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.