Document Type
Finding Aid
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
This collection consists of 51 TIFF images representing 50 photographs of early Huntington, West Virginia. Photographic subjects include the D. E. Abbot frame factory in Huntington, WV, Twelve Pole Creek in Wayne County, WV, Norfolk and Western Railway and Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracks, trestles, and trains, Big Sandy River, Kenova Electric Power Plant, log and timber in rivers, log cabins in Huntington and Kenova, WV, Camden Interstate Railway train cars, tie hoists, Johnson’s Lane car house, as well as a railway car wreck in 1906, Cabell County Courthouse, Cabell County Jail, Huntington Hospital, 20th Street Hill, Kessler Hospital, “H. G. Fields, the Minstrel Man”, steamboat Carrie Brown and Thealka, houseboat Ohio Valley, horse from Germany sold at the Huntington Racetrack, and a photo of dogs and puppies.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Jim Taylor Photograph Collection, 1880-1910 here.
Rights
Special collections material is obtained from many sources and is intended primarily for research and educational purposes. Certain works may be protected by copyright, trademark, or related interests not governed by the department. It is up to the researcher to verify that they have permission to use these materials for publication or other activities.
Accession Number
2010/08.0778
Access and Use
For more information or to use any of these collections, contact:
Special Collections, Morrow Library
Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755
(304) 696-2343
speccoll@marshall.edu
Recommended Citation
Jim Taylor Photograph Collection, 1880s-1910s, Accession No. 2010/08.0778, Special Collections Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
