Ohio History Journal

Book Notes

 

 

Celebrating the City: A Pictorial Essay of Toledo, 1890-1940. Compiled by

Morgan J. Barclay. (Toledo: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 1979.

48p.; illustrations.) The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and Ohio Prog-

ram in the Humanities combined forces to produce an outstanding exhibit

displaying a selection of the work of two late-nineteenth and early twen-

tieth-century Toledo photographers, Charles Mensing and Norman Hauger.

Thirty-eight of the photographs are reproduced in an exhibition catalog,

along with a forword by University of Toledo urban historian Charles N.

Glaab. The catalog and exhibit are divided into three themes: "Toledo at

Work," "Toledo at Play," and "The Changing Faces of Toledo." Biographical

data for the two photographers and explanatory notes for each photo are

provided.

 

David A. Simmons

 

 

The Changing Face of Boston over 350 Years. A Massachusetts Historical

Society Picture Book. Edited by Malcolm Freiberg. (Boston: Massachusetts

Historical Society, 1980. 24p.; illustrations.) The latest in the series of pic-

ture books published by the Massachusetts Historical Society is this collec-

tion of twenty-two views of Boston dating from the seventeenth to the

twentieth century. Included are German, French, British, and American

derived plats, ink drawings, maps, engravings, photographs, and litho-

graphs. All were compiled from the collections of the historical society by

the publications editor to commemorate Boston's "Jubilee 350," three and a

half centuries after the city's founding in 1630. This tiny sampling of the

society's holdings begins to illustrate the transformation of Boston from a

small colonial village to a dense twentieth-century metropolis.

 

David A. Simmons

 

 

Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography. By Willard D. Hunsberger. (Metuchen,

N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1981. ²15p.; chronology, bibliography, in-

dex.) Willard D. Hunsberger has compiled a bibliography of Clarence Dar-

row that includes a chronological listing of Darrow's legal and literary

works, writings about Darrow, reviews of Darrow's eight most famous court

cases, and the location of Darrow manuscripts throughout the United

States. Each section contains a brief introduction, and the entries have

cryptic comments on the source being cited. The most useful section of this

work is the listing of repositories holding Darrow manuscripts. The other

sections contain information that is readily available in other formats.

 

Roger Meade

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Subjugation and Dishonor: A Brief History of the Travail of the Native

Americans. By Philip Weeks and James B. Gidney. (Huntington, New York:

Krieger Publishing Co., 1981. x + 145p.; notes, bibliography, index.) The

authors' purpose in writing this book is to emphasize the tragedy that has

been the fate of the North American Indian. In particular the authors have

attempted to give a clearer picture of how and why real human beings,

Indians, were rejected, persecuted, and decimated. This book is not an over-

view of Indian history, but rather a treatment of such sagas as the coming of

the Europeans, the divesting of the Cherokee Nation, and the fight for the

Great Plains.

 

Roger Meade

 

 

"No Cheap Padding": Seventy-Five Years of the Indiana Magazine of His-

tory, 1904-1979. Compiled by Lorna Lutes Sylvester. (Indianapolis: Indiana

Historical Bureau, 1980. xix + 558p.; illustrations, notes, contributors.)

"No Cheap Padding" is an anthology of articles that appeared in the Indi-

ana magazine of History during its first seventy-five years of publication.

The articles were selected and arranged according to the editorial periods of

the magazine and are intended to underscore the impact of the magazine's

editors on content and style. The selected articles, therefore, are not neces-

sarily the best of the IMH and tend to over emphasize political and South-

ern influences on the history of Indiana. "No Cheap Padding" contains a list

of contributors which gives thumbnail biographical sketches of the authors

whose articles have been selected for inclusion in this volume.

 

Roger Meade

 

 

John Paul Jones' Memoir: Presented to King Louis XVI of France. Trans-

lated and edited by Gerard W. Gawalt. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Con-

gress, 1979. xix + 116p.; illustrations, notes, documentary evidence, bio-

graphical glossary.) This is an English translation of one of two surviving

copies in French of a memoir that John Paul Jones wrote in 1788, in his

efforts to obtain an appointment as an officer in the French navy. He was

unsuccessful, and later accepted a commission in the Russian navy. Con-

sidering the fact that Jones was trying to gain employment, it is not surpris-

ing that the Memoir is highly laudatory of his activities in the American

Revolution. Although this brief volume is interesting, particularly in seeing

how Jones twisted the record to enhance himself, it nevertheless adds no-

thing to our knowledge of either Jones or the American Revolution.

 

William N. Still, Jr.

 

 

Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Subject Guide for Researchers. Vol.

II. By Anita Cheek Milner. (Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,

1979. ix + 193p.; index.) Newspaper Indexes is a useful reference tool for

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genealogists and students of local and state history. The guide is based on a

questionnaire completed by 566 genealogical societies, historical agencies,

large newspapers, libraries, and selected individuals. Both volumes of the

set are divided into two primary sections. The first lists indexed newspapers

by state and counties within each state and indicates repositories which

hold the indexes. The second section provides detailed information regard-

ing the indexes, the holding institutions, and their photoreproduction and

reference policies. Each volume also includes a short section listing news-

paper indexes for a limited number of specialized subject areas.

 

Stephen Gutgesell

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