MC. Manuscript Collections

Records of membership, baptisms, weddings and funerals.

Scrapbook of clippings, photographs, programs, and other printed material related to the service of members of the 192nd Tank Battalion, Co.C in the Philippines and the dedication of the Bataan Memorial in Port Clinton, Ohio. Scrapbook possibly associated with John D. Minier.

A series of 30 maps of various sizes detailing the bathymetry and geology of the lake bottom around the Lake Erie islands. Source and author unknown.

Typed poem, given at a meeting in Freeport (now Wayne), Ohio around 1889.

Board of directors minutes, articles of incorporation and capital stock records.

Open house album with information on the Beach family and the funeral home business, includes photographs, clippings, and congratulations cards.

Miscellaneous papers of related Beck, Sherer, and Peters families in Fremont, Ohio; includes estate appraisal account of Daniel Sherer, clippings, funeral cards, and photographs.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, bulletins, pamphlets, printed material, and scrapbook.

Minutes, cash account, crypt record, and folder of loose correspondence. Wrapped.

Ledger with names for marker accounts, dimensions of stone, and price for carving.

Church record books with membership, baptisms, marriages, funerals, and family information sheets; includes the earlier Pleasant Valley Circuit and Ostrander Circuit.

The Bender Family Collection consists of correspondence dating from 1865 to 1898 written by the daughters-in-law and daughters of Peter and Elizabeth Bender (Eveline Goff Bender, Caroline Bender Wack, Betsey Powell Bender) and members of their families. There are also letters from the daughter of Jacob and Melissa Bender and letters from Philip Fowl, the husband of Catherine (Bender) Fowl.

Collection of handwritten poems.

The records of the Women's Missionary Society of the Benton Ridge United Methodist Church date from 1896 to 1958. The history of the Women's Missionary Society and the Women's Society of World Service is represented in this collection which consists of meeting minutes, a financial ledger and annual reports.

Scrapbook compiled by a BGSU faculty member of clippings, correspondence, and memos related to the unrest and controversy at Bowling Green State University during the last year of the Ralph W. McDonald presidency of the University, particularly issues surrounding dismissal of faculty member Sherman M. Stanage and subsequent protests.

The Bernard Sternsher papers contain reports, articles, and research documenting Sternsher's research interests between 1933-1994. Sternsher was a professor of history at Bowling Green State University and focused much of his research on the New Deal and American political history. Also included are research papers prepared by Sternsher's students between 1958 and 1993.

Photographs from Defiance and Paulding Counties of the Shirley and Giltz families, showing farm life and general family activities.

Copybook with class notes from medical school at the Toledo Medical College; includes notes on material medica, pharmacology, minor surgery, and volumetric analysis. Incomplete letter on office stationery dated April 21, 1918 included, under her married name, Bertha King Hobart, M.D.

Line drawing showing lines required at berth no. 6, Presque Isle Dock, Toledo, Ohio, on the Maumee River for the vessel M/V MONTROSE.

Account ledger and journal of a Port Clinton, Ohio fishery business.

Church record book, including constitution, list of members, confirmations, and baptisms. Records in German.

Photographs, letters, and clippings from scrapbooks of teacher and principal at South Main Street School, Bowling Green, Ohio.

The Beta Sigma Phi records consist mostly of scrapbooks, minutes, and photographs. The material in this collection documents the activities of this women’s social organization.

The Bethlehem Lutheran Church collection (1800-1945) largely consists of records of membership, births, confirmations, communion, marriages, and deaths. The collection includes: minutes/family register (1800-1907), written in German, which contains vital statistics as well as church minutes and an index on pages 191-201; a record book (1878-1916), written in German; and a record book (1916-1945).