MC. Manuscript Collections

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Cash journals, day books, and a ledger detailing the company's expenditures and receipts.

Abstract The papers of William Backus Guitteau date from 1884 to 1963. This collection consists of scrapbooks detailing the education and career of William B. Guitteau with the bulk of the material focusing on the years 1890 through 1932. In addition, the collection contains several original copies of speeches Dr. Guitteau gave at various points in his career, correspondence pertaining to Guitteau's employment and miscellaneous newsclippings on his career. This particular collection will prove useful...

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Correspondence, legal documents, certificates, handbooks, photographs, and a biographical file pertaining to William Bruns.

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Personal papers, with short stories, novels, essays, and academic papers of a journalist and writer who taught in the English Department at Bowling Green State University; includes drafts and manuscripts of primarily unpublished works as well as lists and notebooks Thomas maintained which document his reading and book collecting over the course of most of his adult life.

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The papers consist of Civil War memoirs, family history files, a few letters, newspapers and military records of William's relatives. The dates of the papers span from 1826 to 1992.

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The Holgate Diaries (1833-1948) consist of thirteen volumes; eleven diaries and two account ledgers. Three diaries (1833-1852) were kept by William Curtis Holgate and the other eight diaries (1868-1894) and two account ledgers (1878-1880, 1924-1948) were kept by his son, who was also named William C. Holgate.

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Printed receipt forms for assessments of $500 from traffickers in intoxicating liquors, filled out in manuscript by William C. Peter for premises owned by August Flechtner at 303 S. Main Street, Fostoria, Ohio.

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Civil War pension file of a soldier, serving in Co. K, 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the later applications on behalf of his wife, Jane L. Stocking.

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Pension certificates, notification correspondence, and a certificate to accompany transportation of a corpse.

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Interview with a resident of Bowling Green, Ohio, describing his life growing up in Greenville, Ohio, and impressions of life in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was employed by BGSU. Conducted for Popular Culture 240 class at Bowling Green State University, spring quarter, 1979.

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Discharge paper of a soldier who served at the siege of Fort Meigs in April and May 1813; discharge less than honorable due to cowardly conduct.

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Bills of lading shipping grapes from Kelley's Island, Ohio.

Abstract The Dr. William E. Evans collection consists of documents mostly regarding his long and impressive career. Among these papers, are generally speeches and statements made by Dr. Evans throughout the 1980s for many influential and important hearings and meetings with several House and Senate Committees. These speeches, which still remain in their original booklets, consist of dozens of speeches from throughout the country that date from predominately 1987- 1989. The Evans collection also...

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The papers of William Ellis Schumaker consist of of albums containing original documents, photographs, clippings, and artifacts associated with the Schumaker and related Fastnacht families.

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Civil War military and pension file papers of a soldier who service in Co.K, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

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Copy of photograph of Arbuckle with his wife Nannie Todd Arbuckle and obituary from newspaper, probably the Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune.

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Small books with handwritten entries of a farmer and tailor from Crawford, Hardin, and Hancock Counties, Ohio; includes a bound, indexed photocopy of each small account-book.

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Transcripts of three letters written to his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Hardman, while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island during the Civil War, from originals in Ellenton, Florida.

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Transcript of a letter written to the editor of the Wood County Independent, Perrysburg, Ohio, published May 15, 1863, regarding the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., from a soldier serving with Battery H, 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. Transcription provided by Dan Masters.

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Letter, written to son William John Harrington, describing political situation in West Virginia during the Civil War at the period when West Virginia became a State.

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Transcript of letters related to the Civil War, written by Brevet Brigadier General William H. Gibson, commander of the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry from material in the Seneca County Museum, Tiffin, Ohio. Transcription provided by Richard F. Mann.

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The William Henry Gorrill papers consist largely of correspondence, diaries, and photographs documenting Gorrill's activities as a lawyer in Wood County; his trip West and settlement in Oakland, California; his marriage to Addie Walker; and his death from tuberculosis in 1874.

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Civil War diary of a soldier who served with Co.H, 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Transcribed by Walter G. Schroeder from original in the collection of the Ohio Historical Society.

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Autobiography and genealogy of a Baptist minister who served in churches around Ohio, with addition notes by Paul W. Jones, who was his son-in-law.

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Personal collection of photographic albums, printed material, and reports, reflecting his business responsibilities as the Western Division Manager of the Northeastern Public Service Corporation, with the local office in Bowling Green, Ohio. Collection gives an overview of the range and impact of electrification in small town and rural areas, as well as the standardization of a safe water-supply.