Various implements outside a blacksmith shop at Heritage Farm Museum a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
Painting "Justice in West Virginia" interior civic lobby, U.S. Courtho...
Artist: Richard Haas, 1999. Canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More
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
Purinton House, a historic home associated with the West Virginia Univ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built in 1904, and is a 2-1/2 story masonry dwelling with Classical Revival and Colonial Revival style features. It features a ... 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
A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More
The old Jackson's Mill at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic Distric...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The camp was established in 1921 as the first statewide 4-H camp in the United States. The district includes buildings related to the ... More
Statue honoring those Hampshire County men killed fighting for their c...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statue was erected in front of the Hampshire County Courthouse in Romney in 1928. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the... More
Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1911, when the city determined to erect a new municipal buiding, it purchased a tract of land on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue... More
Architectural details of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building has strong Gothic influences, with its pinnacles, pointed arches and window tracery in terra cotta detailing. Credit line... 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
Overlooking what what were once bustling rail lines of the Baltimore &...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. To the right are the Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O, and the old B&O terminal. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, re... More
The Palace Furniture Building in downtown Clarksburg, 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
O'Hurley's General Store in Shepherdstown, 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 Grafton National Cemetery in Grafton, West Virginia, the first nat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The initial Union Army casualty of the Civil War fell in Grafton on May 22, 1861, when Thornberry Bailey Brown, was killed by a Confed... More
The Marion County Courthouse in Fairmont, 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
Mineral-water pool at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. While the area was part of Virginia prior to 1861, the town was incorporated as Bath. The area contains mineral water springs that wer... More
The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, a Roman Catholic Church in Ch...
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
Detail of the wall of a sun-dappled building in Shepherdstown, West Vi...
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
Similarly designed homes on one of several brick streets in a neighbor...
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 Weston, West Virginia, Masonic Temple
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
This old tollhouse on Main Street in Barboursville, West Virginia, too...
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
Street view of Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Elkins-Randolph County Public Library in Elkins, West Virginia
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The Mason County Library in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River 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 Wetzel County Courthouse in New Martinsville, 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
Barn in Jefferson County, 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
View of Grafton, West Virginia - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
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
Do-it-yourself photo op at the Hillbilly Hot Dogs stand along West Vir...
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 old, stone Bank of Kingwood building in Kingwood, 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
Memorial Methodist Church in the Summit Point settlement of Jefferson ...
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 diesel locomotive and freight cars, and a line of hoppers filled wit...
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 Shepherdstown "Little House" in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
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Central Christian Church in Huntington, 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
Convergence of the Potomac River and smaller Shenandoah River, as seen...
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The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston
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The Maxwell-Gaylord House in Clarksburg, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The frame Queen Anne-style house with a stone foundation and a hip roof was built in 1898. The massive three-story tower was added aro... More
The Huntington Advertiser Building in downtown Huntington, West Virgin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Advertiser merged with the Herald-Dispatch in 1979, and both relocated into the Huntington Advertiser Building, whose facade took ... More
The 1875-76 Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville, 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 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
Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907, it is a 2-1/2 story brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Classical Revival style. The brick used is a pressed, glaz... More
Construction on what was originally known as "the Ladies Hall" at West...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was given the name Agnes Howard Hall in 1920 in honor of Mrs. Agnes Howard, who was a student at the college in the early... More
The Campbell-Hicks House in Huntington, West Virginia, notable for its...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house was built in 1896 for lawyer and mayor Charles W. Campbell and was later the home of state senator Ira Clay Hicks. Credit li... More
The Huntington Arcade, originally called the Ritter Arcade, in downtow...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1925, the ornate two-story arcade was home to high-end retail shops on its first floor, while the second level offered office... More
Hardway Hall, the administration building of Fairmont State University...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded as a private institution in 1865 as the West Virginia Normal School at Fairmont, the school was dedicated to educating teacher... More
Untitled at Robert C. Byrd Federal Building, Charleston, West Virginia
Artist: David Wilson, 1998. Three are 39 x 10 feet; one is 33 x 32 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ... More
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 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
Downtown building in Philippi, 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 "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 First Presbyterian Church in New Cumberland, 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 reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West V...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"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
Grounds and buildings at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Sprin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. While the area was part of Virginia prior to 1861, the town was incorporated as Bath. The area contains mineral water springs that wer... More
The public library in Burnsville, 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
Yellowwood, a low-lying log structure in The Boulevards, an exclusive ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Clarksburg, 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 dam, and a portion of a marina, at the Burnsville Dam and lake on ...
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 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
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Fairmont, 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
Rock formation outside Harpers Ferry, 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
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Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Part of an old Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco sign on a wall in downtown G...
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 Presbyterian Church in New Cumberland, 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
Ferry boat at the John Eckels Ferry Landing in Sistersville, West Virg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Ferry service across the Ohio River to Ohio had been in operation for more than 190 years when the Sistersville City Council named the... More
Rural scene in Jackson County, West Virginia, near Ravenswood
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
Headstones at Harpers Ferry Cemetery (also known as Harper Cemetery), ...
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
Classic Mail Pouch barnside advertisement in rural Hampshire County, 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
A Weirton, West Virginia, steel plant, viewed from across the Ohio Riv...
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
Entryway to the Berkeley Springs Castle. Berkeley Springs, West Virgin...
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Part of a large industrial complex below Moundsville and along the Ohi...
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
Woodrow Union Church in the settlement of Paw Paw in Morgan County, We...
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
Reynolds Hall, a dormitory at Potomac State College of West Virginia U...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The catamount, or mountain lion, is the school's athletic mascot. West Virginia's only residential junior college, it is located in Ke... More
The John Deaver Drinko Library,on the campus of Marshall University in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, which opened in 1998, is named for philanthropist John Deaver Drinko, a Marshall graduate Credit line: West Virginia Col... More
A barnside billboard in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia, contain...
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 Warner Theatre marquee in Morgantown, 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 procession winds its way through downtown Clarksburg at the annual...
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 c. 1853 Charles Deming House, a house in the Julia-Ann Historic Di...
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
Fine homes in the 1000 block of 13th Street in "Southside" Huntington,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. They are among 51 homes in the Ritter Park Historic District, including and adjacent to the city's sweeping municipal park Credit line... More
Statue of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in a plaza at...
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
Immigrants statue, erected outside the Harrison County Courthouse in C...
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 in the fashionable southeast quadrant of Charles Town, 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
View of Keyser, West Virginia - Drawing. Public domain image.
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 Erickson Alumni Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown, ...
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
Built about 1870, the eclectic Parsons-Abbott-Moser house on the west ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The North Chancel Window, a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Epis...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is a 1962 replacement by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey of a window originally given by the congregation in 1871 in memory of the ch... More
A llama with unattractive teeth at the petting zoo of the Heritage Far...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
The Kanawha Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia, was open until the m...
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
Painting "Justice in West Virginia" interior civic lobby, U.S. Courtho...
Artist: Richard Haas, 1999. Canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... 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
Savage Flats, an early apartment complex in the Avery Street Historic ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1903 by entrepreneur Thomas G. Savage, the units served as "starter housing" for up-and-coming Parkersburg professionals. Cre... More
Oakdale, the onetime home of Virginia Governor Joseph Johnson in Bridg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house was constructed in 1818 for then-state assemblyman Joseph Johnson. The structure was the home of the only governor of Virgin... More
The Blennerhassett Hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Queen Anne-style building opened in 1889, when money from oil and natural gas flooded into Parkersburg and the town quickly became... More
The gold-leaf dome of the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For several years, the capital of West Virginia intermittently traveled between Wheeling and Charleston. In 1877, however, the state's... More