The records of the Gamma Chapter (local) Ohio Child Conservation League (OCCL) date from 1953 to 1965. The history of this charitable and social organization is reflected in minutes, financial records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, handbooks, pamphlets, newsletters, and programs.
The…
The Nicholas Vass Diaries are a collection of 33 stenographic notepads on which diary entries were written between 1961 and 1971 by a patient in the long-term care facility of the Maumee Valley Hospital.
The collection was acquired by the Center of Archival Collections through a gift from Frances…
The records for the Cla-Zel Theatre Project were donated for the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University in December of 2007 by Paul Yon. The records for this project include many financial documents, projects, correspondence letters including both letters and e-mails, and…
The Young-Furst collection consists of photographs relating to Eban Claude Young dating from 1916 through 1924. The collection also contains photographs relating to the World War I service of Sylvester A. Furst. Certificates and materials relating to Sylvester Furst’s tenure as an engineer of…
The Wheeled Meals collection spans the period 1969-2010. Wheeled Meals is an all volunteer, non-profit organization whose mission is to offer a community service of home delivered meals to the disabled, aged and ill who are not able to provide, obtain or prepare their own nourishing foods or who are…
The Ottawa County Map Collection consists of more than 90 hand-drawn maps originally deposited with the Ottawa County Auditor’s Office and transferred to Bowling Green State University in the mid-1970s as part of the local government records program. Initially integrated into the general county map…
The Shriners International: Zenobia Temple (Toledo, Ohio) collection consists of mostly of printed material, photographs, and scrapbook material related to the organization. The material in this collection dates from 1899 to 1971 and documents some of the events of this society in the Toledo, Ohio…
The records of the Wood County Hospital Guild were donated to the Center for Archival Collections beginning in 1982 through the cooperation of various Guild Officers including Lolita Guthrie and Laurie Newlove, with an instrument of gift signed in September 2011. The collection chronicles events,…
The OhiOntario International Friendship Games Collection consists mostly of meeting minutes, correspondence, officer and planning information, financial documents and pictures related to various OhiOntario International Friendship Games. Also included are a variety of artifacts such as t-shirts,…
The Knights of Pythias Collection consists of mostly member information and material related to membership history of the organization. The material in this collection dates from 1888 to 1981 and documents primarily the members of the organization in Northwest Ohio over the years. The collection was…
The Bowling Green Country Club Records were transferred from the Bowling Green Country Club to the Center for Archival Collections for microfilming in 1979. The collection consists of Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings of the Bowling Green Country Club from January 10, 1955-December, 1979.…
The records and scrapbook of the Middle Bass Club were transferred from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Morton, Strongsville, Ohio, to the Center for Archival Collections for microfilming. The collection consists of ledgers (1891-1898, 1903-1911), Club records (1904), guest lists (1899-1912), scrapbook…
The records of the Taylor Funeral Home, Oakwood, Ohio were transferred for microfilming to the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio with the cooperation of Bertie Taylor, Oakwood, Ohio in November 1996. The Center for Archival Collections is the…
The Joseph C. Bowsher Papers: History of the Lima Police Department (MS-171) were transferred for microfilming to the Center for Archival Collections with the cooperation of Joseph C. Bowsher, Lima, Ohio, in April 1997.
The Joseph C. Bowsher Papers consist of a publication of the history of the…
The Toledo YMCA Collection contains 46 linear feet of materials dating from the establishment of the association in Toledo in 1865, until 1977. Included are minutes, correspondence, printed materials, financial documents, legal documents, reports, photographs, speeches, scrapbooks, maps, and…
The American Lung Association collection documents from 1920 to 1979 the progress of local health association campaigns against tuberculosis and respiratory diseases. Through the sale of Christmas seals, sponsoring of chest x-rays, and supporting public health education programs, these groups hoped…
The records of the Committee for Services to Youth, Inc. were donated to the Center for Archival Collections in October 1982, through the cooperation of R. Anthony Marcson and the Children’s Resource Center. No restrictions exist on the use of this collection. Duplication is permitted for the…
The records of the Findlay Garden Club of Findlay, Ohio (1934-1982) were donated to the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, on November 30, 1982. The collection was transferred by Ann Bowers, Curator of Manuscripts, Center for Archival Collections, with the cooperation…
The records of the Men's Literary Club span the years 1899-1954. The collection contains fairly complete minutes (1899-1944), Club calendars (1903-1954), and membership recods (1899-1946). Also included in the collection are guest speaker lists, memorial tributes and two of the members'…
The R. Serge Denisoff Collection contains 15 cubic feet of literary manuscripts and research files dating from approximately 1960-1990. The collection documents several of Denisoff's numerous book projects while the remainder is comprised of research papers by other authors on sociological, musical…
The records of the Northwest Ohio Volunteer Firemen's Association is an active collection of the records and publications of a regional support organization for members of the fire-fighting profession in Northwest Ohio.
Donation of material to the Center for Archival Collections first began in…
The Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh collection was originally developed and donated by Ettie Rieman of the Ottawa Historical Society in Ottawa, Ohio as part of a project on Women of Putnam County. With the help of Marguerite Calvin, a writer for the Putnam County Sentinel and Sister Assunta, a friend of…
The Evelyn Steidtmann Collection is essentially a 1.5 cubic foot archives (1944-1994) documenting over fifty years of contract bridge playing in Bowling Green, Ohio. Known to many by the nickname "Mrs. Bridge", Evelyn Steidtmann was a tireless player and proponent of the game. Beginning in the early…
The records of the Swanton Garden Club were donated to the Center for Archival Collections in March 1984, through the cooperation of Mrs. Jeska and Ann Bowers, Assistant Director.
No restrictions exist on the use of this collection. Duplication is permitted for the purposes of preservation and…