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Mr. Buchanan's statement. Extract from Gen. Jackson's second letter .....

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 189, Folder 4.

A proclamation by the Governor ... I Francis H. Peirpoint, Governor .....

0403C 28 13 N 43.; Rec. R. B.; Dec. 1, 1943.; On verso: 0403C28 13 N 43. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... More

A proclamation by the governor ... I, Francis H. Peirpoint ... do appo...

0403C 29 13 N 43.; Rec. Dec. 1 1943.; On verso: 0403C29 13 N 43. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collec... More

Wheeling, West Virginia, Ohio River steamer and the Island in 1869

Photograph shows stern wheeler, the R. R. Hudson docked. Photo owned by Wm. Richardson. Title from item.

The Board of Trade Building, designed by Wheeling, West Virginia, arch...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Steamer "Keystone State" at Wheeling, West Virginia

Photograph shows a side view of the Keystone State steamboat. Copyright 1905 by Wm. T. Nicoll. Additional title on item: West Virginia. Wheeling. Steamer Keystone State. No. 1961. Title from item.

H. Northwood Glass Co., Wheeling W. Va. Many small boys here. Locatio...

Girls in Packing Room. Central Glass Co., Wheeling West Virginia. Seve...

Water front at Wheeling, W. Va.

H126373 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 1, 1909.

[Bird's eye view of Wheeling, W. Va.]

H126371 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 1, 1909.

Wheeling Corrugating Co.'s Works, Wheeling, W. Va.

H126951 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 13, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43803.

Panoram of Wheeling, W. Va.

H126372 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. No. 1. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 1, 1909.

Employes [sic] of Augustus Pollack Crown Stogie Factories, Wheeling, W...

J191402 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Wells View Co.; March 27, 1914.

Main Street, Main Street (West Side) between Fourteenth & Sixteenth, W...

Survey number: HABS WV-205

Wheeling Project, 1976, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Significance: The Wheeling area was first settled in 1769 by Colonel Ebenezer Zane. On May 4, 1836 Wheeling was incorporated as a city. During the second quarter of the nineteenth century Wheeling became the ... More

Centre Market Square Historic District, Market Street, Wheeling, Ohio ...

Significance: In September, 1850, the Centre Market Building was erected between 22nd and 23rd Street on Market Street. This created a new locus for mercantile activity in Wheeling. As new businesses located he... More

Warwood Tool Company, Worker's House, 142 Eighteenth Street, Wheeling,...

Survey number: HAER WV-48-A

St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, which opened in 1952 in Wheeling, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The late-Gothic Revival-style church was designed by a priest, Father Michael McInerney, who designed more than 500 church buildings f... More

Corner of the courtroom in Independence Hall, Wheeling, West Virginia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Independence Hall had been a Virginia customs house but... More

Side view of historic courthouse, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...

Lobby of historic courthouse, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wh...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Interior lobby, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, West V...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Historic courthouse exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Hallway new addition, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, ...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Historic courtroom lamp detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

New courthouse, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, West V...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

New courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, West Vi...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Lobby of historic courthouse, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wh...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

New exterior, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, West Vir...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of a... More

Historic door detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, ...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Historic courthouse window detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthous...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Historic courthouse front door, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

Historic courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, We...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

The Towngate Theater Building, which was built c. 1850 and long served...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Elizabeth Apartment building in Wheeling, West Virginia

"The Scott Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Window was created by the Tiffany Studio of New York and installed in 1902. The Scott name relates to U.S. Senator Nathan Bay Scott an... More

Mosaic mural at the Columbia Gas Building in downtown Wheeling, West V...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Entryway to Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 406-acre park opened in 1925. The park was originally open to visitors only during the warmer months. Credit line: West Virginia C... More

The 1919-22 John O. Schenck House, which Schenck called Altenheim ("ol...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The massive limestone house, with huge Corninthian columns, became the Altenheim Home for the Aged, a retirement home for women. Schen... More

Elmhurst Mansion, also known as the House of Friendship, in Wheeling, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Samuel S. Bloch, the founder and president of the Block Brothers Tobacco Company, built this sandstone, Queen Anne-style hous in 1891.... More

Grand Doric columns mark the distressed St. Matthew's Church building,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was sold to a local Baptist church in 1866 and later long served as the home of Church of God and Saints of Christ, whose... More

One of several Victorian-style homes on Chapline Street in downtown Wh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The now (as of 2015) closed and private Aetnaville Bridge, constructed...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge was closed to automobile traffic in 1988 but remained an active pedestrian bridge. The rickety bridge was scheduled to be d... More

South Front Street homes on Wheeling Island, part of Wheeling, West Vi...

Small homes in a row on Wheeling Island, a part of Wheeling, West Virg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was once a booming industrial neighborhood, filled with modest homes (such as these) owned by factory workers, up to and includin... More

The western, or Wheeling Island, arched entryway to the Wheeling Suspe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Charles Ellet Jr., who also worked on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, the Wheeling bridge was the first to span the O... More

[Building] Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The 1903 Tinker-Wright House, one of several fine houses in the Highla...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Three grouped stained-glass windows at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many of the church's windows were produced by Tiffany Studio of New York, and others by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey. Left to right: ... More

Gravestones and the chapel building at Mount Calvary Cemetery, adjacen...

St. Adolphus Catholic Church and Rectory in Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Wilson Lodge, a 271-room lodge in Wheeling, West Virginia's, Oglebay P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park has been open to the public since 1928, when the park's governing body, the Wheeling Park Commission, began operations at the... More

[Mansion House Museum, Oglebay Park, Wheeling, West Virginia]

Title devised by Library staff. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.;... More

Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The First Christian Church building, now (in 2015), the Church of the ...

[Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukranian Catholic Church, Wheeling, West V...

Title devised by Library staff. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.;... More

Small gateway house at Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia. The 4...

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907-1908, it is is a four-story, rectangular brick and limestone building in the Beaux-Arts-style. Passenger service there c... More

The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...

The Victoria Theater in Wheeling, West Virginia. Opened in 1904, Victo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. An 800-seat Victorian style theater with many Beaux-Arts design influences, the Victoria Theater, originally known as the Victoria Vau... More

One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located al...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. They were installed in each of the twel... More

The onetime home of Charles W. Franzheim, erected c. 1865 on South Fro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wheeling Island was a rough-and-ready industrial section of town, but also the location of fine homes belonging to those who owned the... More

Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More

The 1817 Elm Grove Stone Arch Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Also known as the Monument Place Bridge, it is (as of 2015) the oldest extant bridge in West Virginia. The bridge carries U.S. Route 4... More

Italianate homes along Chapline Street in downtown Wheeling, West Virg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The "Harrington Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created by the Lamb Studio of New York and installed in 1989, the Harrington name relates to Barbara Harrington, who presented the win... More

The 1897 Vance Memorial Presbyterian (originally United Presbyterian) ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Echo Manor, one of several grand homes on or near Echo Point, a cul-de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This home is now (2015) the headquarters of a law firm. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, L... More

Gravestones and the chapel building at Mount Calvary Cemetery, adjacen...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Attractive building at 96 12th Street in Wheeling, West Virginia's Mon...

Horsehead detail on an outside wall of Centre Market in Wheeling, West...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The "Hall Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created by the Lamb Studio of New York and installed in 1993, the Hall name relates to Bonnie Hall and Ellen Hall Harrington, who pres... More

A view from across the Ohio River in Ohio of the Mail Pouch Tobacco fa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Madison School, which opened in 1916 on Wheeling Island in Wheeling, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Wilson Lodge, a 271-room lodge in Wheeling, West Virginia's, Oglebay P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park has been open to the public since 1928, when the park's governing body, the Wheeling Park Commission, began operations at the... More

"Drugs" sign outside a pharmacy on the portion of the National Road th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The 1893 John List House, built by banker Henry List for his son in Wh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Architectural detail of the Capitol Theatre building, also known as th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broad... More

The headquarters building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the rural Ohio... More

Pig's-head detail on an outside wall of Centre Market in Wheeling, Wes...

[Fort Henry Bridge] Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

A view from across the Ohio River in Ohio of Wheeling Island, once a h...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Bennett Square Building (which as of 2015 is called the Georgian C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly the city's longtime public library (the Bennett Square sign above the entrance was applied over a "Public Library" inscriptio... More

Pond and fountain at Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 406-acre park opened in 1925. The park was originally open to visitors only during the warmer months. Mount Calvary Cemetery can b... More

A view from across the Ohio River in Ohio of Wheeling Island, once a h...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More

Lake and fountain at the Oglebay Park and Resort in Wheeling, West Vir...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Oglebay Park is a self-supporting public municipal park, the only one of its kind. It has been open to the public since 1928, when the... More

Door detail at Centre Market in Wheeling, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1853, the downtown marketplace is not only the oldest market house in Wheeling but also the oldest in the nation. Credit line... More

Crispin Center, the golf clubhouse at Wheeling, West Virginia's, Ogleb...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park has been open to the public since 1928, when the park's governing body, the Wheeling Park Commission, began operations at the... More

Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More

The "Spirit of the American Doughboy" World War I memorial at Wheeling...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia

The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broad... More

The "Harrington Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey and installed in 1989, the Harrington name relates to Barbara Harrington, who presented the w... More

View of downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, from Wheeling Island, part o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Chapel of Mary and Joseph at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheelin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The larger Kepner Funeral Home building, white with columns to the lef...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

[House, Wheeling, West Virginia]

Title devised by Library staff. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.;... More

Edemar Mansion, later the Stifel Fine Arts Center, in Wheeling, West V...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Edemar name was a contraction of the names of is first owner, Edward W. Stifel, proprietor of one of the nation's largest makers o... More

A block along the National Road in Wheeling, West Virginia, that inclu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Architect Edward Bates Franzheim designed the Spanish-style building, including its shops on the first floor and adjecent annex. It op... More