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LH/OTH. Other Local History

 Record Group Term
Identifier: LH/OTH

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

U.S. Army Signal Services Records (MFM-89)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-89
Scope and Contents

Consists of a volume of monthly meteorological reports from the Columbus area recording daily measurements of temperature, rainfall, weather conditions, and barometric pressure.

Dates: 1886-1891

Roger Griswold Perkins Diary (MFM-71)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-71
Scope and Contents

Diary covers the period of Dr. Perkins' service in Romania while working with the American Red Cross. He writes about military and civilian conditions in Romania and Russia during the final years of World War I and the early days of the Russian Revolution. He also details the transportation conditions under the Kerensky government in Russia, and the difficulties of working in a country with the government in chaos.

Dates: 1917-1918

Clermont County Cemetery Statistics Records (MFM-118)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-118
Scope and Contents

Records consist of a card index file with the names and information about persons buried in several small cemeteries in Clermont County, Ohio. Information usually includes date of death, birthday, next of kin, as well as the name and location of the cemetery where the individual is buried.

Dates: 1830-1950

Society of Friends (Quakers) Records (MFM-125)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-125
Scope and Contents Collection consists of records from the Society of Friends Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting and includes records from the following Quarterly and Monthly Meetings: Alum Creek, Miami, Short Creek, Green Plain, Campus, Milford, Springboro, Fall Creek, Goshen, Elk Creek, Whitewater, Westfield, Yellow Springs, Lafayette, Lexington, and Louisville. Records consist of membership rolls, marriages, births, deaths, removals, minutes of Men's and Women's Meetings, the minutes of various committees, and...
Dates: 1776-1988

Dr. Robert Riordan Collection of Miami Valley Archaeological Surveys (MS-659)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-659
Abstract

This collection consists of approximately 70 archaeological surveys undertaken by Dr. Robert V. Riordan Professor Emeritus in the Wright State University Anthropology Department. A portion of the archaeological surveys were completed by Wright State University students through the Anthropology Department’s Archaeological Field School. Dr. Riordan completed the remaining surveys as a private contractor.

Dates: 1975-2014; Majority of material found within Bulk 1975-1998

1937 Flood Scrapbook (MS-663)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-663
Abstract

The collection contains a scrapbook featuring newspaper clippings (articles, photographs, and advertisements) reporting the impact of the 1937 Ohio River flood on Cincinnati, Ohio, and surrounding areas in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. It also contains a special edition Cincinnati Times-Star newspaper about the flood.

Dates: 1937

Article, "Cincinnati in 1802" (SC-12)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-12
Scope and Contents

This is an article from the Cincinnati Daily Gazette that was published in the Friday Morning edition on June 5, 1857, about what Cincinnati was like in 1802.

Dates: 1857 June 5

State Election Ticket Collection (SC-18)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-18
Abstract

The collection includes approximately 150 miscellaneous Union and Democratic election tickets from the election of 1863.

Dates: 1863; 1925

Charles Lanman's Collected Biographies of 19th-century Ohio Congressmen (SC-21)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-21
Abstract

This is a collection of autobiographical letters written from various local Congressmen to Charles Lanman.

Dates: 1831-1863

William Armstrong Papers (SC-4)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-4
Scope and Contents

Collection includes letters written to and from an army officer, mostly to his family in Vevay, Indiana, which cover his experiences in the early 19th century frontier army as well as his duty in the Mexican War where he was killed during the Battle of Molino del Ray.

Dates: 1815-1847