... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The State History Day Contest for Ohio will be held in Cleveland on Saturday May 16 1981 at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University To qualify for the sixth annual state event 6th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio will compete in one of eleven district contests Students may compete in one of the following categories individual paper individual or group projects and individual or group performances on the junior ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Chadwyck-Healey recently announced the availability of the papers of Charles Sumner on microfilm and a printed Guide and Index to all 26000 letters Compiled and edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer the Charles Sumner Papers Project represents the publication of virtually the entire known correspondence of Sumner 1811-1874 and throws new light on the man as well as on the major American political and social issues of the nineteenth century For details concerning ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 2 99 NEXT PRESIDENT AN OHIOAN The Republican National Convention in Chicago June 12 nominated Senator Warren G Harding on the tenth ballot for President of the United States The Democratic National Convention in San Francisco July 5 nominated Governor James M Cox on the forty-fourth ballot for President of the United States The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a strictly non-partisan institution but because of the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Rutherford B Hayes Library announced that it will publish a comprehensive microfilm edition of The Papers of Rutherford B Hayes A printed guide will accompany the microfilm edition The edition will include Hayes' genealogical records diaries commonplace books correspondence presidential records Civil War records business papers speeches notes vetoes executive orders and miscellaneous items For further information write to Thomas A Smith Manuscripts ...
... A NOTE ON MRS A NOTE ON MRS TROLLOPE By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT When Charles Joseph Latrobe made his tour of the West with Washington Irving in 1832 they passed through Cincinnati at a very interesting moment The citizens were big with indignation over Mrs Frances Trollope Latrobe related that they found the good citizens of that rising and flourishing city busily ruminating over the first edition of a well-known picture of their domestic manners which the English press had just sent forth for ...
... 504 Ohio Arch 5 04 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE BUCKEYE PIONEERS OSMAN C HOOPER This poem was written for the Franklin Centennial held at Columbus Ohio September 15 1897 Fair Buckeyeland we sing your praise And bare our head to them Who lived and wrought in other days And framed your diadem Their handiwork none can forget The jewels of the years Would in your crown be still unset But for the pioneers CHORUS Then a song for the pioneers The praise of a hundred years For the women ...
... THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 The Ohio History Conference April 4-5 1941 included the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society the Third Annual Meeting of the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society with the cooperation of the Ohio State ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding by Robert W Wagner Efforts of the professional archivist in his attempt to preserve historical materials are often complicated by the very nature of the substance he is trying to preserve For example all 35mm motion picture film from 1888 to 1951 was made with a cellulose nitrate base which makes the reels highly flammable and under some circumstances highly explosive A partially decomposed nitrate film ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Contrary to expectations the summer months brought an increase in the activities of this department Not only have the collateral duties of editing been unusually heavy what with the completion of the History of the State of Ohio series the issuing of another volume in the Ohio Historical Collection series and the compilation of a revised list of Publicatio n s in Print and For Sale --all these in addition to the routine editing of Museum ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Thirty-Sixth Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 11-13 1993 For further information contact Dale Gaeddert MVHC Coordinator Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Nebraska 68182-0213 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Twenty-first Annual Convention at Albuquerque New Mexico on May 28-June 1 1993 Those interested in presenting a paper or organizing a session should contact or ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Dr William T Doherty Jr Professor of History and University Historian at West Virginia University has been named Editor of West Virginia History Dr Doherty will immediately assume the editorial duties of the quarterly publication of the Department of Culture and History Doherty earned undergraduate degrees from Southeast Missouri State University his Master of Arts degree from American University's School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs and his Doctor ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Resolutions adopted by THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION at its Annual Meeting held at Columbus Ohio December 27-29 1923 WHEREAS there has been in progress for several years an agitation conducted by certain newspapers patriotic societies fraternal orders and others against a number of school textbooks in history and in favor of official censorship and WHEREAS this propaganda has met with sufficient success to bring about not only ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Without Right Angles The Round Barns of Iowa By Lowell J Soike Des Moines Iowa State Historical Department Office of Historic Preservation 1983 viii 103p illustrations notes index Round barns in Mr Soike's definition were structures which could be truly round octagonal or in some other polygonal form He catalogs 160 round barns in Iowa and traces the general history of this aberrant but practical design for the past 200 years in this well-researched and illustrated book ...
... Book Notes Winter-Spring 2002 pp 94-95 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK NOTES Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest By Noel D Justice and Suzanne K Kudlaty Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2001 xii 53 p 112 figures appendixes This slim volume is intended as a beginner's ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Growth Amidst Struggle A Sesquicentennial History of the Longenecker Mennonite Church By James O Lehman Winesburg Ohio Longenecker Mennonite Church 1980 160p illustrations maps notes index Once again James O Lehman puts together the history of a congregation and in so doing makes an important contribution to Ohio's local history In Growth Amidst Struggle Lehman traces the two meetinghouses-Kolb's and Longenecker's-which today comprise the Longenecker ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Mr Edward S Lewis 22 1 7 McGregor Place Cincinnati Ohio Mrs Rhea Mansfield Knittle 177 E Main St Ashland Ohio Mr C Allen Boughton 1 25 W Fifth St Mansfield Ohio Mrs Henry V Weil 1 26 E 57th St New York City N Y Mr Ralph H Beaton 1578 E Long St Columbus Ohio Rev L L Roush 5725 Gallia Ave Portsmouth Ohio Mr C E Spindler Ashville Ohio Miss Gertrude H Terrell New Vienna Ohio R F D No 3 Mr Edward S Thomas 1116 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 90 Secretary--Harry Brent Mackoy Covington Ky Deputy Secretary - Murray Marvin Shoemaker Cincinnati Treasurer - Howard Sydenham Winslow Cincinnati Registrar - Robert Ralston Jones Cincinnati Historian - John Uri Lloyd Norwood Chancellor - Herbert Jenney Cincinnati Surgeon - Dr Phineas Sanborn Conner Cincinnnati Chaplain - Rev Henry Melville Curtis Cincinnati Gentlemen of the Council - Nathaniel Henchman Davis Cincinnati Edwin C Gashorn Cincinnati Charles Humphrey ...
... 86 Ohio Arch 86 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Governor Campbell the recipient of the special honor of this occasion was present and in a very happy address expressed his appreciation in this living testimonial of the regard in which he is held With the singing of the tree planting song by the Trinity Choir and benediction the delightful and impressive program of the afternoon was concluded PETER NAVARRE DAY On Saturday afternoon October 6 1923 Peter Navarre Day was appropriately ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN a course of investigations concerning Western literary undertakings the writer has given some attention to the history of periodical publications particularly those devoted to literature There have been many such publications in the valley of the Ohio River some of great merit others of little or no value Comparatively few of our Western magazines have been well supported by the public or have lived longer than ...