Descriptive Summary
Title: Adrian S. Gwin Collection
Span Dates: 1949-1979
ID No: Ph2023-017
Creator: Adrian S. Gwin
Extent: 1 flip top letter size document box
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Administrative Information
Provinance: This collection was donated to West Virginia Archives and History at The Cultural Center by John M. Gwin in September 2022
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Processor: Processed by Bethany Arbaugh, 2023
Conditions on Use and Access: None
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
Processing Notes: The collection was processed in the original order given by donor, John M. Gwin. His papers have been arranged and placed under Ms2023-017.
Sources of Information:
Desktop, This Cluttered. "Our Man Gwin - the Writings of Adrian S. Gwin." Our Man Gwin - The Writings of Adrian S. Gwin, https://www.ourmangwin.net/.
"Newsman-Columnist Adrian Gwin Dies at 84." Las Cruces Sun-News, 8 May 2001, pp. A6-A6.
Historical Note: Adrian Gwin was born in 1916 in Selma, Alabama. He graduated from Tulane University in 1942 and became a journalist for a Charleston, West Virginia newspaper. Gwin also married his wife, Dorothy Lee Keeney, a West Virginia native, the same year.
He was a columnist for the Charleston Daily Mail for fifty years. He wrote news pieces and human interest stories. During his journalistic career, Gwin published three books. Gwin served in World War II, his only other break in his writing career until he retired in 1981. Gwin and his wife moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1999. In 2001, at the age of 84, Adrian S. Gwin passed away.
Scope and Content: The materials within this collection includes Gwin's notes for potential articles, newspaper clippings, his publications, and photographs.
Inventory List
Box 1
1. Negative, "Buffalo - girl who never went to school" (1 negative)
2. Photo, Hurricane, WV. Lions Club Ladies Night, 1963 (1 print)
3. Description of photo of Carl Hart, n.d.
4. Photo, unidentified, 1964 (1 print)
5. Photo, Noah W. Williams and letter from H. H. Buster, 1976 (1 print)
6. Negatives, Kanawha Public Library, 1965 (6 negatives)
7. Negatives, Lewisburg, WV., n.d. (4 negatives)
8. Negatives, Spring Hill, WV., 1961 (3 negatives)
9. Negatives, apple head dolls, n.d. (4 negatives)
10. Negative of the moon, n.d. (1 negative)
11. Negatives, "Radford - Blacksmith," n.d. (4 negatives)
12. Negative, "Young - Frank," n.d. (1 negative)
13. Negative, "View from - Spring, 1965" (1 negative)
14. Photo, "The home behind "Melrose"," 1965 (1 print)
15. Photo, unidentified, 1962 (1 print)
16. Photo, unidentified, n.d. (1 print)
17. Negatives, photos, "Angola Plantation, 1938" [Angola Prison Plantation, Louisiana] (2 negatives, 2 prints)
18. Negatives, "Old stone house, Belle," n.d. (4 negatives)
19. Negatives, ". . . little Green Heron," 1962 (2 negatives)
20. Negatives, "Nurse Calbert, Muskrat trapper, old lady gathering strawberries," n.d. (6 negatives)
21. Photo, "Gwin - with story," with photo description, n.d. (1 print)
22. Negatives, "Jarret Hunt," n.d. (5 negatives)
23. Negatives, miscellaneous scenes, n.d. (24 negatives)
24. Negative, "Puppets," n.d. (1 negative)
25. Negatives, "Pineapple - Mrs. Verburg," n.d. (1 negative)
26. Negatives, "General misc. scenes," n.d. (12 negatives)
27. Negatives, "Frank Oliver - City Council," n.d. (1 negative)
28. Photo, "Coal River ice jam after breakup, 1963" (1 print)
29. Negatives, "Hank Maddox - horse farm, 1960" (3 negatives)
30. Negatives, "Roving - Negatives, 1974," (55 negatives)
31. Photo, "Dr. A. A. Shaukz, n.d." (1 print)
32. Photo, various men, n.d. (1 print)
33. Photo, "Melrose ruins, about 1963" (1 print)
34. Photo, Charleston Daily Mail Newsroom, n.d. (1 print)
35. Photo, Miss Eunice (?) Wood, High Lawn School, May 15, 1964 (1 print)
36. Photo, Sid Morgan, July 10, 1972 (1 print)
37. Photo, Mail staff conference at the Press Club, Sol Padlibsky at left and E.C. "Tex" Cornwell at right, early 1958 (1 print)
38. Photo, "Conference at the Bench," (L-R) Jim McIntyre, D. Jackson Savage, Eber Light, and Elmer Dodson (1 print)
39. Photo, area where former stagecoach tavern known as "Rose Hill" and "Hughes Home" stood in St. Albans, WV., March 10, 1961 (1 print)
40. Photo, Blair McNeel, lifelong Boy Scout (1 print)
41. Photo, "Uncle Billy" Graham, lifelong Boy Scout from St. Albans, WV. (1 print)
42. Photo, unidentified wood carver (made chestnut stool in TV Room) (1 print)
43. Photo, Adrian Gwin at "Spies Graves" monument, Carriage Trail to Sunrise Mansion, Charleston, WV., May 23, 1977 (1 print)
44. Photo, portrait of Mrs. Mike Potter (wedding portrait?) (1 print)
45. Photos, Adrian Gwin "teaching" at Highlawn Elementary School (3 prints)
46. Photo, Adrian Gein at Old Silver Mine in Roane Co., late 1977 (1 print)
47. Photo, Children's Museum at Sunrise, Charleston, WV., 1966-67 (1 print)
48. Photos, Adrian Gwin with Bill Monroe (NBC), 1983 (with accompanying letter) (4 prints)
49. Photo, Charleston Daily Mail X-Mas party, n.d. (1 print)
50. Photo, Charleston Daily Mail Christmas party, n.d. (1 print)
51. Photos, portraits of Adrian Gwin (3 prints)
52. Photo, Adrian Gwin in the wheelhouse of the P. A. Denny, 1977 (1 print)
53. Photo, New River Gorge Bridge, Dec. 7, 1976 (1 print)
54. Photo and negative, Della Taylor (1 print, 1 negative)
55. Photo, unidentified man at St. Albans Rail Station (2 prints)
56. Photo, Traveller's Rest Sign (1 print)
57. Photo, Traveller Inn (1 print)
58. Etching, Laurel Creek Bridge, Monroe County
59. Transparency, "Boone County" (1 transparency)
60. Photo, Horace Mann, 1967 (1 print)
61. Etching of Science and Culture Center, 1973
62. Postcard, Bank of St. Albans, n.d.
63. Photo, "Entrance to Edgewood Park," n.d. (1 print)
64. Photo, Hillgrove, n.d. (1 print)
65. Misc. unidentified negatives
66. Photo, Adiran Gwin and Sgt. Jules Waterloo at Municipal Court, Charleston, WV May 4, 1959 (1 print)
67. 1 roll of negatives