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OHIO Digital Archives updates: Fall 2022
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…
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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…
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Personal memories and the Athens Girl Scout Collection
In honor of National Outdoors Day we present this post by Laura Burns, Library Support Specialist. I recently helped process the Athens Girl Scout Collection for the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. It was donated to the archives by Lois Whaley. The collection includes correspondence with the national girl scouts, leaders’ meeting minutes,…
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Reflections on a Description Remediation Project of the Civil War Correspondence Collection and How to Search it Better
By Camilla Stegall, MS student in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Civil War Metadata Assistant at Ohio University Libraries during the spring 2023 semester. These past few months I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work remotely as the Civil War Metadata Assistant with the Civil War Correspondence Digital Archive at…
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A Web Map, 80 Years in the Making
By Sarah Romer, Wildlife and Conservation Biology BS ‘23, Digital Initiatives Assistant During my tenure at the Library Archives and Special Collections Digital Initiatives unit, I have spent most of my time working with William E. Peters via the manuscript collection he donated to Ohio University. Peters and I are a good team. His eye…
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Maggie Boyd and I have a lot in common; We will graduate 150 years apart
By Taylor Burnette, BSJ ’23, Digital Collections Social Media Manager, Ohio University Libraries. Note: This Founders Day, February 18, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary year of OHIO’s first woman graduate with the digital exhibit “Margaret Boyd 150: OHIO Founders Day 2023,” created by Taylor Burnette. 150 years ago, almost to the day, Margaret…
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Lunar New Year: Welcoming in the New
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries Lunar New Year marks the beginning of a new year in the lunisolar calendar. It is most commonly celebrated in China, South Korea, Vietnam, and wherever people from these countries live around the world. When the Lunar New Year takes place varies year to year. The lunisolar…
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Popular Entertainment During WWII for a WAC in the Southwest Pacific
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries Didn’t I write and tell you about the enclosed? (Irving Berlin)? He was up here the day before Christmas for dinner and also went to the hospital. Hope I’ll get a chance to see his show when it comes. Never thought in the fall of 1942 that…
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O’Bleness Family Collection: Updates on the Mystery Photo Album
By Anna Denman, History ’23, Fall 2022 Archives Intern In my first post about the Mystery Photo Album, I wrote that I hoped to continue identifying photographs from the album and piecing together the O’Bleness family’s story. In the five weeks that followed my last post, I spent hours familiarizing myself with the O’Bleness family,…