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Language
English
Abstract
Historical postcards and other material documenting the city of Wheeling, West Virginia. Includes ca. 600 postcards in two
notebooks (each in its own box) of mostly photographic postcards recording views of Wheeling. Topics include Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad depot, bridges, businesses, churches, flood of 1907, homes, hotels, ice skating, parks (Oglebay and Wheeling),
roads, schools, steamships, street scenes (with automobiles, pedestrians, and trolleys), theaters, and wharf, among others.
There are also two postcard booklets, seven historical photographs of downtown Wheeling (8 in. x 10 in.), two commemorative
ceramic tiles for the Wheeling Hill Tunnels (1965, 1966), and two oversize prints of drawings by Loeschen of Wheeling (1995,
2009).
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles A. Julian, Collector, Historical Postcards of Wheeling, A&M 3860,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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