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This collection consists of one sheet music page for "We shall win Appalachia for Jesus" written by Juan M. Isais and arranged by R. C. Savage.

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There are three pages of pattern and thread color/number of instructions for two patterns, "Summer and Winter" and "Honeysuckle" with penciled drawings and calculations.

Abstract note The collection includes a booklet on the History of Petroleum. A booklet of by-laws for the Indian Spring Oil Company. A booklet of prospectus of the Averill Coal and Oil Company. A booklet about The Highgate Petroleum Company. An interest form for Government Oil and Mining Company of West Virginia, it also includes a map of the oil region. The Prospectus and Report of the West Virginia National Petroleum Association talks about an oil enterprise on new principles. A letter from E. Young to...

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This collection consists of a program for a teachers' meeting organized by the Western Division of Sullivan County, Tennessee. The meeting was held on January 8, 1915 at the Woodrow School in Indian Springs. The program lists the names of speakers and the title of their talks.

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Western Maryland Railway was chartered as the Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Railroad by the state of Maryland in 1852 and renamed Western Maryland Railroad in 1853. This collection consists of seventeen 24" x 36" blueprints with diagrams of Western Maryland Railway's 1937 expansion project illustrating the Randolph Avenue Overhead off of U.S. Routes 250 and 219 in Elkins, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of four annotated photo albums that document the Western Maryland Railway Company's construction of the Connellsville extension, between 1910-1911. The photographs show early 20th-century railway workers constructing railway tracks as well as numerous tunnels and bridges including the Salisbury Viaduct. The tunnels include; the Big Savage Tunnel; the Brush Tunnel, the Borden Tunnel, and the Pinkerton Tunnel. Locations included in the photographs are; Cumberland, MD;...

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The Western North Carolina Library Network (WNCLN) is composed of the libraries of Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Western Carolina University. The records of WNCLN contain email correspondence, data files on disk and data cartridge and a listing of WNCLN periodicals, 1987-1994.

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A photograph album detailing a road trip of two women made through western North Carolina circa 1920s. The tour started at Black Mountain proceeded to Mount Mitchell, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure before returning back to Black Mountain. Scenes include farms, roadways, Mount Mitchell, Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, and the town of Black Mountain.

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This collection consists of several cabinet cards published by Edward E. Brown and/or T. H. Lindsey. The cabinet cards are all related to Western North Carolina, primarily Asheville where both photographers were based at the time. Subjects include farming, African Americans, the French Broad River, the Battery Park Hotel, and views of Asheville. They are dated circa 1890s.

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This collection consists of a self-published autobiographical booklet titled "What an Old Maid Can Do," written by Dena Clemmer, an East Tennessee native and traveling preacher. The booklet contains a short history of Clemmer's life and is inscribed to the Keebles on the title page.

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This collection consists of a facsimile of "What Berea Meant to Me," an essay written by Harriette Simpson Arnow about her experience at Berea College in Kentucky.

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The screenplay is a revised draft (dated April 3, 1972) or the motion picture "Where the Lilies Bloom." The screenplay is based on Vera and Bill Cleaver's 1969 Newberry Award-winning book of the same title. The premise is that in the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies. The screenplay was written by Earl Hamner. This copy is signed by Cratis D. Williams.

Scope and Contents This collection includes ephemeral items, such as catalogs, order forms, and envelopes produced by Virginia and Kentucky-based whiskey and liquor companies. The companies featured are as follows: Bristol Distributing Company, Inc., Bristol, Virginia; E. Gouge & Company, Bristol, Virginia; J.C. Marks Liquor Company, Louisville, Kentucky; M.R. Miller & Company, Bristol, Virginia; Southern Wine & Liquor Company, Bristol, Virginia; and State Line Whiskey Company, Bristol,...

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This collection of voter registration papers of the White Top Gap Precinct of Grayson County, Virginia contains the original ledger with dates 1901-1935, handwritten registration oath papers, and other letters to transfer.

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The Wiley Smith Harmon tapes consists up of eleven reel-to-reel tapes and their transcriptions of Smith Harmon of Cove Creek, Watauga County, North Carolina, relating his life history and remembrances and of the Harmon family, covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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This collection consists of six photographs of varying sizes of Old Salem, North Carolina, musicians, Milledgeville, Georgia and textile workers.

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This collection features Will Watlington of Roanoke, Virginia, and his "Do-All Magical Medicine Pitch" show, as well as a cassette tape he recorded "Get Off Your Ham and Fight for Sam", all undated.

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The Willard Allen Materials is composed of art works of and information about Willard J. Allen (1919-undated), a native of Ozone, Tennessee.

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21 maps/plans used by Willard C. Watson III in his graduate studies research, related to the Cove Creek School, the Sterling Carroll Property in Watauga County, NC, and maps from the State Highway Department.

Abstract William A. Bake (1938-2016) was a professional photographer, writer, and avid environmentalist from Boone, North Carolina. He was known for his published works with Oxmoor House Publishing. He also worked as a writer and editor for the National Park Service Division of Publications. This collection contains documents, photographs, and items covering Bake’s professional life as a photographer. Also included are documents and photographs relating to his personal life, large prints,...

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The William B. Ford include blank letterhead, a published list of books, a speech about rare books, and handwritten lists of books.

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This collection consists of one land plat for land granted to William B. Johnston in Bibb County, Georgia. The land was surveyed on July 12, 1832 by G. W. Smith, but the exact date of the land plat is unknown as it references provisions of an "Act passed 21st December, 1843." The plat is signed by the surveyor general, P. M. Compton.

Content Description The William Boswell "Bosh" Rigsby papers contain family papers, photographs, and a collection of gags, or jokes, written by Rigsby for comic strip illustrators. There is correspondence of Boswell-Rigsby family members, as well as correspondence from Rigsby's naval career and his professional correspondence as a gag writer. Among the photographs are images of members of the Boswell-Rigsby family, as well as ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and a tintype. There is also a portrait drawing that may...

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The William "Billy" C. Plumley Papers contains color and black and white photographs and slides of celebrities, several autographed guest books, audiovisual recordings of lectures and presentations, and the personal copy of Davis Grubb's "The Night of the Hunter," given to Plumley by Grubb.

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This collection consists of two documents. One document relates to a a will and mentions John D. Wiley and Peter Porcupine. The other pertains to medical attention and mentions W. George Burne's estate and John Simpkins. Both documents were created and filed in Greenbrier County, Virginia and signed by William Cary, Justice of Peace.

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This collection consists of a summons issued to William Cox on August 29, 1854 to appear at the Mayor's office on September 1, 1854 to answer to James Logie for a debt of $8.25. The summons is signed by Israel Russell, Justice of the Peace.

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The collection contains twenty 8" x 10" or 8" x 12" color photographs of rural Appalachian settings, primarily from Virginia. Each photograph is mounted to a 11" x 14" mat.

Scope and Contents This photograph album contains 37 pages of silver gelatin photographs, and in total, there are 87 photographs. The album chronicles the construction of bridges in Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia by the Fort Pitt Bridge Works Company. The first photograph features the album's creator, William E. Kair, with a surveyor's theodolite. Some of the other photographs include steelworkers and machine operators. The majority of the photographs feature the construction of structures at...

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William Leonard Eury Papers include programs, papers, and photographs collected by Apppalachian State University Librarian Leonard Eury. W.L. Eury was the librarian from 1946 to 1970.

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This collection consists of the student papers written for the folklore classes of William "Bill" Lightfoot, retired English professor at Appalachian State University, as well as audiocassettes of the student interviews.