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.