MC. Manuscript Collections

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This collection documents the activities of the Bowling Green Senior Citizens Club and includes scrapbooks; photographs; meeting minutes; registration, attendance, appreciation, and other club records from 1960-2007 (bulk 1970-1995).

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The manuscript collection of the Bowling Green Soroptimist Club, Wood County, Ohio, covers the years from 1944 to 1980. Minutes, correspondence, subject files, newsletters, newspaper clippings (dated and undated), and scrapbooks provide illumination into the organization's relationship with the Bowling Green community and other Soroptimist chapters.

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Loose memorabilia of a student at Bowling Green State Normal College, Class of 1929; includes a Commencement Week program, grade record sheet, a 1922 syllabus for the study of elementary school subjects, and a replica of the BGNC seal made of felt and soft leather.

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Loose scrapbook pages of programs, dance cards, calling card, and other ephemera of an unidentified student at Bowling Green State Normal College in 1919.

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The records in this collection span the years 1918, the year that the Women's League was organized, to 1970, when the successor organization, the Association of Women Students, disbanded. The collection contains official minutes, officer lists, financial documents, subject files covering organizational activities and printed material from the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students.

Abstract In honor of the 2023 100th anniversary of the BGSU Marching Falcons, Bowling Green State University's College of Musical Arts, Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, and Center for Archival Collections collaborated to create the Bowling Green State University Bands Collection. BGSU Bands Collection materials continue to be added to the collection, and include records transferred from the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts and University Advancement, as well as...

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The Educational Memorabilia Center collection honors Bowling Green State University’s beginnings as a state normal college or teacher training school. It features many educational artifacts, period books, photographs, and manuscript materials dating from circa 1876-1940 and documenting one-room schoolhouses in and around the Northwest Ohio region, as well as documentation dating from circa 1969-2004 relating to the creation and operation of the Educational Memorabilia Center at BGSU.

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Includes records, dating from 1951-1994, comprised of student project files, Black Swamp Folklife Festival files, and miscellaneous folklore files.

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Signatures of university guests who stayed at the Bowling Green State University Guest House. Some of the names include James Baldwin, Lillian Gish, Eva Marie Saint & Jeffrey Hayden, Fred Rogers, Scott Hamilton, Nate Thurman, Yo Yo Ma, and numerous other academic, cultural, and alumni guests.

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Scrapbook of clippings, photographs and programs of the activities of the BGSU Men's Glee Club.

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The Bowling Green State University Retirees Association (BGSURA) collection consists of proceedings, subject files, newsletters and photographs.

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Award ribbons presented to Heckman as a member of the BGSU Women's Track Team at various meets between 1975 and 1977.

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Photocopies and transcripts of Civil War era correspondence by and to members of the Brackney family, including Oscar Allen, Samuel Brackney, C. M. Powell, Bill McConnell, and Joseph Harden, serving with Co. C, 188th O.V.I., and Co. C, 57th O.V.I.

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Meeting minutes for the Brackney Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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The Brad Phalin photograph collection covers the date range circa 1985-1996. The collection consists photographic material relating to Bowling Green State University and the surrounding area.

Abstract The Bradley family papers date from approximately 1797 to 1977, with the information contained within the papers covering the period 1620-1977. Included are family correspondence, journals, account records, Justice of the Peace Dockets, census records, and documents acquired through the National Archives, the Library of Congress, Daughters of the American Revolution Library, and the National Genealogical Society. The papers reflect the activities and business transactions of several Bradley...

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Record books of the sexton of Bradner Cemetery, Montgomery Township, Wood County, giving the name of the deceased, date of interment, cause and place of death, and undertaker; also includes information for Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.

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Computer generated printout, dated April 4, 1992, of family group sheets and genealogical charts of the Michael Brand family of Wood County, Ohio.

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Interview with a resident of Leipsic, Ohio, describing her experiences growing up in a small rural town in the early-20th century. Conducted for Popular Culture 240 class at Bowling Green State University, spring quarter, 1979.

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The Bridges-Vass Family Collection consists of mostly printed materials. These range from trading cards to church brochures providing an interesting look into the collections and lives of people during the late 1800s.

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Sunday School record with account of teachers and students present and amounts of donations collected.

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The Brigham Family Papers consist of Civil War era correspondence, and postwar papers, clippings and photographs, primarily relating to the family of Joseph H. Brigham and his career during the Civil War and with the Grange and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Family photographs and agricultural scenes in Seneca County, Ohio; including family names Brill, Gittinger, Souder, Norris, Garland, Taylor, and Matthews. Includes genealogical information sheet.