Conditions Governing Use

The donor of this collection has transferred rights to the intellectual property they created to the Center. For more information regarding permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center.

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Stephen Capaldo Collection of Material from Southeastern West Virginia, A&M 4534, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Stephen Capaldo, 2022.

Scope and Contents

Collection includes company pay, union dues book, and training certificates (ca. 1939-1974) pertaining to United Mine Workers of America member Fred Capaldo, an Italian immigrant who worked for Leckie Smokeless Coal Company in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Collection also includes correspondence, photographs, etc., about Gap Mills, Monroe County, WV, as well as a 1906-1907 souvenir program for Bellview School, where Black children of Gap Mills received education. Also contains a brochure and photograph related to the now-closed Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home, located in nearby Sweet Springs, WV. Oversize folder contains a panoramic photograph of the Constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7-15, 1952.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia
• Coal industry - miners' wages.
• Gap Mills, WV
• Segregation in education
• Unions - UMWA.

General

Each photograph in Folder 2, of Gap Mills, is numbered on the back. Numbers corresponds with those numbers referenced by Stephen Capaldo via email. A print copy of the emails and corresponding numbers is located in Folder 2.