MC. Manuscript Collections

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Letters and military service papers of a soldier serving with Co. F, 9th Ohio Cavalry.

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Personal collection centered on the families of Lena B. Rees and James L. Carter, their ancestors, and children. Contains extensive genealogical material, photographs, and some correspondence, including a few letters written by Rees family members in the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and an extensive series by Robert A. Carter while in training for submarine service during World War II.

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Administrative record books, primarily containing Articles of Incorporation and meeting minutes, of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company and its affiliated and predecessor companies. This collection duplicates part of the larger original collection held at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, University of Toledo.

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This collection contains four items dating from 1854-2006; a binder with photocopies of miscellaneous documents, a folder of directories and programs, and two church records.

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The records include the minutes of regular and executive board meetings, correspondence, financial statements, labor agreements, and wage scales for the years 1937 to 1966, with the bulk of the material specifically covering the period 1940 to 1961.

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The records of the Lima, Ohio Young Men's Christian Association date from 1881 to 1969. The history of this social and religious institution is reflected in the collection which consists of Board of Directors' Minutes, annual reports, correspondence, speeches of Robert J. Plate, membership lists, financial reports, and photographs.

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The collection consists of baptisms, first communions, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.

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Records documenting local government activities from throughout the 19-county region of Northwest Ohio from roughly 1833-1980. Includes city, county, court, township, school district and other entities' records in the form of logs, annual reports, minutes, dockets, and other records. Also includes records documenting a series of projects to return records to local government entities in several phases between 2002-2019.

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Logbook of a sailing ship detailing cargoes carried, ports visited, weather, and other data.

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Logbook of a general cargo sailing vessel on the Great Lakes. Contains weather, cargo, sailing conditions, crew status, and other data.

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Logbooks for sailing vessel detailing cargoes carried, ports visited, weather, and other data.

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The Lonz Winery Collection dates from 1899-1980. The operation and growth of a Lake Erie wine industry and some personal history of its owner, George Lonz, are reflected in the collection which consists of correspondence, ledgers, Internal Revenue forms, financial papers, pamphlets, and photographs.

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Personal correspondence, research notes, book reviews, news clippings, and printed material of an Ottawa County, Ohio Methodist minister.

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The collection consists of the following: one partial Record Book (1867-1890); a second partial Record Book (1890-1931) and one complete Record Book (1915-2002). Additional information for this parish may be found on the following: Sandusky Evangelical Lutheran Society, Sandusky Township, Ohio (MS 1006) and St. John's Lutheran, Leesville, Ohio (MS 1005).

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The papers of the Louis Emil Schraidt family, consists of 2.30 cubic feet of material centered on Johann Casper Schraidt of Ottawa County, Ohio. Spanning the years from 1847 to 1976, the collection includes correspondence (some in German), legal documents, clippings, photographs, and genealogical files relating to the Schraidt, Weigand, and Trapp Families, and life in Ottawa County, Ohio and Put-in-Bay.

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The Loyal B. Wort Papers consist of photocopies of a series of Civil War era letters, primarily from Loyal B. Wort, of Hicksville, Ohio, to his wife, Susan G. (Hendershot) Wort. The collection spans the period of his service from 1861 to 1864.

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Letters to his wife Addie, concern Great Lakes shipping and family matters; cover letter from donor includes biographical data. Letters written during Lucien's serivce aboard the schooner COMRADE.

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The collection dates from 1921 to 2005 and includes church records, membership books from both the Lykens United Methodist Church and the Concord Methodist Church in Brokensword, Ohio. It also includes one financial ledger from the Concord Methodist Church.

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The Lyle R. Fletcher collection documents the former Bowling Green State University geography professor’s research of Wood County history, geography, and weather. The collections consists of minutes, from local organizations with which Dr. Fletcher was affiliated, correspondence, research files, literary productions, and printed materials.

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The records of the Lyon, Clement & Greenleaf Company of Wauseon, Ohio, date from 1858 through 1886 and consist of correspondence and financial ledgers.

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The scrapbook, printed materials and photographic materials of the Mahla family originates in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio and spans from 1873 to 1968.These materials provide a family history of the following families: Lowmiller, Neumann, Goebel, Mahla and Hughey.

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Copies of floor plans, elevations, and sections for building of Lighthouse Keeper's house at Marblehead, Ohio.

Scope and Contents The Margit B. Heskett Collection includes a variety of documents which when taken together comprise a relatively complete picture of her life beginning with her youth in Teplice, Czechoslovakia in the 1920’s and 1930’s through her post retirement years and the early writing stages of a second memoir before her death in 2010.The correspondence and news clippings provide considerable detail about her life in dance, her associates, her folk dancing studies abroad, her travels, a...

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This collection of photographs and genealogical records centers on Marian Rose Shufeldt Jeffers Kurz and Carla Von Kurz, who resided in the Grand Rapids and Toledo, Ohio, areas. Few items are dated, but they primarily fall in the period of 1930-1980. The collection contains photographs (color and black and white), genealogical records, scrapbooks, school papers, and correspondence.

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The Marian Niles Papers consists of a small personal collection associated with the Niles and Stoner Families of Seneca County, Ohio and specifically the dog and horse breeding activities of Marian Niles. The limited material includes genealogical background, some property records, and information on dog and horse pedigrees, and family photographs.