By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist

When it comes to housing and storing physical collections, archives generally put each one in its own box or set of boxes. But some collections are quite small – maybe just one folder or one item. Since the Mahn Center’s adoption of the collection management system ArchivesSpace (a website with descriptions of collections), I have been re-assessing small collections that were previously part of the manuscript vertical files (a large miscellaneous collection with limited findability). These small collections are either integrating into a broader collection based on commonalities – for instance a Correspondence Collection which contains mostly one item collections of letters – or are staying as a separate collection, but housed in a box with other small collections. For this blog post I’ll explore the contents of the newly formed Mixed Collections Box 1.

MSS449: Nathan England and Family Papers (4 folders)

A collection of mostly deeds, legal, and financial records documenting the transfer of property among the England family and others in Logan, Ohio in the late 1800s.

MSS450: Athens County Children’s Services Collection (3 folders)

This collection documents a time of change and community involvement about Athens County Children’s Services in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

MSS451: Ohio Land Company Papers  (14 folders)

These records document how the Ohio Land Company sold land in Ohio at the end of the 1700s and early 1800s. They also document the move of members of the Nixon family of Framingham, Massachusetts to Ohio with letters about buying the land, moving to it, and living on it from 1800 to 1848.

MSS452: Loujon Press Documents (1 folder)

This collection of news clippings and ephemera related to Loujon Press documents this couple run small press and its Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski publications.

MSS371: Ted Langstroth Collection of Manuscripts (1 folder)

A miscellany of financial documents and letters collected by Ted Langstroth dating from 1841 to 1909.

MSS411: Pearl/Docket Exchange Log (1 folder)

This collection consists of a single item – a log providing notes on air raids, plane crashes, storms, and other events from Iwo Jima during World War II. A page from this collection is currently on display in the Cornelius Ryan Room in the Pacific War section.

MSS410: Brown Family Papers (3 folders)

The Brown family included John Brown who was president of the Bank of Athens and J.D. Brown who was cashier of the Bank. This collection has a few Bank related documents, as well as four photographs, and school related papers most of which seem to have been created by a young girl named Jennie Brown. This collection dates from the late 1800s.