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Gallery: Do you remember? -- Jan. 10, 2011

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Atlantic City, N.J., 1900. Left, Mrs. Cowden. Right, Mrs. Guy Berlt.

January 10, 2011 @ 10:39 AM

The Herald-Dispatch

We have a treasure trove of old negatives and photos at The Herald-Dispatch. Some of the images, we know. Others, we have no idea.

We are scanning the negatives and photos and running some of the photos in the newspaper.

These images were in a filing folder in a cabinet. Some of them have run in the newspaper before, and many of them had some information on the back.

Browse through the gallery. If you can add caption information to any of the photos (or correct a caption we already have), e-mail online editor Andrea Copley-Smith at acopley@herald-dispatch.com or call 304-526-2764. Be sure to include the title of the gallery, details of the photo, your name and phone number.

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Atlantic City, N.J., 1900. Left, Mrs. Cowden. Right, Mrs. Guy Berlt.

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Guyandotte River. The board that the photo is attached to says "Mather Archer, amateur photographer."

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About 1927, in front of Marshall University's Old Main.

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Mrs. Timothy Parsons (Louise Wentz).

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"Dady" Myers and Miss Tullis, March 29, 1927.

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Mrs. Thomas Luther and children of neighborhood in Louisa, Ky., about 1910. Photograph by Thomas Luther.

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About 1930. Harold Blair, B.B. Lovins or Mr. Brewster.

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About 1928. Front: Mrs. Mont Stepp (Caroline Farley), Clifford Wilson and Lizzie Wilson. Back: Melda Maynard and Tella Maynard.

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Left back, Edit Maynard. Right back, Texie Stepp.

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Paul Dober, a tailor in Huntington.

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The Guyandotte Club once stood on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and 11th Street, across from the present Coal Exchange Building. The club was formed sometime after the turn of the 20th century and survived the 1913 and 1937 floods. It survived until shortly after World War II, when the building was razed. A small diner was constructed on part of the vacant lot. However, that diner fell to the wrecker's ball in the late 1950s or early 1960s. There are many old postcards showing this building from the right of the front, but this view is rare. Thanks to Larry Legge for the information.

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Image unknown. The men are wearing American Legion hats.

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Upper left, Lois Genevieve Duncan Peyton.

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Center, James A. Garner. Others unknown.

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About 1915. Edith Maynard, left, and Homer Maynard.

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Girls: Edith Maynard, Tennie Farley, Maxie Maynard, Texie Stepp. Boys: Homer Maynard, ? Sammons.

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Mildred Stepp (Lee's first wife), Homer Maynard and Glenn Lee Stepp, about 1928.

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1894, the Jefferings brothesr

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About 1918. Taken on the farm where W.E. Noble was raised, Trace Fork of Twelve Pole, Fort Gay.

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This was shown on page 29 of “First Families of Huntington,” published by the Herald Advertiser in June 1977. It was a compilation of articles written by Rick Baumgartner for the newspaper and appearing in the newspaper from Oct. 28, 1976, to March 24, 1977. The book’s caption reads: “ The notation in the book reads: "Clowning around on the banks of the Ohio River during the early 1890s. Elliott Northcott is standing at left, with paddle." Thanks to Larry Legge for the information.

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About 1928. Tella Maynard with her grandfather, Samuel G. Farley, a Civil War veteran who was born in 1844 (he is about 84 in this photo.

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Ella and Sarah Stephenson.

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Image unknown. The back of the photo says "Harry Hatten, March 7, 1905, Lillian B. Johnson."

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On the board: "We had our pictures taken at Erskine's."

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Back right, Lee Stepp. Early 1920s.

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About 1904, John Lewis Duncan and family.

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About 1896. "Ironton's Idiotic Idiots" sewing club. From left (front), Clare Humphrey, whose father was superintendent of the Ironton City schools; Clare Simmons Blanton of the Bellefonte Iron family; Helen Ogg Ginn, wife of Fred J. Ginn, Huntington Superintendent of Agencies, C&O Railway; and Alice Bixby Layman of the Bixby jewelry store family. Standing, Harriet Dave Drumheller, wife of Frank Drumheller, vice president of the Kanawha Valley Bank in Charleston; sisters Bess and Felonise Moore (Felonise was owner and publisher of the Ironton Tribune until the late 1950s); Clara Davis Taylor, wife of a Portsmouth, Ohio, newspaperman who drowned saving his son; and Ethel Moran of the livery stable family.

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Old Maids' Convention, Mary Burks, Lou Pollard, Bob Adkins, Lulu Burris.

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Fall 1918 at Trace Fork School, Fort Gay. Teacher (far right), Norma Crabtree. Principal (third row) Opal Ward of Wayne. Photo by W.E. Noble.

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Adrian R. Stepp and Amma Damron Stepp, 1913.

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Image unknown. The board says Hayward's Studio, Gallipolis, Ohio.

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The West Virginia Paving and Pressed Brick Company, circa 1918. The site later became the Fairfield Plaza Shopping Center and is presently the parking lot for Cabell Huntington Hospital. The photograph was taken near the present site of Fairfield Towers. Thanks to Larry Legge for identifying the photo.

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Graduation day at a girls' school in eastern Kentucky, about 1900. Photo by Thomas Luther.

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Image unknown. (Check out the skeleton on the front row.)

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Photo by Thomas Luther. School conducted for many years in a Kentucky town, maybe Prestonsburg.

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Students in a dancing school operated by Miss Virginia (Jennie) Myers in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1903. The youngsters were possibly dressed for a "cakewalk."

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Judge C.W. Campbell.