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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Tallmadge Collection--35 boxes of Stage
Coach Records.
Period, 1838-52.
Tammany Society of Ohio Collection--189
pieces--records
on the Chillicothe Wigwam No. 1, and
other Tammany societies
in Ohio. Period, 1810-11.
Jean Thomas Collection--12 boxes,
including papers on the
American Folklore Society and the
American Folklore Festival
as well as personal papers. Period,
1920's and 1930's.
United Society of Believers
Collection--45 boxes--letters.
diaries, laws, autobiography of Elder I.
Bates, community and
church records, etc., of the Shakers.
Period, 1831-1887.
Samuel Williams Collection--34
boxes--the first Williams
was a surveyor and active in early Ohio
politics. His descendant
was editor of the Ladies Repository and
Goldent Hours and
active in church activities of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Western Methodist Book Concern.
Period, 1803-1910.
Harriet Wilson Collection--7 boxes, plus
additional unor-
ganized material, all in scrapbooks,
maps, pictures, and descrip-
tive data on the history of the
interurban railroads in and around
Ohio. Period, 1904-
Woodbridge-Gallaher Collection--204
boxes--correspond-
ence, business records, data on Backus,
Woodbridge, Blennerhas-
set and other pioneer settlers. For a more
complete description
of the first portion see Quarterly, XLIV (1935), 443-50. Mrs.
Josephine Phillips of Marietta has
additional manuscripts.
A rapid survey of the registration
records reveals that--in
addition to the usual visits, letters
and telephone calls from grad-
uate students, local historians,
officials in the various departments
of State, professors in the several
departments at Ohio State Uni-
versity and hobbyists--individuals from
the following walks of
life have enjoyed the services of this
department within recent
months: an archivist for an Ohio
industrial firm; an associate
editor of an historical society in
Pennsylvania; the curator of
a national religious foundation; a
journalist; a librarian from an
Ohio town; a naval officer; a physician;
professors of history
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from Columbia University, Goucher
College, Hebrew Union Col-
lege, University of Illinois, Michigan
State College, University
of Michigan and University of
Pennsylvania; the president of a
local historical society in this State;
the prosecuting attorney of
an Ohio county; and the literary
assistant of a former governor of
Ohio.
Attention is called to the following
corrections of typograph-
ical errors which occurred in the
July-September, 1945, issue of
Documentary Data:
Samuel Huntington was governor from
1808-10.
Ethan Allen Brown was
governor from 1818-22.
Jacob D. Cox was governor from 1866-68.
The name of James E. Campbell should
have been starred,
since the Department of Documents has a
considerable number
of Campbell letters and papers.