Lois Pyle/J.W. Morrell Collection

The Lois Pyle Collection consists of black and white photographs showing Bellaire, Ohio scenes which were photographed between 1900 and 1918 by her grandfather J. W. Morrell as photographer.  The photographs are in varying sizes in printed form, and the collection contains many panoramic photographs of landscapes and river scenes.  This collection includes numerous Bellaire Ohio street scenes at Union Street, Belmont Street, Guernsey Street, Noble Street, Crescent Street,  and  27^th Street; Steamboats on the Ohio River including the Ohio, Queen City, Charon,  Joe Fowler, American Boy, and  the Manley Wharf;  historical events including Theodore Roosevelt in Bellaire, Taft in St. Clairsville, Imperial Glass Factory construction;  railroad photographs including the B & O River Bridge (original and during reconstruction), tracks at Klee Crossing , tracks at Georgetown B & O Bridge, and Pennsylvania Train Station;  Bellaire buildings including 1^st and 2^nd City Buildings, Carroll Building, Christian Church, Globe Hotel, Union Savings Bank, fka First National Bank,  Buckeye Savings Bank, Windsor Hotel, Imperial Glass, Kern Home, Presbyterian Church, Christian Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Carnegie Mill and Glass Factories, Rodefer Home, Clark Home, Palace Grocery, Union School, Indian Run School, Bellaire Park,  Trevey Funeral Home; disasters including floods scenes, Eastern Milling Co. fire,  and McMahon Creek bridge trolley collapse; Wheeling Island, bridges, circus elephants, Epworth Park and Bethesda, Moundsville Mound and Panorama from Benwood, W.Va.  The collection contains multiple photographs of many (if not all) of these subjects.