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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers, A&M 2267, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families. Also includes photographs of members of the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

Addendum of 2025 May 23 includes assorted pins and buttons from national and West Virginia political campaigns.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Boulder (Colo.)
• Brooks family
• California
• Charleston.
• Denver (Colo.)
• Diaries and journals.
• Europe
• Fleming family
• Fleming family - Genealogy
• Genealogy
• Hayman family
• Hayward family
• Kansas City (Kan.)
• Los Angeles (Calif.)
• McCabe, Brooks F., Jr., 1949-
• McCabe, Robert Emmett, Sr., 1883-1963
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Santa Fe (N.M.)
• Taos (N.M.)
• Travel accounts.
• Ward family
• Watson family
• Watson family - Genealogy