantown, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of Deckers Creekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of Fayette Station, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photograph of children in costumeca. 1920s
Contains postcards, mainly showing scenes in Huntington and other West Virginia locations.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard booklet "Flood Views of Wheeling, WV"1913
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Cheat River and mountains near Morgantown, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Goff building, Clarksburg, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of actor in blackfaceundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of McMahon-Diehl Company Department Store, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Coal Exchange Office Building, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Marshall College, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of scene along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroadundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Frederick Hotel, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Postcard of Johnson Memorial M.E. Church, South, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Souvenir postcard folder of Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Souvenir postcard folders (2) of Morgantownundated
Contains schedules for railroads and other forms of transportation.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Pennsylvania Railroad Time Schedule1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Schedule1924
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Schedule1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Pennsylvania Railroad Time Table1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad schedule1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad schedule1927
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Bus schedule F. W. C. Transport Company1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Monongahela Transport Company Schedule1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Schedule of the West Virginia Limited (2 copies)undated
Contains material regarding West Virginia public schools, colleges, and universities. Includes directories, publications, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Handbook of Huntington High School1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Directory of Huntington Public Schools1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Cammack Junior High Spring Fair ticket1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Bethany College catalogue, Bethany, WV1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Monongalia County Educational Directory1932-1933
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
PTA program, Alderson, WV1952-1953
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
WVU Phi Chi Delta program1933-1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
List of tuition and other fees for attending WVU for (Ethel) Rosalie Stewart1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Course schedule for (Ethel) Rosalie Stewart1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Issue of the Journalier1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
WVU invitation to Greater WV Week1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Invitation to join to WVU Rhododendron organizationca. 1936
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
Issue of Daily Athenaeum1933
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
Issue of Daily Athenaeum1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Reunion rosters for Parkersburg High School1971
Contains programs, tickets, and advertisements for theatrical, musical, and other performances.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Playbill for performance of "As You Like It"; as Morgantown High School1916
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Playbill for Passion Play1923
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Handbill for performance of Junior Department Woman's Club, Huntington, WV1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Programs (3) of Ruth Draper, Junior Department of Woman's Club1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Program for "Cupid's Night Out" at Huntington High School1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Tri-State Music Festival program1932
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
May Festival dance program1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Program for "Three Cornered Moon"1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Program for Ted Shawn dance performance at the YWCA1934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
WVU School of Music program1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Ticket to performance of "The White Life" by Biederwolfundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Program of Will Rogers and the DeReske Singers, Huntington, WVundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Program of the Nixon Theatre presenting Walter Houstonundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Advertisement for "Hollywood Premiere"undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Program for "Macbeth"undated
Contains miscellaneous ephemera, including programs, yearbooks, and other material.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Morgantown Post Office Souvenir1914
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
West Virginia Bee Keepers Association Certificate1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
American Legion Armistice Day Dinner program1922
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
WV instructions to Assessors, State Tax Commission1923
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
E.W. McClure Dairy Farm Invoices (2)1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Newspaper article "Memorial Tree Planted in Whitemoor Park"1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Raceland Horse racing program1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Greyhound Race Program, Ceredo Amusement Park, Ceredo, WV1926
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Bethlehem Mines Corporation pass1929
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Morgantown Post "Sparks Circus True Romance Club" ribbons1929
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
"The Sabraton Review"1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Invitation to a Sa-Kho Club Tea1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Woman's Club of Huntington membership cards1938-1940
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
World War II ration books (6 copies)1942
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Woman's Home Defense Club Yearbook1947
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Yearbook DAR, Buford Chapter, Huntington, WV1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Engineers' Club Yearbook and Directory, Huntington, WV1955
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Bank of Monongahela Valley cloth money bagundated