Harvey Dean Miner papers
Collection – Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-1088
Collection Organization
The Harvey Dean Miner papers consists of 0.92 cubic feet of materials revolving around the industrial arts career of Harvey Miner from circa 1935 to 1975. The collection includes subject files, printed materials, maps and photographs.
The subject files include industrial arts project plans and industrial art facilities and programs development plans at schools throughout Ohio, including McClure, Otsego and Weston. Floor plans for these facilities are included in the map section. There are also numerous articles written by Miner addressing several industrial art issues. Photographs in the collection show the changes instituted by Miner in industrial arts programs in “before” and “after” shots of various school industrial art facilities. Any one interested in industrial arts education would find this collection a very useful research tool in their investigations. There are also numerous photographic negatives of his travels, places and people around Tontogany, and images related to his career at BGSU.
2" Belt Sander Plans, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
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Art Metal and Plastics Projects, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
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McClure High School Industrial Arts Department, 1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
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Otsego Local Schools Industrial Arts Department, 1958
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1958
Patternmaking and Foundry Projects, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
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Plywood Projects, 1937-1950
File – Box 1, Folder: 6
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School Shop Project Notebook, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
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School Shop Project Notebook, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 8
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Weston Industrial Arts Department, 1953
File – Box 1, Folder: 9
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Weston Local School Industrial Arts Department, [1953]
File – Box 1, Folder: 10
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Weston High School Industrial Arts Department, [1953]
File – Box 1, Folder: 11
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The Problem of Tool Storage, 1949
File – Box 2, Folder: 1
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Patternmaking and Foundry Work in the General Shop, 1950
File – Box 2, Folder: 2
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Caring for Finishing Brushes, 1959
File – Box 2, Folder: 3
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Effective Shop Safety Organization, 1959
File – Box 2, Folder: 4
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Foundry Molding Sand Mixer, 1967
File – Box 2, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1967
Industrial Art Laboratory Plans, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 6
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Invitations, 1938-1977
File – Box 2, Folder: 7
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Flyers, 1951-1952
File – Box 2, Folder: 8
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Newsletters, 1951-1977
File – Box 2, Folder: 9
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Photographs, 1930s-1950s
File – Box 2, Folder: 10
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Loose unidentified negatives, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 11
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Set “A” (11 negatives - Nigeria?)
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Set “E” (12 negatives - Nigeria?)
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Slides (3 color slides - Fire truck, Tontogany, Ohio)
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Negatives unidentified people
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Negatives unidentified places
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 12
Animals
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Bear at Smoky Mts, 1950
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Mrs. H.E. Gill - Cats
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Architecture
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Miami, Fla. Hotels (2); Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. (1)
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Powell Home (2), 750 Carruthers Dr., Worthington, OH, Dec. 1950
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Clarence Zissler Building (4), formerly the Heyman Pool room, Tontogany?
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New Airport at Toledo (4), Nov. 1954
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Pere Bently Home (4), May 14, 1955
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Turnpike Bridge over Maumee under construction, 1954
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Scenes of “My Old Kentucky Home” (4); general store, Renfro Valley, Sept. 1954
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Anthony Wayne School, July 4, 1954
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New School Buildings, Weston, Grand Rapids, Milton, 1954
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American Legion Hall construction (interior, east side, siding east end, close-up of siding, front view from s.w. corner, front view from n.w. corner)
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American Legion Hall construction (current boys installing heating louver, hall interior, building kitchen cupboards, building gun case, building stage steps), March 1953
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American Legion Hall, front view (Taken for Blade)
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McKinley Memorial, Canton, Ohio
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Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio (3), 1953
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Floyd Hicks’ garage (3)
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E. G. Gill house in grove, grove near old house
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BGSU smokestack
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Covered bridge, out of Marysville
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Views of Mt. Vernon (2)
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Macochee Castle, 1957
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 13
Calamites
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Brown fire at river near Otsego (4), Nov. 1954
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Groups
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Tontogany’s first Halloween Festival, Oct. 31, 1953
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Industrial Arts Club Halloween Party, including apple-bobbing (8), Oct. 29, 1954
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Industrial Arts Club Picnic at Oak Openings Park (6), May 2, 1954
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Industrial Arts Club Picnic at Oak Openings Park (10), May 15, 1955
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Firemen’s Annual Party (6), Sept. 1953
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Firemen’s Annual Party (7), Jan. 30, 1954
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Firemen’s Annual Party (8), Jan. 1955
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Junior Class, Weston School (2)
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Soybean Festival, Tontogany, Ohio (20), July 28-31, 1954
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Representatives of American Legion and Firemen in preparation for Pancake & Sausage Supper, Legion Hall, Tontogany, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1957
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Little League baseball, Tontogany, Ohio, 1955
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Teegarden Family Reunion, June 24, 1956
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Tour of Bliss Foundry, Pattern and Foundry Class, BGSU (7), May 21, 1954
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Tontogany Water Works Groundbreaking and driving the stake (2)
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Washington Township New Fire Truck, Oct. 1954
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Oil well west of Bowling Green, 1953
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 14
Landscape
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Kentucky Hills (6)
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Oak Openings Park (10), Oct. 1953
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Hocking Hills Caves, Circleville, Ohio (12)
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Ohio Turnpike (3), Oct. 9, 1955
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Oak Openings Park, animal shots (5), July 4, 1954
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Florida scenery (4); Bok Tower, Royal Palm Bldg, Palm Beach, Blimp over Miami, Cypress Swamp
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Storm damage at Bowling Green (6), June 26, 1954
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Scenes near Bowling Green Water Treatment Plant (3), May 21, 1954
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Flooded creek near Paulding, Ohio, March 1953
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Seven Caves, Chillicothe, Ohio (2)
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Coal shaft, southern Ohio near Chesterville
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Lake Hope, Zaleski, Ohio (4)
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Great Smoky Mountain area (14)
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Old Cincinnati, Lake Erie Electric Line bridge abutment
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Southern pine forest, Jessup, Ga. (3)
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B&O supply reservoir, Tontogany, Ohio
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Serpent Mound, Yellow Springs, Ohio
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Niagara Fall, Power Plant (3)
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Logan Elm, Bellfountaine, Ohio
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Russell’s Point Island, Bellefountaine, Ohio
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B & O Railroad, north of Tontogany, Ohio, looking north
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View at Rock House (Hocking County), Konkle’s Hollow (4)
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Grand Rapids Dam
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Hill view over Hocking River, North of Athens, Ohio
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Views above Grand Rapids Dam (3), 1953
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Campsite on our wedding trip, Key Town, south of Marion, Aug. 1939
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Woods scene (3), my shop
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 15
People
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Bowling pictures (3), 1963
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- Creation: 1963
IOOF Grand Lodge Officers & Local Officers Lodge Dist. 17, Tontogany, Ohio, 1957
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IOOF Grand Lodge Officers, Brantford, Ontario; Dist. IOOF Convention at Tontogany, March 23, 1957
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First Aid Class, Bill Sullivan, teacher (Dunbridge), Feb. 1, 1957
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L.L. Aury’s & us at East Harbor State Park (2), 1955
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Rev. Lucero at Toussaint River, Oct. 9, 1954
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Denver Yarger and Tom Hendricks, studenter teacher, March 1953
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Miss Dolly Welch, retirement from teaching, Belmore, April 30, 1954
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Firemen with new resuscitator (3)
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Tobacco farmers in Kentucky
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Students in agriculture class in Grand Rapids (3) - 1940Fishing pictures (5)
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Powell, Austin & Torgerson at Serpent Mound, 1948
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Extension class “Practical Arts Workshop 490", Paulding, Ohio, 1953
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Folks at Grand Rapids Dam (2), 1953
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Ed. Schumacher graduation M.Ed., 1949
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American Legion Boys & the waterwell (3), 1953
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Washington Township Fire Dept. Honors “Mrs. Wood County” (5)
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Portraits
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School bus drivers, Weston, Ohio, April 1953
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Mr. Hill, custodian, Weston School (2)
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Mr. and Mrs. N.G. Coale (3), April 18, 1954
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Mrs. Ray Scott, May 14, 1955
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Mr. and Mrs. Harshman, 50th wedding anniversary, July 1956
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Rebecca women, Past Grands at Mother Miners (24)
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 16
Projects
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Wood Projects (cupola, smoking stand, table lamp, hall tree, chest, sewing basket, flower stand, dog house, foot stool, jardenier stand, step end table, tabowret) (13)
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Teach. Aid Project footstool
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Woodworking
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Forging and welding projects, BGSU (11), 1956
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Forging and welding (door knocker, wrecking bar, cold chisel, foot scraper, auto jack, bleacher folding seats, kitchen stool, magazine rack) (8)
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Woodwork (Windsor chair - Chester Long; Modern dresser & chest - James Zickes; footstools) (3), Jan. 1955
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- Creation: Jan. 1955
Woodwork (coffee table, cedar chest, end table, desk, clothes chest, end table, butternut chest, bridge lamp, book case, sewing cabinet, bed head, end tables, modern end table, china hutch) (14)
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Plastic filter box (4x5)
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Plastic filter box (35mm)
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Electric motors (3)
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Bench metals (2)
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Machine shop (3)
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Patternmaking & Foundry (salt & pepper shakers, pattern with stop-off, patterns on a plate, plaster match)
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 17
Shop
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Patternmaking & Foundry, BGSU (14), 1954
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Foundry area (8), 1964
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Inoestment casting (17), 1963
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McClure High School Industrial Arts Dept. (42), Jan.-Sept. 1956
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Tool Cabinets, Woodworking area
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BGSU, shots around the I.A. Building in Tri-X film (9)
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BGSU Elementary Handicrafts Class 313 (3)
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BGSU Forging area, gas welding area (6), 1964
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- Creation: 1964
BGSU Handicrafts area (2)
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Use of pyrometer (2)
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BGSU drafting (2), 1954
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BGSU woodworking (10), 1954
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BGSU graphic arts (2), 1954
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BGSU general views in I.A. building (3), 1954
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BGSU art metal (2), 1954
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BGSU sheet metal (2), 1954
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BGSU arc welding (3), 1954
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BGSU machine shop (3), 1954
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BGSU electricity shop (2), 1954
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BGSU automotive shop (3), 1954
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BGSU views of shops (10), 1949-1950
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- Creation: 1949-1950
BGSU tool panels (6), 1950
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BGSU photography, 1954
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BGSU ceramics (throwing, sculpturing, glazing, bisque rack), 1954
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BGSU Pattern and Foundry Class I.A. 221, Bliss Foundry (5), Dec. 8, 1953
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BGSU Shop Project, Making a name plaque (3), Dec. 4, 1953
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BGSU Industrial Arts Club, Demonstration of ShopSmith (4), Dec. 2, 1953
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Grand Rapids H.S. Shop (Glen Heyman at the saw, view of machinery, views of shop), 1939
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Sylvania High School Industrial Arts Dept., electric area (3), 1947
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Sylvania High School Industrial Arts Dept. (Student at lathe, view of shop), 1946
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- Creation: 1946
Weston School, Woodworking area, Forging area with Richard Broka, 1953
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- Creation: 1953
Weston School Industrial Arts Dept., shop areas (10), 1953
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Weston School Industrial Arts Dept., shop areas (4); Industrial Arts Dept., shop areas, Dobbeck & Ewing, student teachers (4), 1953
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Weston School Industrial Arts Dept., shop pictures from Jan 3, 1953 Sentinel (6), Jan. 3, 1953
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Weston School Industrial Arts Dept., shop areas (5), 1953
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Topical (identified) negatives
File – Box 2, Folder: 18
Television
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Bishop Sheen, 1954
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Water Works
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Tontogany Water Works, drilling well (3)
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Tontogany Water Works, placing test pump (2)
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Tontogany Water Works, equipment and strung pipe (12), Apr. 1955
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Tontogany Water Works, digging and pipe laying (12), Apr. 1955
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Tontogany Water Works, digging and laying pipe (10), Apr. 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (12)
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Water Works at Tontogany (12), May 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (6), May 14, 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (10), May 1955
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- Creation: May 1955
Water Works at Tontogany (9), June 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (12), June 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (9), June 1955
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Water Works at Tontogany (13), July 1955
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- Creation: July 1955
Miscellaneous
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8th Grade Shop Boys on picnic at Providence Park, Grand Rapids, 1941
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- Creation: 1941
4-H Club shots (girls club, trip to Kelley’s Island), 1953
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Clouds
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Copying
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Newsprint copy, 1956
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John Schaller Home
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Copy of newspaper, July 1956
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Joe Coale, Nov. 1953
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Old shots of stone road gang & fire department, odd shots for practice
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Artifacts, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 19
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