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January 18, 2024

Yours Respectfully, Miss Elvira Johnson

By Wendy Korwin, Archives Services Manager Within large archival collections, certain names and voices stand out. From 2021-2023, archivists at the Ohio History Connection worked to catalog President Warren G. Harding’s papers and photographs. During this project, we identified thousands of correspondents (another blog post explores some of Harding's early letters). There were close, distant […]

December 14, 2021

Happy New Year from the Printer’s Devil

Have you ever received a Christmas card from your mail carrier? This is fairly common practice around the country. But do you know where this come from?

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A prestidigitator could not do better with your soiled shirts!

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Can You Pass the Test? Teacher Certification Exams in Ohio’s Historic Newspapers

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February 24, 2014

Finding the Leaves of Your Family Tree in the Pages of Online Newspapers

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Killed by Pitched Ball: Finding Ray Chapman on Chronicling America

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Ohio Genealogical Society PowerPoint and Links

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Battle of Shiloh in Ohio Papers

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(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Searching for Newspaper Pages in Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers