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OHIO Digital Archives updates: Spring 2023
By Erin Wilson, Digital Imaging Specialist & Lab Manager, Digital Initiatives This news update is part of a semi-regular series highlighting recent additions, exhibits, and projects of Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives. Read on for a sample of newly digitized materials that are publicly available in our Digital Archives. See previous updates in the unit’s newsletter archive. Documentary Photography…
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Reblog: Meet an Early Multicultural Student Organization: Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952
By Imani Estrada, Marketing, BA 2022, OhioLINK Luminaries Intern 2020-2021. Originally published January 18, 2021, on the Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives Tumbler, which predated this Mahn blog. The Student Organization: Los Amigos was a minority student organization established here at Ohio University in fall 1947, continuing through 1952. This student organization was primarily composed…
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The Updated Ryan Room Exhibit
By Alex Hines, BA ‘24, History, Co-Curator and Mahn Center Archives Exhibition Assistant Since the Fall of 2022, the Cornelius Ryan Room at the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections on the 5th floor of Alden Library has been in the process of being updated. At this time, the work to fully update…
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Early 1900s Ads from the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company Records
By Gail Booth, History and Anthropology BA ‘23, Spring 2023 Archives Intern When is the last time you saw an ad that actually talked about the product’s qualities and not what buying whatever it is will make you feel? Today advertisements promise feelings and experiences instead of talking about other user’s testimonies and promising free…