Descriptive Summary
Title: West Virginia Book Company Collection
Span Dates: 1904-1998
Bulk Dates: 1920s-1930s
ID No: Ph2024-049
Creator: Mary Ethel Legg Stevenson & Bill Clements
Extent: 1 box
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Administrative Information
Provenance: Bill Clements, June 2024.
Transfers:
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], West Virginia Book Company Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Processor: Meredith Barbery, October 2024
Processing Note: The collection is arranged by coal and lumber camp name. This is keeping with the original order, though some materials have been reorganized to return to original order.
Conditions on Use and Access: None
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
Scope and Content: The West Virginia Book Company Collection includes photographs and postcards, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s, depicting coal and lumber camps in southern West Virginia. The photographs were accumulated for Mary Ethel Legg Stevenson's book: Coaltowns of West Virginia: A Pictorial Recollection, 1998.
Related Materials:
Ph97-049
Ph98-075
Ph2003-028
Ph2004-140
Ph2006-088
*Ph2007-056
Ph2010-149
Ph2013-066
Ph2021-229
*Donated by Bill Clements and contains further photographs from Mary E Legg Stevenson's published works.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged by county and separated by coal camp.
Box 1
1:1 Photographs of Coal Camps in Fayette County, 1910-1997. (10)
1. Whipple Company Store. Whipple, WV. 1991. (1)
2. Smokeless Coal Company. Winona, WV. 1 photo from approximately 1930s and the remaining two from the 1990s. (3)
3. Simet Salvay. Smithers, WV. April 1997. (2)
4. Wilderness Lumber Company. Nallen, WV. Postcards. Early 1900s. (4)
1:2 Photographs of Coal Camps in Raleigh County, 1910-1996. (67)
1. Tipple of Spencer Fork Coal Company. Whitby, WV. Postcard. Early 1900s. (1)
2. Winding Gulf Colliery Company. Winding Gulf, WV. Mostly postcards. Homes. Schools. Life. Early 1910s & 1920s. (11)
3. Wickham, WV. Christmas card, 1968. "Mr. Howard Shrewsbury, Xmas 1968. Made about 40 or 50 years ago." Photo circa 1910. (1)
4. Wood-Sullivan Coal Company. Vanwood (Mead), WV. Early 1900s. (17)
5. Slab Fork Coal Company. Slab Fork, WV. 1920s-1990s. (18)
6. E. E. White Coal Company. Stotesbury, WV. Early 1900s & 1990s. (9)
7. Westmoreland Coal Company. Tams, WV. 1990s. (4)
8. Tommy Creek Coal Company. Tommy Creek, WV. Early 1900s. (5)
9. Superintendent's House of the Cranberry Fuel Company. Skelton, WV. "Superintendent's home house of the Cranberry Fuel Company, Skelton, West Virginia. Dismantled and moved to the Beckley Exhibition Mine for tourist tours." 1980s. (1)
1:3 Photographs of Coal Camps in Wyoming County, 1910-1935. (36)
1. Barkers Creek Coal Company. Tralee, WV. 15 photos, 1 negative. Early 1900s. (16)
2. Harty Coal Company. Tralee, WV. 1910s or 1920s. (15)
3. Mead Pocahontas Coal Company Company Store. Tralee, WV. Postcard. Early 1900s. (1)
4. Trace Fork Coal Company. Tracoal, WV. Now Nuriva, WV. Early 1900s. (2)
5. Sawmill operation. Possibly Wyo. Poca Coal Company. 1900-1910. (2)
1:4 Photographs of Coal Camps in Southern West Virginia, 1904-1930. (38)
1. Vulcan, WV. Cardboard. 1904. (9)
2. Wilbur Fuel Company. Eastern Utilities Coal Company Plant. Unknown. Early 1900s. (17)
3. Wilbur Fuel Company. Carter Mines, WV. Mentions of Vulcan Coal Company. Early 1900s. (12)
1:5 Photographs of McAlpin, West Virginia, circa 1920. (2)
1. "Homes of Bookkeeper, superintendent, and doctor's office MacAlphin Coal Company- Circa 1920". McAlpin, WV. 12"x14". Cardboard. 1920s.
2. "View of McAlpin, WV". McAlpin, WV. 12"x14". Cardboard. 1920s.