Ohio History Journal

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DOCUMENTARY DATA

DOCUMENTARY DATA

 

By BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON

 

During the past months researchers and scholars have made

considerable use of the manuscripts, maps and state archives under

the custody of this department. Not only have the various de-

partments of State, individuals and legal firms availed themselves

of reference service by telephone, letter, or personal visit but

there have been a succession of out-of-city and out-of-state visitors

who spent extended periods examining collections here. Among

these may be noted the following: Professor and Mrs. Ralph P.

Bieber, Washington University, St. Louis, hunting data on the

gold rush; Professor and Mrs. Everett Dick, Union College, Lin-

coln, Nebraska, in search of material for a social history of the

frontier; Mr. W. J. Hamilton, Dayton Public Library, collecting

bibliographical information on the Shakers; Mr. R. J. O'Dell,

University of Michigan, in preparation of a doctoral dissertation

on the "Antislavery Movement in Ohio before 1840"; Mr. James

H. Reding, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company, Cleveland,

in search of data on Ohio Canal Maps and Surveys; and Mr.

George R. Woolfolk, Prairie View State College, Texas, in prepa-

ration of a doctoral dissertation on "Northern Economic Influ-

ences during Reconstruction."

Among the 100 or more maps recently cataloged may be listed

the following:

Antietam--1867--36" x 24"

Appomattox Court House--1867--36" x 24"

Atwood Reservoir -- War Dept. Proposal -- 1934 -- 4 sheets -- each

27"x 40"

Beach City Reservoir--War Dept. Proposal--1934--6 sheets--each

27" x 40"

Bermuda Hundred, Virginia--1867--36" x 24"

Bolivar Reservoir -- War Dept. Proposal -- 1934 -- 5 sheets -- each

27" x 40"

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