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Ohio History in Danger
Governor Strickland has recommended cutting more than $6 million dollars from the Ohio Historical Society budget. This is a decrease of 45% from our funding level in 2008. Our funding had not been this low since 1986! The state budget … Continue reading
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Famous Photographer Found in Ohio Guide Collection
Months ago staff and volunteers in the Preservation and Access Department at the Ohio Historical Society began a project to scan every photograph in the Ohio Guide Collection. This collection was created by the Ohio Federal Writer’s Project, a New … Continue reading
Spotlight on Staff
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Sharon Dean who, on December 15, 2008, started her position as Director of Collection Services for the Ohio Historical Society. Linda: Thank you so much for taking time out … Continue reading
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Ohio Memory ─ Popular Web site Now Has More Images From Ohio’s Past
What do these stories have in common? A 1945 Lorain High School yearbook photograph of Chloe Wofford provides a glimpse of her future promise. Chloe is better known as Noble Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. The Ford Family Letters … Continue reading
Cold Enough for the Negatives
Plastic based film negatives were a technological wonder when they were introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1889. Compared to the glass plate negatives that photographers had used for decades they were light weight, flexible and took far less room to … Continue reading
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Ohio Historical Society Budget Reductions
The Ohio Historical Society has taken steps to deal with significant budget shortfalls for the remainder of this year and in the next fiscal year (beginning July 1, 2008). Information about those actions is included in the April 11, 2008 … Continue reading
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New Local Government Records at OHS
Check out the newest additions to our Local Government Records holdings! We have recently catalogued microfilm from the following counties: Allen, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Hocking, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, … Continue reading
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Tagged birth, death, estates, marriage, Ohio Vital Records, probate, wills
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Moving Part 3
The new Microfilm Reading Room is ready for us to start moving cabinets. This won’t happen ’til Monday. We can’t wait!
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Deconstruction is Complete! (Microfilm is Moving Part 2)
As of today, the Rare Book Room is officially kaput. The electricians are working to install the new outlets (at waist height, so no more crawling around on the floor to plug in your laptop) and to get the ceiling … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, government records, microfilm
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Microfilm is moving!
The Archives/Library will be moving the Microfilm Reading Room from its current location off the 3rd floor lobby to an area right next to the Main Reading Room. Researchers will lose no access time with the newspaper and government records … Continue reading
