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Audiovisual Collections

The Ohio Historical Society's audiovisual collections document Ohio's social, geographic, political, and economic history and the lives of Ohioans both in and out of the state. The Archives/Library also has a number of photographs relating to the pre-history of the area that is now the state of Ohio. Audiovisual collections include:

• 6,500 collections of photographs ranging in size from one item to thousands and including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, paper photographs, transparencies, and negatives
• more than 150 film and video collections containing more than 2,000 reels of film and video cassettes combined.
• more than 1,500 audio tapes, cylinders, and disks making up 400 audio collections
• an extensive number of engineering drawing and cartoon, print, and ephemera collections

OHS recently acquired the archives of Joe Munroe, a photojournalist, filmmaker, and environmental activist, and is pleased to provide an online exhibit of selected photographs.

The Audiovisual Section also administers the photo-duplication and reproduction services for the society. Nearly all the materials held by the Ohio Historical Society can be reproduced for research and/or publication within the parameters of the Copyright Law and for a modest fee.

For questions on the Audiovisual Collections, email audiovisual@ohiohistory.org