West Virginia & Regional History Center is associated with West Virginia University and has a large collection of historic West Virginia photographs, manuscripts, and military collections.

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Daily Life

 
Manuscript Collections

• Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegrams, “more than 850 telegrams documenting Pierpont’s efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War”
• The International Association for Identification (IAI) Collection, the oldest and largest criminal identification organization and their digitized resources

 
Photographs

• West Virginia History OnView, more than 50,000 digitized photographs, searchable by topic, family name, geographic name, corporate name, and more; with more than 800 photographs relating to the Civil War era
• The Clarysville Civil War Hospital Digital Collection
• Roy Bird Cook Collection Documents of the 31st Regiment (CSA)
• Storer College Digital Photographs Collection,  digitized photos of a school formed just after the Civil War
• The USS West Virginia Digital Photographs Collection

 
Postcards

• 20th Century Holiday postcards

Military

• Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegrams, “more than 850 telegrams documenting Pierpont’s efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War”
• Roy Bird Cook Collection Documents of the 31st Regiment (CSA)
• The USS West Virginia Digital Photographs Collection
• The Clarysville Civil War Hospital Digital Collection