Search Results
- IDNO:
- 015357
- Title:
- Crowd at an Auction or Sheriff's Sale in St. Marys, Pleasant County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- IDNO:
- 015358
- Title:
- Crowd at an Auction or Sheriff's Sale in St. Marys, Pleasant County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- IDNO:
- 015489
- Title:
- St. Mary's Advertising Club Members, Pleasants County, W. Va,
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- IDNO:
- 015493
- Title:
- St. Mary's City Band, Pleasants County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- IDNO:
- 020127
- Title:
- Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- 'Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va.'
- IDNO:
- 020129
- Title:
- Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- 'H. snapped this too soon- the sun was in my eyes.' Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va.'
- IDNO:
- 029909
- Title:
- Police Chief Newbraugh of Westover, W. Va
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- With speed checking device.
- IDNO:
- 038215
- Title:
- Kinkaid School, Clinton District, Monongalia County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- Darlie Rumble, Wayman Newman, Laudia Phillips, Dorothea Rumble, Beulah Williams Harold Phillips, Ralph Williams. Leaning against a huge snowball.
- IDNO:
- 039393
- Title:
- Potrait of George Barrick Jr. of Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- George M. Barrick Jr. as a small boy.
- IDNO:
- 041403
- Title:
- Hi Carpenter Bridge Construction on Ohio River
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- IDNO:
- 041629
- Title:
- Bond Family and Pet, Harrison County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- The little boy is Donovan Bond with his Uncle Harley and their dog. Bond would subsequently graduate from West Virginia University, serve in the Pacific Theater during World War ll and teach at WVU as a Professor of Journalism.
- IDNO:
- 043085
- Title:
- Mason County Teachers Institute; Mason Co., W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1928
- Description:
- Published by The Photocraft Studio. (From postcard collection legacy system.)