Archives Vertical Files
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Archives Vertical Files
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Allen, Ethan (Statue)
- Altenheim (Nursing home)
- "Arsenic and Old Lace" by Joseph Kesselring (play at Virginia Theatre, undated) Found in Virginia Theatre folder.
- Balloon ascension, 1897 (Photograph) [View photograph on Flickr]
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (Photographs)
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Memorabilia
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Blacksmith shop, 1907 (Photograph)
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, 1960s tickets
- Baseball
- Baseball teams (Photographs)
- Belmont Nail Works (Photograph)
- Benwood & Wheeling Connecting Railway (Photograph)
- Benwood Mine Disaster (Photograph) [View photograph on Flickr]
- Berry, Chu
- Bethany College
- Bethlehem United Presbyterian Church
- Biergarten in Wheeling (Photograph)
- Bill's Hamburger Grill (Photograph)
- Blaw-Knox Company (Oversize)
- Blessed Martin School
- Blue Ribbon Paint Company
- Bridgeport Bridge (Covered Bridge) (Photograph)
- Burkett, Jesse
- Buses (Photographs)
- Caldwell Family
- Cass Scenic Railroad
- Castle Theatre
- Cave Club
- "Centennial Sketches of Wheeling" (Plat of Early Additions to the "Old Town of Wheeling")
- Center Wheeling (Neighborhood)
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church
- Centre Foundry and Machine Company
- Centre Market (See Also - Oversize Vertical Files)
- Centre School (5th Ward) (Photograph)
- Centre Wheeling Aerial Views (photograph)
- Central Union Building (Photographs)
- Chapline Street Courthouse (Photograph)
- Chapline Street Methodist Church (Aldersgate United Methodist)
- Chapline Street Methodist Church (Aldersgate United Methodist) (Photographs)
- Children's Home (Photographs)
- Chris Miller Furniture Co. (photograph), stationary, and newspaper articles.
- Christ United Methodist Church
- Churches, general
- City-County Buidling
- City-County Building (Photographs)
- City of Wheeling brochures
- City of Wheeling Traffic Ordinance booklet, 1940
- City of Wheeling Columbian Celebration, 1892
- Clearview Village
- Cleveland, Grover in Wheeling (photographs)
- Cleveland, Grover, Frank Leslie Illus newspaper "The Banner Incident" (illustration) (oversize)
- Coal Miners, 1940s (Photographs)
- College Alumnae of Wheeling
- Columbia Gas Building (photograph)
- Coney Island Park
- Continental Can Company
- Convocation on the Urban Crisis, 1968
- Cooey-Bentz Company check, 1937
- Co-operative Transit Company
- Co-operative Transit Company (oversize)
- Corpus Christi Catholic Church
- Cotts & Diehl (storefront) (Photograph)
- Court Theatre (Oversize)
- Court Theatre
- Cratty, Mabel
- Cruger, Lydia Boggs Shepard
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Wheeling Chapter
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- Delivery wagon, 1909 (Photograph)
- Delta Queen
- Delta Queen (Photograph)
- Dungan, Ellis
- East Wheeling Aerial Views (photographs)
- Echo Point (Photographs) (Oversize)
- Edgington Lane School, class photographs, circa 1924-1925
- Elby's, Family News Newsletters
- Elby's Distance Race
- Eleventh and Chapline Street, 1971 (Photographs)
- Elks (see Wheeling Lodge of Elks)
- Elm Grove Coal Company (Photograph)
- Elm Grove Old Stone Bridge (Monument Place Bridge)
- Elm Grove Old Stone Bridge (Photographs)
- Eoff Street Temple
- Faris, J.A.
- Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
- Fire Engines / Ladder Trucks (Photographs)
- First Baptist Church (Photograph)
- First Christian Church
- First English Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church
- First Presbyterian Church (Photographs)
- First Methodist Church (Triadelphia Methodist Church)
- Flatiron Building
- Floods, general
- Floods, 1907 (Photographs)
- Floods, 1913 (Photographs)
- Floods, 1936 (Photographs)
- Floods, 1936 (See Also - Oversize Vertical Files)
- Floods, 1937 (See Also - Oversize Vertical Files)
- Floods, 1972 (Oversize)
- Floods, 1996 (Bridgeport) (Photographs)
- Florsheim Shoes (see Main Street)
- Football - OVAC Game
- Football teams (Photographs)
- Football - WV All Star Game
- For Liberty and Union (Film)
- Fort Henry Bridge
- Fort Henry Building
- Fort Henry Mall, proposal
- Fort Henry Siege Memorial (Photographs)
- Fourth Street Methodist Church
- Fraternal Order of Eagles, Wheeling Aeries
- Freedom Train (Oversize)
- Freemasonry
- Freese, Gene
- French's Tavern (Photographs)
- Fresh Air Farm (Photograph)
- Frey, Harrison and Mary (obituary and funeral cards)
- Friendler City Project (oversize)
- Friends of Wheeling
- Gacioch, Rose
- Gambling (Numbers tickets)
- Gee Electric Company
- The German Bank of Wheeling
- German Fire Insurance Company
- German Pioneer Society, June 13, 1887 (Photograph)
- Glasscock, Jack
- Goshorn family
- Grand Opera House
- Grand Opera House & German Fire Insurance Company (Engraving)
- Grave Creen Mount
- Greenwood Cemetery
- Habig, Ambrose for Sheriff Sign (oversize)
- Hannum, Alberta Pierson
- Harness "Castle" at Mt. Wood Overlook
- Harshman, Cheryl Ryan
- Harshman, Marc
- Haskins Hospital (includes photograph) (Oversize)
- Hawley Building
- Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
- Henry Clay Memorial
- Henry Clay Memorial (Photographs)
- Heritage Port (see also Wheeling Wharf) Development
- Hertler, John "Ice and Coal General Hauling" sign (oversize)
- Hess, Ted
- Highland Park Historic District
- Historic Scenes of Wheeling calendars (1993, 1994) (Oversize)
- Hopeful City (Wheeling, WV) (2 folders)
- House and Hermann Store fire, 1917 (Photographs)
- House and Hermann (Engraving)
- The Hub Clothing Store (portion of clothing box with logo)
- Hutchinson and Chapman building fire, 1895 (Photograph)
- I.D. Prager, storefront (Photograph)
- Imperial Glass (Bellaire, OH)
- Independence Hall
- Independence Hall (Photographs)
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- International Voyager Festival, 1980 (See Also - Oversize Vertical Files)
- "It's Wheeling Steel" radio program (oversize)
- "Its Wheeling Steel" radio program (photographs)
- Jones, Harriet B.
- Jones, Harriet B., 1940 (Photographs)
- Junior League of Wheeling
- Kelley, Brig. Gen. B.F. (illustration)
- Kimpel, A.C. (owner, Liberty Dairy, Elm Grove; includes aerial photgraphs of Elm Grove, circa 1920s)
- King, Polly
- Kirkwood Presbyterian Church (Bridgeport, OH)
- Klieves Lumber Co. (photograph)
- Kloss, Baird [includes photographs and Wheeling Symphony Orchestra programs (1940s)] (oversize)
- Knotts, Don
- Kossuth, George
- Kreis, Robert (Wheeling Symphony Orchestra) (Photograph)
- Kunheim Store - 2220 Market Street
- Kurner, D.C., Painting and Decorating
- Ladies of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic)
- Lafayette, Marquis de
- Lawrencefield Chapel
- Lehman, Louis Paul (founder of Wheeling Gospel Tabernacle)
- Lias, William (Bill) (Photographs)
- Lincoln School (Oversize)
- Lindbergh, Charles (1927 visit to Wheeling and Moundsville)
- The Linsly School (See Also - Oversize Vertical Files)
- The Linsly School (Photograph)
- The Linsly Echo, 1881
- Linsly Minstrel Programs, 1940s-1960s
- List, Henry K. (House)
- Lustron Homes (oversize)
- Madonna of the Trail Monument (Photograph)
- Mail Pouch
- Marsh Wheeling Stogie Company (photographs and ephemera)
- May Day at Wheeling Stadium, circa 1915 (Photograph)
- Main Street Bridge (Photographs)
- Main Street (Photographs)
- Manufacturers' Fire Insurance Company, 1884 (Photograph)
- Market Auditorium
- Market House (Second Ward) (Photograph)
- Market Plaza (photographs)
- Market Street (Photographs)
- Martins Ferry Tornado, 1887 (Photograph)
- Masonic Temple ("Old") at 1407 Market Street (Photographs of demolition)
- Mattox, Dr. John S.
- McColloch, Samuel
- McGraw Chevrolet (Photograph)
- McKinley Craftsman
- McLure Hotel
- Miss Wheeling Pageant brochure, 1947 (oversize)
- Moenkemoller Drug Store (Photograph) [also spelled Monkemoeller and Menkemeller]
- "Moon Over Oglebay" sheet music (words and music by Joe Fallon)
- Monroe Street East (currently 12th Street)
- Monument Place
- Monument Place (Photograph)
- Mount de Chantal Academy (Photographs)
- Mount de Chantal Academy
- Mt. Belleview Hotel (Photographs)
- Mt. Wood Cemetery
- Mt. Zion Cemetery (Photograph)
- Mozart Hill, View from (Photograph)
- Mozart Singing Society, notepad, 1907
- National Exchange Bank, 1937 souvenir calendar
- National Road, Pleasant Valley (Photograph)
- Night Hawks, Wheeling Steelmakers (Photograph)
- North Wheeling (photographs)
- Northwestern Bank $5 bill
- Oglebay Good Zoo
- Oglebay Institute Mansion Museum
- Oglebay Park (Photographs)
- Oglebay Park
- Ohio County Poor Farm (Photograph)
- Ohio County Public Library (Photographs)
- Ohio County Public Library - Archives Department
- Ohio River (Photographs)
- Ohio River Dam (Photograph)
- Ohio River and Western Railway (Photograph)
- Ohio River, Icy (photograph)
- Ohio River Locks 10 & 11, Warwood, WV (Photograph) (Oversize)
- Ohio Valley Battery & Ignition Company
- Ohio Valley General Hospital (1915 Annual Report)
- Ohio Valley General Hospital School of Nursing
- Ohio Valley Medical Center (previously known as Ohio Valley General Hospital)
- Old City Hall (Photograph)
- Old County Jail (Photograph) (Brown Photograph #18)
- Old Stone Church
- Old Stone Church (Photographs)
- Organ Grinder with monkey (Photograph)
- Osiris Temple Shrine Circus
- Palace of Gold, New Vrindaban
- Panhandle Depot, 1895 (Photograph)
- Paull, A.W. (Photograph)
- Paull-Paxton House
- "Pa Wheeling"
- People's Bank (Photograph)
- Pennsylvania Railroad, K4s 3768 Engine (Photograph)
- Peninsula (photographs)
- Pershing, "Black Jack" in Wheeling (photographs)
- Pierpont, Francis (Photograph)
- Pleasant Valley (Photograph)
- Point Mills, Old Mill and Dam (Photograph)
- Political ephemera - Ohio County (oversize)
- Pollack, Augustus Crown Stogie label
- Pride movement in Wheeling (oversize) (see also Friendler City Project)
- Race relations in Wheeling (Includes clippings on racial tension situation in Wheeling in January 1971) (Oversize)
- Railroad Company stock certificates (oversize)
- Redmen's Cemetery
- Reichart Furniture Company
- Reilly Building (Photograph)
- Restaraunts
- Rhododendron Girls State, 1940s
- Riverboats (photograph) (oversize)
- Ritchie School
- Roney's Point Tavern (Photograph)
- Rosecrans, William (engraving)
- Rotary Club (1958 newsletter)
- West Virginia Route 2
- Sacred Heart Church
- Saengerfest
- Sandscrest (pamphlet)
- Security National Bank & Trust Company
- Sedgwick House Museum (Martins Ferry, OH)
- St. Alphonsus Church
- St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church
- St. James Hotel, menu (circa 1875)
- St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church
- St. John's United Church of Christ (St. John's Evangelical) (Photograph)
- St. John's United Church of Christ (St. John's Evangelical)
- St. Joseph Center
- St. Joseph's Cathedral
- St. Joseph's Cathedral (Photograph)
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (2 folders)
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Photographs)
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Evangel
- St. Michael Parish
- St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church
- St. Stephen's United Church of Christ
- Schmulbach Building
- Shadow Knoll (Henry Stifel residence)
- Shepard's Pool, Wheeling Creek (Photograph)
- Slater Stereo Record Center
- Snead, Sam (Oversize)
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Photograph)
- South Wheeling
- Souvenir Albums of Wheeling [many of these albums have been digitized; however, to view originals, please contact the Archives]
- Album of Wheeling [Compliments of the Reymann Brewing Co., (New York: Whittemann Bros., 1883)]
- Souvenir of Wheeling [Columbus, OH: Ward Brothers, 1885]
- Album of Wheeling, W. Va. [Columbus, OH: Ward Brothers, 1888] [2 copies]
- Album of Wheeling, W. Va. [Wheeling, W.Va.: Helmbright Brothers, undated] [1 copy]
- "Spirit of 1776" Train (Photographs)
- Sports teams, general
- Stanton & Davenport Booksellers (Photograph)
- State Fair Wheeling, 1929 newsletter
- Steber, Eleanor (Photographs)
- Stephan, Tom
- Stifel & Company
- Stifel House (845 North Main Street)
- "Stogie Makers - Labor Day 1915 - Wheeling, W. Va." (Photograph) (Oversize)
- Stone & Thomas
- Steel Bridge (Photograph)
- Stone Bridge Viaduct (Bellaire, OH)
- Stone Bridge, St. Clairsville Pike, 1880s (Photograph)
- Stone Church Cemetery
- Stone United Presbyterian Church
- Stone United Presbyterian Church (Photograph)
- Streetcars (Photographs)
- Sweeney Punch Bowl
- Table Rock (Photograph)
- Temple Shalom
- Wheeling Terminal Railway Bridge (Photograph)
- Third United Presbyterian Church
- "This Week in Wheeling," 1965 (Junior League of Wheeling)
- Thomas, Clyde
- Thomson Methodist Espicopal Church
- Thompson's Hill, Looking towards Leatherwood (Photograph)
- "Tobacco Road" by Jack Kirkland (play at Virginia Theatre) Souvenir program and one page brochure, undated. Found in Virginia Theatre folder.
- Toll Gate (Photograph)
- El Tor Grotto (Wheeling, WV) (Photograph) - Parade in Pittsburgh (??)
- Triadelphia High School
- Triadelphia High School - Class of 1923 50th Reunion brochure
- Triadelphia High School - "The Triadelphian" newsletter October 13, 1965 (oversize)
- Trolley Crash (photographs)
- Turner, William Alexander "Bill"
- United States Stamping Company (Moundsville, WV)
- Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Club
- Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival
- Upper Ohio Valley Travel Council
- USS Wheeling
- USS Yarnall
- Valley Camp Coal Company, 1939 (Photograph)
- Vance Memorial Church
- Victorian Old Town (North Wheeling)
- Virginia State Gazette advertisement
- Virginia Theatre
- Warwick China Company
- Warwood Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Warwood High School
- Warwood Development Promotional brochure
- Warwood Plaza (photographs)
- Warwood Public School and Post Office (Photograph)
- Warwood Tool Company
- Washington Hall (Photographs and Engravings)
- Waugh's Dam, Buffalo Creek, Brooke County, WV (Photograph)
- Way Memorial Temple (First Spiritualist Church)
- Wayman Memorial Church
- Webster Grade School (Includes handmade yearbooks for 1927 and 1928 which contain original photographs of students and sports teams. Photocopies available in Wheeling Room) (Oversize)
- West Liberty University
- West Liberty University (Photographs)
- "West Virginia" and "Wheeling" Sheet music, words and music by W.E. Bogers
- West Virginia Golden Jubilee brochure (copy of front page only)
- West Virginia Grand March sheet music (dedicated to Gov. A.J. Boreman) (oversize)
- West Virginia House of Delegates, 1868 (Photograph)
- West Virginia NAACP Convention, 2016
- West Virginia Northern Community College
- West Viginia Semi-Centennial / Golden Jubilee, 1913
- Wetzel's Cave (Photograph)
- Wetzel Family gravesite (Photographs)
- Wheeling Aerials (photographs)
- Wheeling Area Bicycle Club
- Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce
- Wheeling Arts and Culture Fest
- Wheeling Bicentennial, 1969
- Wheeling Board of Trade
- Wheeling businesses, advertising pages, 1888 [removed from the Keller Hotel (Romney, WV) Register book. Businesses include: Frew & Bertschy; Seabright, the Tailor; David Kull, Jr. & Co.; John Friedel; F. Hanuauer; Muhn & Brandfass; Wilson & Chapman; Isham & Digby; Wheeling Business College; Wheeling Omnibus & Transfer Co.; Donaldson, Lewis & Co.; Lutz Bros.; I.G. Dillon & Co.; F.W. Baumer; Geo K. McMechen & Son; Geo S. Feeny.] (oversize)
- Wheeling Business district aerials (photographs)
- Wheeling Centennial, 1936
- Wheeling Centennial, 1936 (Photograph)
- Wheeling City Council (Oversize)
- Wheeling Civic Center / Wesbanco Arena
- The Wheeling Clinic (oversize)
- Wheeling Corrugating Company
- Wheeling Corrugating Company (Oversize advertisement)
- Wheeling Council of Churches
- Wheeling Downs
- Wheeling Downtown Map, Wheeling Retail Association, 1939 (Oversize)
- Wheeling Electric Company
- Wheeling Engraving, looking south from National Road above North Wheeling (early) (oversize)
- Wheeling Female College
- Wheeling Gospel Tabernacle, "Bit of Heaven" Melodies booklet
- Wheeling Hall of Fame Program
- Wheeling High School
- Wheeling High School, Class of 1915 (Photograph)
- Wheeling High School, concert band photographs
- Wheeling High School, Basketball team, 1940s (Photograph)
- Wheeling High School, Football game programs, 1940s
- Wheeling High School, drum major & majorettes photograph
- Wheeling High School, undated class photograph
- Wheeling Hospital
- Wheeling Hospital (Photographs)
- Wheeling Implement & Buggy Company, letterhead, 1910s
- Wheeling Intermodal Transportation Center
- Wheeling in the Civil War
- Wheeling Ironmen (football team)
- Wheeling Island, 1888 (Photograph)
- Wheeling Island Boat Club, 1930s (Photograph)
- Wheeling Island Exposition Hall
- Wheeling Island Stadium (Dedication ribbon, June 1, 1927)
- Wheeling Jamboree (Photographs)
- Wheelign Jamboree
- Wheeling Jesuit University
- Wheeling Lodge of Elks, No. 28 (programs)
- Wheeling Match Companies (Wheeling Match Company, West Virginia Match Company, Universal Match Company)
- Wheeling Musical Society [Scale of Prices and Directory, January 1, 1948]
- Wheeling National Bank
- Wheeling National Heritage Area
- The Wheeling News Lithograph Company (Invoice, 1925) (oversize)
- Wheeling newspapers (history)
- Wheeling-Ohio County Airport
- Wheeling-Ohio County Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Wheeling Park
- Wheeling Park (Photographs)
- Wheeling Park Commission
- Wheeling Park High School
- Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation - Steubenville Works (Photographs) (Oversize)
- The Wheeling Post (select editions and clippings from an African American newspaper published in early 1990s by Sidney B. Harr) (Oversize)
- Wheeling Post 1 American Legion Baseball Team
- Wheeling Post Office (Dedication program, 1966)
- Wheeling Public Schools, Directory, 1910-1911
- Wheeling Semi-Centennial, 1913
- Wheeling Sewer System
- Wheeling Shakespeare Club
- Wheeling Stamping Company
- Wheeling Stampling Company Employee Bulletin, 1946
- Wheeling Steel Company
- Wheeling Steel Company (Photographs)
- Wheeling Steel Company "The Mine to Market" magazine 1929
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Photographs)
- Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
- Wheeling Traction Company
- Wheeling Tunnel
- Wheeling, view of city (Photographs)
- Wheeling Vintage Raceboat Regatta
- Wheeling Water Works
- Wheeling Water Works and reservoir (Photographs)
- Wheeling Wharf development (photographs)
- Wheeling Youth Symphony
- Wheels to Progress (Production stills - photographs)
- Williams, Doc (Photographs)
- Windsor Hotel
- Woodsdale / Edgwood / Echo Point (Photographs)
- Women's Suffrage Movement (in Wheeling)
- Worker's Alliance of America, membership book, 1938
- WWVA Radio Station
- Ye Olde Alpha (Photographs)
- YMCA Building (Photograph)
- YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association)
- Young, J.J.
- Yorktown Picnic, circa 1920s (Panoramic photograph)
- Zane, Betty
- Zane, Betty (Illustrations)
- Zane, Ebenezer (houses)
- Zeller's Steakhouse Menu (oversize)
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church