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Language
English
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Abstract
Twenty portrait photographs of prominent nineteenth-century West Virginia politicians, many of whom played a part in the movement
for statehood. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information, including a list of names.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Partridge and Critcherson, Photography Studio, Portraits of West Virginia
Politicians, A&M 4354, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Twenty "carte de visite" (CDV) portrait photographs of prominent nineteenth-century West Virginia politicians, many of whom
played a part in the statehood movement. The logo of the photography studio, Partridge and Critcherson Photographic Artists
of Wheeling, is printed on the reverse side of the photographs. Each politician depicted is identified in pencil on the reverse
side. Many of these men served in the West Virginia state senate during the fifth session (1867).
Politicians depicted are Isaac H. Duvall; William B. Zinn; Reuben Martin; Andrew Wilson; John Burdett; James Burley; Joseph
T. Hoke; Charles A. Thatcher; Samuel Young; Emmett J. O'Brien; Daniel Haymond; A. C. Werninger; Greenbury Slack; D. H. K.
Dix; Edward D. Wright; Robert Hagar; James Carskadon; Abijah Dolly; Ellery R. Hall; and E. W. S. Moore.
For an additional portrait in this series, see item with identifier 027952 (Daniel D.T. Farnsworth) in the photograph catalog
"West Virginia History OnView".
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