Descriptive Summary
Title: A. Brast Thomas Collection
Span Dates: ca. 1930s-1985
Bulk Dates: 1940s-1960s
ID No: Ph2021-285
Creator: A. Brast Thomas
Extent: 2 boxes
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Administrative Information
Provenance: Ted Taylor
Transfers:
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], A. Brast Thomas Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Box 1
1:1 Alexander Brast Thomas? (4 prints)
1:2 A. Brast Thomas, Family, and projects (13 prints, 34 negatives)
1:3 Lehigh University Class of 1938 reunions (2 prints)
1:4 (Left to Right) John Kalvelage, Jordhie White, Sam Sandlick (1 print)
1:5 Photographs of "Dad" from Mike Broyles (4 prints)
1:6 Commander A. Brast Thomas, Charles Gaibrell and family, December 1955 (9 negatives)
1:7 U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion (MCB) 23 ceremony, Davisville, Rhode Island, circa October 1964 (15 prints, 14 negatives)
1:8 Unidentified military gathering, Radisson Hotel (4 prints)
1:9 Slide presentation, Navy League (38 slides)
1:10 Astronaut Jon McBride receiving certificate from Mayor of Huntington, circa February 21, 1985 (1 print)
1:11 Unidentified plant (1 print)
1:12 Unidentified construction crew, circa 1930s-1940s (1 print)
1:13 Unidentified man inspecting large tank (12 prints, 11 negatives)
1:14 Thomas Company construction project, Ridgewood Road, Huntington, West Virginia, 1948 (20 prints, 23 negatives)
1:15 Huntington businesses near A. Brast Thomas house, circa 1956-1957 (11 prints)
1:16 Construction of Federal Office Buildings, Huntington, West Virginia, May 1958 - February 1959 (10 prints, 8 negatives)
1:17 Album prints, Thomas Company, Flood wall construction, Catlettsburg, Kentucky, September - December 1956 (38 prints)
1:18 Album prints, Bridge construction, Belle, West Virginia, April 25, 1957 (6 prints)
1:19 Album prints, Construction project in Marshall County, April 1957 (16 prints, 16 negatives)
1:20 Album prints, Crane in water (flood wall construction?) (8 prints)
1:21 Album prints, Bridge construction (6 prints, 11 negatives)
1:22 Iaeger Bridge construction, circa October 1964 (10 prints, 12 negatives)
1:23 Ripley Bridge construction (12 prints, 12 negatives)
1:24 Bridge No. 1680 (Project F 106 (4)), 1949 (20 prints, 20 negatives)
1:25 Sutton Dam, November 1959 (28 prints)
1:26 Hewitt-Belle Bridge/Inco Bridge/Wheeling Park (24 negatives)
1:27 Unidentified construction project, October 1965 (25 prints)
1:28 Unidentified bridge construction (1 print, 22 negatives)
1:29 Construction of I-75 in Kentucky, 1959 (28 prints)
1:30 Construction project, Catlettsburg, Kentucky (39 negatives)
1:31 Mansback Metals, Ashland, Kentucky, January - February 1967 (15 prints, 22 negatives)
1:32 Miscellaneous construction projects (33 prints, 5 negatives)
1:33 Negatives, Miscellaneous construction projects (37 negatives)
1:34 Miscellaneous slides, 1950 (9 slides)
1:35 Miscellaneous slides, 1965 (10 slides)
1:36 Miscellaneous slides (21 slides)
Box 2
2:1 Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172), 1958-1959 (16 negatives)
2:2 Mom and Toby, Lick Run Bridge, February 21, 1959 (22 negatives)
2:3 Color photographs, Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), February 1959 (8 prints, 8 negatives)
2:4 Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172), February 1959 (51 prints)
2:5 Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), February 1959 (20 negatives)
2:6 Jim Odum, Lick Run Bridge, February 1959 (9 negatives)
2:7 Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172), March 1959 (15 prints)
2:8 Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), March 1959 (37 negatives)
2:9 Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), April 1959 (34 negatives)
2:10 Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172), June 1959 (6 prints)
2:11 Lick Run Bridge super structure (Bridge #2172), June 1959 (20 prints, 38 negatives)
2:12 Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172), undated (4 prints)
2:13 Rock quarry, Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), March 1959 (52 prints)
2:14 Rock quarry, Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172), June 1959 (12 prints)
2:15 Crane (Carl Walker, operator), Lick Run Bridge construction (Bridge #2172) (7 prints)
2:16 Rock quarry, Lick Run Bridge (Bridge #2172) (35 negatives)
2:17 Pittsburgh/Sutton Dam/Bridge #2172 (Lick Run Bridge) (20 negatives)
2:18 Construction photos from album, mostly from 1967-1968 (174 prints)