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The Ada Margaret Wilson Saviers scrapbook
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. Within the William Saviers Collection of World War II materials there are a few items that belonged to his wife, Ada Margaret Wilson Saviers. One such item is a scrapbook she compiled that contains items from the 1920s to the 1940s. The scrapbook is large and falling…
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Updating an Archives Exhibit: The Ryan Room
By Alex Hines, History ’24, Ohio Honors Program, Archives Exhibition Assistant at the Mahn Center Through the Museum Studies Certificate program at Ohio University, I was introduced to the Mahn Center and a particular room which contains an exhibition of items from the Archives and Special Collections. This room is the Ryan Room on the…
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Ohio Society of American Foresters Records
By Philip Perry, Forester, Athens, Ohio, Retired Silviculturist from the Wayne National Forest, (silviculture is the art and science of growing trees.) This post provides context for the Ohio Society of American Foresters Records (MSS093), housed at the Mahn Center. There have been many additions to the collection over the years, the most recent addition…
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Not Your Model Minority: An Archival Collection of Asian American/Pacific Islander Organizations in Athens
Alexis Karolin is the spring 2022 Mahn Center intern. She graduates with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Honors Tutorial College along with a certificate in Asian Studies and a certificate in Law, Justice, and Culture this spring. Here she reflects on her experiences learning about archives, how the internship took two years…
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REBLOG! Ohio Archives Month Archival Spotlights: Ohio University’s Mahn Center
The following blog post was written by Collette McDonough, (Society of Ohio Archivists Archives and Outreach Committee Chair, and Archivist and Library Manager at the Kettering Foundation) in celebration of National Archives month which is every October. It was originally published on the Society of Ohio Archivists blog. Announcing a New Series The Society of…
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Investigating a Mystery Photo Album
By Anna Denman, senior History major, Fall 2022 Archives Intern After the Mahn Center staff introduced me to the many internship project options available for the fall 2022 semester, I was immediately intrigued by the unidentified photo album. Who were the people smiling, laughing, and posing in these photographs that appeared to be at least…
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Collections in Wikidata
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. This post is the third of three posts about adding archival collection information to Wikidata. The first introduction post is here and the second post focusing on collection creator information in Wikidata is here. In addition to adding “archives at” statements to collection creator’s Wikidata items, archivists…
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REBLOG! Deep Costume History: An Unexpected Resource for Unique Research
By Sherri Saines, OHIO Librarian for Social Sciences. View the original post on the Fashion, Textiles, and Costume Librarians ARLIS/NA Special Interest Group Blog, and corresponding Instagram post about Sherri’s visit to the Mahn Center. The Ohio University Libraries Archives and Special Collections (Athens, OH) holds the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection, a gift of Murray Louis.…
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Contributing Manuscript Collection Info to Wikidata
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. This post is the first of three posts about adding collection information to Wikidata. Wikidata is the largest linked open data, open knowledge project in the world. There are millions of items in Wikidata. Each item has a Q number to identify it and is described with…
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Collection Creators in Wikidata
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. This post is the second of three posts about adding collection information to Wikidata. Read the first post here. Wikidata is the largest repository of linked data in the world. Individual records in Wikidata are called items and each item has its own unique identifier. For example,…