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Updating Descriptions for Coal Mining Collections
Text and images by Samuel Coletta-Bates, Film ’25, Spring 2024 Manuscript Archives Assistant This semester, my job as Archives Assistant within the Mahn Center has been to research and update finding aid descriptions for mining related collections. This has included delving into the collections themselves, as well as other supplemental resources to revise their content…
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Reflections on processing the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co. Collection
By Samuel Coletta-Bates, Film HTC ’25, Fall 2023 Manuscript Archives Assistant As an Archives Assistant for the Mahn Center, it’s been my duty to “process” the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Company (or CHCIco, for short) collection. Over this past semester I have made my way through the collection, box by box, reorganized…
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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…