Unusually early, nineteenth-century manuscript cattle earmark record from Ohio. The manuscript describes and illustrates 40 earmarks, notches or slits cut into the ears of farm... Read More
1870 broadside or handbill issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African-Americans in Liberia. Opening lines, thus: “The most remarkable revival of religion... Read More
1870s broadside issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African Americans in Liberia. The society was formed in 1827 to encourage black Ohioans... Read More
1870 broadsheet issued by the Ohio Colonization Society defending the colonization of African-Americans in Liberia and writing passionately of those “...having been torn from their... Read More
Native of Toledo, Ohio, F.J. Scott was the son of wealthy Jesup W. Scott who donated funds to establish in Toledo, Ohio the Toledo Manual..... Read More
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint... Read More
[i.e., House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 15.]. CWB I, p10: “McClellan’s official report, containing much information on the initial organization..... Read More
Compilation of trade catalogs, price lists, and brochures from 1921 to 1925 for commercial lighting hardware made by the Ivanhoe-Regent Works of General Electric Company... Read More
The Wild West has come to Dayton, Ohio! Trick riding, bull dogging, death dragging, buffalos, and trained horses. Professor Jesse Beery and his Beery Exhibitions... Read More
Before there were mass-market movies about competing cheerleader squadrons in California comprised primarily of young screaming women, there were the “Cheer Boys.” (You can look..... Read More
Colonel, justice of the peace, and pioneer; publication of Barker’s manuscript. With extensive footnotes. Indexed. Marietta, Ohio: Marietta College, 1958. 96pp. First edition, thus. Dark..... Read More
Partly printed certificate conveying the recipe and the right to manufacture “Sun-Light Oil,” a non-explosive kerosene substitute for lamp fuel. Or so was the claim..... Read More
C.1890s Cattle and other livestock fence trade catalog issued by Neuhauser Bros., Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farm machinery and hardware merchants. The Neuhausers entered fence business..... Read More
Two affecting letters touching on slavery, separation between men of common English ancestry, and loss and suffering. Both letters addressed to Ohio physician, Dr. Robert... Read More
The private United States Secret Service Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio was the publisher of the American Criminal Gazetteer. The circular, here offered, outlines the Rules... Read More
Over fifty pages, a manuscript on musical composition and performance delivered as an address before an 1844 convention of church choirs held in Summit County... Read More
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![The Macedonian Call. Haste to the Rescue! [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]. B F. Romaine, 1820–1874, Rev. Benjamin Franklin Romaine.](/pictures/thumb/3727118_1.jpg?v=1540253932)
![A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]. B F. Romaine, 1820–1874, Rev. Benjamin Franklin Romaine.](/pictures/thumb/3727117_1.jpg?v=1540253931)
![Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]. B F. Romaine, 1820–1874, Rev. Benjamin Franklin Romaine, George Gregg.](/pictures/thumb/3727119_1.jpg?v=1540253932)
![Ivanhoe Catalogs of Metal Reflectors and Illuminating Glassware for Industrial, Commercial and Residential Lighting. [cover title]. Ivanhoe-Regent Works of General Electric Co.](/pictures/thumb/3727646_1.jpg?v=1542741014)
![[Twelve Beery Western Show Exhibition Real Photo Post Cards]. Jesse Beery, Beery Exhibitions.](/pictures/thumb/3725147_1.jpg?v=1534362301)
![Joseph Barker, Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio. [Inscribed and Signed by the Editor]. ed Joseph Barker George Jordan Blazier, 1765-.](/pictures/thumb/3728067_1.jpg?v=1545242459)
![Annual Catalogue of Neuhauser Bros. Jobbers of The Jones Locked Wire Fence, Stock Proof Lock. [Trade Catalog]. Jonas Umble Neuhauser, Isaac Umble Neuhauser.](/pictures/thumb/3727674_1.jpg?v=1539123808)
![“An Address on Music. Delivered before a convention of the church choirs of Summit Co. Ohio, Dec. 18, 1844.” [Ohio manuscript]. Unkwn.](/pictures/thumb/3726724_1.jpg?v=1542758730)