The Ohio Historical Society's Online Collection Catalog allows you to search the records of more than 230,000 items in the Society's library, newspaper, manuscript, audiovisual, state archives, history, natural history, and archaeology collections. Please select a collection from the list below. A description of each selection follows the list.



All Society Collections

Archives/Library Collections

Museum Collections

Newspaper Database




  • All Society Collections: This choice offers several searches that will bring back both Archives/Library and Museum records. If you would like to see selections from all areas on a single topic, use this search.

  • The Archives/Library Collections: These collections include the majority of our books, pamphlets and newspapers, large portions of our state archives holdings, and significant numbers of manuscripts and audiovisual materials. For more information about what is or is not in the system, please check our "What's in the Online Collection Catalog?"

  • The Museum Collections: These collections include all of our natural history items, the vast majority of our history objects and a sampling of our archaeology artifacts. For more information about what is or is not in the system, please check our "What's in the Online Collection Catalog?"

  • The Newspaper Database: The Newspaper Database searches OHS' hardcopy and microfilm newspaper holdings which are all Ohio titles.