Northwest Ohio photographs collection

This digital collection features select images from the Northwest Ohio photographs collection. Housed at the University Libraries' Center for Archival Collections, the Northwest Ohio photographs collection is comprised of thousands of photographic prints and negatives documenting the social, cultural, industrial, agricultural, political, and economic history of the Northwest Ohio region, mostly during the 19th and 20th centuries. Several individual donors have contributed photographs to this collection, and the Center for Archival Collections continues to accept additional donations.

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This digital collection contains only a selection of items from the Northwest Ohio photographs collection. While additional images are being posted on an ongoing basis, this digital collection is not meant to be representative of the entirety of the Northwest Ohio photographs collection, and some items will continue to be avaialble for viewing only in their original formats at the Center for Archival Collections. For more information on the Northwest Ohio photographs collection, please contact the Center for Archival Collections.

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A. Froney and Company (Bowling Green, Ohio)

A. Froney and Company, S. Main St., Bowling Green, Ohio.

Bowling Green Fire Department

Bowling Green Fire Department.

Fred Harris, Inc., Lincoln-Mercury dealership, 222 N. Main, Bowling Green, Ohio

Fred Harris, Inc., Lincoln-Mercury dealership, 222 N. Main, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Troops from the 30th Company, 8th Training Battalion, 158th Depot Brigade at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Troops from the 30th Company, 8th Training Battalion, 158th Depot Brigade at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio. In the back row, seventeenth in from the right, is Karl B. Scheidler of Toledo, Ohio, who later became Toledo Fire Chief.

Wood County Selective Service group of 127 soldiers in front of Wood County Courthouse

Wood County soldiers drafted into the 158th Depot Brigade, photographed in front of Wood County Courthouse, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 6, 1918.

Parade with carriages and cars, Main Street, Bowling Green

Main Street, Bowling Green, Ohio, parade with carriages and cars.

Ray Pratt, Willard Brown, and Bruce Pratt of Company H, 2nd Infantry, Ohio National Guard, at Fort Meigs military encampment

Ray Pratt, Willard Brown, and Bruce Pratt (all from Jerry City, Ohio) of Company H, 2nd Infantry, Ohio National Guard, at a military encampment at Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, Ohio. Once formally drafted into federal service, Company H became Company F of the 146th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry…

146th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division headquarters at Camp Sheridan

146th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division headquarters at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama.

Company H, 2nd Infantry, Ohio National Guard, at Fort Meigs military encampment

Members of Company H, 2nd Infantry, Ohio National Guard, on parade at a military encampment at Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, Ohio. Once formally drafted into federal service, Company H became Company F of the 146th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division, American Expeditionary Forces.

Group of World War I servicemen and women, June 30, 1918

Group of men and women of various nationalities, photographed on June 30, 1918, while serving in World War I in Europe. In the back row, second in from the right, identified with the number 50, is Fred Adams of Wood County, Ohio, who served in the 163rd Field Hospital, 116th Sanitary Train, 41st…

A. W. King & Son, Clothing (Defiance, Ohio)

A. W. King & Son, Clothing, at 311 Clinton St., Defiance, Ohio, during the 1913 Flood.

Bowling Green, Ohio Main Street scene after blizzard of 1978

Bowling Green, Ohio Main Street scene after blizzard of 1978. South Main Street looking north.