MC. Manuscript Collections

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The collection contains records of the Delta Zeta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, including yearbooks, financial and committee reports, meeting minutes, letters, chapter laws and handbooks, chapter histories, and certificates and scrapbooks. This collection ranges from circa 1929 to 2018. While the bulk of the collection documents the local chapter, a few international society materials are included as well.

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Organizational records of state chapter of a professional honorary society of female educators with meeting minutes, correspondence, workshop programs, and additional yearbooks from Northwest Ohio chapters.

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Records, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks from the Alpha Pi Chapter of Delta Psi Kappa at Bowling Green State University, dating from 1949 to 1993. Includes materials on the organization’s structure/formation, membership, pledge process, interactions with the national organization, campus events, and finances.

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Minutes, membership rosters, annual programs and financial records.

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The D.L. Sears papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, maps, and printed material relating to service during World War II in the Pacific and covering period from 1938 to 1945.

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Records of a family-owned business in Defiance, Ohio, including corporate registers, photographs, blueprints, reports, certificates, and statements. Company started as a brewery and diversified into evaporated milk, dried coffee creamer and other non-dairy products.

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The collection consists of the records of Mt.Carmel Cemetery (1843-2004), Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery (1929) and Calvary Cemetery (1887-1994). A brief history in the Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery file indicates that the first burial was March 19, 1867 and the last burial was November 3, 1923. Due to inconsistencies in pagination and transcription of data, researchers are encouraged to refer to all volumes within each series.

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The records of the Discoverer's Club, Findlay, Ohio, date form 1896 to 1973. The history of this social organization is reflected in the collection which consists of organizational minutes, correspondence, financial records, literary productions, and news clippings.

Abstract The collection consists of three parish registers and includes baptism, communicant, marriage, burial, and confirmation records. Parish register 1913-1946 also includes a charter constitution, list of pastors, church council records, and church history. Parish register 1946-1978 also includes a list of pastors, church council records, list of members, and a list of historical events. Parish register 1978-2001 also includes a charter constitution, list of pastors, church council records, list...

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Description of circumstances in the collision of a tug with a pleasure craft in the Maumee River, resulting in the deaths of seven passengers on the launch.

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The Don Cunningham papers contain materials spanning from 1951 to 1979. The types of documents include minutes from various meetings, incoming and outgoing correspondence, game reports, contracts, financial reports, budget information, game attendance reports, newsletters, brochures, photographs, and old game tickets. The correspondence and the minutes are the most complete records within the collection.

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The Don Simmons papers consist of judicial statistics, courthouse remodeling files, lawsuits by felons against Simmons, a variety of suits from which Simmons asked to be recused, news releases, notary public data, annual court reports, and the like, collected by a Wood County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas judge, and date from 1976 to 1982.

Abstract The papers are divided into two main family collections: the Kunkle and Cocanower Family Papers. These two families lived in Pioneer, Williams County, Ohio and are related through the marriage of Henry P. Kunkle and Mary Elsie Cocanower, the step-father and mother of Mrs. Barbara Gorrell.The Kunkle Family Papers date inclusively from 1848-1960. Documentation includes correspondence, receipts and stock certificates, concerned chiefly with the business dealings of the Kunkle farm....

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The Donald F. Rodawig Papers consist of transcripts, with some photocopies, of original letters and a diary written by a physician serving during World War II.

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Incoming and outgoing correspondence from soldiers and their families to Smith, while he was President of New York State Teachers College at Cortland, N.Y.

Abstract The files contained within the Dora E. Giffen collection span over a century from 1877 to 1981. The collection profiles the life of a woman as influenced in her early life by the religious vocation of her parents, and her subsequent chosen path to the rest of her life. Most beneficial to any research done on this collection are the correspondence files, the academic files, and the photographs, which when combined provide a complete and stunningly clear image of the woman, Dora E. Giffen. The...

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Dorothy J. Harvey was a community activist, a Democratic supporter, and a longtime member of the Greater Toledo chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW). The Dorothy J. Harvey papers include newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs.

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The materials comprising the Dorothy Ringle collection date from 1862-1961 and include proceedings, membership records, and correspondence of the Ohio Market Quota Protest Association and the United Farmers of America. Also included are the personal papers of Rolla M. Myers which contain legal correspondence, contracts, affidavits, patent papers and related materials, speeches, transcripts, photographs and other information depicting Myers' life from childhood to his death in 1961.

Abstract The registers and ledgers of B.F. Davis, physician and druggist in Tontogany, Ohio, cover most of his medical career, from 1865-1906. The registers and ledgers span from 1877-1906 and are an excellent example of patient and customer accounts of a very successful medical practice and private business.Although the bulk of the material is concerned with formal financial records, there are a few diversions. The collection includes a Civil War patient-soldier account; a copied segment...

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The collection contains correspondence, publications and files related to Dr. Charles Barrell's tenure as a professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University (1940-1974) and his service as a Bowling Green City Councilman (1967-1981).

Abstract The daybooks, dating from April 1857 to July 1867, record Dr. Herrmann's charges for visits (including mileage), diagnosis, treatment, and prescriptions. In the back of each daybook, Dr. Herrmann recorded the number of confinements, it is assumed for the time period of each daybook. The ledger, dating from 1857 to 1866 includes the doctor's accounting information (charges and payments), listed by the patient's name. Many times the payment is listed in terms of agricultural products or labor...

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Ledger books and papers of a physician in Ottawa County, Ohio. Ledgers document house calls and payments in private practice and as company doctor for the Kelley's Island Lime and Transport Company.

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The Dr. Thomas M. Lea collection consists of 0.23 cubic feet and mostly contains Financial Documents. These Financial Documents include ledgers, or Dental Registers, dating from May 19, 1902 to November 7, 1904. It also contains photocopies of two news clipping from The Daily Sentinel providing information on Dr. Thomas M. Lea’s life and death.

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The Dumond Family Papers contain Civil War documents, correspondence, financial and legal documents, account books, a scrapbook and diaries covering the period 1862-1962. The collection is focused on John Wesley Dumond, a volunteer in the 69th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry from 1862 to 1865, and his descendants. His son, William Albert Dumond, compiled a genealogical scrapbook containing pictures and a narrative family history.