Robert LaPorte served on Great Lakes freighters during the 1950 and 1951 sailing seasons while attending college. After graduating in 1953, LaPorte worked for another season in 1954. This collection is composed of 58 black and white photos of Great Lakes vessels taken by LaPorte during his service…
This collection consists of postcards and letters sent by sailor George Reichert to his wife Mabel and their son, Lyle, mainly in 1913. George was often gone from home for months at a time, and the correspondence in this collection documents how this life affected their family relationship. Of…
The Max Shaffer collection consists mostly of Northwest Ohio-related photographs collected by Shaffer, the bulk of which depict workers in the petroleum industry in the Cygnet area in Wood County during the approximate period 1886-1924.The focus of the collection is the work crews that constructed…
The United States Customs Service, created by an act of July 31, 1789, became part of the Department of the Treasury when that Department was established in September of 1789. The service has been responsible for the enforcement of numerous laws and regulations pertaining to the import and export of…
The collection contains transcripts, exhibits, and supplementary items from the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation convened on November 18, 1975, eight days after the EDMUND FITZGERALD sank in Lake Superior with her entire crew of twenty-nine men. The purpose of the inquiry was to…
The Jesse Wells Church Papers, GLMS 10, contains a journal maintained for the Church family shipbuilding business on Sugar Island, Michigan from 1853 to 1895. Church resided in Church's Landing on Sugar Island and in left by the Church family give details and specifications for boats that generally…
This digital collection features select items digitized at the public Community Scan Day event held on May 5, 2019, at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo (ICGT), hosted jointly by the Center for the Archival Collections and the ICGT. The Community Scan Day was made possible by aCommon Heritage…
The Northwest Ohio Independent Culture Archive (NOICA) exists as a collection in Bowling Green State University's Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives to collect and preserve underground and independent popular music and related culture from the Northwest Ohio region including photographs,…
This collection provides access to digitized versions of the BGSU Alumni Magazine, which began publication in 1942. Students enrolled in the History 6560: Archives Administration course in Spring 2019, Fall 2022, and Fall 2024, in combination with archives fieldwork student William Niner, are…
This digital collection provides access to the entirety of the History 303 World War II interviews (MS-0871), a collection of oral histories about World War II conducted by BGSU students in the early 2000s for the History 303 (World War II) course taught by professors Walter Grunden and Kathren…
This digital collection features select items from the Edward Bronson photographs (MS-0454), a collection of 798 photographs taken by Bronson, an amateur photographer from Defiance, Ohio. Bronson's photographs provide a comprehensive view of the life of Defiance, Ohio through the first half of the…
This digital collection features select items from BGSU Women's Center records (UA-0054), which document the activities of the Women's Center at Bowling Green State University since its founding in 1998.SelectBrowse Items to view all items currently in this digital collection, or enter specific…