The Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS) Digital Collection features posters, flyers, and signage promoting ICS programs and events from 1997-2008.
Established in 1996, the Institute for the Study of Culture & Society (ICS) is a public humanities hub at Bowling Green State…
This collection contains audio recordings of several oral history interviews with longtime members of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo (ICGT).
Grand opening and ribbon-cutting of Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, 1983. Interviewee Habib Khan is on the far right.
The interviews were…
This collection contains 93 glass negatives. These photographs were taken by members of the John Craig family in Trenton, Michigan, Toledo, Ohio, and Long Beach, California. The Craig family operated a shipyard in each of those cities. Shipyard scenes and street scenes are present in largest…
This digital collection contains selected digitized materials from the Lake Carriers' Association Records (GLMS 44), an industry and trade group composed of Great Lakes shipping companies. Created through a merger of several different organizations in 1892, the Association worked to standardize…
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 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…
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 and Fall 2022, in combination with archives fieldwork student William Niner, are responsible for…
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 digitized items from the BGSU oral history collection (MS-0449), which includes transcripts and audio tapes of interviews with people associated with Bowling Green State University.Select Browse Items to view all items currently in this digital collection, or…
This digital collection features select images from the BGSU University Archives photographs collection (UA-0114), which contains thousands of photographic prints and negatives documenting myriad aspects of BGSU's history, including the design and construction of the BGSU campus, student groups and…