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This real photo postcard was sent by one of the men in this picture to his cousin in Colorado. He indicates that the group photographed is his work crew and that he would like to move west and work for the rail road with his cousin. From the Ellen Dunable Postcard Collection, Museums of Oglebay Institute — Real Photo Postcard. From the Ellen Dunable Postcard Collection, Museums of Oglebay Institute

Journal entry documenting the escort of the new Governor of new state of West Virginia to the inaugeration by the Fourth Regiment of the Virginia Militia, June 20, 1863. Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling, WV. — Ohio County Public Library Archives

"All Aboard for Charleston, May 2, 1886." The 'Floating Capital' of West Virginia leaves Wheeling for the second time for its final resting place in Charleston. W. C. Brown Collection, Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling, WV. — Ohio County Public Library Archives

A 1929 postcard of the formal gardens next to what today is the Oglebay Institute Mansion Museum. From the Ellen Dunable Postcard Collection, Museums of Oglebay Institute — Museums of Oglebay Institute

Signed Eleanor Steber Portrait by George Kossuth. -Eleanor Steber Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling, WV — Ohio County Public Library Archives

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Law and Commerce Building (circa 1922). -From the collections of the Eastern Regional Coal Archives — Eastern Regional Coal Archives

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