Vo1 . 11 , No. 1 Spring 1980 Spring Meetings The SOA's meeting schedule for 1980 sessions. The planning committee for provides the membership with excellent the joint workshop hopes to provide opportunities to maKe new acquain- sessions and speakers that will make tances as well as to keep abreast of early arrival in worthwhile developments in the profession. not only to SOA, SIA, and KCA members, but to archivists throughout the The spring meeting, "The Archival country. -Alternative," is scheduled for April 25 and 26 at Wittenberg University in All in all, 1980 promises to be an Springfield, . The meeting will exciting and informative year for our run concurrently with the annual meet- membership. We hope to see you in ing of the Ohio Academy of History at Springfield and Cincinnati. the same location. SOA registrants will thereby have the opportunity to sit in at sessions of both organiza- Play Ball! tions. The Society of Ohio Archivists is forming a softball team to play in a The SOA sessions will explore a vari- challenqe match with a team from the ety of topics associated with the Midwest A~chives Conference prior to training of archivists including over- the SAA convention in Cincinnati this views of three training programs in fall. At stake is the possession of the state: a traveling trophy (currently held by -an imoortant discussion of stan- Motley's MACaroons, the MAC team) and dards · for archival education the prestige of the archivists of this -an examination of the viability state. All interested SOA members are of the archival job market strongly urged to sign up for the home -insights into the use of student team which (in honor of SOA stalwart and grant-funded help in Alice Vestal) has been named Vestal 's archival operation. Virgins. SOA team manager is Robert Smith of Dayton, Ohio. Direct all Several other sessions will explore inquiries and applications to Mr. the relationship between archivists Smith at the address listed below. and professional historians. Lunch- Weather permitting, a practice eons, a cocktail party with the OAH, session will be held following the and the SOA business meeting will spring meeting in Springfteld, Ohio. round out the program. In Cincinnati on September 29 and 30, the SOA will join with the Society of Indiana Archivists and the Council on Archives in sponsoring a workshop on the cataloging and retrieval of still pictorial media. The workshop is scheduled for the period irrmedi- Robert Smith ately before the main proceedings 1500 Westona Drive of the SAA's national meeting in Dayton, Ohio 45410 the same city. Workshop sessions will be held in, or in close proximity to (513) 258-2061 the same facilities housing the SAA -1- Research Centers and opened a new Accessions Cornrnittee ten million dollar library building in which space was allocated for rare At its December 13th meeting, SOA books, archives, and manuscripts. The Council voted to create an Accessions need for an archival repository was Committee. The purpose of this body further reinforced by an unexpected, will be to compile and publish though unfortunate, event. On May 4, (through the SOA) a master listing of 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed all accessions reported to this news- four students and wounded nine others letter and The Ohio Archivist during during an anti-war rally on the cam- the past decade. Upon publication of pus. The responsibility for acquir- this guide, the committee will have the ing, perserving, and making available responsibility of compiling and pub- the source materials to help explain lishing annual supplements. Laura this nationally significant, but Goretta of the Case Western Reserve nevertheless tragic, event and its University Archives is chairing the aftermath naturally was assigned to committee. She is looking for com- the Archives. mittee members who would be willing to put in a good deal of work to~ard a The Archives has grown dramatically worthwhile goal. If you are inter- in the last decade, during which time ested in the committee, please contact it has remained constant in pursuing Laura at the CWRU Archives, Case its principal objective of supporting \fostern Reserve University, University Kent State's traditional emphases on Circle, , Ohio 44106. teaching, research, and public ser- vice. The Archives currently houses and services approximately six thou- KSU -'L\rchives: A Synopsis sand linear feet of archival records and historical manuscripts. These of the First Decade holdings occupy the larger part of In the nine years since Dr. Paul one of the thirteen floors in a 1.3 DuBois' article on "The Northeast million volume library which is a Gateway" appeared in The Ohio member of the Association of Research Archivist, two of his three predic- Libraries and the Ohio College tions have come to fruition. As the Library Center. person originally invested with the responsibility for developing the archival program at Kent State Univer-· sity, he projected both "a rapid growth of collections" as well as the hiring of "a professional staff to service" the holdings. The Archives has not attained "a separate... building in conjunction with the University Library," but its f)hysical facility has nevertheless expanded to meet its acquisition and service responsibilities. Similarly to many institutions, Kent State University, founded in 1910, did little to preserve records that would help to document its early history until several years after its crea- tion. In 1970, however, two events occurred, which together provided the necessary impetus for establish- ing a formal archival program at KSU. Within a span of several months the Exterior view of the Kent State Univer- University oecame a charter member of sity Libraries. The Archives is located the Ohio Network of American History on the eleventh floor. -2- The Archives is administratively part, but physically separate from the Department of Special Collec- tions, one of the three main divi- sions in the library. Rare books and some manuscript collections occupy a large portion of another floor in the building. There are five full-time personnel assigned to the department, which is directed by Professor Dean H. Keller. He is also a current, elected member of the Executive Committee for the Rare Books and Manuscriots Section in the Association of College and Re- search Libraries. Professor Alex Gildsen serves as an acquisitions specialist and processor. He is widely known in literary circles, The reading room in the KSU Archives. which has contributed greatly to KSU's success in acquiring manuscripts from notable contemporary authors. Dr. Neal Edgar, who served on the American Library Association's Com- for which KSU is responsible. When mittee on AACR-2, concentrates aen- not in the field, he is involved in erally on bibliographic control~and processing accessioned record series access. Mrs. Sylvia Eldridge serves or in assisting researchers, espe- as a general assistant in the unit. cially genealogists, in the use of Dr. James W. Geary serves as Univer- records. sity Archivist and Director of the American History Research Center, The Archives' present physical facil- having succeeded Dr. Leslie Stegh ity consists of over seventy-five in this position in 1977. hundred square feet of floor space. Of this total, sixty-two hundred In addition to this cadre of person- square feet, or over eighty percent~ nel, the unit receives assistance from consist of stack area. The remaining other quarters. Work-study students space is reserved for offices, equip- perform many routine, but necessary, ment, processing areas, and a reading functions. Those at the graduate room. level, especially assistants from the Department of History and practicum The unit also has access to various students from the School of Library auxiliary services within the main Science, are assigned generally to building. Located in close proximity, special projects that require a more for example, is a Bibliographical and advanced educational background. Textual Center. On the second floor There are also interested and quali- of the library is the Self-Instruction fied volunteers who, once trained in Center which services some of the user archival methodology, have proven in- copies of tape recordings that belong valuable in bringing continuity to the to archival collections. The Archives processing of large collections under retains the master. Not only does professional direction. Any survey of this arrangement reduce the possibil- personnel would be incomplete without ity of erasure or damage to the archi- mention of Dr. Robert J. Dodge of the val copy, but the Listening Center has Ohio Historical Society. Since his the capability for readily copying a assignment to KSU as its Local Gov- tape if a user so desires. This prac- ernment Records Specialist in 1975, tice also reduces the time that the Dr. Dodge has almost finished the archival staff has to spend on serv- inventorying of all county and muni- icing most tape recordings in the cipal records in the eight-county area repository.

-3- An archival program, of course, cannot attitudes of soldiers and sailors be concerned with the acquisition of during World War II. The papers of audio-visual materials alone, but Joseph W. Begala, who served KSU as rather with the accessioning and pro- an athletic coach in various sports cessing of many and diverse types of for over forty years, also transcend source material. To facilitate ex- local significance. Coach Begala planation, the archival collections at not only authored the Manual on Hand KSU can be viewed as constituting to Hand Combat that the United States three distinct sets of holdings~ the Marine Corps adopted in the 1940's~ University Archives, the May 4th Col- but, because of over 300 victories, lection, and the collections of the became known in intercollegiate cir- American History Research Center. cles as the "winningest wrestling These latter materials consist of sig- coach. 11 This faculty co 11 ection nificant research collections from would prove useful, if not crucial, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, to any researcher doing a history of Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, intercollegiate sports in the United Portaqe, and Trumbull Counties in States. Ohio,-and certain collections from outside the state. Although considered a formal part of the University Archives, the May 4th The University Archives holds the Collection needs to be discussed sepa- usual type of materials found in s1m1- rately from the other holdings in the lar repositories which are accessioned repository. In large part, this dis- on a regular basis. These sources in- tinction is due to the special prob- clude the archival copy of masters lems of handling that it poses. Nu- theses and doctoral dissertations merous loose miscellaneous items, as written by KSU graduate students, as well as groups of material, have ar- well as catalogs, schedule booklets, rived from a variety of donors. Also, and other official publications. many of the collections that are Thousands of photographs taken over transferred to the University Archives the years augment the holdings. Con- have files pertaining to May 4th. sistent with the goal of serving an Rather than violate the provenance of administrative function, the Archives these parent collections, an extensive houses inactive records from various system of cross-referencing must be University offices, including one utilized. Preliminary finding aids record series comprising fifty cubic are also prepared where appropriate. feet from the Office of the President. As the historical memory of the Uni- versity, the Archives also solicits materials documenting faculty activi- ties. In addition to faculty publi- cations, the papers of faculty and certain administrative officers are accessioned as they become available. Beyond collections that contribute to an understanding of the University's history, those that possess certain additional features are especially sought. These would include collec- tions having either a special subject focus or national significance. A portion of Raymond E. Manchester's papers, for example, contain a number of wartime letters from servicemen who were former students of the Dean of Men. Since the letters came from all theaters of operation, they pro- vide an excellent source for under- Dr. Robert J. Dodge retrieving materials standing the general activities and from the stack area in the KSU Archives. -4- The major portion of the May 4th Col- ican History Research Centers, has lection consists of over fifty cubic been active in accessioning and pro- feet. This figure does not include cessing othe~ non-institutional other sources relating to May 4th or collections. The combined scope of campus unrest that may be found else- these holdings covers a multitude of where, such as in the papers of indi- topics, especially those in political, vidual faculty members. This total social, labor, ethnic, and religious also excludes other material in the studies. Of the collections in the Archives such as the fifty-three vol- Center, one of the most unusual con- umes of transcripts from the 1975 sists of the inactive records of the Civil Trial, which have been placed on Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio. microfilm, and various oublications on The accessioning of this material May 4th. . marked the first time that the Church has placed records in a public insti- In addition to letters, newspaper tution. The records cover the period clippings, oral history tapes, films, from 1830 to 1975 and are divided photographs, poems, flyers, and similar into fifty-one distinct segments, all documents, the Archives also accepts of which have been processed. Within memorabilia relating to May 4th. Ar- the approximately 75 cubic feet of tifacts include, for example, flags material that the Archives retained and certain sculptures. As the tenth from the 125 cubic feet brought in anniversary of the event approaches, originally lies a veritable goldmine the significance of the Collection has for researchers. Portions of the col- already become apparent. In the last lection can be used for religious, decade, over one hundred books and ar- demographic, and ethnic studies, as ticles have been published. Largely well as for those in other areas such as a result of lectures to classes and as organizational dynamics and social other interested groups about the ar- history. chival program at KSU, the May 4th Collection as well as other holdings The diocesan collection, however, is have been used as the basis for vari- but one of several that the Center has ous undergraduate papers and for stud- accessioned and processed in the last ies on a more advanced level. decade. Although only a few can be mentioned, they will hopefully illus- Even with the understandable emphasis trate the diversity of the current on May 4th, the Archives, under the holdings. Foremost among those in auspices of the Ohio Network of Amer- labor history are the records of the

Examining the final agree- ment between the Diocese of Youngs- town and Kent State Univer- sity, left to right: Dr. James. W. Geary, Archivist; Rev. James W. Malone, Bishop; and Rev. James A. Clarke, then Vice-Chancellor, now Chancellor of the Diocese of Youngstown. -5- International Brotherhood of Pottery active time. The development has been and Allied Workers. In the area of sparked, no doubt, by a number of de- historical manuscripts are the extant velopments: the expanding conscious- papers of , a noted ness of social history and a renewed mid-nineteenth century women's rights women's movement. activist, educator, and abolitionist. Further contributions of women to This paper deals with sources for American society can be found in the groups of Ohio women who were figures papers of Jeanette Fuller, who was ac- of outstanding public prominence and tive in the in the those who were less articulate and ex- late nineteenth and early twentieth ploited. The investigation of lives centuries. Of more contemporary in- of substantial numbers of women has terest are the records of Voices in opened broad new vistas of historical Vital America, the national organiza- research. Historians have begun to tion which was founded during the ask certain questions as a result. Vietnam War with the purpose of ac- What was life like for women in the counting for Americans who were either past? How were females treated? What missing-in-action or prisoners-of-war were the implications of race, sex, in Southeast Asia. Individuals affil- and social position? Answers to these iated with KSU and other institutions and other questions are often discov- have used or are using these and other ered in government records and manu- collections as the basis for theses, scripts in archival repositories dissertations, and other studies. across the state. The archival program at Kent .State Government records are perhaps the University in its first ten years of least used, yet potentially most re- existence has made substantial and warding sources for historians inves- notable progress. As the Archives tigating the lives of ordinary women, prepares to move into its second de- those unable by culture or education cade, it will continue building on to leave written records of their these strengths where possible and, existence. as resources permit, direct its at- tention to developing others. Ex- State-supported benevolent or reform- cept for legal holidays, the Archives atory institutions are natural first is open from Monday through Friday, choices for the study of the dependent 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, and 1:00 p.m. or criminal offender. Adult correc- to 5:00 p.m. tional institutions such as the Ohio Reformatory for Homen and the Ohio DR. JAMES W. GEARY Penitentiary create a variety of KENT STATE UNIVERSITY source materials. Registers of In- mates, for example, contain the name, age, race, sex, and crime of prison- ers, as well as the date they were admitted and released. In the case of the Ohio Penitentiary, women were Sources for Women's incarcerated there until 1914. From History in Ohio 1914 to the present, female offenders have been imprisoned at the Ohio The passing decade has witnessed a Reformatory for Women (Marysvi 11 e). fundamental change in the teaching and Registers of Anthropometric Descrip- research of American history. For tions and Discipline Records for the generations, the discipline focused Penitentiary can provide physical on elections, treaties and wars, poli- descriptions and treatment data about ticians, ambassadors, and generals. inmates. Special classes of dependent Today, historians are beginning to women can also be investigated in the undertake a broader interest in social records of Madison Home, a state- history, focusing on social mobility, assisted home for Ohio soldiers, sail- social order, and ethnicity. Women's ors, marines, their wives, mothers, history is thus developing into a new area of investigation at an unusually -6- SOA Candidates Announced

President Vice President LAURAL. CHACE: Head Librarian, The THOMAS A. SMITH: Manuscript Librarian, Cincinnati Historical Society. De- The Rutherford B. Hayes Library. De- grees: M.A.L.S., University of Michigan. grees: B.A. and M.A., Bowling Green Archival Training: Certificate in State University. Archival· Training: Archival Administration, National Center for Archival Collections, Archives. Professional Organizations: B.G.S.U.; O.H.S. Archives/Library Society of Ohio Archivists -- former Institute. Professional Organizations: Council Member, current Vice President; Society of Ohio Archivists -- Current Society of American Archivists; and member of Council, Editorial Advisory American Library Association. Board and Joint SOA/SIA/KCA Planning Committee; Organizations of American Historians; Society of American Archivists -- member of Steering Committee of Manuscripts PAG.

-- ::a.... ALICE M. VESTAL: Head, Special Col- lections Department, University of Cincinnati. Degrees: B.A., Miami University; M.A., Syracuse University. I Archival Training: Introduction to Council Seat No. Modern Archives Administration, Amer- MORGAN J. BARCLAY: Head, Local His- ican University; Workshop on College tory and Genealogy Department, Toledo and University Archives, Case Western Public Library. Degrees: B.A., Bald- Reserve University. Professional win Wallace College, M.A., University Organizations: Society of Ohio Archi- of Toledo. Professional Organiza- vists -- Vice·President, Managing tions: Society of Ohio Archivists -- Editor SOA Newsletter, current Council member of former Manuscripts Commit- Member;. Society of American Archi- tee; Maumee Valley Historical Soci- vists -- Committee on Regional Archi- ety -- Librarian, Trustee; member of val Activity; 1980 Local Arrangements Editorial Board, and chairman of Pub- Committee. Publications: Articles lications Committee. Publications: in The Courier, The Cincinnati Histor- Articles in Northwest Ohio Quarterly, ical Society Bulletin and The Ohio Ohio Cues, and The Ohio Archivist; Archivist. editor of microfilm publications; and compiler of new photographic volume on Toledo, Ohio. •

CoLIDcil Seat No. 1 Council Seat No. 2 RAIMUND E. GOERLER: University Archi- DEBRA R. BIGGS: Archivist, Local Gov- vist, the Ohio State University. ernment Records Program (O.H.S.) Degrees: B.A., State University of working out of the Center for Archival New York at Buffalo, M.A. and Ph.D., Collections at Bowling Green State Case ~~es tern Reserve University. Ar- University. Degrees: B.A., M.A., chival Training: Archival Training Bowling Green State University. Program, C.W.R.U.; College and Univer- Archival Training: Course work at sity Archives Workshop, C.W.R.U.; and Bowling Green State University, and Records Management Course, Cleveland seminars sponsored by the S.A.A., Chapter of A.R.M.A. Professional Or- S.O.A., and the University of Akron. ganizations: Society of Ohio Archi- Professional Organizations: Society vists, Society of American Archivists, of Ohio Archivists, Society of Ameri- Midwest Archives Conference, and can Archivists, American Association Association of Records Managers and for State and- Local History. Administrators. Publications: Re- views in The American Archivist and The Midwestern Archivist; currently writing a history of The Johnson- Humrichouse Museum and the Roscoe LINDA L. FOLCK: Archivist, Local Gov- Village Restoration. ernment Records Program (O.H.S.) working out of the-t:tni-Vers i ty of Akron. Degrees: B.A., Benedictine College; M.A., Kent State University. Archival Training: Course work at Kent State University; Ohio Chapter, National Micrographics Association seminar on quality control. Pro- fessional Organizations: Society of Ohio Archivists -- current chairperson of Membership Corrunittee, Organization of American Historians; Society of American Archivists, Ohio Academy of History, Akron Chapter of Association of Records Managers and Administra- tors.

The election will be held at the Annual Spring Meeting, April 25-26, at Wittenberg University. widows, and army nurses. State gov- mitted to the State Education Depart- ernmental records such as these, as ment, which indicate by age, grade lev- well as others noted below, are main- el, and sex, the enrollment in Ohio tained by the Ohio Historical Society public schools; and the Minutes of the in Columbus. State Board of School Examiners (1908- 1955), which relate to teacher certi- Delinquent female youth receive cover- fication and thereby help document the age in the Minutes of the Girls' In- increasing 11 feminization 11 of elemen- dustrial School (1868-1911); the tary school instruction in Ohio. Superintendent's Daily Journal (1868- 1973), a daily narrative account of Some state agencies have ongoing re- occurrences at the institution; and sponsibilities relating to women, spe- the Register of Inmates (1868-1911), cifically the Division of Women, which delineates name, age, cause for Minors, and Minimum Wage in the De- commitment, education, date of admis- partment of Industrial Relations and sion, and discharge, Ohio's extensive the Women's Service Division of the complex of public mental hospitals are Bureau of Employment Services. Both ample sources for the study of public agencies have information files and policy and treatment of mentally ill legal documents dating in one instance women. Minutes and Admission Records to 1948. Occasionally, by executive are available for nearly all of the decree, special agencies are created state's nineteenth century mental to study certain problems or fulfill institutions. a special need. Records of the Com- mission on Nursing (1973-1975) and the The State Board of Charities, estab- Ohio Branch Council of National De- lished in 1867, collected data on fense (1917-1919) are especially sig- benevolent institutions, performed nificant for their focus on women. investigations, and made the general The latter, relating to domestic mobi- public aware of the unwholesome and lization for the First World War, has shameful conditions in the realm of innumerable files relating to the work social welfare. The extant minutes of women's committees. (1903-1921) document, in part, the role of a woman in shaping public The lives of Black women are treated policy toward the society's less for- in the Ex-slave Narratives compiled by tunate. Pauline Steinem, grandmother the Federal Writer's Project in Ohio. of , writer and women's Approximately twelve of the fifty-two movement leader, served on the State extant narratives are those of women. Board of Charities during the early twentieth century. Narrative descrip- tions of conditions in the infirmary, The records of individual counties jail, municipal prison, or children's provide still another extensive, yet home are found in the Annual Reports untapped resource for writing the his- of the Board of County Visitors, a tory of women. Many of the record five member inspection committee, at series listed below are available at least three of whom were women, ap- institutions in the Ohio Network of pointed by the Judge of the Court of American History Research.Centers. Corrmon Pleas for the various counties The Office of County Auditor maintains under authority of a legislative act an Annual School Report containing of 1882. numbers of girls enrolled, number of female teachers, salary paid teachers, Women in public education are ably and subjects taught. Enumerations of covered in record series created by Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Idiotic, and Insane the Ohio Department of Education . as well as Enumerations of School Age . Among the relevant series are: Ele- Youth compiled by the Auditor provide mentary and Secondary School Princi- splendid statistical data on these pals' Reports which provide salary, special groups with reference to sex enrollment, and academic training data as well. The Mothers' Pension Records according to sex; Annual Statistical (1913-1936), available in the Juvenile Reports and Enumeration Returns sub- Court and Auditor's Office, delineate

-7- Poster from the Collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society.

WOME:N VOTE: name of applicant, number and ages of ability to work and support them- children, total amount of income per selves. month, and amount of grant. Without going into painstaking detail, The Probate Court houses a Girls' In- it should be noted that other county dustrial School Record, which notes records of a general nature have a girls' names, ages, places of resi- bearing on women's studies. Records dence, complainants, judges, charges, such as Tax Duplicates provide inval- findings of court, and previous of- uable data on personal valuations. fenses. A Nurses Record showing coun- Probate Court records such as Will ty of residence, nurse's name, and Records, Case Files, and Civil Dockets data on the nurse's education and cer- are equally useful. The relation of tification can be found in the same women and the criminal justice system office .. is documented in the Court of Common Pleas through the Complete Record, Indenture Records which note name, Appearance Docket (Criminal and Civil), age, sex, date indentured, to whom and Journals (Order Book, Minutes). indentured, and the conditions of Property ownership is traced through indenture are available with the Coun- Deed Records, Mortgage Records, Plat ty Home, Children's Home, and Court of Books, and Lease Records, which are Common Pleas. Registers of Inmates, maintained by the County Recorder. which provide the name, date of admis- sion, age, sex, native state or coun- The lives of women who have gained try, social condition, race, and date public prominence or achievement are of discharge or death of inmates are best reflected in manuscripts {person- also common to the County Home and al papers) held by archival institu- Children's Home. The Greene County tions on Ohio. For the most part, the Register, for example, noted that many papers profile individual or group women were admitted "in a family way. 11 participation in politics, temperance, Other county series such as Pauperism suffrage, abolitionism, education, and Statistics, Township Trustees Relief philanthropy. Record, and Trustees Relief Report enumerate paupers by name, sex, and The Western Reserve Historical Society

-8- in Cleveland, Ohio, holds the papers same political, suffrage, or philan- (1896-1966) of Judge Florence Allen, thropic focus. Among the more signi- Ohio Supreme Court Justice, Federal ficant are the papers (1893-1948) of Appeals Court Judge, and suffragette. Mary E. Lee, vice-chairman of the In addition, the Society has papers Republican State Convention; Viola D. (1893-1916) of Romans, state representative 1924- relating to women's suffrage. In- 1928, and president of the Women's volvement in the temperance movement Reoublican Club of Ohio; and Jeanette is documented in various Women's B.· Thomas, founder of the American Christian Temperance Union files for Folk Song Society. Women's organiza- Lake County, Morgan County, and tions such as the League of Women Cuyahoga County, as well as Salem, Voters of Ohio, Columbus Y.W.C.A., and Cleveland, and Lakewood, Ohio, chap- the American Association of University ters. Abolitionism is covered in the Women have deposited their files with records of the Ashtabula County Female the Society. Documents of active Anti-Slavery Society, Canton Ladies women may also be found in the collec- Anti-Slavery Society, and the papers tions of papers of their spouses or (1824-1843) of Maria Gilbert. Papers their families. Specific examples of politically active women such as would include the letters of Alice Frances Bolton, United States Repre- Dunbar Nelson, poetess and author, in sentative, and Marie R. Wing, attorney the Paul L. Dunbar Papers; the letters and feminist, are also held by the Western Reserve Historical Society. More unique, yet no less important, are items such as the diary of Eliza Garfield, mother of President James Garfield; the diaries (1870-1891) of Charlotte Lewis, a housewife; the re- cords (1878-1960) of the Cleveland Y.W.C.A.; and the records (1860-1878) of the United States Sanitary Commission. One of the largest single collections of archival source material relating to women's participation in a specific reform activity is the Temperance and Prohibition Papers maintained by the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. A principal component of that collec- tion is the files of the national Women's Christian Temperance Union, which includes scrapbooks, correspon- dence, and minute books. Preserved on forty-nine rolls of microfilm, the W.C.T.U. correspondence index includes material from such individuals as Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, and . Other portions of the Temperance and Prohibition Papers such as the files of the Anti-Saloon League, Detail from portrait of Judge Florence Prohibition Party, and Scientific Allen. Presented by the National Wo- Temperance Foundation are also useful men's Association and other lawyers to for the study of women's roles in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth each of these organizations. Circuit, and hung in the courtroom at Cincinnati, Ohio on October 15,1959. Not unlike manuscripts maintained by From the Collections of the Western the Western Reserve Historical Society, Reserve Historical Society. collections in the possession of the Ohio Historical Society hav~ much the -9- of Rebecca Janney on temperance, suf- cial, industrial, social, educational, frage, and prison reform in the Janney and sanitary conditions of the labor- Family Papers; and Rachel Ragozin's ing classes and industrial concerns correspondence with the imprisoned of the state. Most Ohio orinted state Charles E. Ruthenberg, first secre- documents can easily be located tary general of the U.S. Communist through the Union Bibliography of Ohio Party. Printed State Documents, 1803-1970 (1973), which is a compilation of Ohio Manuscripts at the Rutherford B. Hayes document holdings at eiohteen Ohio Library in Fremont, Ohio, are also libraries. The,bibliography includes worthy of mention. The largest body over 8,000 entries relating to over of 11 women's 11 manuscripts are those of 200 state agencies. Lucy , wife of Rutherford B. Hayes and civic leader and philan- Since the history of women in Ohio is thropist! Her letters concern the just coming of age, the state remains women's missionary work of the Meth- relatively absent of scholarly works odist Episcopal Church, the Women's on the subject. The records are abun- Christian Temperance Union, the Ohio dant and access easily available, of- Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, and ten within an hour's drive of most other benevolent activities. The college campuses. I urge fellow his- Hayes Library also maintains the pa- torians to investigate these holdings. pers of Frances Hayes, daughter of Rutherford B. Hayes; those of Mary FRANK R. LEVSTIK Hayes, wife of Webb C. Hayes~ the THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY president's son; and the papers of Elizabeth Heyl, Hayes' niece. Lit- erary contributions of women are represented in the Mary Ames Papers, author of biographies, novels, and poems, and in the correspondence of Lucy E. Keeler, editor of the Youth's Companion. While the sheer magnitude and wealth of source material suggested in this paper is impressive, there are yet other repositories which should not escape the attention of the serious researcher. Three institutions main- NevVsNotes taining excellent collections relating to women are the Joan Plungis has replaced Edward Rider Archives, the Cincinnati Historical as Curator of Manuscripts at the Society, and the American Jewish CINCINNATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Mr. Archives in Cincinnati. Rider has become the first full -time archivist at the Procter &Gamble Mention should also be made of the Company. abundance of information available on women in Ohio printed state documents, Kevin Miller has joined the staff of particularly in deoartmental or agency the Special Collections Department of reports. These reports, usually an- the UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Libra- nual, describe the activities of a ries as Senior Library Associate/ particular agency. In the absence Specialist. of a manuscript record, these reports often are the only surviving docu- At OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY, Paul M. mentation on an agency. A prime exam- Logsdon has replaced Dr. Gary Thompson ple are the reports of the Ohio Bureau in the archives. of Labor Statistics, a predecessor to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Lynn A. Grove has been appointed Cur- and compiler of systematized statis- ator of the Quaker Collection and tical information about the commer- College Archives at WILMINGTON COLLEGE.

-10- Richard Arpi has assumed the position of microfilm camera operator at the WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The Society also announces the comple- tion of the processing of the Federa- tion for Community Planning Records under an NHPRC grant. Roberta Hudson has joined the staff of the RUTHERFORD B. HAYES LIBRARY in Fremont, Ohio. The HUDSON LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL SO- CIETY has begun publication of a month- KENT STATE UNIVERSITY announces the ly newsletter, Ex Libris, which is appointment of Mrs. Sylvia Eldridge to devoted to local history. the staff of the Department of Special Collections and Archives. The KSU The CENTER FOR ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS at Archives is also interested in dis- Bowling Green State University an- posing of its pulp copies of the nounces the appointments of Melanie Youngstown Vindicator for the years Grace as Reference Archivist and Don 1930-1972. Parties interested in Van Lere as Great Lakes Archivist. acquiring the run should contact Dr. They fill positions vacated by Lydia James Geary at the Archives. Ross and Gary Bailey, who have re- turned to graduate studies. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS of Cleveland has appointed Diane Ewart Grabowski Assis- The TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY tant to the Archivist. has recently published a pictorial essay, Celebrating the City, which was compiled by Morgan J. Barclay, head of the library's Local History and Genealogy Department. A slide-tape program which makes more extensive use of views by the photographers represented in the publication will soon be previewed. Several personnel changes have occur- red in the Archives-Manuscript Divi- The Archives of the History of Ameri- sion of the OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. can Psychology of THE UNIVERSITY OF New staff include: Kit Leary, Archi- AKRON is pleased to announce the re- vist-Audiovisual; Bill Little, Archi- ceipt of a $10,000 gift from the vist-State Records; and Carol Willsey American Psychological Foundation, Bell, C.G., Archivist-Reference. Inc., and of a resolution of commen- David Levine is the new Assistant Ar- dation enacted by the Council of Rep- chivist in the Public Records Depart- resentatives of the American Psycho- ment. New Local Government Records logical Association. field staff include Linda Falck -- Akron, and Phyllis Steele -- Dayton. Dr. Raimund Goerler, archivist at OHIO Sh~rrill Dryden-Baird, David Gray, ana STATE UNIVERSITY, finds himself with Keith Maneese now constitute the staff an inherited surplus of Hollir19er of the Labor History Project. OHS 5-inch and 2½-inch letter-size storage also announces several new publica- boxes. He is willing to negotiate an tions, including the monograoh Jews exchange of these boxes for an equi- and Judaism in a Midwestern Comrriunfty: valent value of acid-free folders. Columbus, Ohio 1840-1975 by March Interested persons should contact Dr. Raphael; and microfilm editions of the Goerler at (614) 422-2409. Dayton, Ohio, city manager records (issued in cooperation with Wright State University); and correspondence and letterbooks of the Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners and the Canal Fund Commissioners. -11- About the SOA The Society of Ohio Archivists was founded to promote on a state wide basis the exchange of information, improvement of professional competence, and coordination of activfties of archives· and manuscript repositories. Membership is open to a11 interested persons, particulary archivists, manuscript curators, librarians, records managers, and historians. The Society holds two meetings each year and publishes this Newsletter biannually. Individual and institutional membership dues are $5.00 per year. Persons interested fn joi'ning the SOA should mail a check or money order payable to the organization to: Mr. Frank Levstik, Secretary-Treasurer, Society of Ohio Archivists,. c/o The Ohio Historical Society~ 1-71 and 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211.

In This Issue Spring Meetings ...... •...... •...... 1 Pl ay Ba 11 ! ...... l Access i ans Connni ttee...... 2 KSU Archives: A Synopsis of the First Decade - Dr. James w·. Geary ...... •...... 2 Sources for Women's History in Ohio - Dr. Frank Levstik ...•...... 6 News Notes ••.•...•..•.•...•••...••..••.•.•.••••..•••. 10

The Ci~cinnati Historical Society Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 8093 Editor Cincinnati, Ohio Lisa Koepke Cincinnati Historical Society Eden Park Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Managing Editor John J. Grabowski Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106 All inquiries and articles should be directed to the attention of the managing editor. Submission deadlines are mid-February for the Spring issue and mid-August for the Fall issue. -12-