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Click here to vote for the submission that you find most compelling. In addition to the winner of the OHS contest, there are submissions from California, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia.
Voting ends May 15. The winner of the national competition will be announced in June. The prize is a trip to SAA’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans in August.
We are down to the final two competitors in Ohio Memory Madness.
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Come to our hands on, how to class that explains how archivists arrange a collection, tell the story of the collection’s origin, organize the contents, and store the paper. An archival kit will be available for purchase, and we’ll explain the proper way to use the items in the kit.
Family History Archival Kit now for sale in the museum store at the Ohio History Center.
Date: Saturday, April 20
Time: 10 AM to 12 PM
Location: Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Cost: $15 for members; $25 for non-members
Click here to register online or call 614-297-2510.
The Ohio Historical Society hosted The Wall that Heels and other events to mark the first Vietnam Veterans Day in Ohio. Ohio Government Television recorded several panel discussions with veterans. They are now available on The Ohio Channel web site.
Combat and Support Veterans
Panel discussion of both combat and support veterans who describe their experiences in the war. Panelists include Robert Dixon, John Mosure, and Robert Wagner.
POW Experience
Veterans who were prisoners of war describe their experiences. Panelists include Robert Doremus, Guy Gruters and Edward Mechenbier.
Women Veterans
Female veterans describe their experiences in the Vietnam War. Panelists include Dorothy Gardner, Roberta Mershon, Mary Reynolds Powell and Linda Spoonster Schwartz.
The “In their Own Words” Oral History Project is recording and preserving oral history interviews with veterans. Several interviews with Vietnam veterans are currently available online in our digital library, Ohio Memory.
We thank the Vietnam veterans who have shared their stories in panel discussions and interviews. We also thank you for your service and your personal sacrifice.
L. Wood, Curator for Visual Resources
Spring is in the air—though on some days the temperature outside may have us believing otherwise—which means soon we’ll be packing away our winter clothes and starting to wear the lighter fashions associated with spring and summer. One hundred and fifty years ago, despite our nation’s being in the middle of the Civil War, newspaper advertisements show that for some of our predecessors, it was still important to take the time to spruce up their wardrobes in preparation for the imminent warmer weather.
Chronicling America contains countless examples of newspaper pages in which advertisements about clothing, medical remedies and other household matters are sprinkled amongst news about the national conflict. Since newspapers often reflect the interests of the people who read them, the coexistence of these items shows that the things that mattered before the war were still important to those on the domestic front during the war. Bain & Son, a company on High Street in Columbus, promotes “A Splendid Assortment of New Spring Silks…and Spring Shawls” (Daily Ohio Statesman, March 28, 1863, Image 3, Col. 5).
Bain & Son advertisement from the Daily Ohio Statesman, March 28, 1863, Image 3, Col. 5
In Dayton, Miss. M.A. Goodman’s Millinery on Second Street is set to open on March 28th, with “Spring and Summer styles of Bonnets, Hats, Ribbons, etc” (Dayton Daily Empire, March 24, 1863, Image 1, Col. 3).
Miss M.A. Goodman advertisement from the Dayton Daily Empire, March 24, 1863, Image 1, Col. 3).
Unlike today, newspapers of this time period did not generally rely on pictures to draw the eye. Advertisers instead used large and varied font styles that would break up the heavy text of the rest of the page, grabbing the reader’s attention away from news of the day. For example, the advertisement for the “Original Cash Store of D. Will” in the M’Arthur Democrat uses around ten different types of print to advertise “Ladies Dress Goods” and other items (March 5, 1863, Image 4, Col. 5-6).
Original Cash Store of D. Will advertisement from the M’Arthur Democrat, March 5, 1863, Image 4, Col. 5-6.
If you want to learn more about spring fashions of the past, check out Ohio’s most recent contributions to the National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America! Issues from the following Ohio papers are now online and keyword searchable on the Library of Congress website:
* Daily Ohio Statesman (Columbus) from 1861 to 1869
* M’Arthur Democrat from 1855 to 1865
* Vinton Record (McArthur) from 1866 to 1874
* Democratic Enquirer (McArthur) from 1867 to 1873
* McArthur Enquirer from 1873 to 1874
* Penny Press (Cincinnati) from 1859-1860
These papers join over six million pages from more than 900 newspapers—including over 40 others from Ohio—representing states all over the nation to chronicle United States’ history from 1836 to 1922.
To find these advertisements, try using the following search terms: spring clothes, spring clothing or spring fashion. If you limit your search to specific years using the Advanced Search feature, you can see how fashion has evolved over time. For additional tips on how to use Chronicling America, check out the Resources available through the Ohio Digital Newspaper Portal. National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio staff at the Ohio Historical Society have developed video tutorials, subject guides and other tools to help connect you with Ohio’s digitized newspapers.
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress and state projects to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. NEH awards support state projects to select and digitize historically significant titles that are aggregated and permanently maintained by the Library of Congress. As part of the project, the Ohio Historical Society contributed 200,000 newspaper pages to the project between July 2008 and August 2012 and will contribute an additional 100,000 pages by the end of August 2014.
By Jenni Salamon, Project Coordinator, NDNP-OH
Round three of Ohio Memory Madness is upon us. Voting ends this Thursday the 28th at 5pm. Get your vote in now before you forget. Share with your friends and family on Facebook and twitter.
Round three: open voting 3/26 – 3/28 @5pm
Quarters: open voting 3/29 – 4/1 @5pm
Semis: open voting 4/2 – 4/4 @5pm
Finals: open voting 4/5 – 4/8 @5pm
Voting for each round will close at 5pm on the day before the next round of play. You can also see how the voting is shaking out for each round by clicking here: http://www.ohiohistoryhost.org/madness/results.php. Have any questions? Send an email to ohiomemory@ohiohistory.org.
Happy voting!
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