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Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center
Weirton, West Virginia
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Weirton.
1934 to 1989Dates represented
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21,446Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Weirton, West Virginia.
Discover another side of Weirton, West Virginia through business and industry publications preserved in the Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center's digital archive. The archive includes Weirton Steel Bulletin, with material from 1934 to 1989.
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“Weirton Steel Bulletin” is shared here by Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center.
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Bring a personal interest or classroom question to the material, keeping what it shows separate from what you still need to establish.
A community's history is made up of many lives and perspectives. Historical materials offer a way to explore those connections without reducing the past to a single story. A family story, a classroom project or curiosity about a familiar place can lead to a closer look at the community and the lives of earlier generations. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Explore Weirton Steel Bulletin through 21,446 digitized pages, with material from 1934 to 1989. Through a partnership with Advantage Archives, Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center shares these sources from the past. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
One title can lead to several questions. Begin with a person, place or date that matters to you.
Weirton Steel Bulletin
21,446 pages from 1934 to 1989
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About the Archive
About The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center’s History Archives
Donations and monetary support for WAMCC allow for the care of collections and preservation of Weirton's rich history, but they also make this archive possible. Donations are requested to continue doing vital work in the community and to tell Weirton's amazing story.
About the Community
About Weirton Steel Employees Bulletin
The Weirton Steel Employees Bulletins—through their articles, photographs, advertisements, local sports segments, and recipe sections—offer more than fifty years of social and economic history about the men and women who worked at Weirton Steel, one of West Virginia's greatest economic generators in the 1940s and 1950s. Additionally, details about the employees’ roles in wartime activities, both abroad and on the home front, provide users with a fascinating view of the region’s—and by extension, West Virginia’s—role in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
About the Museum
About The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center
The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center serves residents and visitors of Weirton, West Virginia , providing opportunities to explore the cultural and historic heritage of the greater Weirton area. Located at 3149 Main Street, the museum houses and displays historic artifacts, offering programs that reflect the cultural, social, commercial, ethnic, spiritual, and historic aspects of the area. The WAMCC is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to preserving Weirton's rich history.
Institution History
The History Of The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center
The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center had its humble beginnings in 1984 when June Eiselstein, former Director of the Mary H. Weir Public Library, applied for a grant and held a series of community meetings to establish a museum in Weirton to preserve the story of Weirton Steel Company and the local area's rich history. In 2002, the museum began to take shape, acquiring many historical items from Weirton Steel Corporation. After years without a permanent location, the museum opened its first building on July 1, 2006, at 3393 Main Street, Weirton. The current location at 3149 Main Street has been fully renovated thanks to generous grants, and it continues to attract thousands of visitors each year, preserving Weirton's history for future generations.
About the Community
About The City of Weirton, West Virginia
Weirton, located in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, is a city with a rich industrial history, largely centered around the Weirton Steel Corporation. The city played a significant role in the steel industry and has a diverse cultural heritage. The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center is dedicated to preserving and sharing the unique history of this vibrant community.
Local History
Did You Know?
The Weirton Steel Bulletin, through its articles, photographs, advertisements, and local sports segments, offers more than fifty years of social and economic history about the men and women who worked at Weirton Steel. Weirton was one of West Virginia's greatest economic generators in the 1940s and 1950s. Details about the employees' roles in wartime activities provide a fascinating view of the region's involvement in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Record the evidence as you go
What would you like to learn about the people or places connected with Weirton? Use the collection details shared by the Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center to choose a source and record the title, date, and page or item reference for each useful detail. Keep the title, date, and page or item reference for useful results. Note unsuccessful searches and unanswered questions as well.
Before following another lead, save the title, date, and page or item reference shown with the source. Compare that evidence with the question that brought you here, and let what the source does and does not show shape a thoughtful next search.
Keep source details beside each quotation or observation. If accounts differ, preserve both references and note what remains unresolved. Let the evidence, rather than a smooth retelling, show where the sources agree and where the story is still open.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
Learn about partnerships
Stories, research tips, and archive news
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