Erik Heyl was the author of a number of works on the history of navigation in North America. His most significant work is the six-volume Early American Steamers series published between 1953 and 1969. Although active in researching all early North American steamboats, Heyl had a special interest and…
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…
The Poetic Portraits project was a collaboration between older women in Wood County, Ohio, Sandra L. Faulkner, Professor of Media and Communication, Phil Beskid, Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Media and Communication, and Michelle Sweetser Head Librarian from the BGSU archives. The…
Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics is a collaboration between WBGU-PBS and Dr. Melissa K. Miller, Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Both the oral history collection and the companion WBGU-PBS documentary serve as time capsules of an important era when women began…
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…
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…
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, 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…