DOCUMENTARY DATA
BY BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON
Among collections suitable for
investigation and research
by graduate students in history,
economics and American litera-
ture are the following from the
manuscript vaults of the Depart-
ment of Documents, in the Library of the
Ohio State Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society:
Jay Cooke Collection--37 boxes plus I
carton--pertaining
to western land investments of Cooke,
his Gibralter Island period
and the bankruptcy period. None of this material has been
utilized by any of the Cooke
biographers. Period, 1845-96.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar Collection--26
boxes--correspond-
ence and early poems of the Negro poet
of Dayton, Ohio. Period,
1893-1906. (There is a life and letters
of Dunbar.)
Mrs. Joseph B. Foraker Collection--21
boxes--scrapbooks,
memoirs, clippings, etc., by the wife of
Governor Foraker. Mrs.
Foraker's Autobiography and the Correspondence
of J. B. For-
aker have been published.
Joshua R. Giddings Collection--25 boxes
of letters, diaries,
etc., of the anti-slavery leader. There
is a partial calendar in
manuscript form to most of the
collection and the Society
has in microfilm other manuscripts
available at the Library of
Congress. Period, 1828-1865.
Madison Furnace Collection--221 boxes of
business records.
Period, 1868-1917.
Winthrop Sargent Collection--19
boxes, plus 6 boxes of
copies, plus a partially organized name
index of the letters, maps,
executive journal, poems, tax lists,
etc., for the first Secretary of
the Northwest Territory. Period,
1755-1814.
Joseph Slight Collection--12 boxes plus
considerable addi-
tional unaccessioned material--letters,
telegrams, minutes, official
records, ballots, etc., of the National
Window Glass Workers
Union. Period, 1885 to 1930's.
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