... 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 ...
... PROCEEDINGS 247 book will be made up of nearly a score of essays treating various aspects of Ohio history and activity While we believe that this section of the book will be of great interest to the general reader and will serve to interpret the State as a whole it is unlikely that it will make significant addition to the body of knowledge on Ohio The second and third sections of the book however will be a unique contribution Because of its large staff widely distributed over the State the ...
... county he attended Capital county from 18891896 and county examiner in Perry county of Athens and southern Ohio bear uniform testimony to the high character of Professor Martzolff's life service as citizen student and teacher ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Dr Mendenhall was educated in the public schools was one of the members of the first faculty of the Ohio State University was called to the Imperial University of Japan where he occupied the chair of physics from 1878-1881 returned to Ohio State University where he taught three years after which he was successively professor of the U S Signal Corps President of Rose Polytechnic Institute Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic ...
... warm As that old house up 'mong the trees where used to be our farm That house wer' built of logs an' chinked an' daubed all 'roun' Inside them logs wer' one big room what kivered lots o' groun' The clapboard roof held down by poles as ev'rybody knowed Wer' proof agin the rain an' snow 'cept when it rained or snowed The doors was paw'ful hefty an' hung on hick'ry wood An' opened with a latch-string special them what front-ways stood The ...
... OHIO A LEGEND OHIO A LEGEND D TOD GILLIAM An Aviator sailing through the skies 'Tis said in quest of Paradise Checked suddenly his rapid flight And gazed in rapture at the sight That burst upon his startled eyes And held him speechless in surprise Quoth he at length his sense regained My long sought purpose is attained If Paradise exist below This surely must be it I know 'Tis Paradise or Ohio I've sailed the skies of every clime I've seen the beautiful sublime But never in my wanderings wide ...
...war Years 1919-1940 by ward Chandler Christy Lewis Hine William Henry Jackson Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange The 176-page volume is available for 2500 plus 300 shipping and handling from the National Archives Trust Fund PO Box 100793 Atlanta Georgia 30384 The Greater Cleveland Labor History Society recently issued Cleveland Labor And The Vietnam
...ward's hush And had to have a freedom-champion's Blood sprinkled in her face to make her blush One will become a passion to avenge Her shame-a fury consecrate and weird As if the old religion of Stonehenge Amid our weakling worships reappeared It was a drawn sword of Jehovah's wrath Two-edged and flaming waved back to a host Of mighty shadows gathering on its path Soon to emerge as soldiers when the ghost Of John Brown should the lines of ...
...wart of Western Reserve wards presented the ward for Historical ward Robinson of wards John F Cady Ohio University chairman Hilmar C Krueger University of Cincinnati Mary E Young Ohio State University Committee on Nominations Virginia B ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 281 REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 281 spectively are the two more important additions to the State Memorial list during the year A number of park superintendents' residences have been built and others are under construction Storage buildings comfort stations shelters roads trails bridges fences parking areas drinking fountains flagpoles--these are but a few of the improvements to be credited to the accomplishment of the year Landscaping ...
... 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren His interest in local history as attested by numerous articles and the voluminous History of Sandusky County his kindly and cheerful disposition and his optimistic spirit will long be remembered by his fellow members of the Society MEETING OF CRESAP SOCIETY The Cresap Society will hold its meeting in Columbus September 15-16 The first session ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue MILO M QUAIFE is Secretary and Editor of the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library Detroit Michigan PHILIP C NASH is President of the University of Toledo CARL WITTKE is Professor of History and Dean of Oberlin College LEWIS BLAKE DUFF is a resident of Welland Ontario Canada and a business man who makes a hobby of Canadian and local history He is a past President and member of the Council of the Ontario Historical Society R CLYDE FORD is a ...
... 436 THEODORE E THEODORE E BURTON Theodore E Burton was born at Jefferson Ohio December 20 1851 was graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 received the degree of LL D from Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges and from New York University Ohio University and other institutions was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875 was elected to the National House of Representatives and served through the fifty-first fifty-fourth to sixtieth and sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth ...
...wards and retirements warded a Fulbright warded a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Peru and has been replaced by Patricia Seed from the University of Wisconsin Recent scholarly contributions by Ohio historians include The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire by Barbara N Ramusack and Fascism An Introductory Perspective by Otis ...
... war while the Far wards announced that wards--Robert L Jones Marietta College chairman Wilfred J Steiner University of Dayton Isabelle Askew Wilberforce University Membership--Raymond W Bixler Ashland College chairman Sister Mary Teresa Mary Manse College Toledo Nominations--William J McNiff Miami University chairman Clarence P Gould ...
...wards and a silent auction If you are not on the OAHSM mailing list and would like to receive notification of the meetingconference contact the OHS Local History Office at 1-800-858-6878 The Ohio Academy of History Fall 2004 Meeting will be held November 6 at the Building Connections Conference in Columbus Ohio Further information will be available this fall at the OAH web site www2uakroneduOAH Call for Papers 151Altamira Press is proud to ...
... 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 ...
... civil rights era and portrayals of African-Americans in popular films Debra Newman Ham a specialist in Afro-American history and culture in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress compiled and edited the volume incorporating information provided by seven other specialists familiar with the collections Copies may be ordered for 2400 each from the Superintendent of Documents PO Box 371954 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15250-7954 Please be ...
...warded as an addition wards The 1997 Kerr ward in 1997 to honor the university president scholar and pioneer public historian Dixon Ryan Fox Direct inquiries concerning the New York State Historical Association to The Farmers' Museum and Fenimore House Museum Lake Road PO Box 800 Cooperstown New York 13326 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers recently ...