MC. Manuscript Collections

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Personal and family papers of the Muir, Burns, and Phelps families, all of Webster Township, Wood County, Ohio, with some photographs including petroleum industry; list of folder contents included.

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Diary describing people and events in Bowling Green, Ohio, including Baldwin family members.

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Charter and board minutes from August 1928 to 1977.

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Civil War pension file of Emmanuel Lybarger with Co.K., 57th O.V.I. ; pocket diary of James Lybarger, with 36th Co., 9th Battalion, Camp Sherman; family poetry and genealogical information.

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Minute book, including constitution, membership roll, bylaws, and record of meetings of a Findlay, Ohio debating club.

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Daily devotional book, Christliches Vergissmeinnicht, in which friends and family have signed the page corresponding to their birthday, with some death dates and places added.

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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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Interview with resident of South Bass Island, Ohio, describing Island residents and social llife; includes partial typed transcript.

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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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Letter to Rebecca Ebersole in Arcadia, Ohio from her nephew, a lumber dealer in McComb, concerning construction of a new house, including a penciled sketch of proposed floor plans.

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Personal reminiscence of service in Pacific Theater with the Marines during World War II, including an account of the Battle of Peleliu.

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Annual and financial reports, list of members, shooting records, hunting rules and regulations, fur and fish sales records, investment and bank statements, deeds, and inventories of a private duck club in Magee Marsh, now owned by the State of Ohio and administered by the Department of Natural Resources.

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Family correspondence, including letters written home to Ohio by Alpheus Magill in California during the Gold Rush era, and a family history.

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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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Memorandum of agreement, correspondence, financial papers, product formula and promotional material, and court papers related to the dissolution of the company, and legal dispute.

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Record books, with cemetery lot deed records.

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

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Transcribed diary of a 12-year-old Bowling Green, Ohio, girl, entries between June 1-August 31, detailing daily chores and social activities; added notes by her sister Helen Merry Lancashire.

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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Composite class photographs, many with identification, of children at Jerusalem Township School and at Clay Elementary School where Marguerite Miller was the teacher.

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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.