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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Geo-locating Athens, Ohio
By Adelle “Del” Stratton, History ’25 with a minor in Computer Science and certificate in Italian Studies, Digital Initiatives Assistant The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, a collection of maps published by the Sanborn Map Company, were made in response to fires during the 19th and 20th centuries. These maps of over 12,000 towns and cities within…
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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,…
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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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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…