MC. Manuscript Collections

The records of Wiley Post #85, Woman's Relief Corps, consist of minutes, rolls of members, cashbooks, convention publications, and artifacts, covering the period from 1885 to 1974.

Minutes of the Alumni Home Council, with additional clippings and member lists.

Office records, primarily annual reports written by both the agricultural extension agent and the home demonstration agent; the narratives include summaries of outreach activities with local farmers, women's organizations, and 4-H youth groups as part of the educational mission of the Extension Service.

The Emergency Farm Labor records of the Cooperative Extension Service span from 1943-1948, with the majority of materials covering the range of 1944 through 1945. This collection consists of correspondences between local and state agents, as well as with military personnel. In addition, the collection contains such records as applications for employment, laws and regulations, farm labor handbooks, and the leases of land used for a prisoner of war camp.

Minutes of meetings, membership lists, and attendance records.

The records of the Wood County Farmers' Mutual Fire Association consist of assessment books, ledgers, and certificates of membership, ranging from 1903 until 1960.

The records, dating from 1922 to 1978, include newsletters, financial statements, brochures, correspondences and research notes.

The Wood County Monumental Works records span the period from the founding of the business in 1907 until 1954 and comprises contracts, correspondence, cash books, purchase, check and sales records.

The Wood County, Ohio “Ghost Town” Photographic collection contains copy negatives with historic 19th and early 20th century views of small towns around Wood County, some with identification, gathered for copying by the Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society. The negatives were also scanned and copied to CD for ease of use, identification sheet included.

The records of the Wood County Retired Teachers Association consist of 1.15 cubic feet of meeting minutes, written histories, scrapbooks, clippings, and a newsletter from 1969 to 2006.

Background information sheets, organized by township and school district, on one-room schoolhouses in Wood County, Ohio. Collected by the Wood County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society as part of the Wood County Schoolhouse Project.

Record of cemetery financial investments and endowments. Wrapped.

Included with this collection are the records of the New Winchester United Methodist Church.

The records of Woodmen of the World, Columbia Camp #17, North Baltimore, Ohio, consist of meeting minutes, a membership ledger, cash books, correspondence, and account books, dating from 1894 through 1913.

Handwritten pocket diary of an Erie County, Ohio poultry and stock-breeder, describing activities and daily farm chores.

Financial accounts, daybook and journal of a Fremont, Ohio blacksmith; in handwritten German.

Listing of duties and rules established for the Works Progress Administration in Ohio for workers as Housekeeping Aides, signed by foreman Thelma L. Rothgeb.

Account book covering the period from November 28, 1857 to July 17, 1865 with earlier loose sheets from 1853 specific to Way's accounts with Peck and Hamilton with some reference to platting Tontogany, Ohio.

The records of the York Township Birthday Club date from 1926 to 1991. The 0.55 cubic feet of minutes, newspaper clippings, and photographs reflect the ihstory and activities of this Fulton County social club.

The Young-Furst collection consists of photographs relating to Eban Claude Young dating from 1916 through 1924. The collection also contains photographs relating to the World War I service of Sylvester A. Furst. Certificates and materials relating to Sylvester Furst’s tenure as an engineer of Great Lakes shipping vessels are also included.

The personal photographs of Yvonne (Slyker) Cave consist of snapshots, including many taken during her years as a student at Bowling Green State University between 1945 and her graduation with the Class of 1948.

The Zimmerman School Collection features artifacts, books, documents, and photographs documenting rural education in Center Township, Wood County, Ohio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Church records including officers and members lists, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants.