Box 1
Container
Contains 118 Results:
Meadow Branch School class, Joel Cox as teacher, Red Roberts is the student with an arrow pointing to him, ca. 1907
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, item: 2
Identifier: 102
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
ca. 1907
A letter to Mrs. Stanley Roberts from C.F. Roberts, July 16 1968
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
July 15, 1968, Fixer Ky, Just one more line from the Fixer post office which will close August 2nd , 1968 after serving thru the Big Sinking Oil ____ and for over fifty years mail was delivered here by ox and mule team, horse back, train, or car and on foot. But everything must pass on. This will be the last letter from your old home P.O. With Love, Chester.
Dates:
July 16 1968
Poetry, 1931, ca.1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents
Two typed poems under the tittle Early Morning, one dated 1975 about a person attending their own funeral and not knowing that they were dead, and the other is a letter to someone already dead telling them about what is going on in the living world. Also a 1931 poem dated about the lightning strike at the Cumberland Gas Plant. It is written in the first person and sounds factual, however, it is not signed or noted as being such. It has the sound of being written by C.F. Roberts but it is not...
Dates:
1931, ca.1975
Letha Mae as a baby sitting in a chair, Fincastle, KY, ca. 1920's
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
ca. 1920's
Engine #12, J.E. Akin was the engineer and Crawford Akin was the Fireman, two other men in the photo are unknown, hauling logs and pulp wood on Williams River, Webster Co., WV, Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co., Richwood, WV, ca. 1927
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, item: 3
Identifier: 103
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
ca. 1927
Short Story, 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 6
Scope and Contents
A short story by C.F. Roberts, four pages long with writing on both sides of the last page. It is about a man who takes a ship through the Panama Canal and on up to Long Beach. He holds a package for one of his ship mates which eventually gets stolen. However, it is stolen by the "good guys" as it is a plan on how to protect the Panama Canal from invasion; "bad guys" had been after it through out the entire story. The narrative is written in first person form and it is not know if it is a...
Dates:
1939
Letha Mae as a child standing next to large barrels, Fincastle, KY, 1927
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 4
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
1927
Letha Mae as a child in the corner of a photo of a train, Fincastle, KY, 1927
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 5
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
1927
Three men standing/sitting/ on the front of a train engine, J.E. Akin was the engineer, WV, Williams River, Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Richwood, Nicholas County, WV, 1927
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, item: 4
Identifier: 104
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These photographs and manuscripts were separated from a collection of photographs formerly known as the Townsend Photographs. They are arranged starting with photos of identified people, and these starting with the Roberts family photos themselves. The photos work themselves out through a family web starting with Letha Mae, then moving to her parents, then on to extended family and friends. Following the identified people are the photos of people who were not identified (a photo in which a...
Dates:
1927
Family Genealogy, 1977
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 4
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
A photocopy of a list of people, stating who they married, when they died, and who their children were. Towards the middle it picks up with Letha Roberts and follows her family through to the birth of Greg and Gary Knack. It is dated Oct. 19.
Dates:
1977