MC. Manuscript Collections

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The minutes of The Hancock County Home Demonstration Council, a Women's Home Economics Club spans from 1946 to 1976. The collection is comprised of club minutes, scrapbooks, files and photos, all of which describe the Council's members and their activities.

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The Hancock County Republican collection features newspaper articles in scrapbooks that highlight the activities of the Hancock County Republican Women and other groups including Central and Executive Committees of Hancock County Republicans, and the Hancock County Young Republican’s Club.

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The Haner Family Papers consists of minor correspondence, land records, and two photographs related a family living in Wyandot County, Ohio.

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This collection reflects the activities of the Hans Hansen Welding Company in Toledo, Ohio through nearly four decades of vessel repair and construction projects, from 1942 to 1979. These project files document the work performed by a company representing marine repair businesses in the Great Lakes region.

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This collection consists of organizational records, including minutes, rules and regulations, officer and hostess lists, a club history and newspaper clippings.

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The collection is made up of the Quarterly Conference Books of the Bucyrus Circuit (June 1877-June 1924, September 1924, March 1925, September 1940-May 1941) which contain minutes, financial reports, and membership lists of the churches involved.

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Photographs, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and a family genealogy for two members of the Murphy family who were involved in the Lake trades. Harold Murphy was a sailor, while Arthur Murphy worked as a boilermaker in Toledo.

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Research files, student papers, printed materials, and news clippings focused upon the study of drama and theater history collected by BGSU Professor of Speech Harold B. Obee; research cards produced from resources located at Ohio repositories and libraries provide details about theater programs, performances, and events from the 19th into the 20th centuries at theaters in such Ohio cities as Cincinnati, Toledo, Findlay, and Bowling Green.

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Included within the collection of the Harpster United Methodist Church are two volumes. One record book contains information on the church's pastors, probationary and full members, baptisms, and marriages for the period from 1908 to 1917. One minute book for the period from 1877 to 1881 offers a record of meetings of the church's Sunday School, known at that time as the Fowler Sunday School.

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Funeral home records, including obituaries, military discharges and enlistment papers, death certificates, and information used to write the obituaries.

Abstract The Harrison Leathers Collection consists of three volumes of journals kept by Harrison Leathers dating from 14 September 1862 through 28 June 1865 and a transcription of all three volumes completed by Mrs. Helen Prill (privately printed as "Harrison Leathers' Day Books--Biography and Related Documents of the Civil War Era, 1862-1865." Elida, Ohio: Cards, Inc., 1984). He served in Company A of the 99th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the 17th Regiment of the Veteran Reserve...

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The Harry Byers Fisheries records date from 1937-1944 and include financial documents, monthly reports, and documents of legal restrictions and regulations governing the fishing industry. The collection also includes a smattering of correspondence, a subject file related to Byers' service with the Signal Corps during World War I, and unidentified photos.

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Correspondence between members of the Daniel Vinton Hartman family, particulary those letters of Charles Jacob Hartman, of Napoleon, Ohio, to his sister Mabel Clair, dealing with local activities and family affairs. Collection includes photos of Hartman family members and related Crider (or Kryder) family members.

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The papers of Harvey Dean Miner consist of 0.92 cubic feet of material centered on the industrial arts career of Harvey Miner of Bowling Green, Ohio. The collection spans the years circa 1935 to 1975 and is made up of subject files, literary productions, maps, printed materials and photographs.

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The Harvey Henry Smith papers (1911-1975) contain personal journals, photographs and military memorabilia documenting Colonel Smith’s career in the U.S. Army, as well as family papers.

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The collection consists of two record books (1867-1962, 1868-1901), both of which list members, baptisms, marriages, deaths and probationers, and three minute books (1858-1903, 1898-1942, 1903-1941). Also included is a minute book of the Tabea Ladies Society (1904-1920). The collection is the result of the merger of the Emmanuel Congregation and the First Baptist Church of Haskins, Ohio. The church was federated on September 12, 1948.

Abstract This collection includes a series of handwritten diaries recorded on composition notebooks, daily entry calendars, and journals from the 1930s through the early 1970s. The diaries document the daily life of the Hazel Mae Bailey Long and her household in Paulding County in Northwest Ohio. The diaries have scrapbook materials included periodically, such as newspaper clippings, dried leaf or flower pressings, correspondence and holiday cards, household records, and miscellaneous memorabilia...

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The records of the Health Planning Association of Northwest Ohio date from 1969 to 1984. The history of this health organization is reflected in the collection which consists of proceedings, correspondence, reports and printed materials.

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The Hefner Family Papers consist of family correspondence between various members of a Lima, Ohio area family during the period at the end of World War II and during the Korean War, primarily the letters from the mother, Zelma Hefner, to her sons.

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Proceedings, correspondence, reports, appointment diaries, and legal documents of Walter F. Kirk, while Master of the Ohio State Grange; Kirk family papers including an account book and legal papers.

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The collection consists of personal correspondence, membership lists for the Ladies and Men's Red Circle Class, a diary, poems, philosophical and historical writings dating from 1915-1923. The collection also includes two unidentified, nondated photographs.

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The Henry Freyensee Negative Collection consists of 324 glass plate negatives (319 4x5 plates and 5 8x10 plates) and 5 film negatives (approximately 1.5 linear ft.), dating from 1897 to 1916. Primarily showing family and lake shipping scenes around the Sandusky, Ohio area, including the family operated tug Grandon and other lake ships, the collection also includes a few photographs from Port Clinton and the Lake Erie Islands.

Abstract The Henry O. Sheldon Collection consists of fifty-seven volumes of journals, dating from 1817 through 1882, and four volumes of Sheldon family genealogies. The journals written by Henry O. Sheldon, document the daily activities of this Methodist preacher who settled in northern Ohio, specifically Huron County and later Cuyahoga County, and who traveled extensively throughout Ohio and the northeastern United States as a circuit preacher. The family genealogies also were compiled and later...

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The Henry ZumFelde photograph collection consists of copy photographic prints documenting activities of the ZumFelde, Oberhaus, and related families of Fulton and Henry Counties, Ohio, from the 1880s to the 1970s.

Abstract The Hill and Morgan families papers span four generations of a Wood County, Ohio family, from 1831 to 1983. The surnames of the successive generations are: Hill, Morgan, Overmyer, and Graf. The collection includes correspondence, documents, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, and some artifacts collected during this time span. These materials provide an intimate look into the events of a typical Northwest Ohio family, and the context in which they lived....