Menu board at the Back Porch Restaurant featuring shoe string beans or...
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Group of diners at the Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek (L-R): Br...
Event: Annual Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Larry Gibson speaking with Mary Hufford
Event: Fourth of July on Kayford Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Exterior of church, woven of yarn and plastic, by Calvin Sprouse
Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woody Boggs in his vegetable garden
Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joe, age 11, picking morel mushrooms
Event: Molly mooching with Kay Miller and Joe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Daniel Lilly playing at the Fourth of July celebration on Kayford Moun...
Event: Fourth of July on Kayford Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ray Cottrell and Randy Sprouse (in hat) seine for hellgrammites in the...
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River. Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream. Hellgramites, also known as gr... More
Combination spoon and fork in Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashio...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Leona McCoy. Southern West Virgi...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nutting stone with black walnut (Nigra juglans)
Except for the squirrel call, Ray Cottrell found all of these artifacts on the ground while out walking in the mountains around Clear Fork and Marsh Fork. Event: Ray Cottrell's collection of "Indian Tools and W... More
Mark Lilly signing Amanda Lilly Delaware's T-shirt
Event: Stanley Heirs Reunion. Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of crowd, bride and groom, and car painted with "Just Married" on...
Event: Crystal Pettry and Bruce Ramsey's Wedding. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Close-up of "field" locust on reclaimed mountaintop removal site, Whit...
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Ray Cottrell and Randy Sprouse (in hat) seine for hellgrammites in the...
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River. Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream. Hellgramites, also known as gr... More
Plaque beside the Beckley Courthouse commemorating the mining disaster...
Text of plaque reads: "In 1891 Royal Mine on the New River was the first to open in Raleigh County. From 1891 to 1991 county mines produced in excess of 791 million tons of coal, while accidents claimed the liv... More
Woody Boggs' homemade cannon, before a celebratory shot
Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Abandoned power house in ruins. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Tour of Kaymoor, an Early Coal and Coke Community, Now Abandoned.
Woody Boggs claiming a molly moocher under a freshly-sprouted mayapple
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Icon David Mays, Horse Creek, public domain photograph
Event: Visit to the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ramp bottoms, in the summer after the leaves have dried
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Exterior, Tamarack Center. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to Tamarack. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Five-prong ginseng. Southern West Virginia.
Note the green pod of unripe berries on this five-prong specimen.
Coal river. More of the developing kitchen. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Building a Log Cabin. In 1999, Woody Boggs began building a log cabin in Pettry Bottom. This cabin, built of yellow poplar logs, incorporates a kitchen built from the wormy chestnut boards of The Coffee ... More
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
Rear exterior. Sidney L. Christie Federal Building, Huntington, West V...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: Parker & Thomas. Built in 1905-1910. Credit line... 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
Monument to a Confederate soldier, dedicated in 1901 in the town of Un...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. More than 10,000 people attended the dedication. Although West Virginia was created in 1863 as a Union state, it began the war as Virg... More
The Pemberton Coal Camp Church, one of the original coal-town building...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church was built in the Coal Camp of Pemberton, West Virginia, in 1921 by coal baron Thomas Hurst Wickham as a gift. This church, ... 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
Part of the lobby at the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 18...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... 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...
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Buckhorn Wall, William Henry Jackson photograph
Negatives form four parts of a five-part panorama; left negative not in collection. Left center section listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as no. L-6109. Sky masked on left center and center negative... More
Design drawing for stained glass window with Doubting Thomas; Fishers ...
Annotations on drawing: R 102, G 6465. DGS Slide no. 1664. Typed notes on recto. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Tygart Valley Glass Co., Grafton, West Virginia. Plenty of boys. (see ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 143. Additional copy in LOT 7478. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Co... More
Hinton and the New River, West Virginia
Negative D4-15708 (1A-10500) is a copy photograph of the complete panorama. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order without complete panorama image is 1A-10505, 10504, 10503, 10502, 105... More
Wilkins Farm, Barn, South side of Dove Hollow Road, 6000 feet east of ...
Significance: As an agricultural outbuilding, this large structure contributes to the character of the Wilkins Farm, with log construction techniques and roof shapes similar to other buildings on the property. ... More
Curtis Freewill Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: The Curtis Freewill Baptist Church served as both a religious building for students of Storer College and as its own congregational church for African American residents of Harpers Ferry and nearb... More
John Brown Fort, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, W...
Significance: This structure was built in 1848 by the government to house the fire engines and watchman's house for the U.S. Armory. In 1859, Abolitionist John Brown and his followers, having sought refuge in t... More
5 P.M. Boys going home from Monongah Glass Works. A native remarked "D...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Old Mansion House, First & Main Streets, Point Pleasant, Mason County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS WV-21-2
Old Mansion House, First & Main Streets, Point Pleasant, Mason County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS WV-21-2
"S" Bridge, U.S. Route 40 spanning Little Wheeling Creek, Elm Grove, O...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Board Tree Tunnel, Littleton, Wetzel County, WV
Significance: The Board Tree Tunnel is one of the first major railroad tunnels in the United States. The tunnel along with the original B&O line from Baltimore to Wheeling is a tribute to three important 19th ... More
Board Tree Tunnel, Littleton, Wetzel County, WV
Significance: The Board Tree Tunnel is one of the first major railroad tunnels in the United States. The tunnel along with the original B&O line from Baltimore to Wheeling is a tribute to three important 19th ... More
Board Tree Tunnel, Littleton, Wetzel County, WV
Significance: The Board Tree Tunnel is one of the first major railroad tunnels in the United States. The tunnel along with the original B&O line from Baltimore to Wheeling is a tribute to three important 19th ... More
Board Tree Tunnel, Littleton, Wetzel County, WV
Significance: The Board Tree Tunnel is one of the first major railroad tunnels in the United States. The tunnel along with the original B&O line from Baltimore to Wheeling is a tribute to three important 19th ... More
Board Tree Tunnel, Littleton, Wetzel County, WV
Significance: The Board Tree Tunnel is one of the first major railroad tunnels in the United States. The tunnel along with the original B&O line from Baltimore to Wheeling is a tribute to three important 19th ... More
Malden Historic District, 4003 Malden Drive (House), Malden, Kanawha C...
Significance: Built between 1841 and 1865 at an undetermined date or dates, this house was formerly a rectangular brick building with a smaller log portion at the south side. In 1974, extensive renovation disg... More
Bank of Wheeling, 1229 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built in 1892 for the Bank of Wheeling this rusticated stone facade was a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The firm of Edward B. Franzheim, one of Wheeling's most successful... More
Bank of Wheeling, 1229 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built in 1892 for the Bank of Wheeling this rusticated stone facade was a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The firm of Edward B. Franzheim, one of Wheeling's most successful... More
Malden Historic District, Richard E. Putney House, 4406 Malden Drive, ...
Significance: The oldest residence is Malden, the Richard E. Putney House is also one of the most imposing and least altered among Malden dwellings. Built circa 1836, the house ranks locally as a mansion. The... More