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A. E. Wiseman - SOHIO collection

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Identifier: AV 274

Scope and Contents The A. E. Wiseman - SOHIO collection consists of manuscript and audio visual materials from the Standard Oil Company of Ohio that were used by A. E. Wiseman, a salesman for Standard Oil. Included are 35mm slides from a SOHIO slide program comparing highway construction in the 1910s and 1960s, as well as a reel to reel audio tape of the audio portion of a slide program entitled "Trans Alaska Pipeline," circa 1960s. Also included is an annotated price guide for products sold by the Standard Oil...

Dates: circa 1960s

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Aho and Gowday Family collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1436 AV

Scope and Contents The Aho and Gowday collection includes photographs and paper material from the donor's husband, Arthur Aho, who was active in soap box derby races in Warren, Ohio, in the late 1950's. The collection also includes photographs, diaries, cookbooks and personal material from the donor's grandmother, Mary Goodiel Gowday, who recorded the working and living conditions in the lumber camps in Northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania from 1936-1946. An additional box of research files created by the...

Dates: 1876-1990

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Alexander McConaughy papers

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Identifier: MSS 1598 AV

Scope and Contents This collection is approximately 0.25 cubic foot and contains materials related to the Alexander McConaughy family in the years around the Civil War, between 1863 and 1865. Series I contains correspondence between Alexander McConaughy and his family. Also included are discharge papers and a Confederate States five dollar bill. Series II contains original photographs and tintypes of the family during the Civil War.

Dates: 1863-1865

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Alexander McDowell McCook papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1094

Scope and Contents The Alexander McDowell McCook papers include correspondence and news clippings related to McCook, his family and career after the Civil War. There is correspondence and clippings about copying "The Fighting McCook's" painting between McCook's grandson, Alexander McCook Craighead, Chauncey Baker and artist Jacob Royer and a letter from the U.S. War Dept. appointing McCook to represent the United States at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in Moscow, Russia in 1896. Additionally, there are three...

Dates: 1858-1962

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Alice M. Parks collection

Series — Folder: VFM 6309 AV

Identifier: MSS 8671 AV

Scope and Contents The Alice M. Parks collection contains materials regarding Alice M. Parks who owned a beauty shop on Neil Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. The collection includes certificates, licenses, an advertisement, and an invoice for a permanent wave machine issued to Alice M. Parks. Also included are two photographs of Alice M. Parks taken in 1927. A curler (H 64535) that belonged to Parks is also held by the Ohio History Connection. For more information on the curler see the Museum collections catalog.

Dates: 1927-1974

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Amelia Moodie collection

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Identifier: MSS 1406

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 0.5 cf. of more than 200 letters received by Amelia Moodie, a few school-related papers (including her registration card for her freshman year at Ohio University), and rejection letters from magazines to which she had submitted stories and poetry.

Dates: 1926-1930

Found in: Ohio History Connection

American Lung Association of Ohio collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1556

Scope and Contents The American Lung Association of Ohio collection documents the organization's public health programs, mostly related to combating tuberculosis, as well as organizational changes and various local grass-roots organizations that made up the American Lung Association of Ohio. The collection is divided into six series. Series I consists of minutes of meeting of various local grass-roots associations. The minutes document associations in the following counties: Athens, Galia, Greene, Hocking, Knox,...

Dates: 1847-2005

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Bancroft-Mills family papers

Series — Folder: VFM 5544 AV

Identifier: MSS 8668 AV

Scope and Contents Material related to the Bancroft-Mills family. Includes the family record book, family account of settlement in Ohio, genealogical notes, and photograph of farm.

Dates: circa 1900

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Betty Eicher and Mary Parker Brown papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1699 AV

Scope and Contents This collection includes papers and photographs documenting the professional teaching and writing careers of Betty Eicher and Mary Parker Brown, as well as their personal relationship. Included are Betty Eicher's records of expenses, correspondence between Betty and her brother Bill while he was at basic training during World War II, a letter from Mary Parker to Betty, an autobiographical account of Betty's childhood, photographs of both women, and stories Betty drafted for her college courses....

Dates: 1885-1986

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Birdie Schmidt Larrick collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1528

Scope and Contents The Birdie Schmidt Larrick Collection consists of photographs, a scrapbook, album pages, letters, newsletters, and ephemera regarding her service for the American Red Cross (ARC) during World War II. The collection focuses on her work at the Aero Club at the Wendling, England Air Base and the naming of the "Birdie Schmidt ARC" B-24 Liberator. The collection is divided into two series, manuscript materials (boxes 1-2 and 4) and photographs (box 3). The manuscript portion documents Larrick's...

Dates: 1943-2006

Found in: Ohio History Connection

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