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William Archer, Journalist, Research Papers regarding McDowell and Mercer Counties A&M 4388

William Archer, Journalist, Research Papers regarding McDowell and Mercer Counties A&M 4388


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Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 4388
Title
William Archer, Journalist, Research Papers regarding McDowell and Mercer Counties 1795-2020 ca. 1950-2010
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/206572
Quantity
20.75 Linear Feet, 20 ft. 9 1/4 in. (13 record cartons, 15 in. each); (4 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 4 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (2 flat boxes, 1 1/2 in. each); (3 flat boxes, 3 in. each); (1 box, 6 1/2 in.); (1 box, 5 in.); (1 index card box, 4 1/4 in.)
Quantity
8.98 Gigabytes, 308 files, formats include .jpg, .iso, .wav, .doc, .txt
Creator
Archer, William
Location
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Language
English

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Biographical Note

William "Bill" Archer's papers represent his work as a journalist, historian, and musician. He grew up in Claysville, Pennsylvania. His parents provided roots in the Scotch-Irish heritage from his mother and Russian roots from his father, Carl Wesley Archer. After graduating from McGuffey High School in 1967, Archer attended West Virginia University where he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor's degree in English. He also completed twelve hours of graduate work in English with WVU.

Although Archer's first writing job in southern West Virginia was with the Twin-State Marketer (Bluefield, VA) beginning in 1986, he contributed sporadically to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph beginning in 1983. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Bluefield paper and continued his work there as a reporter and senior editor until 2016. During this time, he was also a stringer from the State Journal, a West Virginia business publication, 1999-2003. Archer covered the news extensively not just in Bluefield but in adjacent counties in West Virginia and northwestern Virginia.

Due to Archer's important coverage of news events in Southern West Virginia and service to his community, he has received a number of awards:

1994 For his substantial contribution to news coverage, he received the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from Thomson Newspapers 2000 For his coverage of the collapse of the First National Bank of Keystone Bank, he received the Outstanding Journalist Award from the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association 2003 The Mercer County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded him the Merit Award The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 9696, awarded him two Distinguished Service Awards 2007 Archer was dubbed "the consummate community newspaper reporter" by a former publisher of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph when he was named a West Virginia History Hero by the Mercer County Historical Society 2013 He received two awards the Shott Excellence in Media Award and the National Coal Heritage Area Research Documentation Award 2015 The local American Legion awarded him the Distinguished Citizenship Award

Archer authored a number of local history books and approximately 125 magazine articles in addition to his newspaper reporting. The books, in the "Images of America" series from Arcadia Publishing, document the history of the cities of Bluefield, Princeton, and Welch. His county histories include Mercer County (WV), McDowell County (WV), and Bland County (VA). He has written numerous articles for Wonderful West Virginia, and also has contributed to Goldenseal, The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Appalachian Heritage, Coal People, and Virginia Cavalcade.

Archer's interest in the varied music of southern West Virginia is reflected in some of his writing, but he also wrote poetry and songs. He recorded and performed original music compositions with Karl Miller for more than thirty years. He wrote the lyrics for the musical "Bramwell--100" about the 100th anniversary of the town of Bramwell.

After retiring as a writer, Archere extended his service to the community as a Mercer County Commissioner for the 2017-2022 term. This time of his life postdates the donated materials in this collection.

William Archer and his wife Evonda continue to reside in Bluefield.

Scope and Contents

The papers of William "Bill" Archer, newspaper journalist for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and historian, document Archer's research and reporting of events in Southern West Virginia, predominantly Mercer and McDowell Counties. In addition to his reporting, Archer wrote a number of local history books as well as articles for publications other than the Bluefield paper.

The largest part of the collection, six boxes of records and three of artifacts, focuses on the historic collapse in 1999 of the First National Bank of Keystone in McDowell County; subsequent criminal and civil court cases; and Congressional oversight hearings. Another significant part of the collection, two boxes of records and three of artifacts, focuses on John Forbes Nash Jr., 1994 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics and a Bluefield native. The files document Nash's time in Bluefield and at Bluefield State College, his family, and his career. The Nash files also include reporting and research materials about the book and film, A Beautiful Mind , about Nash's life and work.

Archer researched all aspects of coal country life. Significant topics covered by him include music originating in the area, local African American culture and history, hometown heroes, disasters such as flooding and crashes, famous people connected to the area, court cases, coal mining and mining disasters, communities and their services, and transportation. Of particular note, the collection documents Archer's trip to Japan in 1996 for the Interassociation for Ecology Symposia (INTECOL) on wood and forestry.

Photographs in the collection, mostly contemporary, detail many events during the time of Archer's reporting. Of particular note are those by Melvin "Mel" Grubb, a long time photographer for The Bluefield Daily Telegraph . The collection also includes a number of other media formats such as films and recordings.

And finally, throughout the collection there are a large number of Archer's newspaper columns which demonstrate the process of writing newspaper stories beginning with interview notes and ending with the final articles. Also included are his writings in other literary forms such as local histories, stories, poems, and songs. Some stories and a cookbook were written under the pseudonym Richard Lucas.

Twelve compact discs of performances by Archer and Miller are found in Box 28. Particularly represented in the collection is Archer's work on the musical "Bramwell--100" about the 100th anniversary of the town of Bramwell. A compact disc of the music and narration is one of those in Box 28. Digital files of his compositions include 131 files consisting of the compact disk recordings as well as the text of an essay reflecting on music; and songs, written and performed by Archer and Karl Miller.

In addition to the compact discs, Box 28 also contains handwritten and typed Archer compositions and includes love songs to his wife Evonda.

The collection consists of the following series:

Series 1. Keystone Bank
Series 2. John Nash
Series 3. Subjects
Series 4. Photographs and Other Media
Series 5. Writings

Related Material

This collection (A&M 4388) contains a partial copy of the Matewan Trial transcript.

See also:
A&M 3608, Matewan Trial Transcript
Pages 2012 to 3958 (February 12, 1921 – February 23, 1921)
Plus 1 page of index of witnesses

Compare to:
A&M 4388, William Archer Papers, Box 8, Folders 1-7, Matewan Trial Transcript
Pages 1 to 11, list of witnesses, in Folder 1
Pages 3340 to 4671 (February 22, 1921 – February 28, 1921)

West Virgina Archives and History in Charleston, West Virginia appears to hold the entire transcript:
Mingo County, Case file State vs. Sid Hatfield et al., transcripts, jury selection, witness statements (originals and photocopies), 1921 January 19 to March 16, 15 boxes

Separated Material

Items transferred to the Rare Books Librarian:

Wilderness by Vance G. Martin

The Crozers of Upland by David A. MacQueen -- Rare book

Legendary Local of McDowell County by William Archer

The Bramwell Breeze 1911/1912

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • African Americans -- West Virginia -- McDowell County
  • African Americans -- West Virginia -- Mercer County
  • Bluefield (W. Va.)
  • First National Bank of Keystone (W. Va.)
  • Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Archer, William
  • Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Bluefield (W. Va.)
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Container List

Series 1. National Bank of Keystone
1884–20161969–2016
Scope and Contents

The Keystone Bank files (Boxes 5, 9-13) consist mostly of facsimile copies, sent by fax machines, of court proceedings regarding the historic collapse in 1999 of the First National Bank of Keystone in McDowell County, as well as research materials and handwritten notes of court proceedings and interviews. The series also contains artist sketches of court proceedings; two baseball caps; a bomber jacket; and other memorabilia (Boxes 20-22).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10
    Keystone Bank-J. Knox McConnell Estate Appraisal & Will
    1993–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11
    Frontier (Bingo) Palace Flyers, Elkhorn Valley Development Corp. Documents
    1988–1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1
    Court Cases: FDIC Suit
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 2
    Court Cases: SEC v Quizenbeury; Terry Church
    1999–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 3
    Keystone Bank-Court Cases: Gariety, Church. Knox McConnell
    1991–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 4
    Keystone Bank Court Sketches from folder labeled " Keystone Artist Sketches, Most by Tom Bone"
    ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 5
    Keystone Bank-FDIC Trial, Pt. 1
    1999–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 6
    Keystone Bank-FDIC Trial, Pt. 2
    1999–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 10
    Keystone (City), Keystone Bank
    1904, 1998-2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 12
    Keystone Bank-Court Cases, Pt. 1: Cases Against Church, Death of Cherry, More
    2000–2016
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 13
    Keystone Bank-Court Cases, Pt. 2: Federal Charges Against Church and Graham
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 14
    Keystone Bank-Court Cases, Pt. 3: Federal Charges Against Church and Graham
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 15
    Keystone Bank-Court Cases: Billie Cherry, Testimony & Evidence, Civil Suit
    2001–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 16
    Keystone Bank-Michael Graham
    ca. 1969, 1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 17
    Keystone Bank-Michael Graham
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 18
    Judges David A. Faber and Elizabeth Hallanan
    2009–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 19
    Keystone Bank-Harry J. Potter, Financial Investigator, Help with Archer's Book
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 20
    Keystone Bank- Criminal Charges Against Norma Faye Canipe
    2002–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 21
    Keystone Bank-Trustee and Sale of Assets
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 22
    Keystone Bank-J. Knox McConnell
    1884-1911, ca. 1983-2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 23
    Keystone Bank-Books by J. Knox McConnell
    1975–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 24
    Bank Failures
    1993–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 25
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    1999–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 26
    Debra Gariety, et al. v Grant Thornton, et al.
    1999–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 27
    Keystone Bank-Archer Book Drafts
    1997–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1
    J. Knox McConnell-Archer Columns
    1991–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2
    The Boxer and the Banker by J. Knox McConnell (Book)
    1984
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3
    Keystone Bank-Material Loss Review
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4
    McGlothlin/Graham Bingo
    1997–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5
    Bingo, Elkhorn Valley Development
    1993–1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6
    Bingo
    1992–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 7
    Harold Bakkebo
    2003–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 8
    Grant Thornton
    2000–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 9
    Court Notes-Billie Cherry
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 10
    Obstruction of Justice Trial
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 11
    Obstruction of Justice Trial
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 12
    Obstruction of Justice Trial
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 13
    OCCC Reviews, Indictments, Pt. 1
    1996–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 14
    OCCC Reviews, Indictments, Pt. 2
    1998–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 15
    Michael McGlothlin, et al.
    2005–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 16
    J. Knox McConnell
    1997–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 17
    Harry J. Potter, Accountant Testimony
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 18
    Grant Thornton Appeal
    2006–2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 19
    U.S. Bank National Association Suit
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 20
    Gariety Court Cases
    2005–2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 21
    Billie Cherry, etc.
    1997–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 22
    Knox, Pennsylvania
    1993–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 23
    Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Findings
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 24
    Waynesburg College Claims
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 25
    Waynesburg College Claims
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 26
    Grant Thornton
    2004–2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 27
    Shareholders
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1
    Trial Clippings, Pt. 1
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2
    Trial Clippings, Pt. 2
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3
    U.S. Bank National Association Suit
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4
    Newspaper Clippings
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5
    Magazine Articles
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6
    Officers' Campaign Contributions
    1979–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7
    Court Case (Cocaine), Keystone-Ronald Mitchell, Pt. 1
    2003–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8
    Keystone-Ronald Mitchell, Pt. 2
    2002–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 9
    FDIC Amended, Gariety, Pt. 1
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 10
    FDIC Amended, Gariety, Pt. 2
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 11
    Keystone (City) Government
    1996–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 12
    FDIC E-Mails
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 13
    Billie Cherry, Terry Church, Pt. 1
    2001–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 14
    Billie Cherry, Terry Church, Pt. 2
    2001–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 15
    FDIC Amended, Gariety, Pt. 1
    2001–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 16
    FDIC Amended, Gariety, Pt. 2
    2001–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 17
    Photographs-Keystone Bank People & Places
    1979–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 18
    Business Cards & Messages
    1999–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 19
    Correspondence from Readers
    1999–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 20
    Photographs-McConnell, Cherry, Church, Keystone Bank
    1984–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 21
    Photographs-FDIC Takeover of Keystone Bank, Mike Graham, Congressional Hearing, unidentified scenes
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 22
    Photographs-Keystone Bank-Key Players, Aerial, Takeover
    1999–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 23
    Correspondence and Photographs-Billie Cherry
    1999-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 24
    Banking, News Stories
    2008–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 1
    Waynesburg College Claims
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 2
    Gariety Expanded Complaint, Pt 1
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 3
    Gariety Expanded Complaint, Pt 2
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 4
    Quizenbeury, Turpin, McKenney
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 5
    Combined Civil Cases, Pt. 1
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 6
    Combined Civil Cases, Pt. 2
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 7
    Terry Church, Michael Graham
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 8
    Waynesburg College, Church, Graham
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 9
    Civil Cases, McDowell Class Action, Pt. 1
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 10
    Civil Cases, McDowell Class Action, Pt. 2
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 11
    Humphries Case
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 12
    Civil Cases
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 13
    Grant Thornton v. FDIC
    2000–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 14
    SEC Case, Church
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 15
    U.S. House, Banking Committee
    1993–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 16
    Keystone City Council Case; Kristen Rutledge Drug Charges
    1994–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 17
    Ameribank (Welch, WV)
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 18
    New Gariety
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 19
    Terry Church
    1996–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 20
    Last Fraud Case
    2000–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 21
    Gariety, Dispensation of Assets, Turpin
    2000–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 22
    Gariety, Grant Thornton, Church, Pt. 1
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 23
    Gariety, Grant Thornton, Church, McConnell's Will, Pt. 2
    1993–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 24
    Gariety, Cherry Resignation as Mayor
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 25
    Juno Productions Documentary
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 26
    Coast Partners Financial, Pt. 1
    2001–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1
    Coast Partners Financial, Pt. 2
    2001–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3
    Dispensation of Assets, Thornton v. Kutak Rock
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Cases
    2000–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 5
    Various Cases
    1996–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 6
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    2004–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 7
    Archer Typed Manuscript with Edits
    ca. 2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 8
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    1999–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 9
    McGlothlin, et al.
    2003–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 10
    Various Court Cases
    2002–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3
    Keystone Bank Court Sketches-Artist Information
    ca. 2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4
    Keystone Bank Trials-Courtroom Sketches
    ca. 2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5
    Keystone Bank-Courtroom Sketches [by Aya Ichikawa]
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 6
    Keystone Bank-Trial of Terry Church Court Room Scene Sketches
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7
    Keystone Mortgage Corp. and Keystone Bank-Letterhead and Business Card Proofs
    ca. 1997-ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Unfoldered
    Keystone Bank Bomber Jacket
    ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    Keystone Bank Baseball Caps (2)
    ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    First National Bank of Keystone Pocket Knife Key Ring
    ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    "I Survived the 1st National Bank of Keystone" Button
    ca. 2000
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Series 2. John Nash
1896–20181920–2018
Scope and Contents

The John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928-2015) was born in Bluefield, and was the 1994 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in the mathematics of game theory. His biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998) by Sylvia Nasar, frankly discussed his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia and led to a major motion picture by the same name (2001). His materials (Boxes 15 and 16) consist of numerous tributes to him; correspondence between Archer and Nash and correspondence with Nash's sister, Martha Legg; correspondence with Sylvia Nasar; and promotional and press materials for the film A Beautiful Mind. Artifacts (Boxes 25-27) for the film include a jacket, two T-shirts, and a baseball cap.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1
    A Beautiful Mind (Film)
    1945, 1994-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2
    A Beautiful Mind (Film) Universal Studios Promotional Booklet
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3
    A Beautiful Mind (Film)-Collected Research
    1945, 2000-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4
    John Nash-Collected Research, Facsimile of Correspondence
    1924, 1946, 1994-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5
    John Nash-Collected Research
    1958, 1994-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6
    John Nash-Collected Research, Newspaper Clippings, Articles
    1898, 1939-1945, 1994-2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 7
    John Nash-Collected Research
    1920-1956, 1985-2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 8
    "Bill Archer's Notes from 'Beautiful Mind' Novel Review"
    ca. 1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1
    A Beautiful Mind (Film)-Press Coverage
    1994–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2
    Archer Correspondence with John Nash's Sister, Martha Legg
    1994–2017
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3
    Email Correspondence with John Nash
    2001–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4
    Email Correspondence with John Nash
    2004–2013
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 5
    Post Card from John Nash, Photographs
    2004–2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6
    Correspondence re: John Nash
    1994–2016
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 7
    John Nash-Collected Research Materials
    1995–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 8
    John Nash-Tributes
    1998–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 9
    Documentary Film
    1999–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 10
    Two Magazines with John Nash Articles
    1999–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 11
    John Nash-Tributes, Martin Family
    1896–2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 12
    Archer's Award of Excellence, Photo with John Nash
    1994–1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 13
    Two Magazines with John Nash Articles
    1998–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 14
    Photographs of John Nash; DVD of Chamber Dinner Photos
    1933, ca. 1950,1993-2002
    Scope and Contents

    Digital materials include: identifier: 4388_digitran_4, which contains 24 jpeg photos related to Archer's work on John Nash. Identifier: 4388_disc6_b16_f14 contains the files for the DVD of the 2002 Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Dinner.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 15
    John Nash, Jr. & Sr., Emails from Nash
    1945, 1994-2018
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 16
    John Nash-Archer Articles
    ca. 1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 17
    Newspaper Clippings about Nash
    1994–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 18
    John Nash-"Memories from Chamber Dinner," Emails from Nash
    2002–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 19
    A Beautiful Mind Promotional Materials
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 20
    John Nash-Tribute, Photos of Event
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 21
    John Nash-Tributes, Research, Archer's Award
    1897, 1933-1942, 1994-2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 22
    John Nash Tributes, Photo of Father
    ca. 1940, 1994-1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 23
    John Nash-Collected Research; Archer-Pulitzer Prize
    1944, 1984-1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 24
    Correspondence re: Press Coverage, Tributes
    1995–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Unfoldered
    A Beautiful Mind Inscribed by the author, Sylvia Nasar
    1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Unfoldered
    The Essential John Nash edited by Harold W. Kuhn
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Unfoldered
    "Empty or May Contain Nash B-Roll(?), Oct. 1995" Videotape
    1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Unfoldered
    "74th Annual Academy Awards, March 24, 2002" Videotape
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 25 Unfoldered
    A Beautiful Mind Coat
    ca. 2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 26 Unfoldered
    A Beautiful Mind T-Shirts (2)
    ca. 2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Unfoldered
    A Beautiful Mind Baseball Cap
    ca. 2001
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Series 3. Subjects
1795–20181853–2018
Scope and Contents

Series 1 and 2 document the specific subjects of the Keystone Bank and John Nash respectively. Series 3 covers a wide range of subject matter relating to Mercer and McDowell Counties including community events; people in and connected to the area; and the history of local communities, including extensive coverage of the African American community and Bluefield State College among other topics. Formats for additional subjects include original newspaper clippings and copies from microfilm, handwritten interviews and story notes, correspondence, and original and facsimiles of research materials. Archer's research materials and reporting on various topics are scattered throughout the collection (Boxes 1-3, 5-9, 14, 17-20, 22-23).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
    Wilderness /text by Vance G Martin
    2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
    Jazz-Archer's Writing; Duke Ellington Program; Coal Country Photos
    1966, 1990-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
    Music in Bluefield (includes information on swing musician Louis Jordan, music promoter Ralph Weinberg, and others; includes handwritten interview notes regarding musicians and promoters; the era documented is ca 1930-1960)
    1953, 1999–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
    Park Central High School Reunion
    2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
    Newspaper Clippings, Most by Archer, Various Topics
    1934–2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
    Police Killed in the Line of Duty
    1913, 1942
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
    Darnell Miller-Studio Photographs
    ca. 2012
    • If Swinging Doors Don't Get Me, Lonesome Will, music CD
      Scope and Contents

      Music CD containing one track by Darnell Miller called, "If Swinging Doors Don't Get Me, Lonesome Will". Identifier: 4388_disc2_b1_f9

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
    Hank Williams' Death, Stop in Bluefield; The International Country Music Fan Club Correspondence and Publications; Photos
    1953, 1996-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
    Bluefield Drum & Bugle Corp
    1933-1941, 1971-1977, 2004-2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15
    Newspaper Clippings and a Calendar from Birdie Beavers, about Welch & McDowell County
    1953-1969, 2003-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17
    Francis Gary Powers, U.S. Spy Captured by Russia
    1960
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18
    Virginia Railway Railroad
    1909, 1959, 2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19
    Maybeury Train Wreck
    1937
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20
    War Bus Crash
    1939, 2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21
    Humor, Poems Sent to Archer; Envelope Read "From Mrs. Slaughter"
    1998–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22
    Belcher Lumber Company Fire, Newspapers
    1926-1927, 1960
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24
    Military Heroes Including James Spurrier
    1945-1947, 2009-2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26
    James T. Spurrier, Jr.
    1944-1947, 2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27
    The Crozers of Upland, 1723-1926 . Family History (Book Given to Rare Books Librarian)
    1982
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28
    Crozer Family
    1861, 1884-1893, 1926, 1967-1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29
    Henry James White, Pilot, Friendship with Werner Von Braun, Space Exploration Scientist; Bob Thompson, Bill Geever, Rocket Scientists
    1916, 1944-1964, 1998-2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30
    Wreckage of Old Bomber
    1942-1943, 1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31
    Archaeology-Southwestern Virginia
    1907, 1943, 1985-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33
    Collected Research-Disasters, Hank Williams' Final Days, African American Church, Doll Exhibit, More
    1932, 1954-1958, 1985-2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
    Bluefield Community Center
    1989–1990
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
    W.B. Swope, Swope's Airport
    1997–1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
    Black History, J. Franklin Long
    1950-1969, 1999
    Scope and Contents

    This folder also contains a floppy disk with two files containing information about Bluefield, WV in the 1950s and 1960s by J. Franklin Long. To access these files, request identifier 4388_disk2_b2_f10.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
    Bill Greever, Supervised by Werner von Braun, Space Exploration Engineers
    ca. 1957-1980, 2016
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
    Virginia Rockabilly; Hank Williams Commemorative Stamp (Book)
    2005–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
    I-77 East River Mountain Tunnel 20th Anniversary
    1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
    East River Mountain Tunnel/H. Edward Steele Memorial Tunnel
    1997–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
    East River Mountain Tunnel
    1970–1972
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
    East River Mountain Tunnel/H. Edward Steele Memorial Tunnel
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
    East River Mountain Tunnel/H. Edward Steele Memorial Tunnel
    2003–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19
    Robert E. Graham, Accused of Stealing Federal Funding from the Council on Aging, Court Cases, Pt. 1
    2006–2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20
    Robert E. Graham, Accused of Stealing Federal Funding from the Council on Aging, Court Cases, Pt. 2
    2006–2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21
    Robert E. Graham, Accused of Stealing Federal Funding from the Council on Aging, Court Cases, Pt. 3
    2006–2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22
    Hobert F. Muncey, Jr. Court Case
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23
    WVU English 290-Dialect Project
    1979
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24
    William S. Gadd Court Case
    2001–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25
    Collected Research-Facsimiles of 1954 Bluefield Newspaper Articles, Area Hospitals, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' Ancestors, Industrialists, Facsimiles of 1904 and 1908 Newspaper Articles
    1904–1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26
    Flight 93, 9/11 Plane Crash Site (Temporary) Memorial
    2002–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27
    Flight 93, 9/11 Plane Crash Site, Reporting Notes from Witness Interviews
    2001–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28
    Correspondence Re: Baseball in the Coalfields; Jim Gilley, Player
    1979–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29
    Domestic Violence Court Case
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30
    1st Battalion, 150th Armor, National Guard
    2000–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31
    Ray's Higher Arithmetic (Book)
    1880
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Unfoldered
    Vegetation in Eastern North America (Book)
    1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
    Bluefield Community Hospital Newsletter
    1983–1984
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
    Bluefield Community Hospital
    1984–1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13
    Coal Barons, Mostly Obituaries: James Ellwood Jones, Jonathan P. Bowen, Isaac T. Mann, Laurence E. Tierney, Elbert Henry Gary, and Others; Ku Klux Klan
    1899-1932, 1978-2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14
    Robert Morris, Legendary Locals of McDowell County (book) by Archer
    1795, 1997-2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15
    Bouvier Family, Ties to Robert Morris and Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis (see also box 5, folder 8)
    1847-1866, 1902–1949
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16
    Coalwood, West Virginia and Rocket Scientists
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 17
    Kimball War Museum, Hassel L. Hicks, architect
    1895-1952, 1998-1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18
    Howard Little, 1909 Murder Case; Facsimiles of Newspaper Articles; The Virginia Mountaineer 75th Anniversary Edition (Grundy, Va.)
    1897-1910, 1975, 1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
    Fidelity Bank (Bluefield)
    1911–1912
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
    Effort to Keep Thayer Furniture Plant; Attracting Industry in Southern West Virginia; Photographs from Charles Chambers
    1911-1913, 1955, 1991-1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
    Crane Creek Coal Newspaper Clipping; Gen. John R. Budner, Head of North American Air Defense Command, Biographies; News Story Regarding Burl Osborne
    1978, 1983, 2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
    Bluefield Rescue Squad
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
    Bluefield State College, John Stewart Methodist Church
    1986–1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
    Consol Energy-History
    1997–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25
    Materials about the Song "Salt Pork, West Virginia" Including Information on W.W. McNeal, Louis Jordan, and Ralph Weinberg
    1922–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
    Jack Johnson, Jed Hotchkiss, Cinder Bottom
    1883–1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 27
    Welch Daily News -Reproduced Photos, Booklet from the First National Bank of Keystone
    1923–1935
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3
    Bramwell Aristocrat (Newspaper)
    1989–1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6
    "History of McDowell County," Mimeographed Copy, 3 pages; "Directory of McDowell County Officials, 1858-1958," 14 Facsimile Pages
    1958-1962
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
    "Resolution in Support of Renaming the East River Mountain Tunnel the H. Edward Steele Memorial Tunnel"
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
    Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' Ancestors' Wills and Deeds (see also box 3, folder 15)
    1902–1948
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9
    Bluefield Swimming Pool, Rescue Squad, Articles of Incorporation
    1950–1971
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
    Town of Bramwell, Pt. 1; Facsimiles of Web Pages Regarding the History of the People and Places of Bramwell and the Community of Shinnbrier
    2000–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
    Town of Bramwell, Pt. 2; Facsimiles of Web Pages Regarding the History of the People and Places of Bramwell and the Community of Shinnbrier
    ca. 1936, 2004-2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4
    Bluefield History, Pt. 1 (includes national register of historic places nomination form for Bluefield historic district; it lists many building and their locations; also includes information on Bluefield College, Bluefield Dance Theatre, and Beaver High School)
    ca. 1980-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5
    Bluefield History, Pt. 2, Hospitals
    1982–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
    Bluefield, Pt. 3-Photographs, Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Events; Retail Merchants Association Minutes
    1938, 1951, 1987-1991
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
    Coal Section Profiles
    1909, 1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
    Bluefield, Pt. 1
    ca. 1930, 1997-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
    Walking Tour of Matewan; Photographs of William G. Baldwin, Matewan, Gun, and Thurmond; Typed Manuscript by Archer "T.L. Felts: One Man's Quest for Vengeance," Facsimiles of Archer's Newspaper Articles; Facsimiles of Newspaper Articles about the Trial of C.E. Lively Accused of Shooting Sid Hatfield and Ed. Chambers; Facsimiles of Pages of Archer's "From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance," Issue of Appalachian Heritage Containing Article; Facsimiles of Reports and Correspondence from Baldwin-Felts'Operatives; Facsimile of Thomas L. Felts' Death Notice
    1920-1921, 1937, 1989-1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
    Pocahontas Coal Field, Saltville, Va.
    1921, 1953-1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14
    James T. Spurrier, Jr., World War II Hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner from Bluefield, WV
    1945–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph Front Pages, Jan.1
    1901–1991
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16
    Black History, Pt. 1
    1935-1964, 1988-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 17
    Black History, Pt. 2
    1991–1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 18
    Black History, Pt. 3, Churches
    1993–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 19
    Black History, Pt. 4
    1969–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 20
    5th and 6th Colored Cavalry: Wounded Members Massacred by Confederate Soldiers after Battle at Saltville, VA; Memorial Ceremonies Organized by Bluefield Residents, Pt. 1
    1915-1920, 1996-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 21
    5th and 6th Colored Cavalry: Wounded Members Massacred by Confederate Soldiers after Battle at Saltville, VA; Memorial Ceremonies, Pt. 2
    1915-1920, 1996-2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 22
    5th and 6th Colored Cavalry: Wounded Members Massacred by Confederate Soldiers after Battle at Saltville, VA, Memorial Services
    1998–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry, Pt. 1
    1863, 1996-2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry, Pt. 2
    1863, 1996-2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry, Pt. 3
    1863, 1996-2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry
    2005–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry
    2004–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
    Outstanding Journalist Award, WV Trial Lawyers Association
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry
    2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 8
    Saltville, Va., Colored Cavalry
    2000–2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 9
    Baseball: A Family Tradition by Danny Smith
    2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 12
    Maurice "Mo" Gibson Trial, Pt. 1
    2005–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 13
    Maurice "Mo" Gibson Trial, Pt. 2
    2005–2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 14
    Collected Research-Bluefield (Includes clippings and photographs with information on local baseball, Bluefield Brewing Company, and Frank Sinatra performance in Bluefield, among other topics)
    1922-2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 15
    Collected Research on Bluefield, WV
    1911-ca. 1935, 1972-2008
    Scope and Contents

    Includes brief biography and photo of Herbert "Hub" Hunter; photo Tazewell, VA; photo telephone operators; aerial photo of mine operation; photo of former Welch Lions Club members; football themed sketch of "Stubby;" computer CD of photos of elderly African-Americans at a birthday party (identifier: 4388_disc1_b7_f15); facsimile of 1911 NY Times about Bluefield incident and offer of an historical accounting; rescue squad recognition program, facsimile of web page about child survivor of Buchenwald and Max Kammer photo exhibit newspaper article; "Songs of Yesterday" booklet.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 16
    Maurice "Mo" Gibson Trial, Pt. 1
    2005–2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 17
    Maurice "Mo" Gibson Trial, Pt. 2
    2005–2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 18
    Lake Shawnee Partially Excavated Archaeological Site of Prehistoric Native Americans (Including the history of excavation and preservation of site and photos of artifacts and workers)
    1954–1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 20
    African-American History and Music and Other Bluefield Area Topics (Including facsimiles of the Twin State Observer ; facsimiles and computer print outs of articles by Archer, facsimiles of sheet music; Bramwell fire; Elizabeth Drewry, First African-American Woman WV Legislator; and More
    1910, 1957, 1990-1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 21
    African-American Musicians, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Duke Ellington, and More
    1929-1931, 1964-1966, 1995-2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 22
    Ku Klux Klan: Edited Typewritten Article by Archer Titled "The Klu [sic] Klux Klan 1865-1997," Handwritten Research and Interview Notes, Facsimile of Newspaper Article by Archer, Facsimile of Encyclopedia Article about the KKK
    1995–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 23
    Louis Jordan; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 24
    Clarence Ridley, Bluefield City Manager
    1923–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (1 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (2 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 3
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (3 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (4 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 5
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (5 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 6
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (6 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 7
    Sid Hatfield, et al, Trial Transcript (7 of 7) (See also AM 3608)
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 8
    Thomas Felts (Including photographs of descendants, T. Felts' home, Lee and Albert Felts' home, and artifacts; facsimile of brief sketch of T. Felts' life; newspaper article about Baldwin-Felts Agency expert
    1921, 1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 9
    C.E. Lively; George Pence & William Salters Trial-Statements
    1921
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 10
    Thomas Felts, Beaver High School, etc.
    1989–1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 13
    International Traditional Country Music Fan Club
    2003–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 19
    "The Monitor" Newsletter for Bluefield Hospital
    1983-1985, 2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 22
    Calfee Residence by J.M. Lawrence, Decades: History
    1853, ca. 1960, 2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 23
    Bluefield Baseball
    1925-1963, 1992-1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 24
    Hatfields and McCoys
    1897-1909, 1999-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 25
    Miscellaneous Research Materials (Including photo of Klansman, photo of Bill Archer singing, list of mining disasters, Mitchell Stadium, Blue Ridge Parkway booklet, Norfolk & Western Magazine facsimile, facsimile of John Nash, Jr. article by Greg Williamson, handwritten notes on Pioneer Miners' Reunion, golf club history, and more)
    1923, 1951-1956, 1986-2017
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 7
    "Medley" Magazine from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 8
    Keystone Bank, McDowell County School, White Slavery and More
    1910,1958,1999-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 9
    Billy Conn, Boxer
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 11
    Banking Legislation
    2003–2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1
    Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce-Stationery & Gov. Officials
    ca. 1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2
    Cornelius H. Charlton, Namesake of The C.H. Charlton Memorial Bridge on I-77 and African-American Korean War Hero
    1952-1954, 1989-1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3
    Thomas Creighton Shrader, Pt. 1
    1976–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4
    Thomas Creighton Shrader, Pt. 2
    1976–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 5
    Rock 'n' Roll Connections to Bluefield (Including the death of Hank Williams; Cecil Womack's mother; Mary Wells, wife of Cecil Womack; Fred Ross, Diana's father born in Bluefield)
    1953, 2011-2016
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 6
    Melvin Grubb, Photographer (Including program for Grubb photo retrospective, handwritten interview notes, facsimile of article about his fog photos, military service timeline for M. Grubb, facsimile of Grubb's other military documents
    1944-1946, 1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 7
    Samuel Tazewell Walker-Article
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 8
    Rock 'n' Roll-African-American Bluefield Connection
    1945, 1970-2016
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 9
    Black History, Swimming Club Pool
    1964–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 10
    Samuel Tazewell Walker
    1862-1931, 1995-1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 11
    McDowell County Flood, Pt. 1
    1896, 2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 12
    McDowell County Flood, Pt. 2
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 13
    McDowell County Flood, May 2
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 14
    Tom Hatcher Killing-Trial
    2014
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 15
    Interassociation for Ecology Symposia (INTECOL) Japan, about Forestry and Wood Products and Attended by Archer-Planning, Travel
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 16
    INTECOL Symposia, Japan-Notes
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 17
    INTECOL Symposia, Japan-Handwritten Articles
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 18
    Handwritten Notes on Coal Industry, Wood and Forestry, and Other Stories for the Newspaper
    ca. 1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 19
    INTECOL Symposia-Japanese Publications
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 20
    Kenichi Ojima-Memorial
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 21
    INTECOL Symposia-Handwritten Articles
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 22
    INTECOL Symposia-Correspondence
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 23
    Photograph Negatives of an Event
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 24
    INTECOL-Miscellany
    1993–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 26
    Correspondence with Ryutaro Tsuda
    ca. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 27
    INTECOL Symposia-Handwritten Notes
    ca. 1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 28
    INTECOL Symposia-Travel Brochures
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 29
    INTECOL Symposia-Program, Itinerary
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 30
    INTECOL Symposia-Photographs of Meetings, Field Trips
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 31
    INTECOL Symposia-Photographs of Meetings, Field Trips, Correspondence
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 32
    INTECOL Symposia-Photographs of Meetings, Field Trips
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 33
    J. Franklin Long, Lawyer
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Unfoldered
    Quest II for Scholars at Concord College, Walk Kick Off, Song by Archer and Karl Miller, Nick Rahall and Ken Heckler at End of Videotape
    ca. 1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1
    Pulitzer Prize Application, Sample Articles
    1996–2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2
    Correspondence re: Trees with Photos of Archer
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 3
    Mine Disasters
    1884-1909, 1930-ca. 1939, 2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4
    Mine Disasters, Pt. 1
    1901-1919, 2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5
    Mine Disasters, Pt. 2
    1918-1938, 1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 6
    Mine Disasters, Pt. 3
    1896-1914, 1940-1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 7
    Bluefield High School Yearbook- The Beaver
    1922
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 8
    Ashland Coal and Coke and Associated Companies-History
    1968
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 9
    Handwritten Lyrics, Syllabus WV History (History 153)
    Undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 1
    The Logan Coal Field of West Virginia (Book)
    1964, 2018
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2
    The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia (Book)
    1963
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10
    Princeton Observer , Dec. 28, 1950
    1950
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11
    Princeton Observer, 1950
    1950
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 12
    Princeton Observer, 17th Anniversary Edition, 1950
    1950
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 13
    Sunset News-Observer , Nov. 25, 1967
    1967
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2
    Painting of Colored Cavalry Soldier
    ca. 2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 20
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph Reprint of 1896
    1896, 1982
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 21
    Bramwell Aristocrat (Newspaper), Pt. 1
    1989–1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 22
    Bramwell Aristocrat (Newspaper), Pt. 2
    1989–1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 19
    Aero View of Bluefield, WV, Including Buildings and Industries, 17 inches X 14 inches (Facsimile of Original)
    1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 Unfoldered
    Earth's Legacy: Natural World Heritage, Book Inscribed by Vance Martin
    2015
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    Bank of Raleigh Key Ring (Artifact)
    Undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    Princeton Community Hospital Key Ring (Artifact)
    Undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Unfoldered
    "First Clark Bank, Northfork, W.Va." Belt Buckle (Artifact)
    Undated
  • Scanned Copy of the Booklet "Sodom and Gomorrah of Today or the History of Keystone West Virginia" by "Virginia Lad"
    1912
    Scope and Contents

    An Adobe Pro pdf file sent by William Archer as an attachment to an email. The facsimile was probably scanned from an original. It is accompanied by an html file which is a copy of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History's webpage on Tyler Edward Hill, whom Archer believes authored the booklet. The booklet also includes a brief mention of the story that inpsired Archer's unfinished writing, "White Slavery in Cinder Bottom". Identifier: 4388_digitran_3

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Series 4. Photographs and Other Media
1920–2016
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a significant number of photographs, negatives, and some photos on CD and are dispersed throughout William Archer's papers. Most of the photographs date from the 1990s and early 2000s, although some are older, of places, events, and people in Mercer and McDowell Counties. Other formats include a motion picture film, books, videocassette recordings, sound audiocassette recordings, phonograph records, maps, and artwork. Artifacts include jackets, t-shirts, baseball caps, and other objects. (Boxes 1-3, 6-7, 17, 20)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
    Photographs-Gary Country Clip, Edris Miller, Lincoln Historic Interpreter
    2000
    Scope and Contents

    This folder also contains a floppy disk with two files containing information about the Gary Country Club in McDowell County. To access these files, request identifier 4388_disk1_b1_f6.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23
    Photographs of Newspaper Work
    ca. 1970
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25
    Historic Photographs by Ellis Leon Martin
    ca. 1939-1945
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32
    "Football Parade of the Year, 1948" (Film Reel)
    1948
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34
    Photographs-Booker T. Washington Memorial, Street Clock in Princeton, Various Historic Markers, Composite of Veva Miners
    1940-1950, 2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 35
    Photograph on Compact Disc-Veva Pocahontas Mine, No. 3; Railroad Ballad
    1940, 2016
    Scope and Contents

    The identifier for the image on CD, Vera Pocahontas Mine, No. 3, "Day Shift" Landgraff, WV, July 9-19, 1940, is 4388_disc3_b1_f35.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 36
    McDowell County, Photos for Book
    ca. 1937-2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37
    Photographs-Drainway Tunnel, Mining, Aerial of Dam, Trains, Gary (WV)
    ca. 1930, 2001-2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
    Cecil Surratt 45 RPM Phonograph Record, Lyrics, Program
    1988–1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
    African-Americans, Samuel Tazewell Walker
    ca. 1920, 1999-2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
    Ronnie Cochran 45 RPM Phonograph Record, Pocahontas Exhibition Mine Program
    1983, 1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
    East River Mountain Tunnel
    ca. 1969-1972, 1974
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
    Music Compact Discs by Archer & Miller
    1992–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
    "Coalfield Visions," "Gaining Momentum," "Merry, Merry Christmas" Cassette Recordings by Archer and Miller
    1991-1992, 2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10
    "A Brilliant Madness" and "Relay Symposium in Japan" VHS Videotape Recordings
    1995, 2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
    "Pinkard Fest." VHS Videotapes 1 & 2
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
    "INFOCUS" and "460 Bypass Opening" VHS Videotapes
    1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3
    Princeton Photographs
    ca. 1920-1930, 1990-1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
    Bluefield, Pt. 2-Photographs
    1959–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 10
    Photographs, Grubb Photo Service-Trains, Mines, etc., Oral Histories, Pt. 1
    1925–2013
    Scope and Contents

    Oral history content consists of two published CDs titled "Folks Are Talking: Oral Histories from the 1970s Gathered by Garret Mathews". Garret Mathews was a writer for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. The identifier for the oral history content is 4388_disc5_b7_f10 and the discs contain 33 tracks total.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 11
    Photographs, Grubb Photo Service- Mines, Archer with John Nash, etc. Pt. 2
    1925–2013
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 19
    Jack Lawrence and His Quartet (78 RPM recording)
    ca. 1947
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Unfoldered
    Painting of Colored Cavalry Soldier
    ca. 2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 10
    "Four for Bluefield" Music Compact Disk, "J.E. Martin House Project" Video DVD
    2008–2016
    Scope and Contents

    "Four for Bluefield", identifier: 4388_disc22_b17_f10 is a copy of a CD in box 28 and can be accessed by requesting Identifier: 4388_disc18_box28. "J.E. Martin House Project", identifier 4388_disc21_b17_f10, consists of videos of the J.E. Martin House in Bluefield, WV and work on the house.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1
    Jack Lawrence and His Quartet (78 RPM recording)
    ca. 1947
  • Karen and Bob Picture disc
    Scope and Contents

    Two jpeg images of six individuals, one of whom is William Archer, in formal attire. The files were originally found on a disc, however, the disc was unable to be found. Identifier: 4388_disc23_missing.

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Series 5. Writings
1911–20171963–2017
Scope and Contents

This series includes newspaper columns written by Bill Archer on various topics (Boxes 1-6, 8, 14, 19, 24) as well as magazine articles and liteary forms he wrote. Additional examples of his writing are scattered throughout all the series. Most of the newspaper articles are original clippings, but some are facsimiles. Box 4 contains an extensive collection of his opinion pieces, and Box 28 contains magazine articles written by Archer. The articles are from Coal People Magazine , Goldenseal , Wonderful West Virginia , and a few other publications. Literary foms found throughout the collection include stories, poems, lyrics, and histories, both typed and handwritten.

Digital files of his compositions include 120 files consisting of the text of an essay reflecting on music, and songs, written and performed by Archer and Karl Miller, copied from 12 compact computer discs.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
    Songs
    1988
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
    Hardwood-WV Encyclopedia Articles
    1944, 1991-2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
    Opinion Newspaper Columns, Pt. 1
    1993–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
    Opinion Newspaper Columns, Pt. 2
    1993–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16
    The Virginian Railway
    2006–2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
    Short Stories, Community Publications
    1985–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
    Poetry, Photographs, Notes, Matewan
    1992–2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
    "Word of the Day Club" Columns from the Bluefield Community Hospital Publication "The Preview;" Short Stories
    1983–1987
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
    Short Stories, Poems
    ca. 1975
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
    Lyrics for "Bramwell-100" by Bill Archer
    1988
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
    Poetry by Bill Archer
    1994–1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
    Various Writing by Bill Archer
    1983–1984
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
    Writings, Bramwell, Pocahontas Fuel
    1912, 1936, ca. 1983
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
    Writings by Bill Archer
    ca. 1984
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
    Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
    Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2002–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
    Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2005–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
    "Viewpoint" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
    "Viewpoint" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
    "Viewpoint," "Opinion" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph ; Kennedy Shot Welch Daily News
    1963, 2002-2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
    "Opinion" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2001–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
    "Opinion" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2007-2009, 2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2
    Deb and Jim Ramage
    1999–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4
    "Opinion" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    2006–2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5
    "Opinion" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Ad for Book, More
    2008–2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
    "Bramwell 100"
    1988
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
    "At the Millennium" Newspaper Columns by William Archer in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 11
    WV Encyclopedia Contributions
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 12
    William Archer Publications: Appalachian Heritage
    1992
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 14
    William Archer Poetry; Paper Supply Company, Janpak: the History
    ca. 1993-ca. 2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 15
    William Archer Publications: Appalachian Heritage
    1993–1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 16
    William Archer Publications: Appalachian Heritage
    1993–1994
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 17
    Black History : Appalachian Heritage
    1911, 1991-2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 18
    Archer Article in Coal People
    2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 20
    Arcadia (Publisher) Correspondence, Pt. 1
    1999–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 21
    Arcadia (Publisher) Correspondence, Pt. 2
    1999–2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 25
    Japan-Archer Articles
    1996
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Flooding
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : 9/11
    2001–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Flooding
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : 9/11
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Flooding
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Heritage Section
    1997
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Flooding
    2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Snow Storm
    1993
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Gary, McDowell County, History
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 14
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Keystone Bank
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 15
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Keystone Bank
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 16
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Keystone Bank
    1999–2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 17
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : Keystone Bank
    1999–2002
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 18
    Bluefield Daily Telegraph : 9/11
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 1
    Coal People Magazine
    2003
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 2
    Coal People Magazine
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 3
    Coal People Magazine
    2005
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 4
    Coal People Magazine
    2006
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 5
    Coal People Magazine
    2007
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 6
    Coal People Magazine
    2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 7
    Coal People Magazine
    2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 8
    Coal People Magazine
    2010
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 9
    Coal People Magazine
    May-July 2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 10
    Coal People Magazine
    Aug.-Dec. 2011
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 11
    Coal People Magazine
    Jan-June 2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 12
    Coal People Magazine
    July-Oct/Nov. 2012
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 13
    Coal People Magazine
    2013
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 14
    Coal People Magazine
    2014
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 15
    Coal People Magazine
    2017
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 16
    Goldenseal -Including "Salt Pork, WV" Article
    2004
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 17
    Goldenseal
    2008
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 18
    Goldenseal -Sharps Camp Article
    2009
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 19
    Goldenseal -Including Elkhorn Article
    2013
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 20
    Virginia Cavalcade- Samuel Walker Article
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 21
    Virginia Review- Bluefield Waste Treatment Article
    1995
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 22
    Wonderful West Virginia- Swope Farm Article
    Sept. 1998
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 23
    Wonderful West Virginia
    March-Aug. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 24
    Wonderful West Virginia
    Sept.-Dec. 1999
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 25
    Wonderful West Virginia
    2000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 26
    Wonderful West Virginia Including Coal Mining Article
    2001
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 27
    WVInc. Magazine
    2006
  • Archer's Column for the Twin-State Marketeer under the Pseudonym Richard Lucas
    1987-2007English.
    Scope and Contents

    Two electronic files, one a proposal for a book titled The Under Thirty Minute Meals of Richard Lucas , a pseudonym for William Archer, and the other a section of the book "Wok like a Man." The book proposal seems to have been a compilation of previously written columns. Files are in Microsoft Word format, as sent by William Archer in 2019. Identifier: 4388_digitran_2.

  • Unfinished Stories Set in Cinder Bottom, a section of Keystone, West Virginia
    2014-2019
    Scope and Contents

    Two electronic Word documents emailed by William Archer. One is a synopsis for a "fact-based work of fiction" titled "Cinder Bottom." The other is the start of a story titled "White Slavery in Cinder Bottom" and is about a young woman lured into prostitution by promise of a job. Identifier: 4388_digitran_3

  • A Vietnam War Protest Story and a Protest Button
    1967, 2019
    Scope and Contents

    Manuscript, edited by Archer's wife Evonda, for a story about protesting the Vietnam War and titled "What Did You Do?" The document, a Adobe Acrobat Pro pdf file, was sent attached to an email. At the end of the digital file are facsimiles of a 1967 Bluefield Daily Telegraph newspaper article in two pages about the youth protests against the war. Another digital file is a photograph of a war protest button, "Confront the Warmakers, Oct. 21st, Wash. D.C. Support Our Boys in Vietnam--Bring Them Home". Identifier: 4388_digitran_1.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 25
    Ain't No Easy Road, Part 1 of 3
    1998English.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 26
    Ain't No Easy Road, Part 2 of 3
    1998English.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 27
    Ain't No Easy Road, Part 3 of 3
    1998English.
  • Text Box: 28 Folder: 1
    Lyrics to Songs with Notes
    1970-1995English.
  • Text Box: 28 Folder: 2
    "Bramwell 100" and Other Song Drafts
    ca. 1980s-2019English.
  • Text Box: 28 Folder: 3
    Programs for Events Where Archer Performed
    1988-1994English.
  • Audio Box: 28 Unfoldered
    Recorded Songs, Most Written by William Archer and All Performed by Archer and Karl Miller, on Compact Discs
    12 CD
    1971-2007English.
    Scope and Contents

    Compact discs include: Stu and Bill Archer, the Archer Brothers , 21 songs; track 5 "Cackleburr Drive" written by Archer in 1971, all other songs assumed to be by written by others. Bramwell 100 Year Celebration ; music and narration Coalfield Visions, 1990 ; 10 songs, "Cha[r]lton Singers featured on track 7, 'Route 52' Two for Pocahontas ; 2 songs: '114 Miners' & 'Pocahontas Mine Song' Gaining Momentum ; 7 songs project duo ; 17 songs; "Most songs were re-recordings except John Nash song Merry, Merry Christmas ; 10 songs written by others Four for Bluefield ; 4 songs; "Remix of 4 Bluefield songs from Project Duo , 'Land of Misted Mountains,' 'Lemonade Song,' 'Route 52,' 'John F. Nash of Bluefield' Sounds of the Hills, Volume 1 or 2 , 9 songs; "Music celebrating our region's history and heritage, as performed live on April 18, 2007, at the Ya'Sou Deli in Kimball, West Virginia Glory in the Gospel, Volume 2 or 2 , 10 songs; "Music of praise and worship in His holy name, as performed live on April 18, 2007, at the Ya'Sou Deli in Kimball, West Virginia Solid as the Bank of Kimball and the Wheelbarrow , 2 songs; "Remix of 'Wheelbarrow Song' and 'Bank of Bramwell' to promote re-open of Bank in 2007"
    All content is retained as digital files, as well. These CDs are part of 4388 ADD 2020-02.

    • Bramwell 100 Year Celebration
      2020
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc9_box28. "Music & Narration from Bramwell 100", the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bramwell. Dated July 30, 1988 with "Remix 2020" written on the CD. 16 .wav files.

    • Gaining Momentum
      1992
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc10_box28. "Gaining Momentum", 7 .wav files. Album by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. Recorded 1992.

    • Solid as the Bank of Bramwell
      2007
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc11_box28. "Solid as the Bank of Bramwell", 2 .wav files. Album by Bill Archer and Karl Miller.

    • Coalfield Visions Remake
      1993
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc12_box28. "Coalfield Visions Remake 1993", 10 .wav files. Album by Bill Archer and Karl Miller.

    • Two for Pocahontas
      2016
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc13_box28. "Two for Pocahontas", 2 .wav files. Repackaged 1990 recordings by Bill Archer and Karl Miller.

    • Coalfield Visions
      1990
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc14_box28. "Coalfield Visions", original recording, 10 .wav files. Recordings by Bill Archer and Karl Miller.

    • Stu and Bill Archer, the Archer Brothers
      1975
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc15_box28. "The Archer Brothers" by Stu and Bill Archer. 21 .wav files.

    • Project Duo
      2000
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc16_box28. "project duo" by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. 17 .wav files.

    • Merry, Merry Christmas
      2000
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc17_box28. "Merry, Merry Christmas" by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. 10 .wav files.

    • Four for Bluefield
      2016
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc18_box28. "Four for Bluefield" by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. 4 .wav files.

    • Sounds of the Hills, Volume 1
      2007
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc19_box28. "Sounds of the Hills: Live from Kimball, Part 1" by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. 9 .wav files.

    • Sounds of the Hills, Volume 2
      2017
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_disc20_box28. "Sounds of the Hills: Live from Kimball, Part 2" by Bill Archer and Karl Miller. 10 .wav files.

    • Bill Archer Songs 1971-1995
      Unknown
      Scope and Contents

      Identifier: 4388_add_2020-02_digtran_05. Word doc titled, "Bill Archer Songs 1971-1995" by Bill Archer. Autobiographical writings on his musical works, including historical background and lyrics.

  • Books Box: 24 Folder: 28
    Forestry Sciences Lab in Mercer County
    2021
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