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Researching Appalachian Materials in the Mahn Center
By Di Galbraith ’25, History major, Globalization and Development minor, Fall 2023 Mahn Center intern I have always been deeply fascinated by Appalachia. How the mountains came from the same range as the Scottish highlands, how communities were left behind and forgotten once modern technology developed, and how the people were stereotyped as dumb, rowdy,…
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Objects of Interest and Reflections on the Frank Buhla Collection
By Aurora Charlow, recent MS graduate of Simmons University, Metadata Assistant at Ohio University Libraries during the 2023-2024 academic year. In its heyday, from about 1880 to 1920, mines in the Hocking Valley Coal Field produced hundreds of thousands of tons of coal every year. It was pried from the ground, processed through mining tipples,…