Ohio History Journal

Notes and Queries

 

 

Society members might be interested in adding this information to their list

of little known facts. During 1895 this Society did not publish Ohio History's

predecessor, The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, but instead

subsidized a two-year-old journal published in Waterloo, Indiana, The

Archaeologist. The publication moved to Columbus, Ohio, and for the next

nine monthly issues it became the "official organ of the Ohio Archaeological

and Historical Society." The Archaeologist printed articles on the

underground railroad in Ohio, the Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute, and a

description of Fort Ancient. Then in the autumn of 1895 the journal was sold

to Popular Science News of New York City. The following year the Quarterly

returned and, in time, reprinted all of the significant articles which had ap-

peared first in The Archaeologist. Today The Archaeologist has become a

collector's item with only thirty-some sets known to exist in the United

States.

 

For thirty years Arthur D. Mink's Union List of Ohio Newspapers Available

in Ohio (1946) has served as a basic reference work. It is with pride that The

Ohio Historical Society announces the publication of an expansion and

updating of this classic. The new Guide to Ohio Newspapers, 1793-1973,

edited by Stephen Gutgesell, is a 412-page complete bibliography of all extant

newspapers published in Ohio for 180 years, an estimated 3500 titles. The

Guide includes a list of newspapers held by over 200 academic, public, and

special libraries in the state as well as data on titles of papers, span dates, and

editions. The work may be ordered from the Society's Sales Department for

$20.00; Society members need pay only $16.00. All orders please add $1.50

for shipping and handling.

 

The Ohio Historical Society announces the publication of Modern

Strategies for Teaching the American Revolution, a multimedia resource for

secondary school teachers. Components include: over forty teacher-designed

learning activities; a scholarly historical review of events leading to the

Revolution; fifty slides of the persons, places, and caricatures of the times;

the texts of twelve documents reflecting loyalist and revolutionary

viewpoints; and a cassette of colonial music. This $32.50 resource may be

purchased from the Sales Department, Ohio Historical Society.

 

Kermit J. Pike, Director of The History Library at The Western Reserve

Historical Society, has announced the establishment of the Cleveland Jewish

Archives. The objective of the Archives is to locate and preserve papers,

records, and other sources bearing on the development and impact of the

Jewish community in the greater Cleveland area. Initial three-year funding for

the project in the amount of $44,400 has been provided in memory of Rabbi

Moses J. Gries and Leonard Ratner. For further information contact the

Archivist, Cleveland Jewish Archives, Western Reserve Historical Society,

10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

 

An Index to the National Citizen and Ballot Box has been prepared by

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Mara Ann Pinto Oess and published by the Toledo-Lucas County Public

Library. This research tool will help historians in using The National Citizen

and Ballot Box, a monthly publication begun in Toledo, Ohio in 1876 as one

of the few journalistic organs for the National Woman's Suffrage Association.

The journal is an invaluable source on the suffrage movement from 1876 to

1881. The newspaper is available on microfilm from Greenwood Press and the

Index may be purchased for $1.50 from the Purchasing Department,

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 325 Michigan Street, Toledo, Ohio

43624.

 

Manuscripts Guide to Collections at the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, edited by Maynard J. Brichford et al., is a

comprehensive inventory of the holdings of the University Archives, the

Illinois Historical Survey, and the library's Rare Book Room, Business

Archives, and History Library. Copies may be ordered for $9.95 from the

University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

An illustrated history of the Ohio Air National Guard from 1927 through

1974, edited by Lt. Col. Joel Catron (Ret.), is now available. Copies may be

ordered from AGOHIO-Air, P.O. Box 660, Worthington, Ohio 43085. The

cost is $11.25; checks should be marked "OANG History."

The Massachusetts Historical Society has just published The Metropolis of

New England: Colonial Boston, 1630-1776, a book of pictures of early leaders

and important documents. Copies may be ordered for $2.50 from that

Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.

The War at Sea: France and the American Revolution, A Bibliography, is

an annotated bibliography of both primary and secondary sources on French

naval aid to the American colonies during the Revolution. This work is

published by the Department of the Navy and may be ordered from the

Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office,

Washington, D.C. 20402. The price is $.85 (minimum order $1).

Wooster in 1876, an extensive collection of photographs with an

interpretive text, has just been printed and may be ordered from the Wooster

Art Center Museum, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691. The price is

$5.75, including postage and handling.

 

In a review published in this journal of Joseph F. Dush's History of

Willard, Ohio, with Pioneer Sketches of New Haven, Greenfield, Norwich

and Richmond Townships (volume 85 [Spring 1976] number 2, pages 175-176)

the publisher was incorrectly named. The book is published by the R. R.

Donnelley & Sons Company, The Lakeside Press, Chicago, Illinois. The

company has a distinguished record, not only as a printer and book maker,

but also as a generous contributor to American history.

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